Which drill for bricks- Rotatory Hammer Drill vs. Impact Drill

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depends on the brick, some are hard, some are soft, noral hammer drill with a sharp quality masonary bit will do most for typical 7mm plugs

is your hammerdrill working properly, good vibrations and all that (fast speeds with them seem to work better too)

I used to live in a property that had a particularly hard cement "plaster" on the walls. I used a 705W hammer action drill to drill a 7mm hole in the wall. After about 7 minutes, the drill bit bit started glowing red. Admittedly it wasn't a new bit, but it had only made a 2mm dent. On advice from a friend, I borrowed a SDS drill. It took 7 seconds to drill the hole.

I went out and purchased my own one. Two of the OMG items that I regretted not buying years earlier are SDS drills and oscillating saws.

 

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I used to live in a property that had a particularly hard cement "plaster" on the walls. I used a 705W hammer action drill to drill a 7mm hole in the wall. After about 7 minutes, the drill bit bit started glowing red. Admittedly it wasn't a new bit, but it had only made a 2mm dent. On advice from a friend, I borrowed a SDS drill. It took 7 seconds to drill the hole.

I went out and purchased my own one. Two of the OMG items that I regretted not buying years earlier are SDS drills and oscillating saws.

as i say bricks vary enormously, and in most cases a hammer drill will be fine (esp 240v) for a typical plug hole (7mm) I would try my cordless first, and then if it that was struggling either go 240 hammer or get the 2kg sds - that even makes easy work of engineering bricks but can struggle in whin stone (plenty of old houses have that in the walls around here) - seriously hard stuff and if you use an SDS on whinstone sometimes the hole stone rattles loose and you have an enormous crater - lol
but a big must for all is a sharp bit (and yes you can sharpen masonry bits ( or at least improve the cutting edge)