Top Tools Every DIYer Should Own

hi I'm Shannon from house improvements comm and I'm just going to show you what I would call kind of the basic DIY tool list of different items that you might want to purchase you know when you buy your first home or when you decide you're going to take on some projects will kind of start out with the real basic stuff over at this end and we'll work our way around to things that you know you can kind of grade - as time moves along so so if we go right down here you know you kind of get into the basic stuff you know that you might carry in your tool pouch or that sort of thing you know works for a variety of all different kinds of projects right down the front we've got a couple different sizes of levels so obviously some point you know maybe you're building a shed or a fence or wall or whatever you know that's definitely going to come in handy they'll give you a level horizontal level as well as a vertical plumb test so then as we move up the table here we've got just a simple hand stapler you know stapling up some poly or plastic even as a dust shield when you're doing some work we've got a chalk line for snapping a straight line on some wood that maybe you want to cut or follow tape measure obviously a small pry bar this is one you'll see me use in a lot of videos actually this is a little bit shorter version but just a small slim red bar a little bit larger pry bar you know if you've got to tear some stuff apart you're definitely going to need that you know this one's nice and heavy you can beat on it with your hammer if you need to to get you don't get between a couple pieces of wood stud finder even if you own an apartment you're probably going to want to stud finder for hanging pictures and that sort of thing utility knife same thing everybody should have one caulking gun again comes in real handy you know there's always something you've got to seal up or whatever so that's definitely a good idea these do come in a couple different sizes but this smaller size here is what the average person is going to use most of the time so moving right on up we've got the large framing square now you know my not be a necessity but there's going to be times when you're going to find that comes in real handy there's a small little combination square here this end slides so that works really well for a lot of projects and it's fairly easy to carry right on you if you have to hammer obviously a screwdriver with adjustable interchangeable bits so this one has a whole bunch of different bits you know the different shapes and sizes you need all within the handle it's nice and compact and you've got everything you know most the common bits you're going to need rate rate with you a decent size selection of drill bits so this one just happens to have you know all kinds of sizes right in the package so that's that's really good to have to some type of adjustable wrench you know there's always going to be a bolt or something that needs tightening up pair of slip-joint pliers sometimes called water pump pliers extension cord you're always going to need something you know you don't need to go and run out and buy a hundred foot cord you know 25 foot or even a couple 25 s will get you through most most projects a couple little putty knives or scrapers you know for doing painting or patching up some drywall holes those are kind of your basic you know handheld sort of tools that you can you know just about everybody can use at some point and not real expensive either then as you move along you could go you could start out with an electric drill if you wanted to but nowadays the cordless drills are you know they're really coming down in price you don't have to go and buy the top-of-the-line drill they some of them are coming in set so you'd get the drill driver plus the impact driver if you're if you're going to be doing a lot of screws the impact driver is what I would recommend for that it basically has a little bit of a hammering action well it's turning and it really really prevents the slippage that a lot of people get when they're trying to drive a screw with a normal drill you know where the bit slips in the head of the screw so if you're going to build a deck or something like that where you're putting a lot of screws up that's definitely the baby it's going to be well worth the well worth the money and like I said those sometimes will come in sets of two you know you might get a couple batteries and both drills and a charger for you know depending on the brand you know a couple hundred bucks or three hundred bucks so with a lot of the drills this is just a drill driver so a lot of them will have a bit of a selection or a bit of adjustment up somewhere on them for just drilling holes driving screws and this one here also has a hammer drill type function as well as well as a lot of them the chucks have a clutch system on so you don't overdrive your screws all the time but the hammer drill function on this is quite nice if you've got to do some minor you know holes in to masonary and that sort of thing it's definitely going to come in handy so and then moving along these three items here I've got them just in the cordless version for the display but you can get the jigsaw the reciprocating saw or the circular saw in the cordless version as well now and most of them are really good so you know you might even find a whole kit with interchangeable batteries that of all these items that you can use and then you've always got lots of batteries too but a circular saw great to have you're going to use that