STOP Drilling And Nailing Blindly In Drywall And Studs! - Learn A Better And SAFER Way As A DIYer!

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On this episode I'm going to show you how to and why you should STOP Drilling And Nailing Blindly In Drywall! I’ll Teach you A Better And SAFER Way As A DIYer! These tips and tricks are very useful to help you avoid headaches and costly mistakes from supposedly easy job like drilling a hole for a lag bolt to hang a TV or nailing something to hang a simple picture frame. Don’t be that guy!

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[harlanborders]

Them stud finder will get you in trouble mine has showed studs and it’s a bunch of wires

[jamesyoung]

My house was built 20 years ago and we took pictures of all the walls prior to sheet rock being placed. Sure helps in many ways

[Lesbianporn]

I just drill right into the wall. Wires, pipes, and studs better watch out. I’m coming through. I got TV to watch

[monkeyjones]

Having been a professional home automation contractor for many years that works in very expensive homes and specializes in tough wire retrofits, I can tell you that I only use a magnet and Franklin sensor to determine where to drill for TV's etc and have never significantly damaged anything.. There are very few instances in a TV wall mount scenario that would have significant concerns about hitting pipes and wiring. Bath and kitchen walls etc being the biggest concern... If you drill and hit anything in an area that you aren't expecting after drilling drywall you simply stop drilling immediately. Drywall is very soft and pipes are not. Electrical cabling should be attached to studs except for where it crosses stud bays and typically crosses far lower than pictures or TV's etc would mount

[Bender]

I’ve owned a few new homes over the years and my wife and I would always head over to the site to see the progress of the build. While there I would walk around the interior before the drywall was put up and take pictures of the walls and ceiling…..lots of pictures. Whenever I need to figure out what’s behind the wall I wish to work on I would open up my house file and take a look. And yes I know owners are not supposed to be inside the house while it’s under construction but we’d go on weekends…..usually a Sunday when no workers were present and just take a peak. It was always exciting. We’d see other people doing the same thing.

[orlandonunez]

Good video, an extra recommendation is switching off the breaker of the room to avoid any fatality, if your stud finder is not trustable

[Sith_dude]

This takes the fun out of playing roulette with the plumbing and wiring.

[adammiller]

These endoscopes can be useful. It's really easy to become disoriented though. Inside of real walls are pitch black, thick particles floating everywhere and sometimes spider webbs. Even with the light on the end, it can be hard to clearly tell what you're looking at. The older the home, the worse the inside of the wall is. Try to get another light shining into the cavity you're looking into. Will help you stay oriented and see farther.

[scottfranco]

A couple of things here. First of all, using a scope like this is not very representative of real world conditions because your wall is open. When the wall is closed, its going to be harder to see. Second, you can get a set of "drill stops", which are small round collars for the drill bit that you put on with an allen wrench. The best rule is that you can only rely on finding a stud, and assume that there is a wire or pipe at the halfway point in the stud. Treat the cavity between the studs as a no-mans land until you verify it with a scope. Finally, get good at patching small holes. Sometimes the best probe is just a small nail, which can tell you absolutely if there is a stud back there or not, and is easily patched. Finally, they sell cable finders that will detect 60hz wires, you listen for the noise.

Have I drilled through a wire? Hells ya. Live stove wire (220v). The real danger was I was on a ladder and fell off in surprise. Had to open the wall and replace the wire.

My most interesting use of a scope? I dropped a bolt into a car engine and it was sitting on the pan under the engine. I used a scope to find it and pull it out with a magnet part grabber. It was true surgery: I had to put the part grabber exactly to where the bolt was, so had the scope watching the bolt while I fished around with the grabber.

