Rotary hammer rental in Espoo – concrete, tiles and anchor holes

Rotary hammer rental in Espoo runs without a shop counter, a queue or a deposit. This is the machine for concrete: a pneumatic SDS-plus hammer - an SDS drill, as most shops here call it - that drills holes up to 20 mm, chisels old tiles off a wall, and drives screws too. Two batteries and a charger come in the case. From 6,99 € at Iso Omena.

Four functions on one selector: drilling, hammer drilling, chiselling with the chisel locked in position, and plain screwdriving. Some shops sell this category as an SDS drill or a hammer drill - the point is the pneumatic mechanism, which does in seconds what an ordinary drill grinds away at for minutes. If your walls are brick or plasterboard rather than concrete, a cordless combi drill is lighter, cheaper and enough.

Not included: SDS-plus drill bits and chisels. Add the SDS+ drill and chisel set for 5 € a day - bits from 5 to 14 mm in four lengths, plus a point chisel, a gouge and two flat chisels in a metal case. Without SDS-plus bits the machine has nothing to hold, so add the set unless you already own some.

Rent or buy? A rotary hammer like this is about 199 € new as a bare tool, and a battery and charger add roughly 50 €, so a comparable setup is around 250 €. A full day here is 17,99 €, or 22,99 € with the bit and chisel set. This is not a tool most homes need twice. It comes out for one bathroom, one kitchen or one round of concrete shelving, and then sits in a cupboard for years. Even at ten rentals you are still ahead, and you never store it.

Pick-up and opening hours: The Tooly locker is on floor −1 of the Iso Omena shopping centre, Piispansilta 11, Espoo, near the Musti ja Mirri entrance. It is open every day from 6 am to midnight, so you can collect before work or after the shops close. Matinkylä metro station is in the same building, so you can collect without a car, though the case is bulky enough that most people take one.