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I got a DeWalt combi drill and impact driver and Ryobi for other stuff (jigsaw, circular saw, glue gun, pump, angle grinder, sander) as Ryobi stuff comes up on sale pretty often (I paid about £50 for each of those various bits with some a fair bit cheaper).

In hindsight I could probably have gone all Ryobi, quality is fine.

You can get adapters to use one brand with another but the one I tried drained the battery when it wasn't in use which was annoying.

I work for a company that as a sort of sideline sell power tools (Bosch, Makita, Hokoki). I say bit of a sideline as the expected gross profit is 7% so probably a net loss. Any offers are driven by the manufacturer who will offer different sellers different deals from month to month.
What I’m saying badly is just look around (screwfix,its,toucan etc) as everyone will have different deals from month to month.
I get a good staff discount but my GWS7-115 grinder came from B&Q as it was cheaper than my employers cost price.

I would go with aggi…good quality 18v combi drill and ryobi for everything else. If you are drilling concrete borrow a SDS drill

For my uses I got a cheap, mains powered hammer drill for concrete
Gets used 3 times a year at most, and all the concrete/masonry I’m ever going to touch is part of, or very near, my house

Everything else is ryobi One. Others are probably better but also more expensive, so cost v reward.

That’s the same system I have. At home I'm never too far from a power socket to spend the extra on a cordless heavy duty hammer drill.

Yes, I also have a wired Titan SDS that is heavy but will go through most stuff.

mini drill + corded SDS FTW

Most sds drills are improved by using quality sds drill bits.

everyman is improved by using the most powerful SDS mcb

The hammer setting on my general purpose DeWalt is surprisingly effective... I'd need to be doing a shitload of masonry holes before I'd bother with anything else

Same.

Decent masonry bit.
Set torque to 2.
Drill setting to get it started.
Drill setting to hammer.

Drill setting to get it started.

Fuck me, never thought of that. I guess that's the trick to minimise the wandering when you start the hole!

Do you mean speed 2 or have I been missing a trick my whole life?