Other Tools

Other Tools

These are the trade items that do not belong to any one tool group but turn up on almost every job. Marking and measuring covers chalk lines up to 30 metres for snapping a straight line across a floor or wall, carpenters pencils and chisel tip markers, dry-wipe marking pens designed to write through dust, and profile gauges that copy an awkward shape onto a board before cutting. Testing covers voltage detector pens rated 50 to 1000V AC, which tell you whether a cable is live before you touch it. Carrying and organising covers leather tool belts with nail bag pouches and screw organisers with removable inserts. Then there are the specific solutions: mortar guns for pointing, taping knives for plasterboard joints, tile levelling starter kits combining spacers, wedges and pliers, multi-function tool blade sets, sharpening stones and blowtorches with auto ignition. Sharpening in particular pays for itself, since a honed chisel or plane blade works better than a new blunt one.

The range covers the trade names carried across the tool department, including Faithfull for blade sets, sharpening stones, voltage detectors and profile gauges, Dargan for leather tool belts and chalk lines, Marshalltown for taping knives, Roughneck for mortar guns, Bihui for tile levelling kits, Komelon for pencils, Stanley for markers, Forgefix for screw organisers and Timco for SDS adaptors. Related departments are Hand Tools, Tools, Tool Boxes, Tiling and Measuring Tapes.