If you’ve ever been to an estate sale in the Twin Cities, you’ll have browsed many a garage or basement filled with carefully organized tools and gadgets.
It’s easy to envision how this accumulation happens because many of our dads told us, “There’s a tool for every job.” Over the course of a lifetime, many households acquire most of those tools which we then store wherever we can.
After seeing more than a handful of these, I thought — this could be our house someday — with rarely used tools that are stored on peg board, in drawers, on shelves. The storage makes me think about a squirrel storing up nuts, only to retrieve and eat a portion of them.
While big box retail home improvement stores make it so easy to accumulate saw after saw after saw, they don’t maintain, store, or fix the tools.
As many of us choose to live in smaller spaces, downsize after kids leave, or just reduce our footprint, how can we accommodate these treasure troves of home improvement tools?
Thanks to these friendly, knowledgeable, and inexpensive resources around the Twin Cities — we don’t have to and neither do you!
Equipment Rental from A to Z
From trucks to tillers to trenchers to trailers and more!
For large or infrequent jobs, equipment rental is a homeowner’s best friend.
Yes, you can rent trucks from the big box retail stores to transport your supplies and tools, but that’s where the rental options most likely end.
For a fraction of the cost of purchase, no storage or maintenance, and the friendliest help you may ever experience, equipment rental shops like Columbia Heights Rental or Reddy Rents are amazing places. The inventory alone is worth a look, and the staff is knowledgeable and helpful.
Want a backyard garden? Grab a tiller. Ready to build a deck? A walk-behind bobcat and concrete mixer will save your muscles (and maybe your relationship). There is truly a tool for every job and these shops will help you get more done around the house.
Rental is for small projects may have a minimum amount of time, with option to extend to full days, weeks, or months.
Rental Pro Tip? Long weekends like Memorial Day offer a great value if you pick up Saturday and return the following Tuesday.
Tool Library Membership with Value
Sharing is caring and will also save you hassle and money.
With the thousands of small jobs that need your time throughout the year, there are associated tools that help get the job done.
From pulling dandelions to building flower boxes to repairing fences, there are tools and pieces of equipment that save time and increase efficiency. But over time, these tools pile up, get lost or broken, and require our time to organize and store.
Free yourself of all that tool baggage and join our the Minnesota Tool Library in NE Minneapolis and Saint Paul for less than the price of a power drill.
Although not open 24/7, they offer weekly checkout duration and have thousands of tools, workshop space, and classes to help you get your home improvement projects finished with flair.
