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Drill for fitting blinds

bluedrop
bluedrop Posts: 662 Forumite
in In my home (includes DIY) MoneySaving
Hi all,
I have zero experience with drills. I need to buy one to fit my blinds.

Can DIY experts on this forum please help me pick a drill?

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7106062.htm
Or
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7112946.htm

whats the difference between a hammer drill and the other one? I will also be using this drill to hang pictures and fix curtains in the house.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Comments

  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    You'll need a hammer drill if its going into masonry. You are wasting your money with one of those cheap and nasty £ 15 jobbies. It will break, fall apart etc within very short order and not perform the way you expect anyway.

    If you've got quite a bit to do over a period buy something half decent and if its only a small amount of drilling hire a handyman for half a day.

    Cheers
    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein
  • uk_messer
    uk_messer Posts: 224 Forumite
    Some of the cheapo drills work perfectly well. I have an Argos Challenge Extreme one lying around in a spare toolbox. It's brilliant for DIY use.

    For your blinds and curtains you may find you end up drilling into the concrete lintel (houses built roughly 1940s onwards). It's not considered good practice because you can weaken the lintel but even curtain fitters do it. If so, even a standard hammer drill won't cut it, you'll need an SDS drill.
  • bluedrop
    bluedrop Posts: 662 Forumite
    our house was built in the 1930s.
    There is more to life than increasing its speed.
  • uk_messer
    uk_messer Posts: 224 Forumite
    Still might have concrete lintels. You'll find out soon enough when you're drilling. But you can avoid it by placing the pole above the lintel but then the curtains tend to dwarf the wall. To avoid it with blinds fit within the window opening itself, fastening the brackets to the sides.
  • C_Mababejive
    C_Mababejive Posts: 11,668 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    No..you need to find a friend/neighbour ..whatever who has a drill and knows how to use it !
    Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..
  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    uk_messer wrote: »
    Some of the cheapo drills work perfectly well. I have an Argos Challenge Extreme one lying around in a spare toolbox. It's brilliant for DIY use.
    Maybe but I'll bet it isn't/wasn't a £ 15 one - the website suggests between £ 30 and £ 40 at today's prices for that Range. Going to be several orders of magnitude better in all sorts of areas so you just can't compare it.

    Cheers
    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein
  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    C_Mababejive wrote: »
    No..you need to find a friend/neighbour ..whatever who has a drill and knows how to use it !
    I agree and if you haven't got one then the handyman route.

    Cheers
    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein
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