Time to upgrade my drill (drilling into brick etc)

[Boom78]

A decent cordless combi with hammer option is more than enough for home use. Just get good bits. Avoid massive SDS! Total overkill.

[Promised Land]

Baldchap said:

You cut a back box in using an Armag box cutter and then use an SDS on hammer mode to drill for the Rawl plugs in a 200 year old house you're losing bricks. If you haven't noticed the damage they can do in that instance then you shouldn't be doing the job.

I’ve been fitting external frames 35mm in from the edge of face brick work for decades never had one brick blow.

Back box chiselling out is something else but for drilling 5,6,7mm bits into brick SDS does not destroy the brick.

As I said a hammer drill you’re forcing the drill in whereas an SDS will drill itself in with little effort.

You never catch a trade on site drill with a hammer drill, always sds.

[Ganglandboss]

UTH said:

Ganglandboss said:

fasimew said:

I've only read a small amount of thread, but am I correct in saying that you drill into brick once in a blue moon?

This is what we established a couple of pages ago. It seems the OP has an old battery drill that isn't much cop with brick. He wants something for occasional work, that can put the odd hole in a brick wall for a shelf bracket. He told me he will not be drilling through walls.

Any half decent modern battery drill will do just that.

An SDS drill will do that job even quicker, but will be heavier, less comfortable in the hand, harder to get into tight spaces, completely useless for precision drilling in wood and metal, and cannot be used as a driver. Unless he wants to spend decent money on a battery drill, most affordable SDS drills are corded, so there's another faff.

I do not know why anybody is advising getting an SDS drill.

The best advice is to get a half decent battery drill for around the £120 mark.

Perhaps this?

https://its.co.uk/pd/einhell-combi-drill-impact-dr...

As I said previously, I am not familiar with that brand, but they are at the budget end. I appreciate you have other kit with the same batteries. It does not look tto bad. Impact drivers are pretty handy pieces of kit.

[ATG]

Just to help narrow down the choices ... not ... modern battery powered kit is brilliant, but, for powerful tools that you're not going to be using all the time, you lose very little and save a fair bit by going for mains powered stuff. Just buy a really long extension cable. I've got a couple of 50m cables and that gives me easy power to just about anywhere on a two acre plot, up ladders, in out-buildings, etc. They're useful for loads of things and, though obviously battery powered kit is more portable and wieldy, having a massive extension cable does narrow that flexibility gap a bit.

Being mentally impaired, my solution for chopping up a cattle grid at the end of the drive was to buy a no-brand mahoosive 240V angle grinder on Amazon and an ancient but rather lovely diesel powered generator on ebay. Total cost, bugger all. For everyday use it'd be an almighty faff, but I don't need it everyday and having a generator is a handy backup when you're virtually off grid.

[UTH]

Just to close this off, in case anybody cared at all (haha), ended up with this: https://its.co.uk/pd/einhell-te-cd-18-80-li-i-18v-...

Also bought some good masonry bits.

So far all the little jobs I have been putting off that required drilling into brick have been completed in seconds.