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YupA good drill, a good bit and practise
Steer the drill when you start to keep it centered
There's enough play in socket boxes that a mm here or there will make no difference.
YupA good drill, a good bit and practise
A constant source of bickering between my parents, mum wanted shelves, brackets, cupboards etc put up to look nice. Dad wanted them put up level. He was doing the installations, so there was always this tedious drivel:
”..but it’s not straight”
“It is dead level”
”no, look, I can see it doesn’t line up with.......”
“but look, the spirit level says....”
”but it still doesn’t look straight...”
And it would go on forever, raised at any opportunity.
Absolutely. My Father taught me years ago that what looks right is quite often more important than what measures right.That does raise a good point - if it is an old house especially things are rarely perfectly level.
Unless it actually needs to be level to function, I always make it match whatever the eye will see - for example the line of the coving, or the brickwork or skirting board etc etc.
Very few people wander around with a spirit level to check things, but everybody will notice if it looks "out", so better to make it look right than be level IMO.
if there metal hold the box on the wall and drill a 6.0mm hole through the mounting box in to the concrete . stick a red plug in and screw it back check with a spirit level then drill the second it cant run off and is fast . do thousands of em all the timeHow do you drill accurate holes in concrete blocks, without the bit wandering off. Don't think I have a single socket in my garage which is level
Drill a 25mm hole and bludgeon the end of a broomstick into the hole. Better than any rawlplug
… sometimes the old ways are better…
Don’t be daft…have you seen the price of railway sleepers lately?May as well beat a hole in the wall and put an old bit of railway sleeper in there, dont want that double socket coming off now do we
Bob
That's what I do only I use frame fixers which means you can shove the wall plug in the hole without having to remove the metal box.if there metal hold the box on the wall and drill a 6.0mm hole through the mounting box in to the concrete . stick a red plug in and screw it back check with a spirit level then drill the second it cant run off and is fast . do thousands of em all the time