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DIY hacks
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items Clever fixes people share on Reddit, YouTube and maker sites: simple tricks and setups that make everyday jobs around the home, kitchen and workshop easier or cheaper. Each pick upgrades something you already own or do.
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⭐ My Favorites (your personal top picks)
🔩 Drill & Driver Accessories
🔨 Hand Tools
📏 Measuring & Layout
🚗 Car Care
Shop-Vac Dust Collector Upgrade
⭐ My Favorites (your personal top picks)
If I could only recommend a handful of tools, these would be it. Proven performers that offer the best combination of quality, value, and reliability.
Keeps screws on your wrist instead of falling off the ladder. Great small gift for any DIYer.
RAK Magnetic Wristband, 10 Magnets, Black
A 1-gallon pump sprayer for weed killer, bug spray and lawn treatments. For homeowners keeping up with a Florida yard.
CHAPIN 20004 SureSpray 1-Gallon Pump Sprayer
A gallon of pH-balanced car wash soap that works in a foam cannon or a bucket. For people who wash their own car and fight Florida lovebugs and salt.
Chemical Guys Mr. Pink Car Wash Soap 128oz
🔩 Drill & Driver Accessories
Drill bits, driver bits, hole saws, and attachments that improve performance and help you tackle a wide variety of materials.
For the screw inside the cabinet you can't reach. Bends around corners.
DEWALT Right Angle Flex Shaft Drill Attachment
Drill-Powered Scrubber: brush heads that chuck into the drill you already own, standing in for a separate spin scrubber. Start on low speed.
Holikme 6Pc Soft Drill Brush Set w/ Extension
🔨 Hand Tools
The everyday essentials every DIYer and homeowner should have, from hammers and screwdrivers to pliers, wrenches, and utility knives.
Lets you paint both sides of cabinet doors without waiting a day.
KATA 36PCS Painter's Pyramids Paint Stands
Pocket-Hole Furniture Build: the simple Kreg jig. With a drill, screws and a face clamp, you can build shelves and benches with no fancy joinery.
Kreg Pocket-Hole Jig 320, Woodworking Jig, KPHJ320
Pocket-Hole Furniture Build: an assortment of pocket screws in common lengths. Pairs with the Kreg 320.
Milescraft 5200 Pocket Screw Kit - 700 Pc T20 Zinc Screws & Torx Drivers
Pocket-Hole Furniture Build: holds the boards flush while you drive the screws. Pairs with the Kreg 320.
Kreg Face Clamp KHC-MICRO 2-Inch
Sawhorse Workbench: brackets plus 2x4s make a pair of sawhorses. Lay a sheet of plywood on top and you have a work surface.
Century Drill & Tool 72994 Saw Horse Brackets
Sawhorse Workbench: clamps hold the plywood top and your work down. They also pair with the track-saw rail.
IRWIN Quick-Grip Mini Bar Clamp 6" 4 Pack
📏 Measuring & Layout
Accurate measurements are the foundation of every successful project. These measuring and layout tools help you build with confidence.
No batteries, and the magnets stick to the wall right on the stud. A simple, made-in-USA alternative to an electronic finder for anyone hanging shelves or TVs.
Original StudBuddy® Magnetic Stud Finder - USA Made
DIY Track Saw: clamp this rail to a sheet of plywood and run your circular saw along it for straight rips. It gets you close to track-saw cuts.
BORA NGX 100" Circular Saw Guide Rail
DIY Track Saw: a speed square to set and check the rail. Pairs with the laser level for layout.
Swanson Speed® Square Pro 7in Aluminum
🚗 Car Care
Driveway Detail Kit: a foam gun for a regular garden hose, used with the Mr. Pink soap. The suds are thinner than a pressure-washer cannon, but there's no pressure washer to buy.
Foam King Car Wash Foam Gun Sprayer
Driveway Detail Kit: chenille mitts for the contact wash after foaming. Pairs with the foam gun and Mr. Pink.
Chemical Guys Chenille Microfiber Wash Mitt 2 Pack
Shop-Vac Dust Collector Upgrade
Your shop vac's filter clogs in minutes with sawdust. Snap this lid on a 5-gallon bucket in front of the vac and the bucket catches nearly all the dust, so suction stays strong. Pairs with the auto-switch and hose kit.
PRO Dust Collector 99.9% Efficiency Kit
Plug your saw or sander into this and the shop vac into the other outlet, and the vac turns on with the tool and runs 10 seconds after to clear the hose. Pairs with the Dustopper bucket.
Automatic Vacuum Switch Shop Vac Delay-Off
Tool dust ports never match your shop-vac hose. This kit's adapters connect the vac to sanders, miter saws and routers so the Dustopper and auto-switch actually catch the dust.
10ft Dust Collection Power Tool Hose Kit
Drill-Press Accuracy Without a Drill Press
Chuck your hand drill into this guide and it drills straight, repeatable holes at 90 or angled, like a drill press you can take to the work. Clamp the base down for the best accuracy.
Milescraft DrillMate Portable Adjustable Drill Guide
Turns your Dremel into a mini drill press, a fixed buffing station and a flex-shaft stand. Great for tiny precise holes the hand drill and DrillMate are too big for.
Dremel Drill Press Rotary Tool Stand 220-01
Router Table From Your Handheld Router
Bolt your handheld router to this plate and drop it into a cutout in your workbench or a plywood top for a DIY router table. Small pieces are much easier and safer to rout. Fits Bosch, DeWalt, Makita and others; pairs with the sawhorse workbench top.
POWERTEC Router Table Insert Plate 71850
Mess-Free Drilling
Slide this bowl over any hole saw before cutting recessed-light or ceiling holes and it catches the drywall dust and the plug, not your eyes and floor. Works with the drill you already own.
Disston Blu-MOL RemGrit Dust Bowl for Hole Saws
Tool Storage Hacks
Wrap this around a plain 5-gallon bucket and it becomes a 51-pocket tool caddy with the bucket still free for big tools or water. Cheaper and tougher than a bought tool bag.
WORKPRO Bucket Tool Organizer 51 Pockets
Screw this bar to the wall over your bench and your most-used metal tools hang in sight instead of buried in a drawer. Mount it into a stud (the StudBuddy finds one fast).
Master Magnetics 18" Magnetic Bar Tool Organizer