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The Best Bolt Cutters Option

The Best Bolt Cutters for Your At-Home Needs, Tested

By Tony Carrick, Glenda Taylor

DeWalt Prime Day Deals for Amazon Prime Day 2025

Hurry, These Prime Day Deals Are Still Live: Save on DeWalt Power Tools With Prices as Low as $10

By Glenda Taylor

A group of the best electric pressure washers sitting on a recently cleaned driveway

We Spent 40 Hours Cleaning to Find the Best Electric Pressure Washer

By Mark Wolfe, Tom Scalisi, Glenda Taylor

The Best Weed Torch Options

This Weed Removal Method Does Not Contain Chemicals and Is Proven Effective

By Mark Wolfe, Tom Scalisi

A DIYer using an angle grinder to cut metal in her home workshop.

How to Use an Angle Grinder Properly

By Timothy Dale

A close up of a pressure washer cleaning the siding of a house.

How Much Does It Cost to Rent a Pressure Washer?

By Katie Flannery

June BOGO on DeWalt Tools at The Home Depot

Get 2 Free DeWalt Tools at The Home Depot—Here’s What I Picked (And Why)

By Glenda Taylor

One Cool Tool with Keith Bynum

The 5 Tools HGTV Star Keith Bynum Can’t DIY Without

As told to Sophie Kaemmerlé

Best Garden Fork

Garden Forks Come In Many Forms, But This One Is Our All-Around Favorite

By Steph Coelho, Bob Beacham, Mark Wolfe

brad nailer vs finish nailer

Brad Nailer vs. Finish Nailer: Which Power Tool Is Best for Your Project?

By Bob Beacham, Theresa Clement

A DIYer using a stud finder to find studs in a wall with a graphic overlay that says Tool Tutorial.

How to Use a Stud Finder

By Steffani Cameron

Many types of drywall anchors laid out against a brown background.

7 Types of Drywall Anchors Every Homeowner Should Know

Mechanic uses a torque wrench on a car wheel.

8 Types of Torque Wrenches for Your Tool Collection

By Desiree Homer, Updated by Theresa Clement

The Best Screwdriver Bit Sets

This Simple Tool Can Transform Your Cordless Drill for Any Project

Hand holding a spray gun and painting a piece of wood.

A Paint Sprayer Can Give You a Perfect Finish—Unless You Make One of These Mistakes

By Sandi Schwartz

Power Rake vs. Dethatcher: What’s the Difference?

Power Rake vs. Dethatcher: What’s the Difference?

By Timothy Dale

A lawn mower with smoke billowing from it.

Why is My Lawn Mower Smoking?

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Updated by Paul Rankin

Person wearing work gloves files the teeth on a chainsaw chain.

How to Sharpen a Chainsaw

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Grizzly jointer planer jointing mode

Our Favorite Jointer Delivers a Professional Performance at Half the Price

By Mark Wolfe, Tony Carrick

Several of the Best Grass Shears laying side by side

We Tested 11 Pairs of Grass Shears—These 8 Are a Cut Above the Rest

By Mark Wolfe, Kat Hodgins, Katie Barton

Young woman using a saw in a garage with tools on the wall in the background.

This Is the One Place You Should Never Store Power Tool Batteries

By Sandi Schwartz

Two people using a spade and a shovel to dig into dirt.

Do You Know the Difference Between a Spade and a Shovel? What All DIY Landscapers Need to Know

By Lauren Landers

HURRICANE 1000V Insulated Electrician Screwdriver Set, All-in-One Premium Professional 13-Pieces

We Researched the Best Insulated Screwdrivers and the Results Are Not Shocking

A man wearing personal protective equipment uses a table saw in his home workshop.

How Not to Die When You DIY: Important Power Tool Safety Advice for Homeowners

By Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa

Man in blue shirt and apron uses garden loppers on branch.

How to Sharpen Loppers—and Why You Should

By Glenda Taylor

A group of the best gas string trimmer options together outside on the ground

We Spent 2 Days Testing the Best Gas String Trimmers. Here Are Our Top Picks

By Timothy Dale, Mark Wolfe

Person wearing brown jacket holding a pencil uses a tape measure to measure a board.

How to Use a Tape Measure

By Timothy Dale

Woman wearing ear and eye protection cuts a 2 x 4 with a circular saw at an outdoor workbench.

How to Use a Circular Saw

A speed square is propped up against ear protecting headphones, a pencil nearby.

How to Use a Speed Square for DIY Projects

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila

A hose splitter with four hose attached to it outside in the garden

We Found the Best Garden Hose Splitter to Handle Your Irrigation Demands

By Tony Carrick, Mike Bruton

Several router bits lined up in wood shavings.

15 Types of Router Bits Every DIYer Should Know

By James Fitzgerald, Updated by Theresa Clement

The Best Power Tools and DIY Products Option DeWalt 20V MAX Lithium-Ion Compact Drill Driver Kit

Building the Essential Toolbox: 20 Tools You Can’t DIY Without

By Jasmine Harding

Man from the torso down holding a chainsaw in the outdoors.

