Fastening To Brick

I would not attach a fence to the house. If you get a storm that takes down your fence, it will be taking part of your brick wall with it.

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I would not attach a fence to the house

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I should have clarified. It's just a 3 1/2 foot tall picket fence made from 8 foot panels. Good advice all the same, I may just opt for a post. Thanks. But as far as my other question, can I drill into brick using a regular drill versus a hammer drill? I may just opt for a cheap hammer drill from Harbor Freight.

You could try your regular drill with a masonry bit and see if that works well enough. If not, jump in your car and head to Harbor Freight. The Hammer drill is a good tool to have for drilling and chiseling masonry, plus doing things like driving an 8' ground rod into the ground.

One cool thing I did at our current house aided by use of my hammer drill was to install an 8' ground rod. The prior owner had ran power out to a short power pole in part of our wooded yard surrounded by a long concrete drive circle (about 200' in diameter). I guess the prior owner buried the power before the driveway was poured. But he only ran two wires. I wanted to install some powered spot lights, string lights that I could control wirelessly, plus a powered WiFi camera. But I dang sure wanted a grounded GFCI circuit. So I went to Lowes and bought the 8' ground rod, #6 wire, ground lug and GFCI grounded outlet and lockable waterproof electrical box cover that I wanted. I grabbed my hammer drill and my step ladder and drove the ground rod into the ground using my hammer drill, installed everything and then had a grounded GFCI circuit to power my lights and camera. I used large waterproof electrical boxes to house outdoor power strips and remote wireless switches at strategic points in the circle and connected everything with underground wire.

They have a serviceable hammer drill at Harbor Freight for less than $50. I bought one for a similar project and have used it to mount a flag, to reset gutter downspouts, to mount gate hinges, and some other stuff. Worth having around.

I have never had luck drilling into concrete unless I used a large hammer drill. The ones that look like the regular style Milwaukee corded drill never worked for me.

If you don't use a hammer drill you are going to burn up that masonry bit.

I did this recently when I attached some shutters to my house. I attached them with Tapcon screws and drilled the holes with a Tspcon bit with regular drill. I was able to get most in the mortar, but had to put a couple in the actual brick. It worked fine.

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I have never had luck drilling into concrete

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Luckily, he's not proposing to drill into concrete.

If he drills into the "mortar" he won't have any problem at all not using a hammer drill.

If he drills into the "brick" it will be quite a bit harder, but he can get there without a hammer drill. Going to burn up the bit but cheaper than buying a hammer drill.

I’ve never had luck using a regular drill. A hammer drill makes the job so much easier.

attaching a fence to a wall creates a really neat path for termites.