Basic tools and which are best

[julesverne]

maybe not needed now if your just stating out . but later you will need a decent wet and dry vac.

 

[jaydebruyne]

maybe not needed now if your just stating out . but later you will need a decent wet and dry vac.

http://www.lidl-ni.co.uk/en/Offers.htm?action=showDetail&id=19926

Lidl are selling a wetvac tomorrow for about £35.. grab yourself a bargain

 

[Stanios]

http://www.lidl-ni.co.uk/en/Offers.htm?action=showDetail&id=19926

Lidl are selling a wetvac tomorrow for about £35.. grab yourself a bargain

Purchased that recently, not sure how long it will last but its doing a good job atm plus you can unscrew a cap at the bottom to release the water

 

[jaydebruyne]

Purchased that recently, not sure how long it will last but its doing a good job atm plus you can unscrew a cap at the bottom to release the water

I wish I bagged one, I think I'm gonna be lumbered with replacing a saniplus which is full of bodily waste - so is the toilet.. coulda just sucked it up and thrown it out at that price :/

 

[Ermintrude]

Nice 1/4 drive set on a rail £14 sealy ones from flee bay or £5 from machine mart

 

[tolly]

The lidl wetvac is the same as the wickes one just a different colour, wickes one is in blue and an extra fiver.

 

[DrainMedic]

Plumben is bang on! Ive learnt two important lessons since serving my time. Never lend your tools out and never buy anything with the word 'silverline' on it.

I spend a fortune at toolstation and the staff there don't even get things out of the box if it's a silverline item, they know I will ask them to put it back. As someone else said, buy the best you can afford and don't always buy new - eBay has some great deals on tools and you can pick stuff up cheap. Try spelling Stuff wrong when you search (barco, Bhaco bacco etc) - you'd be amazed at the number of people selling stuff who spell it wrong and then it doesn't come up in searches, so if you spell it wrong too, you find it and win the auction!

I buy only names I can trust (that makes me sound a right n@b - sorry!) but then again I don't smoke or drink so I can afford to. I've got a mate who's always after borrowing tools because he spends his wages on booze and women, then moans that he can't get jobs done without a proper toolkit! And don't forget that you can claim your tool money back against your tax at the end of the year!

 

[plumben]

I find the green chequered hose pipe the best. It fits tight on the drain offs and no need for jubilee clips.. think I got mine from gleebay for about £10

Iv got the green chequered hose pipe, but I've found the after a while it started to get loose on some radvalve drain offs so I always bang a jubilee on takes a second and I'm safe knowing theres not going to be a nice black sludge mark on the carpet or floor when I lift the dust sheets

 

[jaydebruyne]

Iv got the green chequered hose pipe, but I've found the after a while it started to get loose on some radvalve drain offs so I always bang a jubilee on takes a second and I'm safe knowing theres not going to be a nice black sludge mark on the carpet or floor when I lift the dust sheets

I just stick a little towel underneath.. saves the carpet. I forgot to shut the drainoff when refilling last week, lucky for me the towel soaked most of it up, the wetvac got the rest

 

[Gouldy]

Get yourselves one of these drip trays for under the drain off valve/ hose pipe when draining. Also worth its weight in gold when changing rad valves over.

Standard drip tray