Plastic anchors should be used for Sheetrock application only, even though package details claim they can be used in brick or block applications; masonry does not allow the anchors to spread properly.

These anchors look like giant screws, and come as long as 46 inches. Once you've threaded these anchors through the thimble loops at the cable's ends, drive them into the ground with an impact wrench.

QA decorative window shutter on a brick wall at my house blew off in a windstorm. It would be easy to reattach it, except that the holes left in the mortar by the former nails are now too wide for ...

Bore on your marks using a hammer drill and a carbide-tip masonry bit sized to suit the plastic screw anchors. Make the hole slightly deeper than the anchor's length. Before tapping the anchor ...

Sleeve anchors - one kind for brick and block, another for concrete - come in different lengths as well. When drilling the hole for a 1/2-inch sleeve anchor you actually drill a 1/2-inch hole.

Masonry anchors for screws require slightly larger bores than the existing holes. How should I deal with this? If the holes in your wall are a little too narrow, use a carbide bit in a power drill ...