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  • You're about a thousand times more professional than I was about my house renovation, I was just bumbling along reading from the Collins yellow DIY book when I came to something new, and using the same corded SDS/corded mitre saw/corded circular saw/cordless drill/corded angle grinder (which I think was ~£11) for everything. Killed the drill ultimately, and I wish I'd known how much better a driver was for, erm, driving screws, but there you go.

    I made a few rails out of two bits of ply screwed to one another and just clamped them to the material I wanted to cut a straight line down.

  • I wish I'd known how much better a driver was for, erm, driving screws,

    Not sure I understand... Is there something I should know? You mean an electric screw driver? I'm confused

  • Not sure I understand... Is there something I should know? You mean an electric screw driver? I'm confused

    my "I don't know what I'm talking about" summary

    electric screwdriver will replace you putting in a screw by hand with a screwdriver

    drill will drill holes and do a decent job of putting screws in

    impact driver doesn't drill holes, but has far higher torque and less likely to slip off a screw head. So if you're putting a lot of screws into a wall then you're going to get through it more quickly and without rounding out a bunch of heads

  • Impact driver is much better for driving screws than a drill driver.

    Requires a lot less downforce onto the drill/screw to keep the bit engaged with the screw head. Makes more sense once you’ve tried an impact driver and a drill driver side by side.

  • Impact driver. Far better than a drill driver.

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