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Jim Goodenough

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If you looking for a tool to drill through joists I used one of these recently on a house I 1st fixed... 51mm TCT holesaw, very fast & very easy to remove cut timber.
Used the arbor from my bi-metal holesaw kit.
(As you know there's rule & regs as to cutting/drilling joists so keep within those parameters)
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Yep esp with a hole haug or angled drill its ace
 
Do you have a Hole Hawg Shaun? I've been eyeing them for a while ;)

No normally use an angled but I've used a chippys one last month and it's tipped me over to I need one so much better nice low toque etc
 
There's different ways of considering the cost...

If you plumbed say, 3 new houses a year (when you have to drill dozen's of holes overhead through the joists) that's only £147 per house, and think what other job's it would be handy on!!

Most plumbers/heating engineers must be charging/making £240/day (some a lot more), that's only 2 days labour to cover the cost, besides no more pain of your knuckles/hand smashing off the joist when the cordless drill snags... ouch I've done it again! :oops::mad:
 
I've never drilled a hole through a joist that big so I checked and found it is permissible for a 2oomm (8 inch) joist. I learned something new today!
 
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