{"id":26,"date":"2009-02-28T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-02-28T17:30:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T16:30:34","slug":"dont-make-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t make a mess &#8211; How to Catch Dust While Drilling Into a Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/assets\/drill.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of drill (copyrignt Adrian Rayfield)\" width=\"281\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Don\u2019t make a mess \u2013 catch the dust!<\/h1>\n<h2>How to Catch Dust While Drilling Into a Wall<\/h2>\n<p>When you have decorated your room and it\u2019s time to put the room back, put up pictures, curtain rails\/poles you don\u2019t want to have brick dust all over your newly decorated room.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid the brick dust or plasterboard dust from falling down the wall whilst drilling here is a great tip!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Stage 1<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/assets\/dust1.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of a freezer bag (copyrignt Adrian Rayfield)\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" \/><br \/>\nGet a small bag, such as a freezer bag or paper bag.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3>Stage 2<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/assets\/dust2.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of a roll of masking tape (copyrignt Adrian Rayfield)\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" \/><br \/>\nGet a roll of masking tape or similar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3>Stage 3<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/assets\/dust3.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of a freezer bag with masking tape folded over one edge (copyrignt Adrian Rayfield)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nTake a length of masking tape and fold it over one edge of the open end of the bag to stiffen the edge and prevent the bag from closing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3>Stage 4<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/assets\/dust4.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of a freezer bag with masking tape folded over one edge and another length of tape not folded on the other oppersite edge (copyrignt Adrian Rayfield)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nTake another length of masking tape and stick it on the inside of the other open side (do not fold over and ensure the sticky side is facing outwards) allowing you to stick the open bag to the wall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3>Stage 5<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/assets\/dust5.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of freezer bag with masking tape on stuck to wall below drilling point (copyrignt Adrian Rayfield)\" width=\"385\" height=\"485\" \/><br \/>\nTake the non folded taped side and stick it to the wall, just below where you will be drilling, open out the bag<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3>Stage 6<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/assets\/dust6.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of freezer bag stuck on wall, a drill drilling and dust and debris going into bag (copyrignt Adrian Rayfield)\" width=\"550\" height=\"490\" \/><br \/>\nDrill the wall and you will catch all the dust and grit in the bag!<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3>Job&#8230;. DONE<\/h3>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s as simple as that!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t make a mess \u2013 catch the dust! How to Catch Dust While Drilling Into a Wall When you have decorated your room and it\u2019s time to put the room back, put up pictures, curtain rails\/poles you don\u2019t want to have brick dust all over your newly decorated room. To avoid the brick dust or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[147,148,156,417],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-drill","tag-drilling","tag-dust","tag-rawl-plugs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}