Best Screwfix Tools and Fixings 2026: The 6 We'd Buy

This is the drill kit to buy if you only buy one. The DCD778 is DeWalt’s compact brushless combi, with 65Nm of torque, 15 torque settings plus drill and hammer modes, a 13mm keyless chuck, all-metal gearing and an electronic brake. The kit includes two 4.0Ah batteries, a charger and a TSTAK box, and weighs 1.85kg with a battery fitted. When we checked it was £139.99, cut from £199.99.

It has an average of nearly five stars from over 800 reviews, so the complaints are few but consistent. The word that recurs is wobble: several one- and two-star buyers had chucks that ran off-centre and returned them, and one said DeWalt would not cover the chuck under warranty. Check it spins true the day you buy it, while the 30-day return still applies.

Erbauer is Screwfix’s middle-ground tool brand, and this compact combi is the sensible way into it. It is short (165mm) and light (1.4kg with a battery), with a brushless motor, 50Nm of torque, 17 torque settings plus drill and hammer, and a 13mm keyless chuck. The £99.99 kit includes two 2.0Ah batteries on the EXT platform, a one-hour charger, a belt clip and a carry case.

None of its 33 reviews was below four stars when we checked, so the weaknesses are on the spec sheet. The gearbox is ABS plastic, there is no brake, and the guarantee is one year against DeWalt’s three. For hanging pictures and building wardrobes that is fine; for heavy, daily use it is the wrong trade-off.

A combi drill will get through brick, slowly. For concrete, or for lifting tiles and old render, an SDS drill does the job properly, and this Titan is the cheapest sensible way to own one. It is a 1500W corded machine with four modes (drill, hammer drill, chisel and chisel adjustment), 5J of impact energy, a magnesium gearbox and a safety clutch, and the £89.99 price includes a 22-piece set of bits and chisels.

It has only a dozen reviews, mostly from the past few months, and the lowest is a three-star buyer whose drill kept slipping from drill-only into hammer mode with a core bit. The spec sheet adds the rest: 5.12kg, a stated vibration of 17.31m/s², carbon brushes that cannot be replaced, and a one-year guarantee.

Screwfix earned its name selling screws, and a trade pack is the cheapest way to stop running out. This one holds 1,400 screws in nine sizes, from 200 each of the small 3.5mm and 4mm lengths to 100 of the 6 x 100mm. They are zinc-plated, yellow-passivated and wax-coated, with double-countersunk heads and a sharp thread that the page says needs no pilot hole in most timbers. When we checked it was £19.99, down from £29.99.

Two cautions from the page and the reviews. These are rated for indoor use, and one buyer who used them in garden furniture found them rotted and snapped within 18 months. The rarer one-star reviews also report heads that let the bit slip and screws snapping on removal.

Fischer’s DuoPower is the plug to keep in the drawer. It is made from two materials, and depending on the wall it expands, folds or knots, so the same plug is sold as suitable for concrete, solid and perforated brick and plasterboard. The narrow rim stops it slipping into the hole, and the page says you feel when it has set. This pack is 6 x 30mm, for 4 to 5mm screws around 35mm long; screws are not included.

The low-rated reviews tell one story: plasterboard. Several buyers found the plugs spun in the hole or failed to grip in drywall, one reporting four failures in the first ten. In brick and block they are excellent. For anything heavier than a picture in plasterboard, buy a dedicated cavity fixing.

Once you own a drill and a box of screws, the garage needs shelves. This Essentials unit has a powder-coated steel frame and five adjustable MDF shelves, each rated to 100kg with a 500kg limit for the whole bay, and stands 1800mm tall, 900mm wide and 400mm deep. It can be freestanding or fixed to the wall, and at £27.99 it is hard to argue with.

The reviews are mostly four stars rather than five, and the reason is the same in most of them: it feels flimsy until it is built and fixed to a wall. One buyer called the steel thin and the tabs fiddly, another needed a hammer to join the pieces, and the one one-star review says it damages easily if moved. Screw it to the wall, as the instructions say.