Tools you wish you'd bought sooner...

[227bhp]

A hammer.
Things are much easier now.

[Crumpet]

B17NNS said:

Festool TS55.

I’ve seen so many people raving about these. Are they that much better than a cheapo Titan Plunge Saw? Like £350 better for your average DIYer?

My circular saw is buggered so it’s either a battery powered Dewalt circular or a Tital Plunge for the same price.

Oh, and a cordless Dewalt impact driver is something I should’ve bought years ago!

[Laurel Green]

Johnnytheboy said:

Electric plane.

Especially so if suffering from tennis elbow.

[B17NNS]

Crumpet said:

I’ve seen so many people raving about these. Are they that much better than a cheapo Titan Plunge Saw? Like £350 better for your average DIYer?

My circular saw is buggered so it’s either a battery powered Dewalt circular or a Tital Plunge for the same price.

Better definitely. £350 better for a DIYer? Probably not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8sagpnlF1Q

Once you've ripped 2mm off a full height kitchen decor panel and are left with a factory clean edge your circular won't get a look in anymore.

[Thats What She Said]

Dewalt impact driver.

[eldar]

Drumroll said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Electric plane.

Have used a couple but I find I don't really get on with them.

Excellent tools, but with a lot of scope for buggering things up quickly.

[Crumpet]

B17NNS said:

Better definitely. £350 better for a DIYer? Probably not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8sagpnlF1Q

Once you've ripped 2mm off a full height kitchen decor panel and are left with a factory clean edge your circular won't get a look in anymore.

Nice comparison, thanks. I wonder to what extent a decent blade would narrow the gap? I was told a decent Freud would really improve the cut and for the sake of an extra £40 might be worth a try.

[B17NNS]

Crumpet said:

Nice comparison, thanks. I wonder to what extent a decent blade would narrow the gap? I was told a decent Freud would really improve the cut and for the sake of an extra £40 might be worth a try.

I reckon the same blade and the results in terms of cut would be pretty much identical.

[Yabu]

sparkythecat said:

CAPP0 said:

Lots of things but a recent one was an adjustable spanner with a mole-grip clamp on it - it's excellent, no more slipping off the nut or bolt head..

I'm struggling to picture this.
Got a link?

Alternative is knipex pliers wrench, great little tool

[Mr Dendrite]

A grubbing mattock, bought one last year on recommendation, to dig out a few bushes/small tree roots. The hours I could have saved in years gone by! A wonderfullly basic brutal tool that does exactly what it should!

[mart 63]

Makita cordless reciprocating saw

[dazwalsh]

18v multi tool, i use this little beauty for so many tasks at work (property maintenance). Was used today for sanding and cutting the bottom of architrave so laminate flooring slips underneath.

Also purchased an 18v mini circular saw, great for floorboards and thin sheet material.

By far and away the best tool that i convinced myself for years i could live without was the impact driver. What was i thinking?. Amazing tool.

[skilly1]

Funny the items mentioned I have recently bought.

Ts55 - amazing piece of kit, built a shelving / cupboard unit from scratch, quoted £1000 by a carpenter so with man maths I bought saw and did it myself. No way I could have done it without.
Just bought a dewalt battery chop saw and a dewalt stand which it fits on as I have some cladding and a deck to do.

Also agree on the multi tool, so many applications.

I have to have the right tool for the job and it makes it so much easier.

[B17NNS]

dazwalsh said:

18v multi tool, i use this little beauty for so many tasks at work (property maintenance). Was used today for sanding and cutting the bottom of architrave so laminate flooring slips underneath.

If the only thing they did was undercut architrave they’d still be worth owning

[tim0409]

B17NNS said:

dazwalsh said:

18v multi tool, i use this little beauty for so many tasks at work (property maintenance). Was used today for sanding and cutting the bottom of architrave so laminate flooring slips underneath.

If the only thing they did was undercut architrave they’d still be worth owning

I do property maintenance for a living and my Dewalt Multitool is used all the time.

At the cheaper end of the scale, my friend owns a hardware shop and one of the reps left a GripIt Marxman as a sample which he passed on to me - I use it all the time now!

[Bodo]

frisbee said:

sparkythecat said:

CAPP0 said:

Lots of things but a recent one was an adjustable spanner with a mole-grip clamp on it - it's excellent, no more slipping off the nut or bolt head..

I'm struggling to picture this.
Got a link?

Imagine a really bad photoshop of mole-grips with an adjustable spanner. But they actually exist!

[Bodo]

B17NNS said:

Festool TS55.

This.

[Sheepshanks]

Bodo said:

frisbee said:

sparkythecat said:

CAPP0 said:

Lots of things but a recent one was an adjustable spanner with a mole-grip clamp on it - it's excellent, no more slipping off the nut or bolt head..

I'm struggling to picture this.
Got a link?

Imagine a really bad photoshop of mole-grips with an adjustable spanner. But they actually exist!

This, I think:

[OldSkoolRS]

Angle grinder...so many jobs that it gets used for.


Unfortunately also quite dangerous in the wrong hands and I managed to bounce one off my face, luckily I only had a wire brush attachment on it at the time rather than a grinding disc I usually have.

[Bodo]

Sheepshanks said:

This, I think:

Looks good! I actually found it diffcult to find parallel vice grips with smooth jaws. Is the grip force going through the adjuster wheel?