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<\/a>The hole that I started is now finished off, with the pipe cemented in place and with the outer filter fitted.<\/p>\nIt just needs to be cut to length though on the inside of the wall and so I’ll do that when the plasterboard is in place.<\/p>\n
As for the second hole, well… <\/p>\n
The long arbour and the huge core drill are so heavy that I couldn’t lift the SDS drill. How I wish I had a small arbour!
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There is one but that’s for an ordinary drill and so I tried that. The very small one is only a 10mm chuck but the other one is 13mm and that fitted, but I broke off the chuck key. <\/p>\n
Tightening it up with a screwdriver didn’t work and so it was the SDS drill or nothing.<\/p>\n
Of course, it’s a rubble wall on the interior and we collided straight away with a big lump of ironstone and that brought everything to a juddering halt. <\/p>\n
But using the battery SDS drill with a 300mm (and then a 500mm) drill bit I spent a couple of hours breaking up the ironstone in situ<\/em> and once that had been done I could attack it with the big SDS drill and the huge core drill.<\/p>\n By the time 19:00 came round and the power started to drop off (it IS 1400 watts, after all) I’d done well over half of the core drilling. And there was dust everywhere (and blood on my new wooden floor – drat!) <\/p>\n My hair was a real mess and so in the end I cut it all off and gave it a run over with the sheep shearer. After that I had a hair wash, a long chat with Marianne and another one with C\u00e9cile (her mum has had another fall and is now in hospital – a wise decision for Cecile to return). <\/p>\n Now I’m whacked and that is that.<\/p>\n Tomorrow I need to have another go with a standard SDS drill to break up some more of the rock in the wall and then, if nothing else goes wrong, finish off with the core drill. <\/p>\n If I can get all of that done I might have time to strip down the water filters and have a play with them.<\/p>\n