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Their tools and accessories look and feel very premium in general.

Absolutely on the money. The ability to pick up a drill/driver for 20 quid, and sometimes for a tenner, and then add a battery for £15, is amazing. Yes, as you make clear, if you make a living from power tools, definitely go for Blue, Green, Yellow, or Red, but when you consider that a battery alone from the top manufacturers can cost more than a Parkside tool with charger and battery, well, it's a no-brainer. I do earn a living with power tools, and I have a selection of Makita, Hikoki, and Bosch cordless tools. However, in my wee workshop, I'm very happy to have a dedicated countersink drill, and a 20 quid router that serves as a dedicated chamfer machine.

I brought a generator its been very good had it for years been well used never let me down

Great video, thanks for the info !

its so called you can buy tools of lidl and you can buy makita even if you dont use for work.than you buy into tools problem comes you need certain quality tools, lets say trimmer chainsaw so you want good tool great battery. Now if you need to simply fix smth and not invest in tools lidl covers you up, if you are heavy duty worker many these days buy lidl tools as they wont work long in theyr hands, but they say they frow away and buy new one and save money without buying makita. They work with tools to death and fast, no mqatter if its makita or parkside or milwake all of them die. So heavy duty workers say this lidl tools dont last long, but makita last longer maybe 2 more years and also dies. simply they win in money and time. but they are not home owners, who care about tools. makita simply cost more to run. also lidl tools you cant just come and say i need battery, that island may have no battery this month, or no tool this month you need

The consumables are a fair price

I have a Stiebel Eltron 29kw whole house, tankless, electric, water heater that is about the size of a briefcase and hang on the wall and it works fantastic. I want to use two lower power electric tankless water heaters in an overlanding expedition vehicle(one for hot potable hot water and the other for hydronic under floor radiant heat), but that would mean I would need two very large inverters, could these water heater be converted to 24v or 48v DC?

FYI it’s “Lee-dull”…

I have a Parkside cordless Dremel type tool and a screwdriver bit set, and I've been very pleased with the quality of those. I'm thinking of picking up a battery and charger and one of those combi drills - it's always handy having an extra drill.

hello, superb video, could you tell me the dimensions of the small solar panels you use and the Angle you set for sun detection? thanks in advance JP

If there isn't a swear word, you're not doing it for real. Nice design. I see it relies on the high stacked channel to keep the actuator at enough angle that it is forced up. Clever. I am planning a similar setup on my cargo container and will take advantage of the valley in the corrugation to help me achieve the same. You design looks good, mostly hides the actuator and is inexpensive. Good job.

Does anyone know who make their rotary tools? I haven’t been able to find an equivalent online yet.

I've had quite a lot of Lidl/ Aldi tools over about 15-20 years and given many of them hard use and abuse during that time. The powerfix compressor and air tools I bought 15 years ago are still going strong and get heavy use for years on end. For example the die grinder and also the air chisel were £6 each in Aldi and have put up with 15 years of hacking at steel with zero maintenance bar a drop of oil before each use if I remembered. The compressor has been out on countless mobile auto welding jobs running a needle gun and other bits working very hard. I've recently bought quite a few parkside tools and can't really fault them for the money either- cordless impact gun, sabre saw, drill... though the cordless angle grinder isn't that good (under powered but OK if you go slow) out of that bunch. The plasma cutter and mains powered grinder are working great. Lots of smaller tools like IR thermometer, brake fluid tester, work lights, all good stuff for the money. The only tools I really wasn't happy with were a powerfix band saw (useless) and air ratchet (its OK but not powerful enough and too bulky). None are high quality tools with the finesse of expensive brands but the vast majority do get the job done, many of them in semi professional / high demand environments and they are cheaper than equivalent tools with a much better warranty than competitors. If you look at Clarke tools they are often identical, twice the price and with only a 1 year warranty. My advice is look up reviews first to make sure you're not buying one of the few tools which aren't good value (e.g the band saw, bench grinder/ linisher, cordless SDS drill) but otherwise they're almost impossible to beat for the money. Just keep your receipts safe in an envelope in a drawer somewhere otherwise you won't have that 3 year warranty.

Thanks for the video. I had to go straight out and check some Parkside items. Sure enough, the I pact driver which has a good weight to it is marked "Kompernass". X20V batteries seem to be manufactured by "OWIM GMBH & Co. KG" and imported to GB. Similarly, a wet dry vacuum which I've found to be quite good is labelled "Grizzly tools GmbH &Com KG", also imported to GB market. Thanks again 👍

I have a small 12v drill and a spare battery used every day in a workshop it the go to drill because of it's size 4 years and going strong

Thank you!

So the circular saw with a battery for under 100€ is a good deal?

i like the build, but it does not look very firm to me, it's allready curved by its own weight. If you put this on your van, the wind will rip to pieces.

