Home DIY

I'm certain that ^ would be a talking point in the Golf Club bar.
If you weren't way down west you could borrow this from me:
https://www.toolstation.com/draper-1050w-sds-max-breaker/p66424#full-desc

I sometimes need to remove concrete footings from around fence posts.
Hot knife through butter/non-dairy spread comes to mind.

I held off for ages then bought this
https://www.screwfix.com/p/bosch-gbh-2-21-2-3kg-electric-corded-sds-hammer-240v/319ky

Here's my post giving my 2p to someone else on what type https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16613617/

On whether it's useful....

... Now with a bit more use I'd say it's really nice to have, and there are times when it's been essential. IME it's the sort of thing that gets a lot of occasional use rather than regular use if that makes sense?

Eg

1. Putting up shelves in a broom cupboard required a fuck load of holes into brick walls ✅✅✅✅
   
2. Making work bench required a moderate amount of holes into brick ✅✅✅
   
3. Drilling into reinforced concrete garden posts it's verging on essential ✅✅✅✅✅
   
4. This Friday I quickly hung a rail with 4 holes in the loft. It made quick work of drilling into brick, although running the cable into the loft was a bit of a faff (although not half as much faff as actually lugging a drill, impact driver, screws, etc.) and truth be told it would have been easier to just take only the combi and spend a bit longer drilling the holes. And today I actually just used the combi for one hole into brick and was reminded how good it is on high torque with good bits. ✅/❌
   
   

Just get a big fuck-off Titan, even comes with some chisel bits
https://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb653sds-5-9kg-electric-sds-plus-drill-230-240v/6846h

Why wouldn't you go for corded? I have battery drills, but a corded chonky SDS, and no regrets.

Unless you're doing a load or core drilling, 700W / 800W would see you right. And be a few kg lighter.

source: i have an 800W corded SDS, and have never felt it was under powered for drilling / chiselling concrete / brick.