Drilling through carpet - Page 2 - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

bwalley · 11-03-2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by CGofMP

Clicked on the State farm link above and saw this:

Okay... well I am in CCCPalifornia so I may seem a bit naieve, but....

1) Are outward opening doors really common in Florida? (Tetor?)

2) What is the upside? My degree is in Law Enforcement and I woudl think that this would make residential burglaries a very easy, fun and profitable persuit... save for the fact that so many Floridians have CCW permits

curious minds...

On some outswing doors, the hinge pins have a set screw so they can't be removed, others hinges have interlocks, so they can't be opened even if the hinge pin is popped.

You try breaking into someones house in Florida you are likley to be shot, you don't need a CCW permit or any permit to have a gun in Florida.

Anti-wingnut · 11-03-2009, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by mdshunk

Mike, I have a hinge pin removal story.

I was doing some work behind a door in which people kept coming through (restaraunt kitchen pantry area). I decided that I'd take the door off its hinges and sit it aside, as I'd be working in that spot for a few hours. I worked and worked at the first hinge pin for about 5 minutes with various impliments of distruction, to no avail. It was about time to give up when I noticed that when the door was almost the whole way open, you could see a little set screw through one of the hinge leaves and into the hinge pin. It must have been some kind of tamper proof security hinge pin. Removed the set screw from each hinge pin, and the pins came right out. I'm sure you already knew about those, but I was swearing for a few minutes that those pins were glued in somehow. Live and learn. Luckily, I didn't screw up the first hinge pin... very much.

I'm impressed you even told that story on yourself. Didn't take you smart pills that morning did you?

WarnerConstInc. · 11-03-2009, 09:59 PM

Masonary bit works great.

Inner10 · 11-04-2009, 08:15 AM

I've unwound a carpet in a church before, luckily I was able to repair it.

Most of the time if I have to drill a hole in carpet I can pull the carpet up a bit and drill under it. In what situations would you need to drill a 7/16th or smaller hole in carpet?

I love nifty trick tools, but this one seems like a little too much of a unitasker to be added to my drill kit.

TimberTom · 11-04-2009, 09:34 AM

Agreed. I prefer the pull back the carpet and slice a little x method

maninthesea · 11-07-2009, 06:59 PM

Try Chucking a small piece of thinwall steel tube into your drill then sharpen it on bench grinder while turning it.
Then you can use it as a mini holesaw to burn thru carpet.

Would outward opening doors be for some kind of fire code? Paniced people would be more likely to come to a door and push out. Would also make it more prevelant in comercial aplications. Just thinking.

Quiglag · 11-10-2009, 03:10 AM

When I have a bunch of floor stops to put in over carpet, I take a bit of electrical conduit and use that as my cookie cutter for the carpet. Just hit it with my hammer. You can get a good number of holes before the end flattens, then you just get a new piece.

superdeez · 11-11-2009, 07:03 PM

Most of the commercial exterior doors I've seen here in FL open outward. They're usually those vistawall doors where you have to open it first, then take out those three screws at the top where the hinge connects to the frame, then swing the top out of the way and lift the bottom pin out of the recess in the floor. I suppose you could get them off with a sawzall by cutting that top pin and the lock bolt if there wasn't a plate in front of it.

As for residential doors most of the front doors I see around here open inward, then the side/garage/back/etc. doors (if they're not sliding glass, which they often are) will open outward, but you usually can't just pull the pins to get them out. Higher end homes usually use those security hinges (with a countersunk one way screw as the set screw), but most of those doors have a deadbolt and are tight enough to the frame where it might take some fighting to get the door out.

With how many Crapset...er Kwikset locks around here a set of bump keys and a can of SuperSlick will get you in pretty quick.

MALCO.New.York · 11-11-2009, 07:27 PM

I always run the drill in reverse to penetrate the carpet. Once through, forward to penetrate the floor!