Protect your ears with earplugs and your eyes with safety goggles.
How to nail wall plates into concrete.
An explosive nail gun is another option.
Put on a pair of safety glasses and a face mask.
Drill the hole at least 1 4 inch deeper than the length of the lower portion and vacuum or blow out the hole.
How to nail a stud wall to a cement floor.
Drilling into concrete creates dust that can irritate your eyes if.
The one shown requires only a 1 4 inch hole.
Drill pilot holes in the board.
Vacuum out pilot holes.
Consult your building plans and snap a chalk line to outline the area for the stud wall with pair of lines parallel and 3 1 2 inches apart.
How to nail wall plates into concrete.
Hand concrete nails can be used if the concrete slab is fairly new less than two weeks old.
Nail wall plates into concrete.
Using an anchor nail 1.
Hammer set anchor nails are what s known as mechanical drive.
Fit a carbide tipped masonry bit.
Drop in the anchor and hammer on the pin to expand the bottom of the shield against the wall of the hole.
A hammer drive anchor requires only a small pilot hole.
Push a drive pin into the barrel of.
Begin by drilling a pilot hole through the board at each location you are nailing.
When the board is penetrated.