If you are working extensively in stone, brick, or tougher materials, you don’t want a tool that is simply capable of doing the work, you want a tool that was specifically designed to tackle the job.

No workshop is complete without a drill – but what sort of drill should it be? Andy Collings takes a look at SDS-drills to see what they can do and how they do it Before the mid-70s, a powered drill ...

Back in the day, carpenters used brace-and-bit drills. For lighter jobs, manufacturers came up with a gear-driven model. More efficient and easier-to-use power drills tackle these jobs now, but people ...

We tested each cordless drill for at least two weeks worth of jobs, evaluating their drilling functions on wood, plastics, masonry and interior walls, those being the most common household jobs. We ...

If you need to drill holes in masonry or concrete, you may have heard about, or come across, hammer drills. There are two types, and people often apply the term “hammer drill” to both, although they ...

A hammer drill is a tool that has a back-and-forth hammering action as well as a clockwise or anti-clockwise drilling action. They can do jobs regular drills are not suitable for, such as drilling ...