Appendix B - Tools and Equipment
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Safety Equipment
- approved respirator and filters
- CSA approved work boots
- cut-resistant work gloves
- dust mask
- face shield
- fall arrest equipment
- hard hat
- hearing protection
- high visibility clothing
- knee pads
- safety glasses and side shields
- ventilators
Hand Tools
- adjustable wrench
- awl
- brooms (push, corner)
- caulking gun
- chalk line
- chisels (wood, cold)
- claw hammer
- door pin tool
- dryline
- dust brush
- files
- finger clamps
- hacksaw
- hand scraper
- hammer stapler
- hand stapler
- knives (utility, notch blade, linoleum, breakaway blade)
- level
- measuring tapes (imperial, metric)
- mitre box
- moulding lifter
- nail set
- patching trowel
- pencils/markers
- pliers
- plumb bob
- profile base cutter
- putty knife
- replacement blades (utility, slotted, hooked, saw)
- scale rulers
- screwdrivers
- sharpening stone
- squares (carpenter, speed)
- stand-up scraper
- straightedge
- tee square
- aviation snips
- tool box
- tool pouch and belt
- top set base gouging tool
- white rubber mallet
Power Tools and Equipment
- air compressors
- air sled
- angle grinder
- circular saw
- cove base adhesive gun
- dollies and hand trucks
- drum sander
- edger
- electric tacker
- extension cords
- floor fan
- floor polisher
- generator
- hammer drill
- heat gun
- hot melt glue gun
- jamb saw
- jigsaw
- laser line
- lights
- mitre saw
- moisture meter
- oscillating tool
- pneumatic nailer
- pneumatic tacker
- portable electric circular saw
- portable table saw
- powder actuated tools
- power drill and mixing paddle
- router and specialized router bits
- sanders
- seaming irons
- shot blaster
- soldering guns
- spray machines
- stripping machines
- toe-kick saw
- vacuum cleaners
- welding guns
Specialized Carpet Tools and Equipment
- adhesive trowels
- binding machine and stapler
- brad set
- carpet base cutter
- carpet cart
- carpet comb
- carpet clamp
- carpet crane
- carpet restretcher (crab)
- carpet seam roller
- carpet shears (napping shears)
- carpet spreader
- carpet tractor (star-wheeled, smooth-wheeled)
- carpet tucker
- conductive seam weight
- cookie cutter
- cushion-back cutter
- double cutter
- double headed crab
- driving bar
- hot melt edge sealer tip
- induction heating irons
- knee kicker
- knives (slotted blade, pad)
- latex squeeze bottle
- loop pile cutter
- moisture test kit
- power stretcher
- row separator
- seam sealer bottle
- seam squeezer
- seaming board
- sewing needles
- sewing palm and thimble
- sewing thread
- stair stretcher
- stair tool
- stand-up roller (35 lb. – 75 lb.)
- staple remover
- tack hammer
- tack strip cutter
- tufting kit
- wall trimmers (universal, conventional/stretch-in)
Specialized Resilient Flooring Tools and Equipment
- bar scriber
- bricks (paver)
- corner scriber
- die cutters
- divider
- edge trimmer
- extension hand roller (laminate)
- hand roller (seam/coving roller)
- heat seam welding system (hand groover, heat welding gun, electric groover, nozzles for welder, trim plate, skiving tools, spatula knives, hobby knives, trimmers, cleaning tool)
- knives (notch blade, utility, linoleum)
- linoleum dolly (sheet vinyl cradle)
- mixing drill
- mixing paddle
- moisture test kit
- paint brushes
- paint roller and tray
- pin vise
- power drill
- propane torch/heat gun
- reverse scriber
- sand bags
- spreader or notched steel trowel
- stand up roller (75 lb. – 150 lb.)
- straightedge
- tee square (6 ft. or 2 m)
- tile cutter
- under or recess scriber
- universal scriber
- wall trimmer
Specialized Wood and Laminate Flooring and Underlayment Tools and Equipment
- angle clamps
- block plane
- fastening detectors
- flooring jacks
- glue scrapers
- glue trowels
- hardwood mallets
- laminate clamps
- laminate shears (guillotine)
- laminate straps
- manual hardwood nailers
- moisture meters
- pneumatic hardwood nailers
- pull bars
- shears
- spacers
- tapping blocks
- thermo-hygrometer
- toe-kick saws
- underlayment staplers
- staplers
Specialized Turf Tools and Equipment
- breakaway blade knife
- circle cutter
- forklift
- glue trowels
- loop pile cutter
- motorized fill spreader
- motorized landscape roller
- power sweeper
- rakes
- shovels
- turf line cutter
- turf roller
- turf sewing machine
- turf clamps
- turf shears (electric, pneumatic)