DIY Question

[Cheese]

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]

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]

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]

Are you trying to drill into a joist or avoid a joist?

EDIT: whoops didn't read the question. Avoid, obviously! :frusty:

[Samurai]

as per clocker's advice. if you drill the other way, paint could crack etc... and look unsightly. good luck.

[Cheese]

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]

i think cheese lives in the attic and just wants to spy on hawt naked ladies ...or possibly men :shifty:

[Cheese]

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]

Actually I want them to spy on me...:shifty:
the women or the men ?:unsure::lol:

[100%]

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Alien Blood is very efficient at making holes
but be careful not to spill too much

[Mr. Mulder]

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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