Best Tool Sets For Homeowners And Home Repairs

Here if your ultimate list of tools in a toolbox and beyond that will be likely need to tackle home projects. These are the best tool sets for homeowners to have on hand to maintain your home.

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Here if your ultimate list of tools in a toolbox and beyond that will be likely need to tackle home projects. These are the best tool sets for homeowners to have on hand to maintain your home.

List of Must Have Home Repair Tools

Oh, sure. In theory, it’s possible to have too many tools. In actual practice, though, the art of acquiring home repair tools–just like every motion other than that of antimatter-holds to Einstein’s theory of special relativity. The mass of an object may appear to approach infinite as it nears the speed of light, just as someone may perceive that we have too many tools. But that’s from an outside frame of reference. On board the speeding spaceship or inside the packed workshop, the situation looks copacetic.

Take our word for it: Don’t listen to those naysayers. Worry, instead, about having enough home repair tools, and get to work right away on achieving that goal!

To help you get off to a good start, we polled MOTHER’S staff–a group with considerable experience at the art of tool accumulation–for a list of 25 essential implements for homestead repair and maintenance. Initially, there was much grousing over the limitation. “What, a mere 25? Why, that won’t even cover toaster repair.” Eventually, though, the unruly and opinionated bunch fell into line and cast their votes. The final tally includes only those tools that received at least three votes on a total of 14 ballots.

  • Updated on Mar 12, 2023
  • Originally Published on Jul 1, 1988
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