TIPS on how to install tapcons into concrete
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2018
- If you have to attach something to concrete, tap cons really work well. And this video I go through the techniques I’ve learned through the years and how to install these. I’ve used a lot of other fasteners into concrete but these are my favorite. They’re a little on the pricey side but they work. There are two different thicknesses of tap cons and it is very important to choose the correct Masonary bit. It sounds like a simple mistake but I see it all the time. The hammer drill is extremely important when you’re going into concrete. I have drill through concrete without a hammer drill but it is difficult. Also make sure that you use the right screwdriver bit for hex socket, it makes all the difference with the right tools. Hope you find the video useful.
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This video has more good info in 2 min than dozens upon dozens out there. Thank you sir!
this is by far the best instructions ive ever heard. They way you emphasize certain words make it super easy to understand. THANKS!
This is the kindest way I've ever been instructed. Thank you.
lol
Amazing from start to finish
ABSOLUTELY the best Tapcon video / Quick and easy, thank you!!
Very informative and explained simply! Great job!
Great tutorial I've been using Tapcon for 2 years. Cost really not that bad
Concidering what they do
- they do work !!!!👍
YOU. ARE. THE. FREAKING. MAN!!!! Thanks a MILLION 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thankyou for the short n sweet. I'm so sick n tired of instructional vids where they drone on showing hardly any instruction. Kudos to you!
Excellent! Short and straight to the point.
Great video covered all basics .Tx
Excellent tutorial!
I have snapped many of these with my cordless when installing them. What I found is that i needed to thoroughly blow the concrete dust out of the hole or they seem to bind prematurely, causing them to twist off. A compressor is best, but I’ve also successfully used small straight sticks as well as my my own breath to clean out the holes.
Excellent! Thank you.
Tapcons often come with a drill bit. Throw it away and buy a good bit. They are trash. An air compressor helps blow the dust out of the hole for a good screw set. Otherwise, you'll break screws.
Great information thanks
If you don't have a #3 drill bit, a square tip bit fits perfectly at the cross hairs on the screw.
Very informative video.
👍👍
Nice tips
You make statements such as “use the right bit”. Why don’t you say you use a 5/32nd” drill bit with a 3/16” tapcon and use a 3/16” drill bit with a 1/4” tapcon? It would have been much more useful to beginners to have the exact information rather than a lot of general nonsense.
Thank you. This might explain why my TapCons are breaking off or spinning out. I'm using a 3/16th SDS bit. Well now I use Redhead but if I could have found the right SDS size I would be happy right now.
Or...just read the box for the fastener which will give you the correct drill size. Give the guy a break!
100% agree
Understand that after the Tap-Con has been in concrete for a few years it won't unscrew out. Installed some aluminum awning columns with them. When the columns were taken out the screws had to be cut. I then ground the stub, below the concrete surface and applied concrete patch.
Will tapcons hold load bearing walls on my 20 x20 workshop build?
Thanks pal
The new Milwaukee matrix carbide bit #2 breaking point snapped the Tapcon. Theres the weakness they should check in to.
You over torqued it. Iif you follow proper procedure that doesn't happen with Tapcons..
Dry usefull just look at fat tap on and thin tap on to pick correct bit simple do thanks
My house was built in 1954 and the foundation was a good quality cement. After sixty years the concrete is so hard you need an SDS hammer drill and Tapcons get stuck and break or wear down and spin. Red Head fasteners are much better. My tip for Tapcon is to use RedHead.
I’ll definitely check those out
Thank you for your comment. I needed advice on attaching a wall to 44-year-old concrete and it sounds like you've been there.
@@Anon-Ymous2065 Yes definitely use lead based anchors if you can.
I did have to remove some RedHead nail anchors and it wasn't so bad to remove them with a pair of vice-grips pulling on just the nail. I may still use up the blue ones on brick sometime.
If I used an impact driver, instead of a drill driver, will that prevent my tapcon from staying in brick?
Thank you! I'm wondering how far to drill....If the hole is too short it won't work so I'm assuming you can't go too far??
Info on the Tapcon website says if your using a 1/4" diam. Tapcon to go 1/4" deeper then the screw will penetrate. (if screw is going in 2" drill hole 2 1/4" deep) For the bigger diameter tapcons they say to drill hole 1" deeper then the screw will penetrate. (so if screw going in 2" then drill hole 3" deep).
After the correct size pilot hole is made for the Tapon concrete screw... what drill setting/function is best to avoid snapping the bits from too much torque.??
I don't think I have ever snapped one, maybe the hole is too shallow?? When we drill them, we vacuum out the dust 2 or 3 times as we pull out the bit.
Can you use tapcon in black top?
Should you ever dip the screw in a lubricant prior to screwing into the concrete? such as oil or vaseline?
I haven't seen those used, but wax works well for long wood screws and may work in this case as well.
There are many, many more sizes of Tapcons. I'm looking at a hefty ½ inch one right now. They get bigger, longer and with a variety of heads.
He was only going by what Lowes or HD sells. He has no idea what's out there.
Sometimes they snap?
Can you use a little water or lube to drill and even drive in the Tapcon screws?
This is from a similar videos' comments section: Mr. Tape said, " There are 2 benefits to using water, " I've been drilling into concrete floors for years and water does help extend the life of the carbide tip and it also reduces the wear and tear on the hammer drill. " Another guy puts silicone into the hole before installing the Tapcon screw/bolt (may lubricate; may prevent water from pooling in the hole... and rusting the screw/bolt'.
I'm sure these work great for somebody but I just tried to use them and 3 in a row have snapped on me, and now my project is fucked....so that's awesome -.-
Wait $12? What!?
