NYTimes Recommended Handy Tools for your house
One of the top 10 most read articles this week on the NYTimes.com, Bob Tedeschi recommends you invest in a minimum set of tools you would need to maintain your home. According to Bob, "spend $250 or so on about a dozen tools, and you’ll have all you need to avoid repeated treks to the hardware store." In the list, he recommends:
plus a few other things:
- a hammer with a hickory or ash handle with a curved claw for pulling nails e.g. HAMMER WITH HICKORY HANDLE
$5 at sears.com or $10 at amazon.com.
- a multihead screwdriver e.g. Stanley Multi-Bit Ratcheting Screwdriver
about $7 at Amazon.com or $10 at stanleyworks.com.
- a cordless hammer drill e.g. DEWALT 18-VOLT CORDLESS COMPACT HAMMERDRILL KIT
about $150 at Amazon.com or $220 at dewalt.com; or more basic drills at about $50.
- a jigsaw e.g. BOSCH 5-AMP JIGSAW About $125, boschtools.com or $120-$150 at Amazon.com and a pull saw e.g. STANLEY FATMAX SINGLE-EDGE PULL SAW About $16, stanleyworks.com or $18 at Amazon.com.
plus a few other things:
- one adjustable wrench and a set of socket wrenches
- a level and an electronic stud finder
- a standard, needle-nose, and slip-joint Mole-Grip pliers
- a one-inch-wide, 25-foot-long tape measure with a lock
- a footlong wrecking bar, and
- a small assortment of screws, drywall fasteners and eight-penny nails, a small notebook (for recording dimensions) and a carpenter’s pencil
