What's the best thing you bought last year?
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What's the best thing you bought last year?
Bosch professional laser measure GL30.
I bought this on a whim last year. I bought one a few years ago but it was complete sh1te. I didn't think I would use it as much but it's been invaluable and saved me a lot of time. I fitted a whole house with skirting boards last week. I reckon it saved at least half a day.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bosch-Professi ... s9dHJ1ZQ==
States measuring accuracy of ± 2 mm but it was spot on each time.
What's the best thing you bought last year?
I bought this on a whim last year. I bought one a few years ago but it was complete sh1te. I didn't think I would use it as much but it's been invaluable and saved me a lot of time. I fitted a whole house with skirting boards last week. I reckon it saved at least half a day.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bosch-Professi ... s9dHJ1ZQ==
States measuring accuracy of ± 2 mm but it was spot on each time.
What's the best thing you bought last year?
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What's the best thing you bought last year?
Right-angled Makita - its the sort of thing you use once in a while - but it saves a lot of time and swearing so worth the money
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Seeing that Bob, I bought one of those angle adapters that fit in a normal drill from Aldi. I had no use for it but thought it was worth it for £5. In the main they are a bit awkward to use and three hands would help but I needed it for a job that suited it and it worked quite well. I have never used it since
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What's the best thing you bought last year?
2nd hand dewalt 746 table saw
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I bought a second hand DeWalt one from Gumtree. The old Nicad battery one but I bought a Waitley adaptor to use the new lithium batteries in it. I've used it a couple of times when fitting kitchens.Bob225 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 12:02 pm Right-angled Makita - its the sort of thing you use once in a while - but it saves a lot of time and swearing so worth the money
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aye them things are handy for kitchen fitting like. i bought one a while back but the newer xr type
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Googel Home speaker. So easy to listen to music of choice through Spotify. Makes me wonder at the money I have spent in the past on stereo equipment and records/tapes/cds.
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What's the best thing you bought last year?
Impact driver,I’ve always used my cordless drill for driving screws ,then one of the chippies let me have a go of his straight to the shop and bought a Stanley kit
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What's the best thing you bought last year?
got to be the impact driver i purchased Dewalt DCF887
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Kinda meant tool wise mate but I'll go with that. I often use my Echo to convert inches/feet to millimetres. Saves me looking it up.
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What's the best thing you bought last year?
A good quality folding stanley fatmax knife. Have it in my pocket all the time when working, much better than the bulky Irwin which managed to loose it's blade when cutting.
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Hand sanitizer for the van, has come in really handy at the moment
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Ah the memories of the Stanley folding knife,years ago I bought my first folding knife it was branded Rolson only cost a couple of quid off the local market ,so fast forward to a few months ago I decided to treat myself to the Stanley and managed to loose it within 48hrs lol
So it’s back to the faithful Rolson
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Not sure who makes it, but I bought a pencil holder that clips onto your belt or pocket etc, and has a retractable wire, so you can pull out the pencil when you want it and don’t have to worry where you put it down, accepts multiple size pencils, not lost a pencil since buying it
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I think I bought one of those last year. I think it's made by Milwaukee. I saw finish carpentry use it on YouTube so decided to buy it.Blakey wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:21 am Not sure who makes it, but I bought a pencil holder that clips onto your belt or pocket etc, and has a retractable wire, so you can pull out the pencil when you want it and don’t have to worry where you put it down, accepts multiple size pencils, not lost a pencil since buying it
I lost it.