Very seldom is the crete in "good enough" shape to not strip out very easily.
Hex head 1/4 , 5/16
You did not specify the size of the masonry drill to the size of the concrete screw
Will the tapcons work well in brick? Or in the mortar between the bricks?
I tried going into brick once without much success. Stripped very easily. I didnt trust the ones that seemed to set properly because I was able to pull a few out by knocking and shaking the railing I was fastening to the wall.
I have a rack I am going to install into a brick wall and I am going to hang my cast iron cookware from it, all together probably about 80 pounds, will Tacon screws be good to use in a project like this or concrete bolts?
Tapcon will work, just make sure you use enough of them
Which size of Tapcon or any concrete fixing you use, will depend on how many fixing points you have, the type of brick and the thickness of the wall.
I am pretty well done with Tapcons for concrete slab use. I bought 3"L, 3/16 D Tapcon screws Bosh 5/32 D carbide drill bits ,I used a hammer drill and drilled 3 1/2 "depth holes washed out debris with garden hose , tried driving screws with a 3/8 Ryobi drill, NO JOY, only went in about 1" and screw stuck , tried a 1/4 " socket on 6" breaker bar ...Broke the screws ...twice ! I just don't think Tapcons are up to the job on 12 year old concretete??? Going to use anchor bolts instead , cost more but always work.
Next time use an impact driver.
I had same issue and I believe it was because I was not using impact driver. Everyone I have seen where Tapcon works they use impact driver.
Don't wash the holes out, use a shop vac. When you use water it makes for mud in the hole and the screw won't drive.
If the bit doesn’t fit,’
You must acquit!
I just wanted to say is that Tapcon brand are good BUT Cobra brand cement screws are better. Many years ago I used hundreds of Tapcon and had a 10% breakage before switching to Cobra and had less than 1 % breakage and at the time at 35 cents per screw, I found it to be expensive. Considering that Cobra screws were the same price if not slightly less expensive and less breakage.
That’s pretty interesting about the cobra brand screws. I’ve heard of people using nails with a very tight tolerance to the hole drilled into the concrete, work extremely well. Talk about pennies on the dollar. Next time I’m working with tap cons I’m going to experiment with regular nails with a tight tolerance hole so they stick tight. I’m gonna check out these cobra brand cement screws to thanks.
@@livefree6878 You can drive two 8p nails into a hole through the wood into the concrete and it works like a champ. You can also tap a wooden dowel into the hole and drive a nail down through it and it will be super tight. These are things that were done before the fancy stuff was around.
I've never seen "cement" screws.🤡
my carpenters have mini broken off tapcon in my floor. they even came with the bits in the box... Not happy with them.
If the carpenters did not drill a correct size hole in the concrete before attempting to screw in the Tapcon, or if they used an impact wrench at too high a setting to try to install the Tapcon screw, that will lead to snapped off Tapcons. Tapcons are not self-tapping in concrete - you have to drill the correct width hole that's also deep enough to accept the Tapcon.
Tapcons break off in concrete easily. I use the drill bit that comes with the tapcons and it still happens. I suggest using other fasteners. Tapcons work best in cinder blocks.
@@richardshermanjr1899 They only break if you over torque them. This usually happens because people don't leave 1/4 to a 1/2 inch of dead space where the screw bottoms out. Even if you blow the hole out, which you should to get the concrete out after drilling, the screw still drops shavings of concrete off as they are going in and it has to have somewhere to go, or the screw bottoms out prematurely and snaps off.
@@richardshermanjr1899 🤡
Bro all of your tools look brand new do you even use them? 😂 Haha just kidding and great video.
I did all this, just couldn't get the screws to grab, ended up just making holes in concrete
Same here! Got correct size Tapcon bit, used hammer drill, drilled 3/8" extra deep, cleaned out holes with air compressor, started running tapcon on slow drill setting....tapcons promptly stripped out. Also, after drilling 3 holes on slow speed....tapcon bit was ruined. Wasted time and money. Won't be buying again!
Tried using Tapcon screws…Tapcon bits would NOT drill through a house brick…used Dewalt hammer drill..my experience with Tapcon..never again
$12 for hammer drill, where is your harbor freight. In California the chepest I've found was $100 bucks
Hammer drill at harbor freight
The package says differently
thin or thick WTF how about a Size!!!
He gets his tools at Harbor Freight... save money...
I blow right through some wood bub
Yeah but they're not made for that and they heat up, which shortens the life of the masonry bit. Sort of pointless to use a masonry bit for wood since you've probably got wood bits handy.
Must have hammer drill. Regular drill won't work slower... it won't work at all.
Lol
No such thing as a MASONARY bit. The word is MASONRY - a 3 syllable word, not 4.
Tf did I just watch?
Call the sizes in inches , not bigger diameter and smaller diameter. you are wasting time.
Tapcons are absolutely worthless. Just drill a hole, pound wood in said hole, add screw.
Using them now, and they are kind of worthless. I have to finish off each screw by hand, and even then they still end up stripping the concrete.
@@WarriorBulldogs exactly, ine had better luck just ramming a grk torx head screw in the hole, they never break off.
I wouldn't say Tapcons are worthless. I agree they don't work in concrete but they work great in cinder block. I have used them in cinder block many times.
@@richardshermanjr1899 they're better in block yes, but still just as easy to save the money, use a screw you already have and a sliver of a 2x4 or a branch.
@@richardshermanjr1899 Haven't seen "cinder block" in 60 years. CONCRETE ain't "cinder or cement".
Tapcons are highly overrated.
1/4" hole and two galvanized 16 penny nails is cheaper and more effective.
That's old school and it works great, not so much for inspections should someone pull a permit.