Best way to chase?

[whazza22]

Just after everyone's opinion on the best way to chase cable drops and box's without destroying the wall too much

Seen my mate use an SDS hammer and the wall looked a right mess!

The stitch method looks pretty good, does anyone know where to get one of those drill guides?

 

[telepath]

You could use a wall chaser on brick/block walls, very dusty though.

 

[acat]

option 1 wall chaser use mask entire house covered in dust
option 2 SDS drill go all over the place but quicker
option 3 use a scutch slower but cleaner and controlled.


I use option 3 and only revert to option 2 will stone build properties.


Hope that helps


Chris

 

[johnboy6083]

use a chaser but use it with a hoover that has a 110v socket built onto it. you then run a lead to the hoover and plug the chaser to that. works brill, and no dust!

 

[acat]

Blimey Im impressed tried that a while ago and still got a face full of crap what chaser/hoover combination are you using.


Thanks


Chris

 

[johnboy6083]

it was few years ago, but it was a bosch hoover and a bosch chaser! all i remeber is that we had to keep changimg the diamond blades co the walls were made of brick that contained iron filings or something like that

 

[rocker]

I use a combination of chaser and scutch hammer and chisel. If you haven't used scutch before I wholeheartedly recommend it - revolutionary!

 

[mogga]

Get the laberour to do it

 

[Phil]

scutch for me

 

[Adam W]

2 parallel cuts with an angle grinder then chip out the middle with a chisel.

 

[pennywise]

I use a chasing tool with a good vac, very low levels of dust, still dust sheet the entire room. I use a 5in grinder with a dust extract hood, again very little dust ,the sds causes more when clearing the chase and box. With the boxes I go past the edges of the marked out box this is so you get the full 25mm cut all the way to the very corners of the back box hole.

 

[chris gray]

sds in empty houses, skutch + hammer to keep tidy

 

[JUD]

Just bought this for back boxes

Armeg EBS Single & Double Box Set 10Pcs - Screwfix.com, Where the Trade Buys

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It now comes with a dust cover for the circular cutter.

 

[c.boy]

Just bought this for back boxes

Yeah that works fine on breeze block, but try it on the old black brick hilti chaser and hoover everytime for me, and chipper gun.

 

[rwb]

Hi Jud,
don't mean to **** on your bonfire but Itried these and wasn't impressed, O.K. for thermolites only