Expert Power Tool Reviews & Buying Guides for the UK
A cordless SDS drill is a battery-powered rotary hammer that uses the SDS (Slotted Drive Shaft) chuck system to punch, rather than simply spin, its way through masonry, brick and concrete — trading a mains lead for a slide-in battery pack while keeping the hammering action that ordinary drills can’t manage. If you’ve ever tried … Read more
Right, let’s get one thing out of the way first: if you’ve ever tried to break a slab with a bog-standard combi drill, you’ll know the feeling of watching a £60 tool wave the white flag against thirty-year-old concrete. That’s the gap an SDS max drill exists to fill. It’s the tool site foremen reach … Read more
A SDS plus drill is the tool that turns “I’ll get round to it” into “done before lunch.” If you’ve ever wrestled a cheap combi drill into a brick wall and watched the bit smoke, spin uselessly, then die, you already know why this category exists. An SDS plus drill uses a spring-loaded, tool-free chuck … Read more
Stand in the power tools aisle for five minutes and you’ll hear it: someone asking a very patient member of staff whether they need “the small one or the big one.” That, in essence, is the sds plus vs sds max question, and it’s one of the most misunderstood decisions in the whole DIY and … Read more