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Hammering Nails into Diverse Masonry

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How To Hammer A Nail In Concrete or Brick. How to hang a picture.

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What happens here

The presenter demonstrates the simple process of driving a THS Fluted Masonry Nail into different hard surfaces using only a standard hammer. * **On a Concrete Block Wall:** He successfully hammers a nail into a concrete block wall. He then attempts to pull it out by hand, demonstrating its strong and secure hold. * **On Hard Red Brick:** He first attempts to hammer into a hard red brick. Noting the difficulty, he then moves to a mortar joint between bricks, successfully hammering a nail into the mortar. He points out that while brick is harder, the mortar provides a suitable attachment point. * **On a Concrete Footing:** Finally, he demonstrates on an extremely dense concrete footing that previously required a jackhammer to break. The masonry nail is easily driven into this challenging surface, proving its exceptional strength and versatility. He re-hammers a nail into a different section of the same concrete footing, again showing a solid installation.

Goal: Demonstrate the ease and effectiveness of THS Fluted Masonry Nails across different masonry types

Tools and materials

  • Hammer N/A — Driving the masonry nails into surfaces
  • THS Fluted Masonry Nails Grip Right — The fasteners being tested on various surfaces
  • Concrete Block Wall N/A — One of the surfaces for testing nail insertion
  • Concrete Footing N/A — A very hard concrete surface for extreme testing
  • Framed Picture N/A — Demonstrating hanging an item on a successfully installed nail
  • Mortar Joint N/A — The softer area between bricks for nail insertion
  • Red Brick Wall N/A — Another surface for testing nail insertion, focusing on mortar joints

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have just got to bend when you start hammering them in there. But I'll show you how easy this thing, this is all actually concrete right here. We've got some just texture over the top of it. But this is block right behind here. And these, that's how easy that thing nails right into that concrete. I can't even pull that thing out now. That easy. Those things will hold a lot of weight. So, I got different types. I got there's concrete block here. We've got some uh red brick right here. And then we got some actual mortar inside there. So there's three different scenarios that you know we can test these nails out. This brick right here I've test out. This is actually a lot harder than this block, but it actually will not nailing. We'll try that once again. I just dropped the nail just like that. Now that thing is nailed in there. These bricks are way way harder than this block. But it it didn't even there's a little bit of um area where it chipped it around that brick. But I can hang any type of picture, you know, from that nail. And I got a picture right here. We'll show you. I just hang that picture just like that. That picture will just hang right on there. Simple and easy to do. I've got one other type right here. So, that's the red brick. We got the mortar inside the brick. Just like that. And the mortar is not quite as hard as the brick, but it nails right into that mortar. But I've never that brick. I've never seen anything as hard as that before. That nail went right in there. And it's not actually in there very far, but it's in there pretty solid. It'll hold any type of small picture, small item. Here's another type of block right here. We'll hammer. Goes right into that block really easily. I got some concrete down here. I'll hammer one in the concrete. Move the camera so you can actually see me. I got a concrete footing down here. And we'll see how they work in the concrete footings. So, I got a concrete footing right here. We actually chipped this away. We're um you know, working on this fireplace right here, but this was some concrete and we had to get a jackhammer and stuff and jackhammer some of the stuff out. But we can um you know, test nailing one of those things out. And this concrete right here, I had to get a hammer drill to try to hammer through um and drill through this aggregate stuff, and the hammer drill wouldn't even work. So, I had to hire a professional to cut the stuff out. But that stuff is super hard. And that nail just went…

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