remove screw from wall

gar_29

hey

what do you do if you want to remove a screw from the wall that the head is worn?

it was a phillips head, but the X of the head is totally mangled. it's flush to the wall, so there's damn all access to get a hacksaw to it. it looks like it's been in for years.

thanks

Sleipnir

Hammer it in using a punch and fill the hole.

skingtile

as above or if you need the same hole a steel drill bit of suitable size and drill it out

gar_29

Sleipnir wrote: »

Hammer it in using a punch and fill the hole.

cool, thanks.

it's not needed, so i'll do that.

Joey the lips

i only use the above as a last resort I would buy a stud remover and take it out that way

CJhaughey

Drill the head with a metal drill that is just a little smaller than the mangled head, it will come off and you can fill the small hole left with polyfilla.
I would like to see someone hammering a screw in!

Sleipnir

CJhaughey wrote: »

Drill the head with a metal drill that is just a little smaller than the mangled head, it will come off and you can fill the small hole left with polyfilla.
I would like to see someone hammering a screw in!

You wouldn't hammer it in all the way in obviously. Just enough so that you can fill over it. A quarter centimeter would do.

jack of all

Grip the head using a vice grips (you may have to make a hole in the plaster around the screw to get a decent grip) and unscrew it. Fill on completion.

S.L.F

CJhaughey wrote: »

Drill the head with a metal drill that is just a little smaller than the mangled head, it will come off and you can fill the small hole left with polyfilla.
I would like to see someone hammering a screw in!

I imagine it would be possible to get it a bit of the way in because screws going into brick use a rawl plug so it would just be a matter of banging it in a bit more or worse case you could drill a hole beside the screw then bang the head of the screw over so it either breaks off or bends.