Home DIY

If I'm looking to get a handheld drill for general household DIY for less than £100, is there anything second hand I should keep a look at for or is it best to go for something new?

Well, that's where the shitter is... Else I just scoop to replaster.

Looking at what you're doing it seems you'll get away with the pocket door. You should be very careful that you can still fit the washing machine in once the pocket door mech is taking up some width. I didn't find it difficult to fit but they are quite expensive.

Corded or cordless? Drills are a bit like bikes, you only think 1 is enough when you don't have any. :)

Cordless would probably easier, though if corded get you more bang for your buck I'm happy to use an extension cord.

The one I've just bought is fucking amazing so far. @tw terrible advice I got the separate non dewalt batteries (which he now admits are shit) which meant I then had to also buy a battery charger as the batteries didn't come with one. But the drill so far has been kick ass. But take a look at dewalt.

#stillloveyoudan

Corded gets you way more bang for buck. Especially second hand where a lot have only been used for one job but are designed to last 20 years of professional work. The most versatile drill I have is a Bosch hammer drill with a chisel option, sds and normal chuck. I wouldn't want to drill holes for hinges with it but it could do. Otherwise buy a small battery powered one and a decent corded sds hammer with chisel option for the larger stuff. Milwaukee have had a lot of success with their little battery drills and Bosch are pretty competitive for the larger one, probably lots about second hand.

Festool are the best IMHO but you'd blow your budget on the drill bits let alone the drill.

Bosch GBH 2000 is £99 from screwfix

I've measured and I think we're all good. I need one of the mechanisms with the partition attachment as i'm installing one of these in the top cupboard section:

Those are great, I don't know why they're not in every London home. Make sure you get a solid one unless you really expect it to have a few blouses on it.

Yup; it's replacing our clothes rail in the hall for coats and motorbike gear so will be the most solid one we can find. It only needs to span ~650mm so shouldn't flex too badly.

Looking at Hafele theirs are rated up to 10kg, don't know about your bike gear but mine's probably between 2-5kg per jacket!

The problem is when it's extended all the weight transfers to the plastic side pieces as a shear force, The rail would bend but it's the screws breaking in the plastic mount that could be a bigger problem.

Ooooo. Linky?

Just google 'pull down clothes rail' - loads of them.

But i want your exact everything...

...everything...

#creepyEyes

But I haven't bought one yet...

...bought one yet...

@hoefla we did this in Homebase, where they sold FB and they mixed up their paint using something called a Magic Eye machine. That said it was a while ago and Homebase has changed a lot

This.

I have the Dewalt DCD996 for normal drill duty (with off-brand batteries. I already had the charger around @ChainBreaker ...) - it's good with big holes in brick & wood

I've the D25133 (with the chisel & both chucks) for drilling the whole way through walls, stitch drilling concrete, and removing cement render & plaster. It's good with plaster and render, but struggles with chiselling concrete.

It depends what you need them for, really.

how about if I want a cordless drill or drill drive with a battery or two included for sub £100?
any recommendations for what should I get?

edit - just after I posted that I went on screwfix and they have this offer, looks ok no?

I have one of these.
https://www.wayfair.co.uk/storage-organisation/pdp/space-pro-relax-pull-down-hanger-bar-sppo1024.html
because I don't have a wardrobe, just open hanging (designed for a walk-in dressing room)
It's only rated at 8kg though, so it's only for shirts.
Also, you have to be very gently pulling it down, and control its descent or it will crash at the bottom and the mountings will come away. There's a lot of force being transmitted through crappy plastic bits.

Yeah, it seems like a real misstep that these are designed with shitty plastic parts in all the high-stress areas. I'm searching around for ones that are a little sturdier.

Maybe I could make something similar myself?
Doesn't need to be beautiful...

This looks sturdy (at the wall attachment etc) and would mean I wouldn't need to fit a vanity panel on the pivot hinge side...

15kg rating too.

The posh ones have a sort of assisted feeling to them. This one looks like it might be a simpler hinge. Thinking about it anything above 15kg it will be a pain to lift it back into position and make it stay there.

The information (albeit poorly translated from Italian) here says it has a 'pneumatic pump' so I assume it has some sort of lift capability....

I would be careful of foregoing the vanity panel. There's quite a bit of mechanicals to get clothes caught in without one.

True.
I'm pretty certain I'll add one as I think there'll be more than enough room to have a shelf in there too.