welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm going to show you how I install screws concrete screws
into a block wall and this is on the brick side of the exterior of my house and I'm on
this project where I'm putting in a new liftoff fence gate so what I decide to do is try a new
fastener these are the ones that I'm going to try now I've never tried them before and it takes a
number three impact bit so I'm trying out these new new Makita impact bits as well and all I've
done out there is just cut the board to length I've drilled holes in it already all I'm gonna
do is just use my ordinary drill to just mark a couple of holes that I have to drill continuously
through with my rotary hammer but I'm gonna try this idea and see how these screws work because
I'm gonna tell you something I've tried these tapcon screws before any of you guys ever tried
these with that end on it if you're going into you know like completely straight down it's fine but
you know if you're going you know horizontal I find it slips off the end vibrates and just
crushes your tip I cannot get these things to work half the time I don't know why I'm gonna try these
ones with the square drive and we'll sell we make out but I'll just show you now what I got
planned out the gate here and I'll show you what I'm doing well this is the setup here here's the
old 4x4 post that just had two anchors with lag screws that went into the wall and I'm not going
to be doing that but as you could see here what I've done is pre drilled some holes out all the
way along and what I'm going to do is now just use my drill and just mark where them holes are
and then pre-drill them out before I actually my put it on and I'm gonna put a couple of beads of
construction adhesive down and then we'll try these new screws these concrete screws that I
got and the square drive Makita impact bits so let's get to that right now okay so this is all
level I'm ready to go and all I'm gonna do is just put a little bit weight on this because
that's exactly where I want it to go and that's all you have to do I'll do it with the rest all
the way down then I'll bring you back when I'm going to install it you know a lot of people
have never used a rotary hammer before they just use the regular hammer drill guys all it does is
Waller out these holes way too big to accept a fastener so I've never had much luck with it so
what I'll do is I'll show you my rotary hammer I'll give you a close-up shot and I'll just show
you me drill in one hole just so you know the difference between a rotary hammer and a hammer
drill and a regular drill a regular drill you're going to be there for a month of Sundays drilling
these holes a hammer drill can get it done but I find a Wohlers out the holes and I've never had
much luck with it so let's get to it right here and I'll show you me doing one hole first okay I
got you pretty well zoomed in there and you can see this is the first mark I got and the second
one is right here on the mortar joint so I really don't like going to mortar joints but you know do
the best you can so let's do it right here let's see if you can see how nice this goes through now
I only have to go in about an inch and a half tops because that's all far the fastener was going in
whoa easy now
you see how fast his punches in here eh okay so all I've done is I just put the
screws just past the edge there a bit put the caulking on or the adhesive and
I'll just place it in here see if I can get it close to stabbing in them holes
now I can fill the the screws have just gone into
the holes themselves so let me just put one in here and see how it goes
beautiful that's what I like to go flush I'll give me a close-up shot of this as they're going
in okay so this one's nice and flush now this one here is on the mortar joint I'm not too
sure how it's gonna go but we'll give it a go here beautiful so I'll show you these two here
so let's move down to these next two man is that nice okay so we're done at the bottom there and
you could see that this board like it's pretty far out I don't know if these screws will suck that in
but let's see not bad guys that's not bad at all well that's it right there you know these screws
did an awesome job they bit in there real nice and I'm surprised it pulled it in in the corner
there so what do you guys think well what do you guys think I tell you what the years of not using
a rotary hammer is like night and day there's no way I would attempted that anymore with just
a regular hammer drill forget it and this is the construction adhesive I threw on there and pretty
much any construction adhesive is good the old days of drilling a great big 3/4 inch hole putting
in a lead anchor and all that kind of stuff forget it this took me 15 minutes to do and I think it's
easy to do with the right fasteners so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen
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