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Introduction to Fluted Masonry Nails

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

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The presenter introduces the common difficulty of hanging items on masonry walls, often requiring masonry drills and anchors. He then presents a simpler solution: 'THS fluted masonry nails' from Grip-Rite. He shows a box of 2-inch nails and some smaller 1 1/4 inch nails, highlighting their design for easy penetration into tough materials without bending.

Goal: Understand the problem and discover the solution for hanging items on masonry walls.

Tools and materials

  • Hammer — Driving nails into the wall
  • THS Fluted Masonry Nails Grip-Rite — Attaching items to masonry

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In this video, I'm going to show you how you can easily hang a picture or any other type of item on a concrete cement or block wall. I've got a fireplace right here. Wanted to hang some pictures on the other side. And I had to go to the extent of actually getting a masonry drill, drilling a hole, and hammering anchor in there. And what a pain in the neck that was to actually hang the picture. And then now I got this situation here where we're actually adding some decorative um panel boards on this. And I had to actually get some um some backing up here to actually screw and hang that to. And I was trying to figure out how I was going to have to attach these boards. And I found this item called at my local hardware store called a ths fluted masonry nail. And I was like, well, that's kind of interesting. It's just a simple little nail. Hell is that thing can actually hammer into brick or concrete or block without it chipping and breaking. So, I bought these things, gave it a test, and I was actually amazed. I'm going to show you how simply and easily these things work and how easy you can hang a picture and see like a basement. We got a basement downstairs, and it's all concrete, and we've never been able to hang any pictures on there. And now, with this simple nail, this is how you can actually do it. So, I'm going to show you how easily it works right now. So, I just got a regular hammer right here. And this fastener, they're called Grip Right fasteners, and they're actually labeled THS fluted masonry nails. I don't know if you can see that right here. I just bought a box of them. I actually bought a couple sizes to mess around with them. These are actually

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