Recent content by JackJ

Well, all knowledge is good! I hadn't checked back the last couple of posts, but let me say that I had read some other credible (or so they seemed to me) forums re: HF hammer drills, and there were many that said that, while with many tools they'd agree that there's no such thing as a good...

Thanks; I'll try it on some wood. That's odd that the guy at HD was wrong? :)

Thanks for all the feedback guys. I bought a cheap HF 1/4" hammer drill, as this was the heaviest work I'd be doing, and it's only for a few holes. But the instructions and the picture on the side of the drill differ as to which way one pushes the switch to make it a hammer drill! I called HF...

Thanks for the detailed explanation! How wide/big of a diameter would this steel wire be? I should be able to simply go up/down 2-3" and be fine, right? Although I am still a bit puzzled, as you say that it's put into the mortar joint, yet this was 3" down from the horizontal mortar joint. The...

The blocks are 15.5" across by 8" high, and my first hole was 5.5" in from the left and 3" down, so it doesn't seem like I would have it any, except possibly the horizontal one if it's through the core. Would it just be one per block, and how wide would it be?

No, I'm not at all sure that it is/isn't wood. To clarify, I'm drilling from the inside, and it's about 1/4" in that I hit some type of metal. That's the extent that I KNOW. What I've read/heard is that there may be rebar in there as reinforcement, and also that there could be steel sleepers...

I'm "simply" (or so I thought) trying to drill holes in my garage wall to put up v-hangers and shelving, but there's some type of metal behind it. Where I first drilled turned out to be just about 1/4-1/2" of concrete before I hit the metal. My stud finder isn't picking it up, even at the hole...