Home DIY

I have a multi-tool if you want to borrow it. Fairly low-end Bosch but works well for this kind of thing.

That would be dead handy. Will PM.

The standard question, what battery powered drill do people recommend?

I'm not in any battery system and I don't need an impact driver and I have an SDS for big jobs.

Budget up to about £100, cheers

If anyone is gutting a kitchen I could really use some old cupboards and a work surface for a project. Do please PM! Can collect in a van and offer drinkable tokens of appreciation.

De Walt 18v is the best drill I ever had.

DeWalt 18V is excellent, a 2.0ah battery will last for a good while DIYing, but you might want to budget two batteries in to your purchase if it'll be doing lots of stuff in one go. If occasional use, one battery is probably fine.

You don't think you need an impact driver...but they are brilliant!

Cheers. Just had a quick look at DeWalt 18v and there appear to be loads of slightly different models with little detail about why they're different.
For instance is this brushless one
https://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-dcd778l2t-sfgb-18v-3-0ah-li-ion-xr-brushless-cordless-combi-drill/8395v a better option than this one with bigger battery packs
https://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-dcd785p2t-sfgb-18v-5-0ah-li-ion-xr-cordless-combi-hammer-drill/150jr

The brushless one is newer technology and a 3ah battery should be plenty for domestic duty.

Sigh.
My boiler looks like it leaked to stop blowing up. I drained some water from a radiator. South east London vailant specialists? Think it's time for service and maybe finally getting the radiators balanced.

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I used these guys who were local, quick and very professional. No idea if they are the cheapest but it was last November and my boiler died so needed "quick" above anything else. They fitted a Vailant.

https://www.pgs-services.co.uk/

I would go brushless and look for the drill/impact driver combi pack. Seriously, once you have one you'll never go back.

cheers

@Velocio recommended yogigas in the other thread, I was planning to try them out in the new place, but have no experience of anyone else apart from PGS.

YogiGas are great, my partner used them recently and they did a sterling job, very informed and knowledgeable, polite, friendly, cleaned up well, and extremely affordable.

My boiler looks like it leaked to stop blowing up

Beware that when boilers leak it tends to be acidic.

It's more likely that a hose has perished. I have the same Vaillant boiler and one of my hoses perished recently to the same effect. Unfortunately more issues were found when it was being serviced, but yeah... that's not water, it's acid so use rubber gloves, etc.

Thanks. The vote for Gee is strong. Noted about the boiler gunge (fernox type shit i'm guessing). I've put a small bowl under where the leak is for now. Hoping I can get someone out today/tmrw.

Diverter valves can and do leak on these ecoTEC combination boilers

Might be worth booking a service, rather than a repair - The repair would then be done as part of the service, and you save on callout charges.

This guy is a gold mine of documenting repairs & fixes.

TBH I'd been thinking it's about time it got "looked at" and also had the rads balanced too..

I've always reckoned that annual boiler services are worth the expense.

I have a kitchen tap exactly like this that's leaking above and below where the spout attaches when it's on and you wiggle the spout.

Chances it's salvageable with some tightening etc?

Is there a goto charger for 12v car batteries?

Not the most fun way of spending half a week off, but now I've got 6.25m^2 more room to dump our crap.

I assumed that the beams in the loft would be the same distance apart, parallel & level & I was wrong on all three counts. Still, managed to make it work with loft legs & then some planks across the top to even it out, then a lot of calculating loft board lengths & cutting. I think my furloughed neighbour, is probably regretting lending me his circular saw as it was on the go seemingly all of last week.

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Keep us posted on how you get on, was looking into Tado stuff earlier this week when I was wearing a T-shirt, shirt, jumper, cardy & hot water bottle & was still too cold in the study. WFH sucks when you're paying the heating bill.

The 5ah battery packs cost £75 retail so they are practically giving the drill away on that one. Probably because it's not brushless.

The Erbauer drill is decent especially for the price