Sample home improvement tools -
Drilling implies creating holes, and a power drill is the ultimate luxury when tired hands have turned too many screws. It adapts not only to drill bits to bore holes, but also to every kind of screw-head bit, making larger projects go quickly and with less muscle.
A reciprocating saw is an all-in-one tool that can take the place of several others. It uses a pull and push blade motion to cut in hard-to-reach places where no other type of saw can fit. A miter saw has a specialized blade that allows you to cut at a variety of angles, making it easily one of the most useful tools in the workshop.
Making cuts for crown molding, picture frames, door frames, or window casings? A miter saw is your tool! The saw blade is mounted on a swing arm that pivots left or right to produce the perfect angled cuts each and every time.
For metal cutting, smoothing or grinding, nothing but a cordless grinder will do! If your projects involve masonry or concrete with misplaced re-bar or anchor bolts, this handy tool will prove quite the workhorse over time. Or slice through plaster or stucco without ripping out the expanded metal lath.
A nail set is used for sinking nail heads below the surface of the wood, so that you can then fill the hole with wood putty and sand it, to make the nail disappear.
This way the hammer never has to make an ugly dent in the surface you are pounding. Great article, Have you thought of providing a resource on how you organize your work truck?
Your tools list is the most comprehensive list I have seen to date! Extremely useful in deciding and knowing what tools are needed, saving money and time. I am going to use your lists to compare to what I have and what I need and update my tools lists.
Thank you!! Dryer vent cleaning brushes are cheap and easy to make money with. Drop cloths and moving blankets are handy too, always leave the home cleaner than you found it. Dewalt has a folding work table that is handy also. A telescoping extension ladder by Extend a climb and a folding Little giant ladder get me to almost every roof and ceiling I need.
You can stand up easily inside, haul water heaters standing up, and whole split system ac units also. Ramp door on the back makes loading easy.
All of my business is through referrals, and I usually clear k a month without trying very hard. A simple business card and T shirts with your business go a long way for cheap.
That sounds like excellent advice, Murf! Thanks for sharing a few tools and project tips. Hopefully, people realize the value of those tips and put them to work! Looks like a pretty good write up, Dan the Man, handyman extraordinaire!
I live out in the sticks of Colorado- very rural area 3 miles to my mailbox, 1-way. Out here, fencing can be good money. Means shovels, digging bars breaking rocks, it is the Rocky Mtns , fencing stretchers, wheel barrow and hoe for mixing concrete it can also be dry-packed, no water needed.
But now, we are talking some serious money. To include any badgers. If it digs, it dies. Skunk are my favorite…NOT! We will do anything and everything to do a job as long as we are doing it legally. Never hung a tv on a wall before….
Wow, Ben, that is a fun list of jobs. And I totally agree, as a handyman you will encounter some weird jobs, especially if you are open to using your problem-solving skills to help your customers. It is amazing how the tool pile can grow.
When I started I figured I had everything I needed a few tools in my closet. But once you do something the long way enough times, it makes sense to buy more!
For me the essential tools are in a canvas battery drill bag. Tape measure, drill, impact driver, and a small assortment of pliers, stud finder, mini level, mini-hammer… Then the big general stuff gets lugged around in a big yellow plastic toolbox and rarely used.
And the other common tools: jigsaw, 2 foot level, box of screws and caulking get stuffed somewhere in the truck. Good advice about when and how to buy tools.
Your list of tools is very comprehensive and informative especially for someone thinking about starting up a handyman business. Your information and advice were key when I started thinking about starting my business.
Keep up the good work…. you are helping a lot of people understand what they need to think about before jumping off in the deep end.
I think I have more than 90 percent of the tools listed. Thanks for the list Dan! Too nervous to depend on full time handyman income while making house payments. Great way to practice a few new things before actually doing it on a customers home.
Electrical is my specialty. Eventually I decided why not do something like this but be self-employed and learn some new skills. Now over the last 2 years, been slowly building some funds from completed painting, electrical, flooring, very minor plumbing jobs and buying other tools as needed.
One tool I have found useful is a tungsten carbide blade for my oscillating tool. Sometimes you need to cut very hard metal. Find it online at Multi-fit Blades. Also enjoyed reading other comments! Great, thanks for the tip on the tungsten carbide blade! Maybe it can replace my angle grinder for certain cuts.
what do you think the basic total amount of money it would cost for all the maintenance tools need for a maintenance business? You said that this is true in many circumstances, including when purchasing a power drill or other gear you will use on practically every task or when acquiring precise instruments like levels.
I will take note of this suggestion because I need a trip to the hardware store to buy my brother some handyman tools he can use to tinker around the house. Excellent list. I am currently putting together a low mileage E KUV as I start the next phase of my career, into semi retirement.
A skilled handyman. Most of the tools in the article I have accumulated over the past 6 decades, but I did relate to a good short list of items I always take for granted but should put on my truck a d not stow in the garage.
The ultimate decision is to use what I have accumulated over the years some great older school tools or go massive shopping???? I plan to post my fully tricked out KUV in Oct , when its fully loaded with my tool arsenal.
Thanks to every one who reads this and thanks for the reconfirmation. Chris, Richmond, VA. I think this is a great list. I also, for some reason, find I am always needing a 3M pad. A magic eraser is great to keep handy for misc. cleanups and I always have an old bath towel.
Great article, thumbs up. Nicely said about the quality of the tools, I can agree totally. It went in flames after I used it couple of times.
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