About to lay my deck boards next week. Brother in law has a compressor, so
I thought I might just be able to buy a air drill to screw the boards down
with. Do air drills work at variable speeds to allow me to control the
drilling? I'm looking at this one.
http://www.toolstation.com/messages....3861&mainWin=1

Regards


SantaUK

SantaUK wrote:
About to lay my deck boards next week. Brother in law has a compressor, so
I thought I might just be able to buy a air drill to screw the boards down
with. Do air drills work at variable speeds to allow me to control the
drilling? I'm looking at this one.
http://www.toolstation.com/messages....3861&mainWin=1

No, they're really not suitable for this at all (no slow start). You
need either a good cordless drill/driver, or an impact driver.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/60516/...ill-Driver-18V

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/57026/...act-Driver-12V


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Grunff

Grunff wrote:
SantaUK wrote:
About to lay my deck boards next week. Brother in law has a
compressor, so I thought I might just be able to buy a air drill to
screw the boards down with. Do air drills work at variable speeds
to allow me to control the drilling? I'm looking at this one.
http://www.toolstation.com/messages....3861&mainWin=1

No, they're really not suitable for this at all (no slow start). You
need either a good cordless drill/driver, or an impact driver.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/60516/...ill-Driver-18V

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/57026/...act-Driver-12V

I agree with my learned colleague - impact driver is the way to go.

Have you already done the frame?


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

Yeah, frames done and ready to go. Neighbour is offering his Spit Gun to
nail it down, but I would prefer to screw it down, incase it needs to come
up again.

Regards


SantaUK