single/double back box cutters

[Mike Blair]

whats you opinions of these. looking into buying one http://www.screwfix.com/p/armeg-ebs-back-box-wall-chasing-installation-kit-7-pcs/67733

 

[telectrix]

OK for thermalite block, which can be cut out with a butter knife anyway. about as useful as a fart in a hurricane on anything harder.

 

[ruston]

I would have to go with that too.
I bought one years ago , although it was just a single cutter.
It was heavy on the drill , messy, and no good on anything tougher than block.
I sent it back after the first job.

 

[Mike Blair]

haha. hmm looking the fast an clean first fix's they looked great but thought the same about it being hard cutting into brick etc

 

[ruston]

haha. hmm looking the fast an clean first fix's they looked great but thought the same about it being hard cutting into brick etc

I bought mine from SF. They took it back no problem. See your local manager . They may have improved them.

 

[telectrix]

fitted on a decent rotary stop sds drill, you might manage to push a brick through to next door. it won't be recessed though.

 

[ruston]

That's what I was using , the old good quality Bosch SDS . The grease was running out of it.

 

[Geordie Spark]

fitted on a decent rotary stop sds drill, you might manage to push a brick through to next door. it won't be recessed though.

Me dad did that years ago with one of those Rawlplug tools wot you belt with a hammer.

Knocked a brick in the wall between kitchen & sitting room right through onto me Ma who was crashed out on the setee.

She wasn't very happy about it. "What are you going to do about the hole?" she asked.

Dad tooka calendar from a wall at the otherside otherside of the room & hung it over the hole.

That same calendar hung there for over 5 years.

 

[telectrix]

only 5 years? your ma must have nagged your da. i remember as a wee sprog, we has an anderson shelter in the back garden. if my dad was pi$$ed off with us kids, he'd sound an air raid siren and bung us in the shelter.

 

[amlu]

haha. hmm looking the fast an clean first fix's they looked great but thought the same about it being hard cutting into brick etc

if thats unoccupied first fix then get a 125mm grinder with diamond blade to cut the outline of the box (can do with a wall chaser too, but i cant see the blade properly on mine so no much precision)
then chisel the lot out with an sds.
10 minutes per box if already marked out after a bit of practice.

 

[superkev001]

I use a SDS chisel thats 75mm wide with my SDS drill which has roto stop function, its actuall called a tile lifter but works perfect for boxes