As a retired licensed masonry contractor, let me tell you there is a right way
and a wrong
way.
Here is the right way.
Rent a combo drill/rotor hammer with long enough bits to reach through the wall.
Walls are a nominal 8" or 12" width.
You need more than one bit, a small diameter bit and a bit of large enough
diameter to
produce a hole capable of all the coax, cables etc.
Determine where you want the hole to exit the house, up from foundation, and
horizontally
from a window or already protruding object.
Now here is where most make the mistake. Measure so the starter hole is in the
'bed'
joint. That is the horizontal layer of mortar.
After measuring again and marking the spot on the inside. Drill from the inside
with the
smallest diameter bit.
The reason you use the smallest bit it to make the smallest exit hole.
The exit hole will ALWAYS be much larger than the drill bit and may spall off
surrounding
bricks.
Then go back outside, and with the larger diameter bit, redrill from the
outside in.
This will prevent spalling of adjacent bricks and make patching in the future
much
simpler/neater.
(for those who don't know, a roto hammerdrill is one that hammers and makes a
1/4 turn of
the bit with each impulse. It will go through concrete or masonry much much
faster and
easier than a simple drill)
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Keep on a digging, the best bones are buried deepest!
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Bill H. in Chicagoland
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