Large hand-held drill for 1 metre thick stone wall

[OwlHoot]

Apparently it was a Hilti that the Hatton mob used.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...-first-5571661

qh

Ah now that looks the ticket. I wonder if one can use it in hand-held mode, without needing muscles like Arnold Schwarzenegger!

[d000hg]

Sounds about right. That and the walls were full of rubble inside. They left me to it on one big stone that needed to come out for a fire escape on the top floor. I spent a couple of hours drilling holes through it so it could be cut through with the power chisel then realised it was holding up half the gable end. That caused a few problems

The more fun thing as a kid was been asked to help by knocking down an old lath and plaster (complete with horsehair IIRC) wall. As in, given a hammer and crowbar and left to it.

[vwdan]

The more fun thing as a kid was been asked to help by knocking down an old lath and plaster (complete with horsehair IIRC) wall. As in, given a hammer and crowbar and left to it.

Oh God, flashbacks. We (or, really, I) removed every single lath & plaster ceiling and wall in this house - which was all of them. So 7 rooms, plus hallway and top of the stairs plus 2x stud walls. Just the worst stuff ever

[Paddy]

The more fun thing as a kid was been asked to help by knocking down an old lath and plaster (complete with horsehair IIRC) wall. As in, given a hammer and crowbar and left to it.

Done it once and never again. If there is a next time I will use mesh wire and batons and then plasterboard.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Any serious DIYers here?

I need a large hand held drill with a diamond core drill attachment, to drill a small (about an inch or 2.5 cm) hole through a roughly metre thick stone wall.

Searching, I can see only carpy little Black and Decker drills or, at the opposite extreme, huge diesel-powered drills on trailers, no doubt costing thousands.

What do bank robbers use to drill through thick concrete walls? That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, although I'm not planning to drill into a bank vault!

TIA

Oddly enough, I have a set of metre long SDS drills I bought from Lidl(tm) for no readily apparent reason.

Combined with the Lidl(tm) SDS drill or the Titan (screwfix) drills they'd do the job.

Dunno what would happen if the core of the wall is rubble though.

Dick Strawbridge seemed to have some considerable trouble with his chateau which had rubble filled walls.

It burned stuff out.