For me personally, I’ve gone mostly with Ryobi for “use around the house” cordless tools because I’m strictly a weekend warrior, and having a wide range of affordable tools on the same battery is more important than having the best/strongest.
I do have a couple of Dewalt cordless tools (impact wrench, recip saw) where it’s important to have a bit more reliable grunt.
If you aren’t in a rush the orange big box usually has good deals around black Friday on green, red, orange, blue, and yellow.
It depends on what you want. If you aren’t using them to eat and pay the mortgage I’d recommend green. Orange is just slightly better green. If you want something nicer that you can abuse go yellow. If you want to have the new hotness to show off get red. Blue has a ton of third party and knockoff stuff that works with it.
You do need to watch out with the black Friday deals, in general but power tools definitely do it as well.
Make sure the model number of the product on “sale” is the same as the model number of their regularly stocked tools. Sometimes they will bring in special models for sales which are build cheaper and lack specific functions than the regular ones they stock year round, and the model number will be FROTY345B instead of FROTY345A or something.
For me personally, I’ve gone mostly with Ryobi for “use around the house” cordless tools because I’m strictly a weekend warrior, and having a wide range of affordable tools on the same battery is more important than having the best/strongest.
I do have a couple of Dewalt cordless tools (impact wrench, recip saw) where it’s important to have a bit more reliable grunt.
(I assume that’s what you mean by color anyway)
Thank you. Yes. Based on some of the comments, looks like the $99 Ryobi battery/tool combo at home depot seems like a good way to go.
I have found that looking on Nextdoor, I can routinely find tools for a good price, that probably “fell off a truck”.
If you aren’t in a rush the orange big box usually has good deals around black Friday on green, red, orange, blue, and yellow.
It depends on what you want. If you aren’t using them to eat and pay the mortgage I’d recommend green. Orange is just slightly better green. If you want something nicer that you can abuse go yellow. If you want to have the new hotness to show off get red. Blue has a ton of third party and knockoff stuff that works with it.
You do need to watch out with the black Friday deals, in general but power tools definitely do it as well.
Make sure the model number of the product on “sale” is the same as the model number of their regularly stocked tools. Sometimes they will bring in special models for sales which are build cheaper and lack specific functions than the regular ones they stock year round, and the model number will be FROTY345B instead of FROTY345A or something.