Power Drills - Advice needed?

I always use a cheapo mains drill £15 on this 30's house walls.

All that is needed is a decent drill bit and hammer action turned on.

[Stuuk1]

Originally Posted by speedplay

Haha!

[Stuuk1]

Originally Posted by toxic

If you buy a battery drill, make sure it has a Li-On battery. Ni-cad batteries are great if you use constantly. For the home DIYer where it maybe idle for a few months it's a false economy. Ni-cad equipped drills are cheaper right now. I bought a dewalt with 3 batteries on sale at BSS. I like bosch, but the price was right.

If I had the cash, everything I buy would be HILTI.

I was working on a site in Kentish Town just over a year ago now, and the labourers (all from Ethiopia) were told 'anything on the floor, throw away'..... Well they picked up the diamond drillers hilti drill which costs well in to the thousands, and threw it in the skip! And guess what... The skip got taken away!! That was one very unhappy diamond driller that day...

[Dave20046]

15 year old bosh corded drill for the tough stuff, 18v cordless makita for pratting about - taken some right hammer.
If you use them a lot a kit with 2 batteries is well worth it and don't think spotlights on drills are just a gimmick, incredibly useful. Mate's got a £300 (RRP..or so he says - he paid under £100 for it) Bosch 24v set, ferkin smart and the batteries charge in literally 15 minutes and lasty long time!

Didn't know dewalt are black and decker, currently loaning a dewalt cordless jigsaw as it put my bosch to shame so much that I couldn't face using it!

[Dave20046]

couple of decent deals here (although not recommending the drills themselves -see what other people say)
http://www.thehut.com/electronics/ne...ml?affil=BUYAT

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=11227769&fh_view _size=150&fh_start_index=0&fh_eds=?&fh_location=//catalog01/en_GB/categories%3C{9372015}/categories%3C{9392074}/categories%3C{9772015}&fh_refview=lister&ts=&ecamp =aff-p9-awin-001

What are people's experience with Ryobi out of interest?

[embee]

Some friends have some Ryobi stuff, it seems to work OK but it is flimsy build, very firmly in the DIY category. Personally I would only ever buy industrial grade stuff, pay a bit more but get much more beef.

[phil24_7]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

couple of decent deals here (although not recommending the drills themselves -see what other people say)
http://www.thehut.com/electronics/ne...ml?affil=BUYAT

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=11227769&fh_view _size=150&fh_start_index=0&fh_eds=?&fh_location=//catalog01/en_GB/categories%3C{9372015}/categories%3C{9392074}/categories%3C{9772015}&fh_refview=lister&ts=&ecamp =aff-p9-awin-001

What are people's experience with Ryobi out of interest?

I have masses of the Ryobi one+ 18v range. Very good stuff for the money. Would put it in the serious DIY/cheap pro range. Makita/Bosch pro/Hitachi pro stuff is better, but this stuff is less than a third of the price. Had no problems with build quality either, and I don't treat my tools kindly!

[keith_d]

If you're drilling hard brickwork it's hard to beat a Hilti SDS+ drill. We had one in one of my previous jobs and it worked a treat drilling holes in solid concrete.

I wasn't willing to spend the money for a Hilti so I bought a mid-range Bosch SDS drill. It's drilled half inch holes through brick walls without any problems. So that gets my vote.

Keith.

Edit - I've just had a quick google and I think mine is a Bosch 2-23

Originally Posted by Dave20046

couple of decent deals here (although not recommending the drills themselves -see what other people say)
http://www.thehut.com/electronics/ne...ml?affil=BUYAT

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=11227769&fh_view _size=150&fh_start_index=0&fh_eds=?&fh_location=//catalog01/en_GB/categories%3C{9372015}/categories%3C{9392074}/categories%3C{9772015}&fh_refview=lister&ts=&ecamp =aff-p9-awin-001

What are people's experience with Ryobi out of interest?

I've a petrol driven Ryobi chainsaw and it's stood up to alot of abuse. As for those deals I wouldn't touch them. Only ever buy Li-Ion cordless stuff.

Originally Posted by BigBaddad

Only ever buy Li-Ion cordless stuff.

until the next best thing comes out

I remember the same being said about the ni-mh batteries.