PSpirine
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| posted on 13/7/11 at 06:59 PM |
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Finding mortar in a rendered/painted wall
I need to put up some vine eyes with wires for a climber on my front wall - problem is it's rendered and painted white, so I can't tell
where the bricks are and where the mortar is under the paint.
Is there any easy way to figure out where to hammer the vine eyes so that it hits the mortar rather than the actual brick?
Ta,
Pavs
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RACER101
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| posted on 13/7/11 at 07:22 PM |
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If it was me I would use a hammer drill and rawlpugs rather than trying to find the mortar..............and you then get the vine eyes where you
want/need them rather than where the mortar happens to be.
Good luck.
John
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daviep
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| posted on 13/7/11 at 07:34 PM |
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Yeah as above, stick a trellis up.
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
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PSpirine
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| posted on 13/7/11 at 07:48 PM |
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Thanks - I like that option much more! Rawl plugs it is - gives me an excuse to use the hammer drill 
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Liam
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| posted on 13/7/11 at 09:03 PM |
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Drill it. Sometimes the mortar is harder than the brick anyway!
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