My house has stucco walls. I'm trying to train a beautiful vine up the walls but every nail I hammer into the stucco either bends or a chunk of stucco breaks off. What am I doing wrong. Can someone give me step by step instructions, please.
2006-08-22 02:00:35 · 6 answers · asked by dealonbracelets 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
I agree with the other answers about drilling a pilot hole, but you need to drive the nails into the wall studs. Stucco alone will not support the weight of your plant once it gets big.
A word of caution about plants on the wall, once they get big they can rip your roof apart. Keep them well trimmed and away from the eaves.
2006-08-22 04:44:32 · answer #1 · answered by big_mustache 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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How can I drive nails into stucco walls?
My house has stucco walls. I'm trying to train a beautiful vine up the walls but every nail I hammer into the stucco either bends or a chunk of stucco breaks off. What am I doing wrong. Can someone give me step by step instructions, please.
2015-08-18 22:08:40 · answer #3 · answered by Librada 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the first answer is correct so far as predrilling with a small masonry bit, but I beg to differ on the idea that a nail gum won't crack stucco.
This is one of those projects were if your not very careful, you set out to do a good thing, and you end up damaging something else. I've done it more times than I care to recount.
So find your studs. Carefully, slowly predrill and then nail. And use only as many nails as you must. Every penetration through your stucco gives water a chance to enter. Then the stucco just starts falling off in chunks. :^(
2006-08-22 02:06:13 · answer #4 · answered by perfecttiming1 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can't really drive nails into stucco walls, but you can drill into them. I lived in an apartment once with interior stucco walls and that's what we had to do. Even construction adhesive would not hold on the walls, so we drilled into them and put up the curtain rods. We left the rods when we moved. Wish someone had done that for us!
2006-08-24 09:22:30 · answer #5 · answered by Loyless H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I've got stuff hanging all over my stucco and I used screws and my power drill. I did use a wall molly to hang some wrought iron planters, but they are pretty heavy. I don't have cracks or chips around any of the holes.
2016-04-01 05:11:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either get a small drill bit and drill a pilot hole a little smaller than the nails you are using OR rent an air powered nailer which will not crack stucco.
2006-08-22 02:05:39 · answer #7 · answered by Michael 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are two way to do this.
one- use small nails and only drive them in a small way.
two- use a drill first to make a pilot hole then insert the nail into it.
2006-08-22 02:08:05 · answer #8 · answered by mrhappy546 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