Screwed - properly stuck.

[ferrisbueller]

Tearing out my kitchen and the screws securing the cabinets to the wall will not budge. They appear to be made of cheese and have been there so long that they're stuck fast in the rawl plug. Short of dremelling them back flush with the wall, any top tips for how to get the feckers oot please?

[Shay HTFC]

Not sure exactly what they are like at the moment, but can't you dremel a groove into the top and use a flat headed screwdriver on them?

[stifler]

Pliers
Wobble
Pull
Done






(might take the rawl plug with it(and copious amounts of plaster))

[Hammer67]

cheese knife?

HTH

[Racefan_uk]

Pair of pliers and pull them out complete with rawl plug?
Then put new rawlplugs back in to replace them?

Or is that not the desired effect you're looking for?

[ferrisbueller]

Racefan_uk said:

Pair of pliers and pull them out complete with rawl plug?
Then put new rawlplugs back in to replace them?

Or is that not the desired effect you're looking for?

Thus far this has not shifted the bugger........Also, can't get the pliers onto the head of the screw in every case bar one.

Edited by ferrisbueller on Tuesday 17th March 20:17

[ferrisbueller]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

No dice. The screw is hard up against the plastic fixing and turning it either way is just stripping the head.

[Craig@CMR]

HTH

[dickbastardly]

Have you removed the cabinets? if so hammer screw into the wall or claw hammer them out (with rawplug and plaster) if you have not removed the cabinet crowbar them off the wall again the plugs should pull out but you will have to make good after!
HTH
Andy

[TheDarkSide]

Claw hammer.

Remove screw complete with rawlplug.

Apply bucketloads of filler.

HTH.

Edited by TheDarkSide on Tuesday 17th March 20:20

[Healey73]

If I'm reading this post right I'm guessing drilling out is the only answer.

[svm]

Hammer the screw driver into the head of the screw. The shock should loosen it and it will cut new grooves.

Don't use your best screw driver mind!

[Glassman]

If you're "tearing out" the kitchen...



Or just think of someone like Gordon Brown and do a loopy one with a Kango/chainsaw.

[Jasandjules]

Drill it out? Use a drill bit just large enough to slice the rawl plug.

[Brink]

The Yankee solution would, of course, be:

[TheDarkSide]

Actually, if you have a big hammer, a cold chisel and a six pack of Stella in the fridge I'm happy to pop over and help.

This *may* end up requiring the construction of a new wall, you understand.

[dickbastardly]

if i remember you can get bolt removers i think you drill a small hole in the head and then use the remover tool it has a reverse thread on it so the more you tighten the tool the more it grips and loosens the screw!! i still would go for the claw hammer option! or cut a grove and try an impact driver!!
HTH
Andy

[MarkwG]

If you don't want the cabinet, welly the thing with a hammer until it gives up, very satisfying. Then claw-hammer the screw until plug comes away with it, & add filler. Where there's a hammer, there's a way...

[VxDuncan]

If you can get to the edges of the head (poss. by hacking away at the cabinet) then a set of mole grips will usually undo the screw where the head is mangled.

As an aside, make sure you are using a high quality screwdriver bit, and that it matches the screw - that is ONLY a no.3 Pozi bit on a no.3 Pozi screwhead, not a random phillips head or no2 etc. etc.

[Tycho]

Last problem I had like this was solved by drilling a hole in the screw, tapping an allen key which is slightly bigger than the hole into the hole with a hammer and using the extra leverage to get the screw out.