Prime Day

[Platypus]

Got enough suction power, old sport?

I'll let you know tomorrow

[missinggreenfields]

Only other thing I wanted was Dyson hand held but no luck.

I wouldn't bother. It sucks.

[SueEllen]

Rubbish. You don't need professional tools for drilling a few holes now and then for your shelves, you need them if you are going to be using them day in day out and/or drilling particularly hard stuff.

Try putting shelves up in my place with an £80 drill. It would be fun watching....

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

Try putting shelves up in my place with an £80 drill. It would be fun smelling....

[NigelJK]

I had to resort to one of these for just about all drilling on the house:

Bad boy although mine is branded 'Champion', it has given sterling service so far and no job is proper these days until the SDS comes out.

[d000hg]

Try putting shelves up in my place with an £80 drill. It would be fun watching....

If you'd read to the end of my post you'd have seen exemptions apply. Similarly the 600 year old Cornish farmhouse we bought with 2 foot thick granite walls (internal as well as external)

[vetran]

In before the usual suspects....

Signing on?

strange he said it was satisfying FLC's mother.


Lazy, I am your Father...

[vetran]

expensivo

I have a Hitachi Li-Ion that I use very frequently and it rarely lets me down. Get two batteries. should be ~ £99. I look to replace every 5 - 10 years.

I have a cheap Li-ion ALDi drill screwdriver / drill which I put a holder with a pozidrive or pilot bit (hanging doors etc) in to save swapping bits and to make the bigger drill last longer.

I used to have a Makita/B&D/unamed NiCad drill but was forever buying a new £50 battery but the Li-ion batteries last so much longer and have more power for weight. The Makita was a nice drill though.

For hard Concrete & Engineering bricks or lots of holes in solid walls (battery drill will do few shelves etc but won't drill 50mm holes) I switch to my ALDi special <£15 on sale £25 normally which does almost anything.

Finally as mentioned above where its too hard for either I have a very similar one to the Champion SDS drill which will make lots of holes in most things and is great for chiselling away concrete, drilling tree stumps and making holes for wastes & Vents. at £50 ten years ago it was a real investment.