Reply to: Prime Day

[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.

[vetran]

In before the usual suspects....

Signing on?

strange he said it was satisfying FLC's mother.


Lazy, I am your Father...

[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)

[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.

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

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

[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....

[missinggreenfields]

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

I wouldn't bother. It sucks.

[Platypus]

Got enough suction power, old sport?

I'll let you know tomorrow

[FatLazyContractor]

I got a new cordless vacuum cleaner, £50 off

Got enough suction power, old sport?

[AtW]

Bought a couple of blu ray boxsets for my collection.

[Platypus]

I got a new cordless vacuum cleaner, £50 off

And some other stuff <buyers' remorse>

[AtW]

Probably but ok for the limited use I have for it.

You are not killing yourself??!?!

[MrMarkyMark]

expensivo

Obviously may be overkill for your situation.

Always worth remembering may be expensive, in initial outlay, but will pay for itself over the years.
Buy cheap, buy twice.

[d000hg]

£80 drill still crap.

Next time have a conversation with tradesman over where to buy decent drill and how much to spend on it.

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.

[woohoo]

Just got a FireTV for £50 odd. The sticks are only £19.99.

I did the same, wanted to try FireTV with my 4k monitor and also bought a stick so I can use an old monitor in gym room (ok the garage).

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