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Budget?
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Milwaukee drill and impact set is great, I use me a lot and they are usually dead on.
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^ this
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I went with DeWalt. Nice and light, seems powerful enough to get through most stuff and plenty of other things use the batteries.
I do have a cheapo corded SDS for heavy stuff but it's rare that I have to get that out. For ~£50 though it's way more powerful than any cordless drill so I didn't worry too much about a cordless that could be used for everything.
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My first decent cordless set was a Dewalt Screwfix deal on a drill driver pair taking the now defunct 14v batteries. It came with just two batteries and at 1.5ah each, they quickly showed their limitations when I had to fit our deck. I upgraded after a few years to an 18v drill and driver with the fattest batteries and they now lie in wait for big jobs. But the drill driver I use most now is a little Milwaukee that takes the small batteries and which has interchangeable heads for getting into tight corners. It’s easy to underestimate the advantages of ‘handiness’ in a power tool. The lower voltage tools now deliver more than enough power for most jobs. Unless you’re constantly drilling into concrete.
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Is there a forum approved "my first decent drill"?
Been making do with a very substandard corded job forever - moving house soon as thinking of treating myself so I don't knacker the new walls as much as I have these ones.
Cordless preferable, and able to get through most stuff.