Hiring Tools for Jobs In the Home

From professionally cleaning your carpets to knocking down walls to make room for a kitchen diner – we’ve got loads of tools and machines that’ll help you create your ideal home.

Our Guide Top Tips & Advice When Hiring Tools for Jobs at Home

Click below to reveal our top Tips and Advice to help you learn more about all the essential tools and machines to use to make your home the best place it can possibly be.

Carpets & Floors

• Got a dirty but characterful wooden floor? Use our Floor Sanders to sand down large areas of wooden floor board ready for varnishing or a new carpet.
• A Floor Edge Sander will help you to sand a floor right up to the edge of your skirting boards.
• Belt Sanders are useful for sanding small areas on wooden floors.

• Mitre Saws are great for cutting wood to any angle for skirting boards.
• The Hilti TE106 is a light chisel ideal for removing tiles.
• Use our powerful Floor Polishers to buff up waxed floors or for cleaning tiles.

• Do you need to fit a carpet? The spiked Carpet Stretcher is an essential tool that makes sure your carpet fits snugly.
• Are your carpets looking tired and old? Our powerful Carpet Cleaners make carpets look brand new.
• Just ask us for our special carpet cleaning solution.
• Our powerful Upright Vacuum Cleaners are perfect for heavily soiled carpets.

Decorating

• Do you need to prepare a wall ready to be re-plastered? The Hilti TE106 is a light chisel ideal for removing render off walls.
• Lightweight yet robust our Decorators Towers will help you decorate tall ceilinged-rooms easily. Or just use some Trestles and scaffold planks.

• Wallpaper Spikers create small holes on the surface of wallpaper making it very easy to remove with a steamer.
• Wallpaper Strippers make it easy to remove both paper and glue residue from your walls.
• Fluorescent Lights are ideal for reducing shadows while you plaster walls in your home.
• This Hilti Orbital Sander is great for sanding down plaster before wallpapering.

• Our Telescopic Orbital Sanders are essential for sanding hard to reach areas.
• Use our Wallpaper Paste Tables to keep the paper flat while you apply the glue.

Heating & Keeping Cool

• Safe and efficient, Electric Radiators are ideal for the background heating of single rooms.
• These portable gas-fired Cabinet Heaters give a maximum of 4.2kw heat output and are for use indoors in a well ventilated room.

• Keep your home cool in hot weather by hiring one of our Cooling Fans.

Plumbing

• Do you want to repair a pipe without draining the whole system? Our Pipe Freezing Kits help you to repair pipes by freezing the water in them.

Large Indoor Refurbishment Projects

• Do you need to store stuff outside while you do some major home improvements? We have a range of Storage Containers available for use on your property or at our depot in Shipston.

• The Hilti Wall Chaser is an essential tool to use to cut channels in walls when placing electrical wiring or new pipes.
• The Hilti TE700 Medium Breaker is great for breaking through concrete walls.

Woodworking

• A Router is arguably the most versatile wood-working machine available.>
• Mitre Saws are great for cutting wood to any angle for indoor DIY jobs.

• We’ve got a selection of powerful Planers that’ll remove layers of wood quickly and accurately.
• The Hilti TE106 is ideal for light chiselling jobs.>
• The Hilti Eccentric Sander is a versatile tool capable of course and fine sanding, polishing, and delta sanding.

• Take a look at all our Sanding and Woodworking machines.

Tiling

• The Hilti TE106 is a light chisel useful for removing misplaced or old tiles off floors and walls.
• The versatile Hilti TE700 Medium Breaker has enough power to remove stubborn floor tiles.

• Cut your tiles to the right size using one of our Tile Saws.

Emergency

• The petrol-powered Centrifugal Pump is a great all round work horse for removing large quantities of flood water.
• Our Diaphragm Pumps are self-priming and protected against dry running. They’re ideal for removing dirty water and solids.
• Our Submersible Puddle Pumps are best for removing shallow flood water.

• Take a look at all our Pumping Machines.

• The Hilti VC40 Industrial-Strength Vacuum can cope with a number of difficult materials – either wet or dry.
• Our Industrial Dehumidifiers are ideal for drying out damp properties after a burst pipe, plastering or flooding.

FAQs

For more specific examples of projects in the home where hiring equipment is easily the best option take a look at some of the most Frequently Asked Questions by our customers.

1 Do your carpet cleaners come with cleaning solution and will the carpet be left wet?

Hiring one of our carpet cleaners is a great way to save some money and get your carpets looking brand new.

Once the carpet cleaner has sucked up the dirty water at the end of the job your carpet will be dry enough to walk on in about five hours

And yes, we can even supply the cleaning fluid if you want us to.

2 Do you hire sanders for wooden floors and parquet flooring? And, is there a sander for walls and ceilings?

Yes, we’ve got a number of floor sanders for hire.

To get right to the edges of your floor, or for a job that’s in a confined area like stairs, hire a floor edge sander.

For walls and ceilings you’ll need to hire a long reach orbital sander.

3 Will I be able to put up a small scaffold tower on my own to do some decorating?

Yes you will. For large and really tall rooms try hiring a decorators tower or a half-width scaffold tower. They’re both quite light and movable.

Also consider hiring trestles and scaffold boards as an even simpler alternative.

4 Have you got a small chiselling machine to remove tiles and plaster?

Yes, hire the Hilti TE106 breaker or the more powerful Hilti TE80. 

The former is ideal for removing floor tiles, chipping render off walls and light chiselling jobs while the latter is better for bigger jobs or outside ones.

5 How do I cut some tiles down to fit my bathroom?

Depending on the thickness of your tiles, we’ve got two different sizes of tile saws for hire.

Our tile cutting machines are fitted with diamond tipped saw blades that are cooled by a water tray at the base.