What do you use to protect wall/skirting when drilling solid walls?

[WaterTight]

Say for hanging rads on solid wall nicely plastered and painted?

 

[SimonG]

Nothing, cloth on floor, brush dust off with paint brush and hoover once finished. Only trouble sometime is blockwork and the dust can mark the wall. If this happens then I use the hoover whilst drilling to catch the dust.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Dust pan under drill bit, or Hoover.

 

[REDSAW]

i ask if they have a vac and tell them to fetch it!
customer usaually say after that 'DONT WORRY, I WILL DO IT AFTER YOU HAVE FINISHES'

 

[Best]

Cleaner nozzle just below drill point works well for me also. Or also a dust pan or bit of cardboard tight to wall works well. Dust sheet on floor also.

 

[Leo21]

Just hang the rad low enough to hide the carp.

 

[WaterTight]

Paint brush sounds worth a bash. I just find catching what you can, hovering, dusting with tissues, using trade wipes, sometimes there are bits you just can't get off. I'm thinking maybe masking tape and some sort of thin plastic sheet?

 

[Leo21]

Paint brush sounds worth a bash. I just find catching what you can, hovering, dusting with tissues, using trade wipes, sometimes there are bits you just can't get off. I'm thinking maybe masking tape and some sort of thin plastic sheet?

I use a real quality paint brush, it works a treat.

 

[gastec]

A short piece of wide masking tape folded in half and lightly stuck to wall under drill bit

 

[hammers4spanner]

Hoover or dust pan under drill bit failing that use the box the trv comes in .

 

[julesverne]

Masking tape and a wide envelope to catch it

 

[hammers4spanner]

If its a H/A house i just leave it

 

[stevetheplumber]

i tend to use the poly wrapping of the rad as a dust sheet

 

[plumben]

Dust sheet on the floor and either nothing or a bit of masking tape to catch the dust,

Usually just hoover the wall before hanging the rad