Bajakid t1_je83xwd wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:23 AM

No absolutely not. If you don’t know what it is, stop drilling now. If it’s a water pipe it ends in disaster. It could be an metal plate covering electrical wire. It could be…….. without knowing we don’t know. Stop drilling.

LooseRooster OP t1_je8fvtc wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:07 AM

Yeah stopped as soon as I was through the drywall, only need to thread a snap toggle through. Just find it odd that the pilot hole above went into empty space. Anyways seems like the consensus is to mount somewhere else on the wall.

HighExplosiveLight t1_je99jur wrote on March 30, 2023 at 10:34 AM

They cut a chunk of stud out of the wall to run piping through, and then hammered a piece of aluminum to reinforce the stud in the area where it had been compromised.

Like this

https://images.app.goo.gl/euRTB6nb5CdsL5sM7

So that's why you can drill above and below it.