After making the decision to build a house with your own hands, you must immediately take care of the availability of the necessary tools, because work efficiency depends on this.
Before going to the store, you should decide on purchases in advance, as the construction market is very saturated, and it is difficult even for a professional to figure out on the spot. Immediately need to find out what requirements should meet , its category, purpose and cost.
Throughout all the work, you will have to deal with three types of tools: construction, marking and measuring, as well as with its three categories: mechanical tools, electric and alternative.
1) Mechanical (hand) tools - the most necessary and often used in construction. This includes everything that you can use only with the help of your own strengths, from a pencil to a crowbar. The construction of a house cannot be started without a bayonet and shovel, several crowbars and a garden wheelbarrow, these tools will be most in demand for earthwork related to moving soil. It is also worth buying a carpentry set (a hacksaw, a plane, an ax, a nail puller, a few chisels). Basic hand tools:
• Roulette;
• The construction level, allowing horizontal control, is sometimes used to check the cleanliness of planing;
• Plumb - for vertical control;
• Reysmus - a marking tool (as an option - a marking comb);
• Measuring instruments (compass, square, caliper);
• Chisels are necessary for cracking a stone;
• Stretchers;
• Capacities for solution (boxes, buckets, troughs);
• For the manufacture of reinforced concrete products - pliers, nippers and pliers
2) Power tools operating due to amperage are the most expensive category of tools. To use tools from this category, you must first take care of the conduct of electricity to the site.
The most necessary power tools:
• An electric drill (complete with nozzles for polishing, grinding and cleaning) is useful both for drilling and for mixing solutions and paints;
• Concrete mixer - a very important tool for pouring the foundation, making mortar for masonry walls and for landscaping, that is, during the entire construction process;
• Power saw (can be replaced with a chainsaw) - for the construction of a house made of wood;
• Hammer - for drilling and drilling, as well as for chipping and destruction of hard coatings;
• A grinder (with discs of several sizes) is necessary for different types of work;
• Electric jigsaw - for a figured cut and for a cross - instead of a hacksaw;
• Electric welding machine (complete with inverter);
• The electric plane is useful for finishing work;
• Grinder - for finishing and carpentry.
3) Alternative (specialized) include pneumatic and gasoline powered tools.