I always buy lidl tools from socket sets to drills grinders i burned out one small grinder after five years cutting and grindng with it so i can not complain about lidl tools will still buy them when needed

You get what you pay for there are OK for DIY. But using every day you would soon find out how good they are.

Excellent tutorial! I’ve been using framing squares for 49 years and never considered they might be out of square. Time to go check them! Thanks for sharing this useful information!

Pythagorean Theorem is way more accurate. Measure 30 on lower leg, 40 on upper leg, should be 50 between the 2 measured points if square.

The first thing to do with painted squares is to file/scrape off the paint from the edges. Don't waste your time checking for square and adjusting until the edges are bare metal. The paint is usually not consistent thickness and has runs, drips, etc.

Accute not Concave!

Parkside are thee worst tools in the planet. ‘Cheap’, absolutely not, these tools simply can’t work long term, are often breaking down or need new brushes within months of use-utter garbage, especially the electric tools. It is far wiser to buy a decent tool like Bosch, Mikita, in particular. As these tools will last years unlike parkside which lasts mere months.

No !! For one time use

All this information with Einhell is wrong. Three big importers are behind Parkside: OWIM, Kompernass and Grizzly Tools.

That plunge saw is absolute crap, no power, way to much play on it's base (the saw blade actually hit the baseplate)

For those who have returned Parkside tools because they failed etc... did you need to retain the packaging, carry case etc, or just the tool itself & receipt? I have a few parkside tools and want to bin all the cases, but not if it means the 3yr warranty is no longer valid

Just binned a garden shredder park side not cheap used twice never again .

i bought a pressure washer , used it few times--put it away for the winter--next yaer did not work---like most of their tools chaep rubbish

Cool stuff, where did you get the controller.?

Perfect! Thank you for sharing

@The Wandering Warner a great review and I totally agree about the 20v drill I only ever buy the 4 amp hour batteries as I think the 2 amp hour just don't have enough capacity I think it is the angle grinder in the 20 volt range it won't even run properly on a 2 amp hour battery it has to have the 4 amp hour one in order for it to even work. Thank you about the information regarding Einhell I was totally unaware of that. My only complaint about your video was the sound volume was really poor and I needed headphones to be able to hear you properly If the volume is too loud it's dead easy to turn the volume down if your watching on your phone.

i have einhell (bad battery design, imbalanced cels and not full charge), parkside (good cell balance but not full charged) and fermi from penny (good cell balance and full charge) and the most cheap, tools+4ah battery+charger=45euros. all my tools have 18-20v battery (5s einhell, 5s2p fermi and 5s2p parkside 21700 cell 8ah)

Yep... Ive gone all in on Parksides 20V system. Great quality for the price.

I just use a twin voltage heater... My 240v is 700w and my 12v is 300w, payed about £80 for it

What country are you in? (Ireland??). I'm curious to know how effective solar panels are in Europe. We have a coach/motorhome conversion here in Australia with 4 x 4.8kw lithium batteries and 2.2kw of solar. As long as we have less than 2 weeks of very overcast weather (which is nearly every week), we can be off grid indefinitely. That's with a 240v house fridge, 2 x3.5kw air conditioners and washing machine.

I only buy 20volt DeWalt tools because I know that batteries will always be available but I have bought plenty of other Parkside tools and have been pleasantly surprised how good they are. Their soldering station is one of the best I've used. The cordless dremel works great and comes with many sizes of collects that allows you to use other manufacturers accessories. One time I went to Lidl and bought a oil transfer pump by Ultimate Speed for my shop. Lidl was selling it for $25. I went on the internet looking for more. Everyone wanted $70. I went back to Lidl and bought 5 more. Lidl had an Ultimate Speed battery charger that would take a dead car battery and make it new again. I tried it. It actually worked. I bought 5 more. I've bought many hand tools at Lidl and none have broken yet. I'm happy with the quality and the price

Hi can you update the solar tracking link? it's "page not found"

I am making a bed design for slanted road. If the actuator is raised 1-2 feet, what’s the dynamic load it can handle?

Good information especially the solar sensor thing. Most builds I’ve seen have the actuator limiting from the opposite side of the hinges. that makes a triangle that would be more stable I think.

even though i'm a Makita fan boy ,i also go for a specific tool from any company that is consistently rated as the best in that category . i will probably never buy a Parkside tool as i'm old and have all the tools i want and will be dead soon ,i hope .

Had quite a good experience with b&q’s cheap mac allister tools

What about Aldi tools?

Ok info, but your pacing is very slow and it felt like you were not really prepared to make the video. BTW, the words for angles would be "acute and obtuse", not "concave and convex".

Yep, Parkside great value all with 3 year warranty.

@14:22 "Assembled by Einhell in Germany". Not quite...all manufacturing/assembly is done in China, not Germany.

It's Kompernass...not Kampernass

I've got the cabled ½" impact gun. Good enough for my purposes. Took apart a mates rusty Merc Sprinter with little bother.