The best tools for home repairs
This article will introduce you to some of the best home improvement tools. Whether you need to fix a faucet, replace an outlet, or do other home repairs, these tools will help you get it done quickly and efficiently.
A set of household tools
Regardless of whether you live in a new apartment or house or in some dilapidated accommodation, some kind of intervention is always needed. In most cases, if it is not a major procedure, we will decide to intervene ourselves. we have in our apartment. In both cases, we need handy household tools, and it is not a rare case that even the handyman who solves our problem asks us for some tool that he did not bring with him at that moment.
Every household needs a set of tools for the house or apartment.
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How many times have we felt helpless because at a given moment we don’t have an adequate tool to just turn a screw, take out an esker with pliers or drill a hole in the wall in order to hang a picture.
That is why it is necessary to have a set of tools for personal use in the house.
We can solve many problems without calling a master and without additional costs that can over time amount to a greater value than the price of a set of household tools.
Of course, for the option of eliminating problems that are simple and do not require professional intervention, you do not need to use a professional tool that, by the way, you are not trained to handle. It is unnecessary to spend money on such a tool because it is more expensive, and you are not sure whether you will use it know how to use it.
Of course, we advise you to always call a professional for malfunctions that could affect you, but for some simple things you can intervene yourself. In this case, a set of tools for home use is necessary. After all, if your intervention is unsuccessful. to call the master. Sometimes it takes time for the master to fit you into his plan, and in fact the problem can be easily solved with a tool such as a hammer, pliers, screwdriver or drill.
Once again, we remind you that no matter how simple the intervention, special attention must always be paid to your safety, because no matter how useful a home tool may be, it can cause injuries.
That’s why it is always necessary to have a medical first aid kit as part of a set of tools for home use.
A must have in your tool kit
- A hammer
- Pliers
- A screwdriver
- Meter
- Drill
- Hacksaw
- Wood saw
- An axe
- Spirit level
- A set of gedoras and keys
- Allen keys
- Current tester
A hammer
t is a type of hand tool used for driving nails and breaking some material. The hammer mainly consists of two parts, the handle and the head. The head of the hammer is made of a hard and solid material that has its own weight, and the handle can be metal or wooden.. Just by swinging the handle, you give acceleration that will give the hammer head enough mass to drive a nail or break some material The material of the hammer head depends, it is usually made of iron and other metals of high strength.
There are several types and shapes of hammers, and we need a classic hammer for home use. It would be good to have two hammers, one smaller that you would use for finer jobs where you do not need strength, and the other, larger, that you would use for some more physically demanding jobs. .
A screwdriver.
Screwdriver or kfrom us, the common German name screw driver is also necessary for every household to have. There are a large number of types of screwdrivers, but for home use we choose flat and Phillips screwdrivers with an angle. or flat)
Of course, the screws themselves are of different dimensions, so we also have a large number of screwdrivers adapted to the size of the screws. In this sense, it is advisable to have a set of screwdrivers of various sizes in the house.
You can also buy universal screwdrivers whose tip is magnetized, and as an addition, flat and cross tips are also magnetic, and in this way you can change the required size of the tip and the shape of the screwdriver. The screwdrivers that we mentioned in the first part can also be magnetized in order to easier for small screws to reach and put in place.
The group of screwdrivers also includes voltage testers that look like a classic screwdriver with a flat tip and can be used that way, but in its plastic body it has a small indicator light that starts to light up when the metal tip touches the current and a mini button on the other side that is needed swipe at the same time.
Pliers
In order to bend, pull out or grab and hold something, you need pliers. As we said about screwdrivers, the same applies to pliers. There are many types of them, maybe even more than there are disconnectors, and each one has its own purpose.
The most famous and most used combination pliers, the so-called combination pliers, which every family should have in their home tool set.
These pliers also have a wire cutter and consist of two handles that are insulated with material resistant to electric shocks and their head is made of nickel-plated iron or steel.
It is also desirable to have pliers with an adjustable head for various diameters of screws or so-called parrot nuts.
