A well-equipped toolbox is essential for emergency tasks & other chores in the house — from hanging a picture frame to putting together furniture or fixing minor kitchen stuff such as the pressure cooker. Whether you’re a rookie handyman or a seasoned do-it-yourselfer, a range of basic tools is essential to do small jobs around the house. 




What tools do you need? Your skills and the kinds of tasks you ought to do must be your guide, but a good basic selection would include all or any of these 12 essential tools:



#1 Precision Screwdriver Set

Used primarily for work on small, intricate devices, a precision screwdriver is a hand tool with a similar intended use as a standard screwdriver but possessing a smaller form factor and a sleeker handle design. Sometimes referred to as a jewel screwdriver, these small tools feature narrower sizings of the flat and cross-head designs as seen on their larger counterparts. The handle of a precision screwdriver also differs from a standard design in that it is most commonly straight and thin as opposed to the bulky handles on regular screwdrivers, which are designed to provide purchase to grip the tool while twisting.

#2 No.8 Linesmen Pliers

Proper use of side cutting (lineman's) pliers:


#3 No.6 Long Nose Pliers

Needle-nose pliers (also known as pointy-nose pliers, long-nose pliers, pinch-nose pliers or snipe-nose pliers) are both cutting and holding pliers used by artisans, jewellery designers, electricians, network engineers and other tradesmen to bend, re-position and snip wire. Their namesake long nose gives excellent control while the cutting edge near the pliers' joint provides "one-tool" convenience. Because of their long shape they are useful for reaching into small areas where cables or other materials have become stuck or unreachable with fingers or other means.

#4 Adjustable Wrench 8in

An adjustable wrench (US) or adjustable spanner (UK) is a wrench with a "jaw" of adjustable width, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener, as with a conventional fixed spanner.

#5 Test Pen

A test light, test lamp, voltage tester, or mains tester is a simple piece of electronic test equipment used to determine the presence or absence of an electric voltage (usually alternating current (AC) ) in a piece of equipment under test.

#6 Utility Knife

A utility knife is a knife used for general or utility purposes. The utility knife was originally a fixed blade knife with a cutting edge suitable for general work such as cutting hides and cordage, scraping hides, butchering animals, cleaning fish, and other tasks. Craft knives are tools mostly used for crafts. Today, the term "utility knife" also includes small folding or retractable-blade knives suited for use in the modern workplace or in the construction industry.

#7 Tape Ruler

A tape measure or measuring tape is a flexible ruler. It consists of a ribbon of cloth, plastic, fibre glass, or metal strip with linear-measurement markings. It is a common measuring tool. Its design allows for a measure of great length to be easily carried in pocket or toolkit and permits one to measure around curves or corners. Today it is ubiquitous, even appearing in miniature form as a keychain fob, or novelty item.

#8 Claw Hammer Fibre Handle

A claw hammer is a tool primarily used for pounding nails into, or extracting nails from, some other object. Generally, a claw hammer is associated with woodworking but is not limited to use with wood products. It is not suitable for heavy hammering on metal surfaces (such as in machining work), as the steel of its head is somewhat brittle; the ball-peen hammer is more suitable for such metalwork.

#9 Mini HackSaw

A hacksaw is a fine-toothed saw, originally and principally made for cutting metal. They can also cut various other materials, such as plastic and wood; for example, plumbers and electricians often cut plastic pipe and plastic conduit with them.

#10 LED Torchlight


#11 Scissors/ Pruners

Pruning shears, also called hand pruners (in American English), or secateurs, are a type of scissors for use on plants. They are strong enough to prune hard branches of trees and shrubs, sometimes up to two centimetres thick. They are used in gardening, arboriculture, farming, flower arranging, and nature conservation, where fine-scale habitat management is required.

#12 Hex Key Set

A hex key (Allen key or Allen wrench) is a hexagonally shafted tool used to drive bolts and screws with corresponding sockets in their heads.