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[Deleted User]

If you look on amazon, the user reviews for the drills will normally let you know what a drill is good at, and its weak points, which will let you know if it'll do whatever jobs u want to do with it. U can then google 'cheapest <drill model>' and make sure u are getting the model u like at the cheapest possible price.

Personally, I avoid buying cordless drills as an extension is easily and cheaply obtained. A corded drill never runs out of power and generally, I find corded drills to be more powerful and better value (cheaper), pound for pound.

The advice about making sure it can be used as a hammer drill as well is good. U don't want to have to buy another one because u want to drill into masonry or bricks. Bosch is generally a brand I find to be reliable although that's no hard and fast rule.

mikey72

If you recommend corded drills, you've never bought a decent cordless one. There are a lot sub £100. I prefer Ryobi, with the one system. So far I use a couple of combi drills, (one as a driver, one as a drill to avoid swopping) cordless jig saw and circular saw, cordless sander, and just picked up the impact driver. With these, and a couple of chargers and six batteries, I rarely use any corded tools. Just the circular saw hammers batteries, so if there is a lot of cutting I have to mess about with cables. It'll do 40mm worksurfaces with no problem though. Just not many. I do have an sds drill, but it rarely comes out of the box. The Ryobi will drill a hole for a 40mm waste pipe through a house wall normally. The first drill come with two batteries, it did anything I needed to, the rest came later as I was impressed.

capeverde

nonsense mikey. If you want to drill repetitive holes in brick with a battery powered hammer drill for under a 100 quid, without waiting for batteries to charge you are living in cloud cuckoo land. Every drill has its place, but as I said in my first post unless the OP says what they want to use it for, we're all banging our gums for no reason.

mikey72

capeverde wrote: »

nonsense mikey. If you want to drill repetitive holes in brick with a battery powered hammer drill for under a 100 quid, without waiting for batteries to charge you are living in cloud cuckoo land. Every drill has its place, but as I said in my first post unless the OP says what they want to use it for, we're all banging our gums for no reason.

You obviously don't use drills much, and I guess you've made some poor choices in the past then.

capeverde

mate you cant come out with a statement like that and then in the next sentence say you use ryobi !!! I have a big carpentry workshop and have been through practically every quality brand on the market.

Just out of interest do you want to share with everyone exactly which model of ryobi battery drill puts a 40mm core bit through a solid brick wall for under 100 quid without dying half way?

tony6403

I have, amongst more drills than are really necessary, a £99 Dewalt drill with 2 x 1.3ah batts. This drill will easily cope with drilling brick for fixings ( 8mm/10mm ) and I rarely have to use my corded drills for this type of work. Not sure that it would take in its stride a 40mm hole in masonry but I would recommend it - it's stronger than you think.

mikey72

I doubt owning a carpentry workshop gives you much experience of drilling through brickwork. I do it every day. Maybe you don't treat them right? But at least I'm not going to be wandering around looking for a 13A socket eveytime I work in a customers house.

capeverde

Still waiting for you to tell us which model of Ryobi you use that can perform such tasks in that price range.

mikey72

CDI - 1802, and I've a CDI -1801 that I use as a driver, it's the same drill, but with a different chuck, not quite as friendly, but it'll do it as well. Try one, then tell me it won't.

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