A rotary hammer drill for brick, block and concrete. Where a combi drill from the shed stalls, overheats or simply polishes the hole, this keeps going, and it does it without destroying your wrists in the first half hour.
We carry more than one, and the bits go out with the drill. Tell us the hole you are making when you book: the size of it decides which drill leaves the yard, and that is a two minute conversation rather than a wasted trip.
Getting it to the job
Hand carried at under seven kilos, so nothing about access matters here. It goes in a car boot and up a ladder.
It comes in its case with the bits, and it is worth bringing it back that way. Loose SDS bits in a boot find their way into carpet and never come out.
The numbers
Drill specification
Weight0kg
Hire typeDry hire
Getting it thereCollect or delivered
Getting it to the job
Carried in by hand, so access is not the question it is with the plant.
It still has to get to site: collect it from the yard in Etruria, or we will run it out with the rest of your hire.
The rest of the sheet
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
Serviced and tested between every hire
The bits go out with the drill
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
Power where you are working, or the generator
To know what is inside the wall before you start
Goggles, gloves, ear protection and a dust mask
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the drill goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
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Through-wall holes
Extractor ducting, flues, soil pipes and cable runs through solid brick and block.
02/ 06
Fixing into concrete
Anchors into slab and lintel where a normal drill will not get started.
03/ 06
Chasing for cable and pipe
With a chisel bit in, cutting channels through plaster and block for first fix.
04/ 06
Lifting tile and screed
A wide chisel and the hammer action takes up stuck floor tile far faster than a bolster and a lump hammer.
05/ 06
Breaking out small areas
Where a full breaker is too much machine but a hammer drill is not quite enough.
06/ 06
Scaffold and handrail fixings
Repeated fixings into masonry, where the tool doing the work rather than you is the whole point.
How it works
Hiring the drill start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
Drill, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
Find out what is in the wall
Cable, pipe and reinforcement. On a through-wall hole, know what is on the other side as well as inside it. This tool has more than enough power to make a small mistake an expensive one.
02
Tell us the hole, not the drill
Bits are not interchangeable between drill types, and the one that suits a 10mm fixing is not the one that suits a 100mm core. Give us the hole size and the material when you book and the right drill and bits go out together.
03
Let the hammer do it
Steady pressure and let the action work. Leaning on it heats the bit, glazes the hole and slows you down.
04
Masonry dust is the hazard
A mask, not just goggles. Drilling concrete and block releases silica, and that is the part of this job that actually does long term harm.
05
Clear the hole as you go
Back the bit out now and again to clear dust. A packed hole binds the bit and is how they snap.
06
Overhead work is the tiring part
Any drill is hard work held overhead for long. If there is a lot of it, get a platform under you rather than fighting it off a ladder.
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The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
Whichever suits the hole. We carry more than one and the bits go with it, so the useful thing to tell us is the size of the hole and what you are drilling into rather than a model name.
Yes, given a long enough bit. Tell us the wall thickness and the hole size when you ring so the right bit goes out with it.
With a chisel bit, for light work like lifting tile, screed or a small patch of concrete. For a path or a drive you want the actual breaker.
Tell us where you are using it when you ring and we will make sure what leaves the yard suits the supply you have. If there is no supply at all, the generator goes with it.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the drill is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