But Combinirkas are an indispensable part of your set of tools for home use.
Meter
A meter is a tool that is used to measure the distance between individual elements included in your intervention during repair, adjustment or installation in your apartment.
There are metal and wooden meters. In essence, there is no difference between the two types of measurement, the distance is in centimeters. The wooden meter is made of solid metal and can either be in the form of a stick or folded into several parts that, when stretched, generally show a measurement of 2 meters.
The metal meter is in the form of a long metal strip that can be pulled out of a plastic or metal case. The lengths of this meter range from 1 meter to 10 meters. This type of meter is more flexible and easy to handle and less susceptible to damage and breakage.
The third type of tape measure is the cloth tape measure, which is mainly used in the tailoring profession, but in some cases it is also convenient in situations where the circumference of an element needs to be measured.
Saw for metal and wood
A saw as a tool can be divided into several subgroups, but what is needed in a set of home tools are a classic saw for wood and a saw for metal.
A classic wood saw consists of a handle whose movement back and forth causes friction on the other part of the saw, the blade, when due to friction it cuts into the material you want to cut.
A saw for wood has a blade serrated with sharp, wide teeth, while a saw for metal is generally smaller and the blade is serrated with small, numerous teeth that, due to the faster cracking of the handle and the strength of its material, have the ability to cut metal and other similar materials.
An axe
We all know what an ax is. Its use is mainly related to cutting and shaping wooden elements. It consists of a handle which is a wooden or metal blade made of solid metal (steel iron) which is conically ground to the extent that a thin and very sharp edge is obtained. The ax is perhaps the oldest tool of all the tools mentioned and has been widely used throughout history. Today, in addition to all the modern tools, every household should have a good ax.
Drill
A drill is a tool in which a drill bit is installed which is used for making holes in various materials.. When placing pictures on the wall, when assembling parts of furniture, when attaching some objects to a solid surface, you always have to drill a hole, and only then insert a screw or some other connecting part. There are manual and electric drive. Electric drills vary in power. Those with lower power for softer materials
and those with higher power are capable of breaking through even the hardest materials. There are also so-called battery-powered Aku drills that are very suitable for small household jobs. Thanks to the battery they use, they are easier to manipulate and handle.
Drills will be a special topic of this website of ours..
Spirit level
In order to determine whether an element you are working with is completely flat or has some slope, you will use a device called a spirit level.
A spirit level is a tool for testing the horizontality of flat surfaces. The spirit level has a liquid in it with a gas bubble in it. All of this is placed in one built-in slightly curved transparent tube. which is on a flat stand. The spirit level must be placed on a flat horizontal surface. And if the bubble is in the middle of the tube, it is an ideal flat surface. If the bubble in the tube makes a deflection in one direction or another, that surface is not flat. used in construction works, and if you care about aesthetics when installing elements in your house and apartment, it is necessary to have a spirit level as part of your home tool set.
Keys
The wrench for the hexagonal head of screws or nuts is used to tighten screws or nuts with a hexagonal head. Hex socket head cap screws are tightened with an Allen key.
When assembling their products, manufacturers of furniture, cabinets, tables often use hexagonal screws and also Allen screws. By purchasing a set of keys of different sizes, you will make your work easier. you will save time. The same thing applies to allen keys and screws. The difference is that the allen screws have a head in which a groove of certain dimensions is installed at the top, and by inserting a key into that groove, you can very easily unscrew that screw.
Due to the frequent encounters in the house with Allen and hexagonal screws and nuts, in a situation where, for example, you need to tighten a piece of furniture that is wobbly, this tool will be necessary in your home tool set.
Here we have listed what it is, in our opinion, a necessary tool that you need to have in your home if you need some urgent intervention that is not so demanding that you call a professional. Please note that in any situation in which you are not sure that you can eliminate jva or eliminate the problem, however, contact a qualified master.
Another note that in addition to this set of tools for home use, you must also have a first aid kit, in the hope that you will not need it.
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M.J
