For example, I think I’ll need a ladder. I’m looking for any suggestions from tools to security cameras, or whatever else you can think of. What should every new home owner consider getting?
Edit: in Canada btw, somewhere that gets a lot of snow in the winter
Get cheap tools. Buy everything at harbor freight. Don’t splurge on anything that’s not a safety hazard (get a quality ladder, but buy cheap screwdrivers)
If the tool breaks, buy a quality one to replace it.
Project Farm is your friend to find the cheap option, and the quality option.
Edit: Substitute Princess Auto for Harbor Freight, as you’re in Canada.
Do not cheap out on a power drill. Get a nice one with a light and everything. Otherwise, you’re just pissing money away.
Disagree, drill drivers are cheap these days. Don’t lock yourself into an expensive battery platform yet.
Don’t get anything more than a Ryobi drill and see if you need a good one, once it breaks, then you can decide what color you will use for the next 20 years.
Makita gang rise up
My Makita drill is honestly baller. Lightweight and easy to handle, but still powerful enough for almost anything. And it has a light! That said, I still have a big honking Dewalt 18v(?) with the heavy ass batteries that is still going strong after 20 years (even the heavy ass batteries!), that I break out for the really heavy duty stuff. (Or when I can’t find my little Makita. Which is now).
Hell yeah brother.
I have Rigid stuff I inherited from my dad. Some of the lipo batteries are from 2011 and still kicking. And I fabricate and restore cars semi-professionally, before that my dad was a handyman and not gentle on them for the first 5-6 years he used them. We built a 30 foot porch, and installed a metal roof with those drivers for instance.
It’s mid grade between Ryobi and Milwaukee which I have a couple of. Besides some specialty tools, I think the red tools are just status, I don’t see a real difference in quality. And I think they all have flashlights in them now too. Some even have ring lights that are super handy.
Buy the kit when it’s on sale (Father’s Day, or Black Friday are good ones, but pretty much any holiday sale). It’ll usually get you a free battery or charger and having a separate drill and impact driver is pretty handy when installing shit around the house.
The target here is home owners, not trades. The cheapo ozito drill I bought is half the price of a “good” one, and for the homeowner use case is plenty. Spending more on a drill would have been pissing money away.
Start collecting tools from yard sales.
Great option
I disagree, don’t buy cheap tools, especially screwdrivers. You don’t need to break the bank, but the cheapest options are going to be problematic for a number of reasons. Not only are the cheap tools, themselves, prone to breaking, but they also have the potential to strip your screws. Depending on what you’re working on, that screw may be almost impossible to replace, if it’s not in a standard sizing.
Personally, I suggest Wiha tools, based on a recommendation I received here on Lemmy about a year ago. They’re made with high-quality materials so they’re a bit more expensive than your typical Craftsman garbage, but they’re not unreasonably priced, and far from being the most expensive in their category. I’ve got a few Wiha driver sets that I make use of pretty frequently, and they’re all still in excellent condition, and none of them have ever stripped a screw yet, despite my clumsy ass handling them.
My 2 cents, get a good drill and good screwdriver set, cheap out on everything else until you replace it.