Why It's Essential: Versatile and portable, a must-have for most if not every trade. Used for assembling structures, installing fixtures, and drilling into various materials like wood, drywall, and metal.

Why It's Essential: Powerful when making straight cuts on framing, flooring, or trimming boards. Useful for cutting wood, plywood, and selected sheet materials.

Why It's Essential: Ideal for heavy duty demolition work on wood, metal or drywall. Can be used for cutting through studs and nails or trimming doors and pipes – and a lot more.

Why It's Essential: Versatile for metalwork, masonry work, and preparing surfaces for painting or sealing. Used for cutting, grinding, and polishing on various surfaces.

Why It's Essential: Provides more torque but less precision than a regular drill driver. Ideal for use in tough materials with large screws and bolts, especially in framing and decking.

Why It's Essential: For use on tough surfaces. Used for installing anchors, drilling into concrete, or breaking up material in construction projects.

Why It's Essential: Crucial for framing, trimming, and finish work, where precision cuts are required on selected materials.

Why It's Essential: Useful when cutting shapes, notches or curves, especially on intricate projects or fine detail work.

Why It's Essential: Drives nails faster vs hammering, especially useful for repetitive fastening on framing, decking and roofing projects.

Why It's Essential: Versatile tool that can be used across a range of jobs like trimming, sanding, or cutting in areas where other tools can’t reach.

Why It's Essential: Get it right by using a layout tool. Ensures accuracy in every installation by firing a line across the workspace as a precise marker.

Why It's Essential: If you’ve not got a full mixer, a paddle mixer helps to mix various products including concrete, mortar and other building materials.

Why It's Essential: Great for cutting metal pipes, beams and more – even when space is limited in plumbing or electrical applications.

Why It's Essential: Useful for removal or application of materials such as glue or paint.

Why It's Essential: A clean site is also a safe site for employees and your clients.

Across our industry, there are certain tools and equipment which are must-have pieces of kit for every van, project and tool yard. These could be for general contractors, builders, electricians, plumbers, plasterers, joiners and more.

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