Moonglow
Diamond Member
Yeah, I have several of those and ones for bolts since I was a teen I have had to use them. Mostly on cars and usually a bolt on the valve covers.Been using the hammer method........driving the phillips into the screw with the hammer then using the drill......working on a bunch but some are hopeless unless I go get the screw extractor.I can hammer them up by am trying to salvage the frame as much as possible.......will have to reframe some of it anyway though......been digging the wood away and twisting it out by hand.........which is aggravating............LOLI posted this under current events because it is a current event for me.........I'm replacing the wood on the old pool deck and the phillips heads screws are killing me..........I'm using the hammer method now by tapping the screw head of the drill into the screws with a hammer and then using the drill .............then I'm tearing up the board with a hammer and using a pair of pliers to get them out.
Any tricks to make it easier other than lighting it on fire and starting from scratch .LOL
Well, any way you can get under the deck and hammer them up or are they rusted and becoming sand?
I have my own problem of sorts, I might ask here as well, figure some of you guys are handy, I am not particularly, though I have dealt with many technical issues in the house just from youtube videos etc.
Yeah that's alot of work. I will say, if you have the patience, you can tap hammer. It will take alot of time and probably hurt your back, but it will work with minimal harm to wood outside the screw hole area.