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I know lots of tradesmen, I come in contact with them regularly and
many
swear by Kress (Wickes). The woodworkers and kitchen fitters tend top
go
for
Makita, DeWalt and Trend. They are a frightened to change from those
makes
even though many will tell you they have to get them repaired more
often
than what they would like too.

This depends where you are situated though John, the tradesmen around
here have not even heard of Wickes (the nearest one is about 40 miles
away) and I have certainly not seen Kress on the sites that I visit

Bertie, I saw one maintenance plumber with a cheapo grey PP battery
drill.
He did the problems on new homes after hand over. The walls were all
lightweight block, so a powerful hammer he didn't need. He was delighted
with it as it cost only few quid and did the job well.

I thought this was the case, you are talking
about plumbers who probably
aren't that bothered about the power tools
that they use at all, they probably think more
about the tools specific to plumbing like benders,
cutters etc than they do about a drill. The trades
that depend on decent power tools to give
accuracy, performance and reliability will pay out
more and get quality gear.

Plumbers who work in existing homes care about power tools as it makes life
far easier for them. They are forever drilling holes, large and small. On
sites the large holes are done for them for the flues, as the brickkies
leave a sleeve in the wall. They need to drill paramount boards and block,
to mount rads and clips which doesn't even need a hammer dill.

This particular maintenance plumber bought the cheapo afer his expensive
DeWalt packed up. He had an Hitachi core drill. He knew he didn't need a
light drill that can be heavily used and abused day in day out and bought
this cheapy for a few quid. If he did required that level of performance he
would have to go out buy a drill that can handle that level of usage. Wise
man.



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