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Cheese
12-09-2004, 03:27 PM
If I wanted to drill a hole in the ceiling should I drill from underneath or should I drill from the attic and downwards?
I just need to make a smallish hole for an aerial cable to go into. Any help gratefully accepted.
manker
12-09-2004, 03:32 PM
I think you should drill from underneath.
On a Makita advert you see a man drilling a hole from underneath and getting dust in his eye - hence the reason you should buy one of their drills that prevents this from happening.
Note that I have learned everything I know about DIY from adverts because I've never done any and I wouldn't watch an actual program about DIY.
clocker
12-09-2004, 03:42 PM
Drill from the finished ceiling up.
Doing it the other way could result in an ugly breakthrough hole in the part you can see.
I knew all those years watching This Old House would bear fruit eventually.
Barbarossa
12-09-2004, 03:51 PM
Are you trying to drill into a joist or avoid a joist?
EDIT: whoops didn't read the question. Avoid, obviously! :frusty:
Samurai
12-09-2004, 04:26 PM
as per clocker's advice. if you drill the other way, paint could crack etc... and look unsightly. good luck.
Cheese
12-09-2004, 04:55 PM
Cheers guys.
I'm getting the landlady to do it anyhows, but I'll be able to tell her the correct way to do it.
Mr. Mulder
12-09-2004, 05:16 PM
i think cheese lives in the attic and just wants to spy on hawt naked ladies ...or possibly men :shifty:
Cheese
12-09-2004, 05:31 PM
i think cheese lives in the attic and just wants to spy on hawt naked ladies ...or possibly men :shifty:
Actually I want them to spy on me...:shifty:
vidcc
12-09-2004, 05:32 PM
Actually I want them to spy on me...:shifty:
the women or the men ?:unsure::lol:
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Alien Blood is very efficient at making holes
but be careful not to spill too much
Mr. Mulder
12-09-2004, 06:23 PM
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Alien Blood is very efficient at making holes
but be careful not to spill too much
agreed, it ruined a pair of Scully's shoes, once http://www.filesharingtalk.com/vb3/images/smilies/ermm.gif
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