What DIY equipment have you bought lately?

[raleighnut]

I don't do DIY, I might do some work to a professional standard on our house but these days I'm more likely to be 'Project Managing' and employing sub-contractors to do the actual work.

 

[Dave7]

Best DIY thingy Ive recently hired is a decorator. He has done 2 rooms and will shortly be doing the 3rd.
Meanwhile I have enjoyed the golf and footy on TV (smug smile)

 

[Sharky]

A sledgehammer. Hopefully come Easter Monday I'll be twatting stuff with it. In completely unrelated news, I do have a plasterboard wall that's in need of a bit of filler.

So, what's the plan for today?

 

[winjim]

So, what's the plan for today?

Just built a snowman. Might upset the two year old a bit if I went and twatted it with a sledgehammer.

 

[roadrash]

^^^^if you twatted the two year old or the snowman^^^^^^

 

[Profpointy]

This :

Had their fantastic track saw for a while and this smaller Kapex mitre saw seemed almost a bargain compared to the large Kapex saw at a grand. Not fired it up yet

 

[MontyVeda]

a tape measure... longer and fatter then the rest.

 

[winjim]

^^^^if you twatted the two year old or the snowman^^^^^^

I suspect either, but I'd need to run it past her mother.

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 5200880, member: 259"]It looks like a proper Man Tool! But what is it?[/QUOTE]
it's one of those multi use thingamajigs... obviously!

 

[keithmac]

[QUOTE 5200880, member: 259"]It looks like a proper Man Tool! But what is it?[/QUOTE]

It's actally called a multi-tool iirc, you get different blades depending on what you're cutting (or scraping).

The blades only move a couple of mm but at high speed, you can cut wood etc in very hard to reach places where a saw would be impractical.

Used it again yesterday when finishing the loft.

 

[keithmac]

Think this is my favourite tool of all, always ready to go out of the box, fair few years old now but still going strong!.

 

[raleighnut]

Think this is my favourite tool of all, always ready to go out of the box, fair few years old now but still going strong!.

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Never liked Black 'n' Decker, I'm a Bosch 'blue' fan.

 

[keithmac]

I had a Bosch before this one, nice drill but the batteries let it down unfortunately.

 

[Profpointy]

It's actally called a multi-tool iirc, you get different blades depending on what you're cutting (or scraping).

The blades only move a couple of mm but at high speed, you can cut wood etc in very hard to reach places where a saw would be impractical.

Used it again yesterday when finishing the loft.

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Those multi/oscillating tools are very very useful. Mine's a Fein and it doubles up as an excellent detail sander as well as the sawing. Often novelty gadgets are useless but these are great.

 

[raleighnut]

I had a Bosch before this one, nice drill but the batteries let it down unfortunately.

Yeah, one of mine has died, mind you the drill is 15yrs old (1 of 3 I bought, the other 2 got nicked along with a couple of grand of other kit stolen in a break-in where I was working)