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Making A Hole In A Brick Wall
nunn
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No...Not with a firearm. This must be more precise and neat.
My dryer vents to the garage, and I don't like it. In humid weather it makes the floor wet and slick.
I want to run the vent to the outside, and the closest route is to go down the baseboard to the front wall of the house. Construction is pretty typical brick veneer over frame.
So, I need to make a hole, about 4" or maybe a bit larger, through the bricks. The wallboard on the inside is easy. Any hole saw will do that.
I thought maybe there might be a hole saw that would do the job. Looked at Harbor Freight and Northern Tool. Both have tungsten carbide hole saws, but the biggest diameter available is 3 1/4 inches.
I guess I could take a masonry drill bit and just drill a bunch of holes in a circle and then chisel out the bricks, but a hole saw would do a neater, faster job.
Is such an animal available? Failing that, is there a good, neat method for doing this?
Thanks.
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My dryer vents to the garage, and I don't like it. In humid weather it makes the floor wet and slick.
I want to run the vent to the outside, and the closest route is to go down the baseboard to the front wall of the house. Construction is pretty typical brick veneer over frame.
So, I need to make a hole, about 4" or maybe a bit larger, through the bricks. The wallboard on the inside is easy. Any hole saw will do that.
I thought maybe there might be a hole saw that would do the job. Looked at Harbor Freight and Northern Tool. Both have tungsten carbide hole saws, but the biggest diameter available is 3 1/4 inches.
I guess I could take a masonry drill bit and just drill a bunch of holes in a circle and then chisel out the bricks, but a hole saw would do a neater, faster job.
Is such an animal available? Failing that, is there a good, neat method for doing this?
Thanks.
SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com the best gun auction site on the Net! Email gpd035@sbcglobal.net
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chisling may work.
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cody
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Call your rental store, ours has carbide hole saws up to 8"
that's actaully probably the best advise, it'll be clean, and renting drills and stuff is pretty cheap.
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http://www.wttool.com/p/08330015p/0833-0215
We go up to 6"
http://www.wttool.com/c/08330015p
Don
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Talk to a concrete contractor and see how they do it. If nothing else, use a reducer and pull a smaller hole through the wall.
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I used to install appliances 20 years ago and that sometimes meant having to cut dryer vent holes through brick. I always did it by drilling small holes with a star bit and then chiseling the hole to neaten it up. By the time you find a big enough carbide hole saw and then go to a rental place to pick it up and then make another trip to return the thing, you could have already cut the hole and have the vent in place.
Besides, beatin on stuff can be a good stress reliever.[:)]
jl45
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Keep the vent at 4" over its entire length. Drill a series of smaller holes in a circle (and connect-the-dots with a star chisel mason chisel) and use a masonry blade on a recipro saw (sawz-all) to clean up.
Or,...spend the money to rent a hole saw set-up from a tool rental shop.
Pick up some silicone/latex chaulking (for masonry) to seal up the space between the cover and the wall.
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