Expert Power Tool Reviews & Buying Guides for the UK
Somewhere between “just score it with a tile cutter” and “hire a wet saw for the weekend” sits the tool most tilers actually reach for first: a cordless angle grinder for cutting tiles. It’s the tradesperson’s Swiss Army knife — small enough to fit in a bag, punchy enough to slice through porcelain, and free … Read more
Buy the wrong angle grinder once and you’ll remember it forever — either because it stalled halfway through a bracket you were cutting, or because your wrist was still buzzing three hours later. A 125mm angle grinder is a hand-held power tool that spins a 125mm (5-inch) abrasive disc at high speed to cut, grind, … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of stubbornness that a rusted bolt has. It doesn’t care about your spanner, your WD-40, or your patience. What it does respect, eventually, is a spinning disc doing 8,000-plus revolutions a minute. That’s the appeal of a cordless angle grinder under £100: real cutting and grinding power, minus the trailing … Read more
Somewhere in a shed in Sheffield right now, someone is standing over a rusted gate hinge with a corded grinder, cursing an extension lead that’s three metres too short. That’s the exact itch a cordless angle grinder scratches. No trailing cable to snag on scaffold poles, no hunting for the nearest socket on a job … Read more
There’s a particular kind of stubbornness that only an overgrown apple tree can teach you. You go out with secateurs, feeling optimistic, and twenty minutes later you’re standing in a pile of twigs having barely dented a branch that’s thicker than your wrist. This is usually the moment gardeners start Googling a reciprocating saw for … Read more
Buy the wrong reciprocating saw and you don’t just waste money — you end up buying a second, third and fourth battery to feed it. That’s the trap most people fall into with a multi-voltage reciprocating saw: they focus entirely on the tool and ignore the ecosystem it drags along behind it. A recip saw … Read more
There’s a particular kind of frustration that only shows up when you’re wedged under a sink, wrist bent at an angle no chiropractor would approve of, trying to hacksaw through a copper pipe that simply will not budge. If that sentence made you wince in recognition, you already understand why the right cordless reciprocating saw … Read more
Knocking through a stud wall, hacking out an old kitchen carcass, or freeing a rusted radiator bracket that’s been welded to life by forty years of paint — a sabre saw for demolition work turns jobs that would take an afternoon with a hand saw into a fifteen-minute task. If you’ve ever tried to dismantle … Read more
There’s a particular sound a bad jigsaw cut makes on laminate — a splintery little crunch that tells you, half a second too late, that the edge is ruined. Anyone who has fitted a floor around a door frame or a fireplace hearth knows the feeling. Choosing the right cordless jigsaw for laminate flooring isn’t … Read more
Buy the wrong jigsaw and you’ll find out the hard way — halfway through cutting a sink hole in a worktop, arm burning, blade wandering off your pencil line because the tool’s too front-heavy to hold steady with one hand. A genuinely compact cordless jigsaw solves that problem before it starts. It’s not just “a … Read more