wrote:

Thanks, John. I'm starting to think of the possible jobs I may need a
drill/driver for sometime in the future...when I get round to it.

For the sake of argument, lets say I want to drill through a
breezeblock internal wall ( to spur off an electrical socket in an
adjacent room).

Depends a bit on what you mean by breezeblock - that covers everything
from the soft insulating blocks and cinder blocks which you can drill
easily without hammer action (in fact you can drill with a srewdriver!),
to hard hollow concrete blocks where you will need hammer action. None
of them are that hard to drill - in the sense that a conventional hammer
drill (mains or battery) will hack it without needing a SDS drill.

If you want to chase out a channel in a wall and sink a backbox however
you need a SDS with chisel mode.

Would this job wreck a 12V cordless drill? I reckon I would need a
corded drill for such a job. Or, better still, get an electrician in!

A mid range 12V drill would handle it with no difficulty. A top end one
would do it 100 times on a single charge.

If you have doubts, then considder a mid range cordless drill backed up
by a shed special hammer for the odd occations you want more prolonged
drilling or hammer.

--
Cheers,

John.

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