well my bosch had to go and get a fault fixed this week, typical when I needed to rake out 4 bathrooms for a re-grout in some holiday homes, so I borrowed my brother in laws fein,,,,result?..fein wins hands down imo. Better balanced and more "guts", my b-i-l doesn't use it much so I think I'll make him an offer for it.

good idea doug, just tell him if he needs to borrow it he can, everyones a winner then if i had £200 to spare i'd go for the fein but at £60 my bosch is money well spent.

I have used both Doug, but I own a fein awsome bit of kit imo.

I've had the same two fein's for over 4 years now and never had a problem with either and they've had some punishment in that time.......


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i have the bosch which so far does the job,never tried the fein so cant compare

im gettin a bosch bought for me for xmas £70 on offer from bq dont think i could push it to the price of a fein even tho id rather one might ask for somethink else instead and get myself one but ive been reading on here that the blades are very expensive to replace

Fein all day long.... got mine back now

the blades are generally more expensive for the fein but but now some blades are universal or you can buy an adapter for the fein which enables it to take bosch blades

Originally Posted by tobins tiling

im gettin a bosch bought for me for xmas £70 on offer from bq dont think i could push it to the price of a fein even tho id rather one might ask for somethink else instead and get myself one but ive been reading on here that the blades are very expensive to replace

All depends where you order them from..

share your secret whitebeam where can these cheaper blades be found

I have the bosch, which blades last longer fein or bosch or is there any difference in it. Best to buy what you can afford at the minute,, euro,s about to crash.

I've got the 10.8v Li-Ion Bosch. Only use it for chopping the bottom of architraves and it does the job OK. It would be useless on re-grouts though unless I had around 50 batteries!!!!

Originally Posted by paul damian

I have the bosch, which blades last longer fein or bosch or is there any difference in it. Best to buy what you can afford at the minute,, euro,s about to crash.

I got some shark blades off ebay a few weeks ago after someone recommended them on here (Neale I think) and to be fair they have been spot on

Thats where I get mine from..

Originally Posted by paul damian

I have the bosch, which blades last longer fein or bosch or is there any difference in it. Best to buy what you can afford at the minute,, euro,s about to crash.

A frightning thought.

Yes mark it is mate,, if they dont sort it out tonight it will be depression not a recession. What i want to know is were is all this money now, who has got it, did it disappear off the face of the earth.

Originally Posted by peteablard

I've got the 10.8v Li-Ion Bosch. Only use it for chopping the bottom of architraves and it does the job OK. It would be useless on re-grouts though unless I had around 50 batteries!!!!

same as mine, so maybe it's not a true comparison, ie corded and cordless, but I couldn't agree more with regards to regrout jobs

Originally Posted by tobins tiling

share your secret whitebeam where can these cheaper blades be found

items in Multimaster Blades store on eBay!

Mixed Blades, Auctions items in saxton-trading store on eBay!

Got the blue Bosch corded GOP250. Same power as the Fein and worked out about £120 for the spec I wanted rather than £200. Used to have the green Bosch and the blue is much more capable. Not sure how it would compare to the Fein performance wise.

My fein has been awesome,started buying blades on ebay saxton blades much cheaper and do the job.I also have an adapter from ebay £7 that will allow use of bosh blades if I run out of blades so I can knip down b&q and get some.

bosch for me

got my bosch back, but still seems to be cutting out, even though there's plenty of life left in the battery

Dont no why that is

It might be over heating

Had my fein 5yrs now, still as good as the day i bought it, I also use the saxton blades.

I like and have Bosch power tools but everyone I know that bought a Bosch multi tool wished they'd bought a Fein so I listened and bought a Fein, and now the patent has run out blades are cheap as chips, here a Fein diamond blade is over 100 quid, but a cheap shop called Biltema do them for a fiver, obviously don't last as long but for removing tiles on repair jobs it's O.K, it wouldn't remove grout from a whole bathroom but I've never had to do that anyway (yet, must be a long boring process...)

have both bosch and fein and fein wins hands down well worth the extra money!

I talked to my Mrs about the fein for 6 months prior to christmas. And what do you know, i got iton one condition i stop talking to her about it. Its bloody great. Thanks to the person on here who mentioned the universal blade bit. Great money saving tip! If you buy a Fein, make sure you register it online for the 3 year warranty

dont mine fein lasted no time at all repair they wanted 120 quid so bought a drpaer for 43

Originally Posted by Les Higgs

dont mine fein lasted no time at all repair they wanted 120 quid so bought a drpaer for 43

What !!!! ????