Any one recommends a good drill for an amateur DIYer?

leveller2911

andrew-b wrote: »

Cordless drills come into their own when you want to use them in the loft space or down the end of the garden or when you need to turn off the electrics. The other thing is you can use them as a screwdriver..which you can't usually do with a corded hammer drill (at least not with torque control!).

Thats true but Cordless drill don't like being left uncharged or un-used and Ni-cad batteries are the worse.With any cordless its important to use them regularly ,even with good quality Lithium Ion batteries don't like long periods of no use.

IMO its horses for coarses corded,cordless , hammer action or drill-driver all will do a job but none will do all the jobs you need to do well.....

Treadway1

My local B&Q (Chelmsford) are currently selling a DeWalt 18v DC100KA with TWO batteries for £85, reduced from £199. Bought one myself as it happens. I'd had enough of buying carp drill after carp drill so thought I'd splash out on a decent one at a very good price.

I looked for the same one on screwfix and it was listed as £229!!! Although that does come with three batteries, which is a little excessive TBH. It only takes an hour to fully charge the battery so how much drilling you'd have to do in an hour to kill two batteries is beyond me!

Becles

I bought this one for my husband for Christmas and he was thrilled to bits with it:
http://www.wickes.co.uk/6kg-SDS-Plus-1020W-Hammer-Drill/invt/186869

stevemcol

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DeWALT-D25112K-SDS-PLUS-HAMMER-DRILL-240v-NEW-/300526440208?pt=UK_Home_Garden_PowerTools_SM&hash=item45f8c58f10

edit, possibly a bit ott for occasional DIY but a nice drill.

BoxerfanUK

Funny enough my cheap old corded drill packed up yesterday so I bought this from B&Q today.

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=11097511&fh_location=//catal!!!1/en_GB/categories%3C%7B9372015%7D/categories%3C%7B9372047%7D/categories%3C%7B9372203%7D/categories%3C%7B9392094%7D&tmcampid=4&tmad=c&ecamp=cse_go&CAWELAID=656841325

I'm really pleased with it, very ergonomic, brilliant keyless chuck, variable speed, forward & reverse, hammer action, best drill I've owned in years. :j