Home DIY

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The impact is ridic. Suggest test drives on shit you don’t care about to learn the trigger to power application.

Yes, glad of the speed control

Mugs game doing it with a sledgehammer, save your back and go hire an electric one. It'll be £40 and you won't be in bits after.

Oh ffs

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Ta - sadly it isn't £40 any more (or rather it kind of is, but you also have to hire a 110v transformer, the chisel, cables etc all as well - so it comes to almost £80).

Bought an aldi one for £80 instead - am assuming it won't be as heavy duty as a hire one but costs the same and I don't have to do all the work in a day or two...

I've found breakers to be less use on concrete bases that a sledge hammer and a lump hammer / cold chisel. Also a SDS for stitch drilling really awkward bits.

That being said, in the future I'd always get someone in. It's not so much the breaking, it's the moving stuff, and then finding there's 10 tonnes of even worse crap hidden underneath.

Mybuilder.com is my goto for finding people for that sort of thing.

Sort of DIY but this is now in a functional state. Needs some glue and trimming of tenons. Then probably an oil finish

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Ive got that set for work and its a great set.

I think a lot more folk use milwaukee now than ever there range is huge. I have mt impact driver set to 1 as any more and it does screw in without striping the heads. Ive had mine 2 years a dn touch wood its been fine, my old mans got the same set that's about 6/7 years old and its still going

Good shout, thanks - I’ve posted to see what quotes i get and will decide from that. I did want to do what i can myself to keep costs down but appreciate this might not be the place to do that!

I would be surprised if the concrete is that difficult to get out as it is pretty crumbly round the edges - but I’m no expert so could be wrong.

Does anyone want these sheets of 1mm stainless - 963 x 490 with a 33mm downturn on the long edge?
It took the manufacturer 3 attempts to deliver without them getting damaged in transit so I now have 2 spare. 1 is damaged on the downturn, the other is damaged on 2 corners.

I was going to use them on an outdoor pizza kitchen, but can't see that happening for a while.

Free if you can collect from SE6.

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This. I posted on here earlier in the year about breaking up a concrete patio. Turned out to be not too tricky with a lump hammer and chisel. It was just the patio below that (and the patio below that) that were particularly draining.

Hmm. Isn’t the risk that a builder just says their quote is dependent on there not being any other stuff underneath that complicates things?

Mybuilder.com at the moment has given me quotes from £250 to £1.5k….

Rent a hilti gun and you'll be able to blast it out yourself.

@konastab01

Yeah I'm confident I could break up the concrete, more just a question of whether the whole job is one which is cheap enough to be better value paying someone to do the whole lot instead of me lugging loads of stuff into a skip!

Who was it that had a big breaker delivered by tool station by accident?

From what I’ve seen on site it’s deffo the system people are buying into most, don’t see half as much new makita or Dewalt.

I buy most of my stuff from power tool mate and they defo push dealt and milwaukee a lot more. The other thing is that once you buy say a set like above you've bought into the system so you end up just buying the same brand tools. I bought a grinder next and then a multi tool and then some more HO batteries.

I dont need half the stuff a joiner needs tho for the gas and plumbing.

very cool!

Yeah tbf it’s joiners that I see with Makita the most. Usually makita or festool track saws and makita cordless gear.

I do wonder what I would have gone with had I started again. Not that you can really go wrong with the big brands.

I'm nearly 20 years into my second choice of brand (Festool). I have so many none of them get hammered but I have no regrets, they've been very reliable on the whole.

If I had to criticise them (aside from price) they are overbuilt and heavy because of it.

Overbuilt but frustratingly delicate also. I’m looking at you systainer connection on all the older ones extractors!

I am an amateur at best but I go Festool when I can afford it. The quality is ace and there are so many useful accessories etc that they make the little time I have to do stuff to the house a joy / quicker.

No ragrets - apart from my bank account.

Aye I think a lot of it all does the same to a certain degree now, its really about who's using them. My dad's pals a kitchen fitter(a really good one) and he doesn't have fancy too at all. So its defo down to who uses them