An unspectacular start to our blog…<\/p>\n
I was putting up a couple of hooks in the closet today. Because I did not expect to have the luxury of having studs where I wanted to put them up, I bought some anchors to go with them.<\/p>\n
Before I tried to put up the first hook, I tapped on the wall to check if I did indeed have a stud there, and it seemed <\/em>that there wasn’t. So I happily drill a couple of holes with a 3\/16″ quite some ways into the wall, and I try to push the anchors in, but they just would not. So I try to hammer them in, only to have them bend and distort into something unusable, they being merely plastic after all. So then I try put in the screws directly, hoping that the screws would push them in. That does not work either, and the anchors open up before they are in.<\/p>\n Finally, I poke inside the holes (literally) and figure out that there is infact (part of?) a stud behind where I was trying to put in the hook. So I just go ahead and put in the screws directly into the wall slightly away from the holes so that they get covered up by the hook. For the other hook, I tried drilling a small pilot hole first, and after an initial resitance, the drill went through easily, telling me that there wasn’t a stud there, so I could anchor away to my heart’s content, which is what I did.<\/p>\n So the lesson is: if you are not sure if there is a stud where you want to put in a screw in a drywall, first drill a small pilot hole. If the drill bit goes through easily after an initial resitance, then there isn’t a stud, and you should drill a larger hole and put in an anchor. Otherwise, just go ahead and put in the screw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An unspectacular start to our blog… I was putting up a couple of hooks in the closet today. Because I did not expect to have the luxury of having studs where I wanted to put them up, I bought some anchors to go with them. Before I tried to put up the first hook, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,13,11,12],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","tag-anchor","tag-drill","tag-drywall","tag-hook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}