Living in our Tulsa homes for rent presents a lot of conveniences, especially when it comes to home maintenance. When something stops working in your home, you can just put in a work order and maintenance will take care of it. Still, there are a few tools we believe every home renter should have. These are things that will help you hang pictures, make small repairs, assemble furniture, and perform other basic domestic tasks. Plus, these six must-have tools can all fit in a single drawer or slot neatly away in a closet at our Tulsa homes for rent. So let’s talk tools, shall we?
Adjustable Wrench
The adjustable wrench is a versatile classic, helping with any task that requires some torque. This is the perfect tool for the job when any fastener or bolt needs a little tightening, so it may help with assembling furniture or tightening fixtures in your home (but for any significant repairs or leaks, please leave it to our trained maintenance staff!). It’s pretty handy when you need to open a stubborn jar lid, too.
Screwdriver With Multiple Bits
Screws are ubiquitous, featuring in everything from cabinet handles to towel rods to coffee tables to picture frames. We’ve all experienced a situation where we needed a screwdriver. While a power screwdriver can be handy, most of your in-home tasks can be accomplished with a simple manual screwdriver, as long as you get one with interchangeable bits that can suit a variety of jobs.
Needle-Nose Pliers
Pliers come in handy more often than you might think. Repairing a link in your jewelry? You need pliers. Bending a staple, pin, or wire so that it doesn’t poke you? You need pliers for that. Pliers are useful for anything that requires additional grip strength and fine-tuned control. Needle-nose pliers or chain-nose pliers are particularly useful for anyone dealing with small objects like jewelry links or electronics.
Measuring Tape
Measuring tape is particularly useful when moving into our homes for rent in Tulsa, but it can come in handy any time. Stiff metal measuring tape is perfect when you need to figure out exactly what size couch will fit well in your living room, or how tall your curtains need to be. Flexible cloth or plastic measuring tape, on the other hand, is great for DIY fabric projects or measuring around corners.
Stud-Finder
A stud finder is essential when you want to hang anything in your home, especially something that will bear weight like a shelf or a large picture frame. Without using a stud finder first, you risk nailing or screwing something into just drywall, which offers very little support and can result in damage to both the wall and the mounted object, especially if the nail or screw comes right out of the drywall due to too much weight.
Allen Wrench Set
An Allen wrench or hex key can come in lots of different sizes, and is often needed for furniture assembly. When buying furniture online or at a store like IKEA, you’ll often find that your kit comes with an appropriately-sized Allen wrench, but if you ever need to adjust a hex screw in the future, or if your kit is missing an Allen wrench (or includes one of the wrong size), you may wish you had a set of your own to rely on. We recommend getting a folding hex key set, because these keep all your Allen keys organized in one simple tool, and the rubberized housing the keys fold into and out of doubles as a handle that offers a better grip.
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