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Lidl gives a 3 year warranty with it - Does Screwfix ? I could only find the 3.6kg drill at screwfix and that will be a bit heavy for most small jobs - I also have a 5kg for big jobs and you do not want to take one up a ladder.

I would use a angle grinder if joins are long ones - but I have also found if you can lift the slabs (or are they bricks) I then clean them with wide chisel and hammer - saves damaging them.

ps - the Lidl drill is 2.5kg -not much bigger than normal electric drill and mine has been fine - can't comment on Titan
 
Marvt74 said:
My job for the summer is to relay the paving in our yard. Would you say an SDS with chisel would be the way forward for getting all the mortar out between the existing stones or something like an angle grinder?

And as a follow up, any idea how that Lidl SDS would compare to the Titan one at Screwfix for £60
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I've got the Screwfix £45 Energer one -
http://www.screwfix.com/p/energer-enb465drh-4-8kg-sds-plus-hammer-drill-230-240v/63303

Which is probably feature equivalent to the Lidl one. Only used it for lifting tiles and associated mortar from my dining room floor. Took about 20 hours and blunted two chisels, but the SDS kept going no problem.

The Titan one is way more powerful, at 1500w, and offers two-speed. Depends what you need it for, I guess.
 
I bought a Bosch PMF 350 today for £110, anyone else got a multi tool?

Will use it for various bits and bobs, including cutting kerdiboard when i do bathroom.
 
rexehuk said:
I bought a Bosch PMF 350 today for £110, anyone else got a multi tool?

Will use it for various bits and bobs, including cutting kerdiboard when i do bathroom.
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I've got the Dewalt cordless one. I initially bought it for cutting architrave when fitting laminate flooring, however it's since been used for all sorts, scraping off old paint, cutting rusty bolts, cutting holes to repair plasterboard.

Looks like you got a decent price on that Bosch, most other places are about £30 more expenive.
 
rexehuk said:
I bought a Bosch PMF 350 today for £110, anyone else got a multi tool?

Will use it for various bits and bobs, including cutting kerdiboard when i do bathroom.
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I've got its little brother, the PMF 220. Had it for maybe 6 months.

Wasn't entirely sure what I'd use it for when I got it, but it's been really handy for jobs I could have coped without it, but would have been more difficult or taken longer. Good for helping remove skirting, and cutting through a rusted screw when I was removing the old toilet seat! The detail sander came in useful too.
 
Marvt74 said:
I've got the Dewalt cordless one. I initially bought it for cutting architrave when fitting laminate flooring, however it's since been used for all sorts, scraping off old paint, cutting rusty bolts, cutting holes to repair plasterboard.

Looks like you got a decent price on that Bosch, most other places are about £30 more expenive.
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Good to know, they do look really handy.

Yeah I shopped around, there's a guy on the bay selling them new at that price, 40000+ feedback.
 
rexehuk said:
I bought a Bosch PMF 350 today for £110, anyone else got a multi tool?

Will use it for various bits and bobs, including cutting kerdiboard when i do bathroom.
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I got the 190e for some jobs at home. For doing little bits it's all right but for bigger jobs i much prefer a dedicated tool. For sanding I found it pretty useless as the hooks for attaching sand paper melted when they got warm so ended up using strong double sided sticky tape. But the cutting blades are really handy for getting into tight corners.
 
Yeah the sanding is great on mine, you just need to be careful not to put too much pressure on the edges of the pad as 22,000 oscillations per minute creates a lot of heat fast.. Same thing with the blades, constantly move the blade around so its not in the same position for too long. Once the blade gets hot enough to turn blue you have ruined the hardening and it'll go blunt in no time. The blades are not cheap either.
 
Ive been looking for a new combi drill. The last two I bought, over 9 years ago, were a Makita (£70) and a Site (£59), the Makita came with two batteries and the Site came with three! What was even better is that the batteries are interchangable. Both drills are still in very good nick, even with a lot of use. Unfortunatally both the Makita batteries have died, while the cheaper Site batteries are still fairly good, but by no means great.

I know it was a long time ago but I only paid a fraction of what drills are priced at now for two very long lasting and strong drills. So I was looking for something in that price range, old habbits die hard... The only thing that caught my eye was the Erbauer 18v 2,0ah, so I bought one at £80, and took it straight back because the chuck was off center. Checked another at Screwfix and found it to be the same.

So today I finally found something worth my time, at least I hope so since I have not colledted it yet. Wicks have 16% off a Dewalt brushless 18v 1.5ah, coming in at £100. I think its probably a bank holiday sale. So if you want a decent combi drill go get one before they sell out.

Also, ASDA have a multi tool for just under £8, i bought one and its rock solid. Cut through 10cm x 6.5cm wall plate with ease.
 
bulletv1 said:
I got the 190e for some jobs at home. For doing little bits it's all right but for bigger jobs i much prefer a dedicated tool. For sanding I found it pretty useless as the hooks for attaching sand paper melted when they got warm so ended up using strong double sided sticky tape. But the cutting blades are really handy for getting into tight corners.
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I suppose I just wanted a tool that could do a few things. Mainly for me it's going to be installing bathroom, but have a few few plug sockets to cut out and most likely things like skirting board so this could be pretty nifty.

It's struggling to cut joists on a stud wall, so obviously that means I now need a reciprocating saw... at least that's what I'll tell the misses.

Anyone vouch for this? http://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb533rsp-750w-reciprocating-saw-240v/17639

People seem to speak fairly highly of Titan for good budget... especially the mitre saw.
 
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bulletv1 said:
I got the 190e for some jobs at home. For doing little bits it's all right but for bigger jobs i much prefer a dedicated tool. For sanding I found it pretty useless as the hooks for attaching sand paper melted when they got warm so ended up using strong double sided sticky tape. But the cutting blades are really handy for getting into tight corners.
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The heat/friction melted the velcro backing to the sanding attachment (after fairly light use), I have a dewalt sanding/backing pad on mine now which is much better than the bosch one.

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I did a job yesterday using circular saw -drill - impact driver - was nice to have a battery for each of them and two spare ones - one of which is 4amp - I have been testing the 4amp one with the Stanley torch - turned on torch when got up and turned it off when went to bed - I recon it lasted about 50 hrs.

Chaparral.

Those look hefty drills - wouldn't like to use one for an extended period.
 
Just picked up a reciprocating saw from screwfix... £34.99 down from £70 if anyone is in the market for one.

Now, I must leave and go remove some walls.
 
I'm after recommendations for a decent multi-tool, preferably one which is good for small sawing jobs etc.

All my power tools are Makita so I'm edging towards theirs but I've seen some much cheaper ones and was wondering if anyone had one they would recommend?

Thanks :)
 
I have a mains one from Lidl which I have thrashed to death and it's still going- 3 yr warranty - I also have a Stanley 18v one and I find both work fine - If you go for a good make be sure to get one with quick release - so much easier than undoing the blade retaining screw but you will have to get blades with slot in although my Stanley will take either.
 
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