25 Items for Building a Homeowner’s Basic Toolbox

If there’s one thing that every homeowner needs in their house, it’s a reliable toolbox or toolkit. Building your perfect toolbox will make sure that issues around the home can be taken care of quickly and effectively. For those without much handyman experience, it can be a little daunting to fill out your reliable toolbox. Take a look at the following list to help yourself assemble the best toolbox.

25 Items for Building a Homeowner’s Basic Toolbox

1. Claw Hammer. For pounding, nailing and extracting nails.
2. Nail Set. When you need to drive the nail in deeply.
3. Adjustable wrench. For different sized nuts and bolts around the house.
4. Locking pliers. Useful for a variety of tasks in which you need to lock on to nuts, bolts and other items.
5. Combination pliers. Their strong grip makes them useful for pulling and twisting.
6. For when the power goes out or you need to see into dark spaces.
7. For starting nail and screw holes.
8. Flat-headed screwdriver. For flat headed screws.
9. Cross-headed screwdriver. For most all cross faced screws including phillips-head.
10. Electrical detection screwdriver. For finding out if electricity if flowing through items.
11. Utility knife (box cutter.) Very sharp blade for precise cuts.
12. Putty knife. Useful for everything from tile repair to drywall patching.
13. Tape measure. Locking and retractable tape measures are recomnded.
14. Useful for tile repair and many other applications.
15. Hardware variety pack. Purchase a hardware variety pack to avoid going to the hardware store for a handful of nails or screws.
16. Used for checking the level or angle on objects.
17. Plumbers tape. Used for plumbing.
18. Electrical tape. Used for electrical applications.
19. Painters tape. Keep your lines clean with painter’s tape.
20. Duct (duck) tape. Every house needs a roll of duct tape for a variety of applications.
21. Combo stud/cable/pipe finder. To figure out where things run through your house.
22. Safety equipment. Eye protection, gloves and dust masks for keeping yourself out of harm’s way.
23. Calculate measurements and more.
24. Wooden pencil. For marking, lining up.
25. Cordless power screwdriver. Trust us, you’ll get some use out of it.

There are of course some items that you will add to your toolbox but this is a good starting point. Assembling these 25 pieces will help you get a head start on just about any DIY project around the house.