Take care when drilling into walls – DIN standards and wall scanners help in doing so!

Anyone who wants to hang up mirrors and install shelves generally has to drill one or several holes into the wall. Not a problem – as long as it’s clear where exactly the power cables and water pipes running through the wall are. There is a DIN standard for this purpose – but applying this cannot be taken for granted, especially in the case of old buildings.  It is therefore worth checking this with a wall scanner such as the BI15 from Trotec – because even short drill attachments can damage or even destroy cables or pipes.

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