Home DIY

I need to appeal to the hivemind.

At least 10 years ago, I bought an SDS plus drill, (drill, hammer drill, chisel functions), from Homebase, for £49.99, as I had a couple of diy jobs to do that I knew were beyond my ancient Black'n'Decker corded hammer drill. (I seem to remember finally properly fixing some brackets for curtains into lintels).

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p17425?table=no looks very similar.

More recently it has helped drill the holes needed to affix the brackets for large screen tvs, that were beyond the pro/consumer drills of friends.
Most recently, I was replacing the Storm Doris damaged fencing for friends
Find the block of concrete around the snapped wooden fence post, drill some 6mm holes, enlarge these to 10, 12, 16mm then use the chisel function to (hopefully), split the concrete.

Today this sds plus drill burnt out!
Bit of an odour, fumes/smoke coming out of the casing as the motor slowed down after use, finally no rotation when depressing the switch.

Still need to remove the front of this lump of concrete.
I had been perusing a Bosch stockists catalogue, but £++.

Toolstation also lists
https://www.toolstation.com/shop/p59008?table=no
with a claim of 25J per impact for £107!*
(Typically hammer drills, even sds plus hammer drills are 2-3J for =/-£100).

Note this is only a breaker, there is no rotation function,
(I checked this with Draper customer services).

Duly bought, and I estimate that what took 2+hours with the dead sds plus drill,
was completed inside 30 minutes.
Now the lump of concrete had been weakened by the 16mm guide holes,
but the concrete essentially surrendered.

All well & good, but when a friend needs a tv bracket fitted I have no (hammer) drill for large diameter holes.

What to buy?
One-for-one replacement of the dead sds plus drill, (first link above),
£50 for 10 years use = bargain,
Wait till Aldi/Lidl have their own brand sds plus drill,
3 year no quibble guarantee, (pre-Brexit anyway),
or step up to a pro-Bosch sds plus, say,
https://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/en/products/bosch-gbh2-26f-sds-rotary-hammer-drill-with-quick-change-chuck-110v
for £142 with 3-year warranty?

A range of sds plus drill bits, both diameter and length, suggests I stay with sds plus.

Anybody got an sds plus drill they swear by,
or,
are they all out of the same few (Chinese?) factories?

[* special prompt for the csa in Toolstation for these breakers.
No return for credit card credit or cash refund!
Replacement breaker offered in first week, (maybe month cannot remember),
then back to Draper for service. Too many people had been using Toolstation as an unwitting toolhire depot. Buy this breaker, use it for a couple of days then return it saying it was faulty,
simple to detach an internal wire I guess, for a 100% refund].