Drill advice

dacouch

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Jaynne

It doesn't seem to have been made clear here but there are three types of drill that you're probably looking at.

There is a regular drill, your cordless drill is one of these. They are fine for drilling into wood, plastic and metal as well as (with an adjustable torque) assembling furniture etc. They aren't any good for drilling into anything but the softest of masonry.

There are hammer drills, these take the same hexagonal bits as a regular drill but have a hammer action that lets them drill through masonry. You need one of these.

Or an SDS drill. These use different bits to the above but are much much better at drilling through masonry and concrete. For corded drills they're not much more expensive than a hammer drill. You also get SDS+ drills that let you use the hammer action without rotating so you can use a chisel bit which is great for breaking up blocks, taking up tiles and making chases for cables.

Personally I've just got a corded SDS+ drill to go along with my cordless regular drill. Its a perfect combo, most of the time I use the cordless for convenience except for masonry where the SDS comes out. It goes through brick like butter.

cyclonebri1

Jaynne wrote: »

It doesn't seem to have been made clear here but there are three types of drill that you're probably looking at.


There are hammer drills, these take the same hexagonal bits as a regular drill but have a hammer action that lets them drill through masonry. You need one of these.

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Pretty accurate but needs expanding, a mains powered drill can be hammer action or not.

Also it will take any type of bit with the exclusion of SDS.

You can get adaptor chucks that let you use sds bit in a standard drill and round bits in an sds drill.

Battery = convenience

Corded = useable power, and not for just 10 minutes ;););)

dacouch

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Barneysmom

Personally I wouldn't bother with a multitool.
If you're in the middle of a job you'd be wasting time changing heads every five minutes.
14v is much of a drill either if you've a lot to do, I think the multitool is more for a very casual user.

hareng

Totally agree a multitool will drive you round the bend changing over all the time to do one specific sub standard task.
I would also avoid Bosch diy stuff for all but casual diy. The Pro (blue) are good but three times as dear.

Anyone thinking about cordless tools think again, take two manufacturers of an 18V saw one will do the job day in day out for years, the other not even worth unpacking, literally no joke dont even cut butter. I mean that with no exageration.

In his instance i would have a look on the bay for decent Metabo, Bosch Pro, Dewalt, Makita and Hitachi items, bide your time dor the right one to come up.
Then you can buy other stuff same make bare bones and use batteries from above. ie i bought a Dewalt DC988 7 years ago with Nimh batteries and charger. Used these batteries in Dewalt Repo saw which cost me £44 7 years ago.