On 02/06/2019 21:58, Dave Liquorice wrote:
Any recomends/avoids?

The reviews of models that have a good overall rating still have a
significant number of bad ones. These don't obviously appear to be
from dimwits suffering from "operator error" or "bought a screwdriver
to drive in nails" categories.

Detection of cables/pipes mainly, studs would nice.

Another surprisingly good way to detect nails and hence studs is to use
a rare earth magnet suspended by a bit of thread as a sort of pendulum
(sliding the face of the magnet along the wall). I have used this with
some success to locate studs behind a very old lath and plaster wall,
where a "mid-priced" detector was pretty useless.

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