What to Do When Your Chainsaw Won’t Start

By Dan Casarella

The Best Hearing Protection

Based on Our Tests, These Are the Most Effective Products for Hearing Protection

By Tom Scalisi, Mark Wolfe

Brian Brigantti - aka @redleafranch- in his garden.

The 5 Must-Have Gardening Tools Brian Brigantti—aka @RedLeafRanch—Uses Again and Again

As told to Sophie Kaemmerlé

A person using a chainsaw in action on a large log.

How to Use a Chainsaw

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila, Updated by Timothy Dale

A woman uses a computer while sitting in her home that is mid-renovation.

I Tried New AI Project Planning Tools From The Home Depot and Lowe’s—Here’s What Happened

By Theresa Clement

Close up view of the bottom half of a lawn mower, dusty in the grass.

My Lawn Mower Won’t Stay Running. What’s Wrong With It?

By Brie Greenhalgh

The 16 Best Tool Brands of 2026

By Bob Beacham, Timothy Dale

An old lithium-ion battery from a power tool.

The One Drawback of Lithium-Ion Batteries Just Became Nonexistent, Thanks to This New Technology

By Sandi Schwartz

Man in his workshop using a woodworking router.

How to Use a Router the Right Way

By Timothy Dale

A close-up image of a sprinkler irrigating a lawn.

How to Replace a Sprinkler Head on an In-Ground Sprinkler System

By Theresa Clement, Bob Vila, Timothy Dale, Updated by Paul Rankin

Best Right Angle Clamps

7 Right Angle Clamps That Will Help Streamline Your Next Woodworking Project

By Mark Wolfe, Tony Carrick

The Best Construction Adhesives

We Glued, Clamped, and Pulled—Here Are the Construction Adhesives That Didn’t Budge

By Glenda Taylor, Mike Bruton

The Best Cobalt Drill Bits Options close-up

We Repeatedly Drilled into Three Types of Metal to Find the Best Cobalt Drill Bits

By Tony Carrick, Mark Wolfe

Someone out of frame pours oil into a red lawnmower.

What Type of Lawn Mower Oil Should I Use?

By Amy Lynch, Teresa Odle

Woman wearing sweatshirt tries to start lawn mower in her yard.

9 Fixes For When Your Lawn Mower Won’t Start

By Tony Carrick, Manasa Reddigari

Woman uses a paintbrush to apply Danish oil to a wood board to waterproof it.

How to Waterproof Wood: 3 Ways That Work

The Best Gas Pressure Washer Options

After 2 Weeks Washing Cars, Stripping Paint, and Cleaning Concrete, We Found the 5 Best Gas Pressure Washers

By Zach Lazzari, Bob Beacham

15 Easy Designs for a DIY Desk

15 Easy Designs for a DIY Desk

By Tracy Anderson

Woman wearing jeans pulls start cord on a red lawn mower.

How to Start a Lawn Mower

By Bob Vila, Updated by Tony Carrick

The Best Shovels Options close-up

We’ve Tested Various Shovels, See Which One is Our Absolute Favorite

By Mark Wolfe, Michelle Ullman, Timothy Dale

Woman inserts a screw extractor into a drill.

How to Use a Screw Extractor

By Robert Ferguson, Bob Vila

A broken screw on a white background.

How to Remove a Broken Screw

By Manasa Reddigari

The Best Drill Bit Sharpeners close-up

Our Favorite Drill Bit Sharpener Provided Near-Perfect Results in Our Tests

By Mark Wolfe, Tom Scalisi

Person in blue sweatshirt and jeans driving one of the best riding mowers for hills and uneven yards

The Best Riding Lawn Mowers for Hills, Tested and Reviewed

By Mark Wolfe, Mike Bruton, Tom Scalisi

Lithium-ion power tool batteries on a garage workbench.

Can You Store Power Tool Batteries in a Cold Garage?

By Sandi Schwartz

The Best Double-Sided Tapes for Your Projects

Our Favorite Double-Sided Tape Holds Up to 37.5 Pounds

By Debbie Wolfe

A group of the best wood chippers together in a yard.

Our Favorite Wood Chipper Can Handle the Toughest Branches

By Tom Scalisi, Timothy Dale, Mark Wolfe

Dewalt Grabo Review

I Never Thought I Needed a Suction Lifter—But Once I Tried It, I Had to Grab Two

By Glenda Taylor

A person using a belt sander on a rough wood table.

This Is Why You Need a Belt Sander in Your Home Workshop

By Timothy Dale

Sharpening an orange hedge trimmer on work bench with work gloves on.

How to Sharpen Hedge Trimmers

By Bob Vila, Tony Carrick

DeWalt Planer with infeed and outfeed tables installed

In Just 2 Months, This Tool Has Transformed My Workshop

A weed eating sits in a patch of grass with its red string poking out.

How to String a Weed Eater the Right Way

By Tony Carrick