[theoriginalchefboyoboy]

Another important, common-sense aspect to this work is understanding that wall's role in the construction of the house - is it interior-backed or exterior-backed (could have insulation in it)? What's on the back side? something with plumbing involved? same for the room upstairs - could be a bathroom which might mean plumbing in the wall (water or waste pipe). Check in the room below/basement. I had a tv job with a 24" wide metal air duct in the wall right where the customer wanted his tv. I was getting weird readings on the stud finder, finally resorted to test holes every half inch which still resulted in weird things. Had I gone to the basement/mechanical room I might have seen the duct work. I had to make a brace that spanned the space and mount my wall bracket to that (actually the job I'm most proud of) plus patch and paint a whole bunch of itty bitty holes! LOL.

[VeronicaSchneider]

Hand down the best video on this subject in the entire internet. THANK YOU

[dividebyzero]

Yeah, will be picking an endoscope up soon for an upcoming project. Found out the hard way that most of the water pipes are plastic, not metal in this house. Worse, in a wall with no attached plumbing, they put 4 waters pipes right near stud, and against drywall. (One horizontal passing through, two one one side, one on the other. And of course they were at ideal height for picture/shelf hanging.
Cannot assume there are no pipes just because there is no plumbing visible.

[Dakjaniels]

To save everyone 15 mins of talking in circles, he just drills a hole and uses a endoscope.

[ncsmalljobs]

When I use drywall anchors even the cork screw type that self drill, I drill a hole just far enough to get through the drywall then poke the drillbit back there to see if anything is behind the wall. The drywall anchor then goes in the drywall straight. I had a homeowner wants used one of the cell drilling anchors and drill right into her pex line

[kgeganjrify]

I learned to use a heavy magnet to find the drywall screws. Once found I start measuring 16" O.C. and it avoids the problem of hitting wires, and other utilities.

[cbnewham]

I had to screw down squeaking floors in a flat. I hadn't seen this video at that time, but I bought this exact endoscope and I'm so glad I did. My modus operandi was to get an eighth drill bit and set the depth stop on the drill to the floor panel depth (the floor is made from 6 x 4 panels of plywood, not floorboards, so can't be lifted). Once I had a hole I then inserted a stiff wire and felt around. If all clear, I then drilled the hole to 22mm width (just for better clearance) and inserted the endoscope. As it turned out, the central heating pipes (in pairs, one in and one out) were running through channels chiselled out of the tops of the joists! One of my eighth holes ended up between two pipes - a close call if not for the depth stop. The endoscope allowed me to see the exact layout in each room.

If I'd done it blind or with a detector (tried that - didn't work), I'd have eventually screwed into a joist just where a channel was cut. Afterwards I covered the 22mm holes with metal plates screwed into the floor - it's all under carpet, so never seen. You'd think they'd have put holes for the pipes through the centres of the joists to protect them instead of cutting channels on top of the joists right at floor level, but there is no accounting for dumbness.

[majesticblasian]

Now I'm discouraged from drilling my walls.

[juslookin]

Make 1”hole near work area using a pumpkin cut leaving the sheet rock paper on one side. Shine some light in and use an endoscope. Reposition the cut piece with ca or wood glue.

[cookinitmax]

This might be fine for inside with drywall but hanging things from the out side is harder because your dealing with thick OSB or plywood.
Not only that from what I’ve been dealing with on a house is that who ever wired house didn’t use any plates to protect wire and in some spots the wire was routed on the outer edge of the 2x4 and against the OSB and some places not tacked down thus loose wires hitting the OSB.
I almost hit the wire with my saw crazy .PS this was a custom home build what a nightmare.

[JamesSmith-gksz]

One of the simpler methods as well is using a self drilling *plastic* wall anchor. It’s not electrically conductive, its tip is blunt enough to only go
Through drywall and you can retract it by going in reverse on your drill/driver to look inside or insert the endoscope.
Genera rule of thumb is to treat every wall like a blind monkey built the thing and expect nothing to be where it should be.
PVC plumbing is the most nefarious by far as sometimes it might show as a “stud” on the finder and you’ll think “oh it’s all good”. Hence the plastic self drilling wall anchor. You’ll hit the pipe but not go through.
Truly one of the safest ways aside from spending a few thousand on a tool Bosch makes that literally sees through the wall and gives a 3D representation on the screen you’re holding.