Mmmm paper cuts on your arse. Fun!
Random question: does anyone know which company I can head to for a hammer drill that isn't a piece of shit? Needs to have a chuck that isn't garbage and needs to be mains powered. Need to use it to blow some light holes in brick work and drill Hammond boxes as well with a step drill.
Edit: currently considering Makita HP1640 at the moment. Proper chuck. Not too many horrible reviews. Available same day on amazon for 70 quid.
Usable brands are Makita, as observed, Old AEG (I have a reasonably new drill by them, and have a long time ago used hammer drills by them, with pleasure), Blue Bosch, and Hilti. Hilti is probably least risk, with associated cost. But, a pleasure.
It is important that the drill has SDS-plus drill bit holder. Stone/concrete/brick/masonry drills that are held in normal 3-jaw chucks are jokes. All decent SDS-plus drills come with a 3-jaw chuck fitted to slot in to the SDS-plus holder.
OTOH, if you only have perforated brick walls, you can, with some luck, get holes holed using a toy drill. But it is like using that school oscilloscope.
I once had the task of hanging speakers in an air raid shelter class basement. We rented a 2 numbers too large Hilti, we thought, which was lucky. High-strength concrete, with copious rebar, hardened for 35-40 years, is about as tough it gets bar bedrock.