Basic Home Tool Kit

You  may not be the handiest guy, or girl around, but every home, regardless of your DIY skills or your bent toward fixing your own problems, needs at least the basic tools necessary to tighten a bolt, to fix a leak in an emergency and to pound in a nail or screw in a small screw to hang a picture on the wall.

A good square is a necessary item in a tool kit for the home

Whether or not you ever learn to do your own piping or install an outlet, you’re still going to, at some point, do something simple such as add handles to your cabinets or clear a faucet screen from debris.

To do that you’re at times going to need some simple tools to assist you in the task.

Among the things that are necessary in the basic home tool kit will be a hammer, used of course to drive in the nails that, in my case, have my husband weeping  like an infant when he sees me carrying it, along with enough nails to make the wall look as though its been shot with birdshot.

A hammer is a prerequisite for any home tool kit, necessary to hang pictures, to drive in finishing nails, to hang molding and so on.

A post level will cost about 20 pounds

Add to this at least one small crescent wrench and a pipe wrench, necessary to tighten fittings under the sink, to drain the hot water tank, to secure screw on ends onto the curtain rods and other small household tasks.

Your basic home tool kit should include:

A good hammer, with hardwood or fiberglass handle.

Pipe wrench

Crescent wrench

Small socket set

Pipe tape

Two straight edge screwdrivers

Two Phillips head screwdrivers

an assortment of nails and screws

cup hooks (I find these things useful every day.

A small level (perfect for hanging pictures, I love my tiny laser level)

A chalk line ( to make sure those shelf screws are in a straight line

A square.

A great tool kit can be assembled for about 50 pounds, which will give you all of the above, of a good quality that will last for a long time.

The bottom line in purchasing tools, is that you do get what you pay for. If you pay 2 pounds for a hammer, you have a two pound hammer, which isn’t going to hold up to a big job. Get quality tools and you won’t have to replace them nearly so often, in the end saving you time, money and irritation.

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