Nailing Into Concrete Wall

Some concrete nails are the cut nail design shown in the photo with a thick flat shank and a tapering v profile.

Nailing into concrete wall.

Hold a masonry nail against the concrete wall with your fingers. How to drill into concrete to hang a tv shelves racks etc. Other nails have a thick shank that sometimes has spiral ridges for improved holding power. These nails are cheap hold well as long as they penetrate at least inch into the concrete and are extremely hard to pull out.

These nails are driven through a board and into concrete underneath much like nailing a wood board to a wood floor. They can be used in concrete block and brick. You can use regular 16d sinker nails as concrete nails in an upcoming project where you need to attach a piece of treated lumber to a poured concrete slab or a wall. If you expect to be doing a lot of concrete nailing you may want to consider investing in a powder actuated nailer.

Concrete nails are shaped like thick common nails. Watch our hang a shelf on a brick wall. Insert the anchor into the hole so the top rim is flush with the surface of the wall. A masonry nail also known as a concrete nail is made of tough steel and designed with fluted shafts that help them drive into concrete without breaking.

Concrete screws come in 3 16 and 1 4 inch diameter in lengths up to 3 3 4 inches. Hammer the nail into the anchor. Drill a pilot hole into the concrete wall using a drill and masonry bit. Be sure to wear safety goggles when hammering masonry nails into concrete.

A concrete nail gun is a dead simple tool consisting of a hollow metal barrel and a firing pin. Place the tip of the masonry nail against the marking you made and hold it steady with your fingers. Actual gunpowder from a modified 22 caliber shell propels specially designed nails through the wood and into the masonry. Masonry nail anchors will hold light to medium weight objects such as furring.

Both hex head and phillips head styles are available. My diy way to screw brackets into cement same as brick. The wood could be a 2 x 4 bottom plate for a wall or a simple 2 x 2 cleat for some utility shelving in your basement or garage.