I bought one of these from lidl 2 years ago. I'm no pro builder but for some diy this is a fantastic machine for what I want. It was used as a concrete breaker for 3 full days when I was removing a patio. The previous owner of my house decided to use concrete deep enough under the slabs to build a house on! Took a hell of a lot of work and this drill did a fantastic job as a chisel. Also been used to easily drill into hard blue engineering brickwork. If this packed in after the patio job I wouldn't have cared, but it's been great. £40 very well spent.

Perhaps I'm wrong but that wall looks like it's made of some kind of thermal block so to be fair you could cut it with a Stanley knife

haha . good luck trying to make a hole like that using a parkside power tool . best unplug it and swing it by its lead repeatedly

Funnily enough I am using this at the moment to drill through the wall for an outside tap.

Done a great job, I gave up using my cordless Bosch.

Recommended.

haha . good luck trying to make a hole like that using a parkside power tool . best unplug it and swing it by its lead repeatedly

Lmfao best comment iv read on here ^^^^ :laughing:

I bought one of these from lidl 2 years ago. I'm no pro builder but for some diy this is a fantastic machine for what I want. It was used as a concrete breaker for 3 full days when I was removing a patio. The previous owner of my house decided to use concrete deep enough under the slabs to build a house on! Took a hell of a lot of work and this drill did a fantastic job as a chisel. Also been used to easily drill into hard blue engineering brickwork. If this packed in after the patio job I wouldn't have cared, but it's been great. £40 very well spent.

I've got an old parkside SDS given it a real tough life- still going strong had a Bosch one clapped out. Heat from me.

In a lovely shade of Bosch green as well.

Perfect if your trying to make Swiss cheese. Not much use on anything solid

Parkside are low end Chinese tools imported by Einhell.

This particular tool looks poorly configured as its too low powered for SDS and bulky as a normal drill. A typical issue is it can only use SDS masonry drills the supplied keyless chuck is only for metal and wood drills so you lose the option for using a wide range of standard masonry drill bits. Power wise 3 joules compares very badly with something like this at Screwfix for £50.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb278sds-5kg-sds-drill-230-240v/97533

Which offers 8 joules of force.

The end result is a drill not suitable for typical SDS applications as too weak, not suitable for lighter masonry work as can't take standard masonry drill bits and bulky and awkward for normal drilling. Definitely not great for driving screws either. It's hard to know who this is for, maybe as shown a SDS drill for women and the elderly who can't physically hold a normal strength SDS drill but need to do some very light breaking. Is it really worth saving £10 over a proper SDS drill at Screwfix with a huge number of very positive reviews for what is a very limited product.

No mention of a safety clutch either so not recommended for use with core drills which is a common use for SDS drills.

Looks like it has a large reverse switch just above the trigger switch which is probably a give away that this is more standard hammer drill with a SDS chuck fitted rather than dedicated SDS drill design which often don't have reverse.

I bought one of these a couple of years ago,done major diy and still going strong.
I always pick up park side tools now with warranty and quality I don't think you can beat