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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Stuart Pritchard

Best cordless drills and drivers for utterly deft DIY

You might not be aware of this, but there is a power tool hierarchy. While the petrol-powered chainsaw is undoubtedly the flannel shirt-toting, shorts-in-any-weather king of the wild outdoors, when it comes to the weapon of choice for precision work everywhere else, the electric drill is the King of Kings.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean just any kind of electric drill. No. While wires are handy for ensuring an always-on availability of electricity, nobody really wants to be encumbered by cables and limited to the lengths they can go when it comes to the business of boring. Rather, when something needs a damn good drilling, going cordless – as nature intended – is the only way to tackle any drill-requiring task.

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