​Talking of 'tools'....

Is this any better than the current Aldi special buy £25 one?

Heat added. Brand slaves aside looks good.

So the Aldi one is 18v compared with this 20v. Does that make much difference?

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/18v-li-ion-cordless-drill-24-99-aldi-online-pre-order-today-instore-30-oct-2535355

is this better than the BOSCH CORDLESS 18V 2.0AH LI-ION COMBI DRILL 2 BATTERIES

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/edited-bosch-cordless-18v-2-0ah-li-ion-combi-drill-2-batteries-again-84-delivered-2539892

cold...got a worx 20v brushless hammer drill with 2 x batteries, intergrated light etc £44....loads better....admittedly it wasnt on offer in all homebases...

Looks like it only comes with 1 battery which , to me, is a problem and I think it would be difficult (and expensive) to buy extra...

and tradespeople need a decent drill. once you have owned a decent Makita or Milwaukee, you would never touch one of these things because they cant replace even a cheap ac powered drill.

Have one bought last year and charged, still battery charged and working powerful, hope they have not changed design but worth it

I was chatting to the boss of a local company some years ago who's an acquaintance of my dad, he told me that he'd stopped buying Makita drills for his fitters as they were always going missing or being dropped from ladders. He'd switched to buying budget own brand drills and stocks up when he sees a good offer.

thats not saying thought they are not better, just that people either steal them (because they are better), or when they get damaged it costs him more to replace the better ones.

Would be better for the business not to employ thieves and halfwits.

I guess he was looking at the whole picture.... something a lot of people fail to do :wink:

Complete novice here! Do I need to buy separate 'bits' eg. For screwing screws as it were??!!!

lol, agreed

You need to buy a set of bits & if in regular heavy use, these have a finite life.

When you recover from this er.....blistering wit, ask around on the net at the quality of Parkside tools you'll be pleasantly surprised. As for the bits, pretty much most fit. Besides they'll have a set going cheap in the store at same time. They normally do

Oh my god!!!
Are you all insane
This will be a piece of crap

No, he wasn't saying the Makita's weren't better quality drills, just that the cheap ones he was buying did the same job required of them just as well. The cost of replacement batteries was another factor.

My father when he was doing kitchen fitting, carpentry, cabinet making and the like, often favoured a cheap 12V Black and Decker with no hammer action and an even lower powered Bosch over his more expensive drills, simply because they were lighter, so over the course of the day less tiring on the arms when reaching, and more compact for getting in tight spaces. One for drilling, the other for screwdriving, so he didn't waste time swapping bits. He had a 24V drill for jobs that required the extra torque and always uses an SDS drill for masonry. The cheap diy drills, particularly the Black and Decker, lasted several years of professional use.

Had mine since last time they had them in. After regular use, I'm more than pleased with it.

Looks like the battery rating is also important, not just the volts? But they don't state what it is. 1.5Ah is the cheaper type and 3.0Ah are more expensive.

Anyone know what this one is?

I disagree. I used a Lidl drill for 3 years daily at work. Eventually the brushes in the motor burned out but it worked well.

Mine is brushless.

​Didnt say was not available anywhere else...it wasnt available in one near me (50 miles away)..
anyway wont be available anywhere now lol

Non of the battery powered drills wont work as good as ac powered. Even if you buy battery drill for 200pounds it wont be as powerfulls as ac for 30 pounds

well this post is ,mostly dead, but ill bite. Try using a Makita DHP-481, it puts my old ac makita drill to shame.