Hi, I'm planning to buy a few DIY stuffs and paintings that I would like to mount onto wall.

After some electricians, unifi installer came to my house, they all commented that my walls don't have much brick, more cement. So when the drill, it breaks quite easily. What type of drill that I should buy for my "soft walls"? Any other tools that I should get to mount things on walls?

This post has been edited by lowlowc: May 1 2012, 12:12 PM

better look at this thread, i think there the best tools have been discuss before..

read through this thread..

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2051914/

1. Drill slow. with slow speed.
2. dont select hammer drill
3. Simply drill deeper,
4. use longer screw and screw plug.
5. get tile and glass drill bits if side concrete falling off.
6. use small size drill bit first, then the correct size bit.

How can a wall have more cement and less brick? Is it between brick the gap is very big and stuf a lot of cement in? Or the wall cement is very thick with like 10-20cm?

It is not brick. Sands and cement and most probably sand bricks when you drill you find no red substances coming out.

This case is more sands and less cement that is why the concrete is weak and loose.

When concrete has lot of cement the concrete is supposed to be very strong not loose as said.

This post has been edited by stevie8: May 1 2012, 10:29 PM

Wow, 22 pages, I'll bookmark it and try to digest. Hope I can find the answer. Thanks.



I'm sorry. You're right, it's sand more than cement and bricks. Sorry for the wrong info. I'm thinking whether to buy charge and plug in current type.

If you dont usually use the drill dont buy wirless. The battery loses its strength and life span. Say you get your drill fully charged and you use for doing a small job after that you keep it for months. By the time you need it the next time the battery is weak or totally dead. Dead battery hard to revive and you got to buy another. You got to wait for it to charge just for drilling one or two holes.

Good day !
Does anyone here use before those Screwdriver / Drill from IKEA that is selling at the price of RM140 ?
Its running on wireless mode with rechargeable battery. Does it sound reasonable to get one for simple drilling job on the wall ?

i doubt its able to drill into concrete wall, wood is ok. get at least hammer or repercussion drill.

Thanks for the feedback. I was planning to get either Bosch or Black & Decker Hammer drill which is selling around the price of RM209 - RM215 ..

hughiermx, for that price you will have alot of choice from bosch, hitachi, skill, bnd or ryobi as well. if you want more robust and ease of used better get rotary hammer instead of repercussion hammer. for tight budget skil 1715 will do fine at less then rm290.
go tru this tread about drills
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2051914/