The Edit — Home & Garden
Black Friday Tool Deals 2026: DeWalt, Milwaukee, Ryobi
Home Depot's and Lowe's Black Friday tool offers, read from their own announcements, and the 6 drill and driver kits worth buying into, because a tool deal is really a battery deal.
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This page reads Home Depot’s and Lowe’s own Black Friday announcements and sets 6 drill and driver kits against them, ordered by how Amazon shoppers rate them and compared on what each maker states, as How we choose describes. Nothing here was handled or tested.
Best for Starting a platform
Watch for More than light jobs need
Best for A first drill, bits included
Watch for Not for masonry
Best for A DeWalt drill owner
Watch for Not a first tool
Best for A Makita 18V garage
Watch for No bits included
Best for An M18 owner, a cold garage
Watch for 1 battery only
Best for Light jobs, low outlay
Watch for 1 shared battery
Home Depot’s tool BOGO runs from 5 to 25 November
The Home Depot announced its Black Friday Savings Event on 29 October: 5 to 25 November, in store and online. Its standout tool offer is a BOGO. Buy a participating tool or battery kit from RYOBI, Milwaukee or DEWALT, and choose a free select tool. The event ends 2 days before Black Friday itself, so a tool buyer who waits for 27 November has waited too long at Home Depot.
The announcement promises a free select power tool, not a free battery. A cordless tool from one brand runs on that brand’s own battery line, so the free tool pays off only on the platform you just bought into. That is the logic of the offer, and it is why the brand matters more than the discount.
Lowe’s started on 29 October and saves its biggest week for Thanksgiving
Lowe’s holiday release of 8 October set 4 weeks of Black Friday deals from 29 October, with free products on select purchases from top tool brands. A new 12 Days of Deals starts on 16 November. Its Thanksgiving-week Doorbusters name power tools, tool sets and storage from DEWALT, Kobalt and CRAFTSMAN. MyLowe’s Rewards members get online access one day before the Doorbusters open to everyone on 27 November.
Amazon’s own first-look story of 9 November names deals across TVs, beauty, toys and kitchen brands, and no power-tool brand. So the cards below are priced live, and the dated tool offers on this page are the home improvement stores’. When Black Friday deals start has every retailer’s calendar.
| Store | Tool offer | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| The Home Depot | Free select tool with a participating RYOBI, Milwaukee or DEWALT tool or battery kit | 5 to 25 Nov |
| Lowe’s | Free products with select tool purchases; Doorbusters on DEWALT, Kobalt, CRAFTSMAN | From 29 Oct; Doorbusters 27 Nov, members 26 Nov |
| Amazon | No tool brand named in its first look | Black Friday Week 19 to 30 Nov |
DeWalt 20V MAX is the platform these deals reward most
DEWALT appears in both stores’ offers, which makes its 20V MAX line the easiest one to grow on Black Friday. The DCK240C2 combo is the starter: a drill and a 1,400 in-lbs impact driver with 2 batteries. The DCD771C2 kit is the drill alone with 100 bits, for a first toolbox that has nothing in it yet. An owner who already has the drill adds the brushless DCF787D1 impact driver. Which of the two tools to buy first is in drill against impact driver.
DEWALT 20V MAX Drill and Impact Driver Combo Kit (DCK240C2)
A drill and a 1,400 in-lbs impact driver with 2 batteries, a charger and a bag.
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| Impact driver | Up to 1,400 in-lbs |
|---|---|
| Driver chuck | 1/4 in hex |
| Batteries | 2 |
2 tools, 2 batteries: the start of a DeWalt shelf.
Buy it if
- A first kit meant to grow into a whole set
Don't buy it if
- Someone who only hangs the odd picture
DEWALT 20V MAX Drill/Driver Kit with 100-Piece Bit Set (DCD771C2)
DeWalt's compact DCD771C2 drill with a 100-piece drill and driver bit set in the box.
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| Chuck | 1/2 in, ratcheting |
|---|---|
| Speeds | 0-450 and 0-1,500 rpm |
| In the box | Drill, battery, charger, 100 bits |
One drill and 100 bits, for an empty toolbox.
Buy it if
- A first toolbox with no bits yet
Don't buy it if
- Heavy masonry or big-hole work
DEWALT 20V MAX Impact Driver Kit, 1/4 in (DCF787D1)
A brushless DeWalt impact driver with a 2Ah battery, charger and belt hook.
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| Chuck | 1/4 in hex |
|---|---|
| Motor | Brushless |
| In the box | Driver, 2Ah battery, charger, belt hook |
The second DeWalt tool, for an owner who has the drill.
Buy it if
- An owner of a DeWalt 20V drill
Don't buy it if
- Anyone with no drill yet
A Makita or Milwaukee owner should buy on the battery they have
An owner with batteries already on the shelf can buy the next tool without paying for another charger. A garage that already runs on Makita 18V LXT gets more from the brushless XFD131 than from any other brand’s free tool. A Milwaukee M18 owner is in Home Depot’s BOGO already, and the 2606-21CT drill is rated by Milwaukee to work down to 0°F, which suits an unheated garage in January.
Makita XFD131 18V LXT Brushless 1/2 in Driver-Drill Kit (3.0Ah)
A brushless 18V drill with 440 in-lbs of torque and a 3.0Ah battery in the kit.
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| Max torque | 440 in-lbs |
|---|---|
| Speeds | 0-500 and 0-1,900 rpm |
| Motor | Brushless |
Brushless, 440 in-lbs, for a Makita 18V garage.
Buy it if
- A garage that already runs on Makita 18V LXT
Don't buy it if
- A buyer who wants bits in the box
Milwaukee M18 1/2 in Compact Drill Driver Kit (2606-21CT)
A 500 in-lbs 18V drill that Milwaukee rates to work down to 0°F, with a hard case.
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| Max torque | 500 in-lbs |
|---|---|
| Speeds | 0-400 and 0-1,800 rpm |
| Works to | 0°F, per Milwaukee |
An M18 drill rated to 0°F, with a hard case.
Buy it if
- A cold garage, or a shelf of M18 tools already
Don't buy it if
- A buyer who wants a spare battery: the kit has 1
Black+Decker’s combo suits light jobs at the lowest outlay
BLACK+DECKER’s BD2KITCDDI is a 3/8 in drill and a 1,375 in-lbs impact driver sharing 1 battery. It handles flat-pack furniture, curtain rails and a few deck screws. With 1 battery, only one tool runs at a time, and the smaller chuck limits bit sizes. For heavier work, the cordless drills guide compares 5 drills on torque and chuck.
BLACK+DECKER 20V MAX Drill and Impact Driver Combo Kit (BD2KITCDDI)
A 3/8 in drill and a 1,375 in-lbs impact driver that share 1 battery.
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| Drill chuck | 3/8 in |
|---|---|
| Driver torque | 1,375 in-lbs |
| Batteries | 1, shared |
2 light-duty tools on 1 battery.
Buy it if
- Flat-pack furniture and a few deck screws
Don't buy it if
- Using both tools at once: 1 battery
What lost: 200-piece mixed kits and off-brand batteries
Mixed kits of 100-plus pieces with an unbranded drill were left out: the bits are the cheap part, and the drill’s battery fits nothing else. Third-party batteries sold as compatible with a big brand were left out too: neither store’s offer counts them, and the tools’ own makers sell batteries for their own lines.
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