a lot reciprocating saw if you're going to do a lot of demo this is this is the tool that you can't go wrong by binary sips aw I wouldn't buy the real real cheap ones you know get something kind of middle-of-the-road to start out with if you can and it's going to last a long time and do a lot of work for you so really good really good tool to have jigsaw not everybody's going to need it but when it comes down to you know if you're building a little bit outdoor furniture you know need to cut some holes maybe cut the sink out in your in your countertop too or cut the hole out for your countertop for the sink good idea so that's the jig saw right down the front I've got the random orbital sander if you've got a lot of sanding to do maybe you've got to sand your fence or you know your floor or whatever this this is definitely the tool to get hand sanding really sucks that's going to a great job for you and there's all kinds of different sand papers that that you can get four of them different grits and in this case this one just velcro's on and off so really easy to use does have a bit of a dust bag they don't all work as far as collecting all the dust real well but it can help now the other thing you might need is a wet/dry vacuum so this is a little bit smaller one that I just have kicking around in my shop all the time for little things you can get all kinds of different sizes you don't need a big monster in most cases you know this will do a lot of what you need but as soon as you start rattling there's going to be dust and dirt and especially with drywall you don't want to be using your residential vacuum for that so you want one of these babies and most of them will come with bags that you can put it in too which really helps filter out the drywall dust so it isn't exhausting back into the into the room for you okay as I move around the corner here you know we're starting to get into the more a little bit more specialty tools you know so you might you may not need some of this stuff right away so right here I've got a 10 inch compound miter saw and this one isn't the sliding version for most people this is going to do a lot of what you need to do if you really need to get into something really heavy-duty here's a tenant this is actually a 12 inch compound sliding saw but you know this is a $700 saw or whatever where this one here you know for a couple hundred bucks you're going to get a pretty good sauce so I would recommend you start out with this unless you really have the need for something that big this is going to do a lot of what you need and you know even as simple as cutting fence boards instead of using the circular saw this will work just fine and it'll kind of speed it up for you as well and then you know maybe you're going to do a bunch of trim door casing window casing that sort of thing baseboards yeah you can go around and Hammer the nails in and nail it all on but if you've got a lot to do you know fairly inexpensively you could pick up a set sometimes of three of these for under $300 but you know you need to need some kind of small compressor a brad nailer I'd recommend usually an 18 gauge would be the best to start with and then you're going to need some kind of hose so then this over here of course this isn't really a specialty item but you're going to probably want some type of sawhorses I like these folding plastic ones some of the brands they're not real sturdy this particular one is and I haven't been able to fight them anymore but second I do I'm going to buy about ten more of them but you can see that these are well used I use in painting cutting everything so you definitely want some kind of sawhorse down in the front not everybody's going to need a table saw but you know it really will come in handy so if you can afford to get a small portable saw I would definitely do it but you probably don't need it starting out but it's definitely something you should look at down the road so you know just to kind of wrap up quite honestly everything you see here you can probably purchase it go out and purchase it all for under a thousand bucks if you're really thrifty you know you're obviously not going to have some of the name brands that I have sitting here probably to get under that price point but realistically you could probably go out and for under $1,000 other than the table saw the stuff up here you could go out and pick up and probably not spend more than $1,000 I think it's well worth it you're definitely going to need something some of this stuff you can rent so you know if it's out of your price range or you only need it for one project or you're not sure if you really want to own those items check out your rental store because a lot of times you can get you know some of this bigger stuff rate at the rental shop or specialty items for particular projects so I think that kind of wraps it up I hope this video was kind of helpful we've been getting a lot of questions about you know what tools should I buy so so we thought this would be a good idea just kind of give you a bit of a breakdown of the basics so so again if you have any questions or our forum check it out you can find that on our website that house - improvements comm go to the the link for the forums and post up your questions and I'll be sure to answer them also you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter and just keep 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Channel: HouseImprovements

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Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 10 2015