How to hammer a nail into a concrete wall

In everyday life there is often a need to hammer a nail in the wallto hang, for example, eaves or wall cabinets, fasten the Swedish wall. But to hammer a nail into a concrete wall impossible. You have to use special fasteners for concrete.

You will need

• - dowel or anchor the dowel-nail.

Instruction

1. Concrete hammer in the wall dowel - is fast and reliable. But this requires a nail gun, without it it is possible to do only in the old concrete wall of the Soviet era. For the suspension mounted cabinets and lighter constructions, use plugs with a diameter of 8-10 mm recessed in the wall of 30-50 mm, for reliable anchorage of the equipment, the penetration in the wall need more - up to 100 mm.
2. For fastening of heavy designs use anchor dowel-nails. In the wall drill a hole under the bracket, then clean. Install it in the anchor and then the anchor hammer a nail. The anchor can be both metallic and even plastic and chemical (synthetic resin).
3. For mounting massive structures drilled hole can be lubricated with white glue before installing the anchor, then install it and leave for a day to grasp. Only then hammer him with a dowel-nail. But with proper load calculation and selection of the appropriate wall plug this is not necessary.