Home DIY

A little bit harder than posting about it online but not much! You probably want a cold chisel and hammer. Finding an air brick might be a bit more tricky at the moment.

I have these, the green ones and the yellow ones... I like to be complete!

Angle grinder with a disc and then sds drill. It will be noisy and messy.

Cheers buddy. Think I’m sorted now, a neighbour has one.

'Knocking' will mean a lot of making good.
Do you have a decent hammer drill?
Much easier to drill out a series of holes in the mortar
to loosen any complete bricks you can remove.
Half bricks: drill a series of (smallish, say 6mm), holes about 5mm oversize to the air brick,
this should reduce the anount of chiselling you need to do to slide the airbrick into place,
and give give an adequate gap to apply mortar to hold it in place.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wera-Kraftform-­Interchangeable-screwdriver-05059030001/­dp/B00I8N2FP4

+1

Hire one of these and you could do the job in 3o mins (40 if you are knocking up the mortar by hand)

No worries - If you do just drop me a line as fits in my brompton bag 😂

Wera again but don't get an electrical set as you will knacker the insulation through normal use.

Get these instead

You can use a hammer on the top of them and a spanner on the shafts which are both handy on hard to remove screws.

Ohhhh nice... what model is it? Also feel I should buy my own but prob dont need it... prob...

A screwdriver you can use a hammer on is called a chisel!

Everything is a chisel if you hit it right. Whether it's a chisel more than once...

https://www.axminster.co.uk/japanese-restorer-s-cat-s-paw-110206

One of these and a chisel will save a lot of damaged screwdrivers.

Nnnnnnnngggggggggggggg!!!!!! Not even in jest! Stay away from my chisels!

Certainly will. Mine are sharper anyway :)

#triggered

No.

A chisel is purely for wood work.

A screwdriver you can hit with a hammer is called a handy bodge.

Japanese pry bar, probably one of my most useful tools. Definitely worth the extra for the quality. Will last forever, don’t bend or break, and Japanese tools are cooler.

No question is treated with more suspicion by a woodworker than
“Can I borrow a chisel?”

Never seen those. Want!

If by suspicion you mean outright hostility and death threats then yes.

Anyone else got any juicy lockdown DIY injury stories? Whilst fixing up my shed, I knocked over the cordless drill that was sitting next to me on the garden wall this afternoon. I instinctively grabbed for it, resulting in a 3mm wood drill bit poking a hole in my hand.

There's nothing quite like running a freshly-honed chisel or plane iron into a nail that you didn't notice.

Reading that made me physically cringe. Lol.

They always just want a pry bar, or other destructive device.