Drive Screw Hooks With Another Hook Chucked in Your Drill

The Problem

Screw hooks — cup hooks, ceiling hooks, bicycle hooks — have no drive head. The standard install is threading a screwdriver through the loop and cranking a quarter-turn at a time, or twisting by hand until your fingers give out. On a ladder, doing it one-handed, it's slower still.

The Technique

1. Start the hook by hand — a couple of turns, just enough that it bites and stands on its own. Drill a pilot hole first in hardwood.
2. Chuck a second hook of the same style into your drill, hook end out.
3. Interlock the chucked hook with the one in the wall and run the drill. The hooks transfer the rotation, and the drill spins the hook fully home.
4. Unhook, and move to the next one — one starter twist and a second of drill time each.