Tools We Use & Recommend
🔨 Tools We Use & Recommend
Welcome to our toolbox.
After more than 20 years renovating homes, we've used thousands of products. Some have been brilliant. Others have been disappointing.
This page is where you'll find the products that have genuinely earned a place in our toolbox.
Whether we're fitting kitchens, renovating bathrooms, restoring period properties or tackling everyday DIY jobs, these are the tools and products we regularly reach for.
If we recommend it here, it's because we'd happily use it in our own home.
Why trust our recommendations?
We're not influencers who unbox products for a few minutes.
We're renovators.
Since 2003 we've completed hundreds of refurbishment projects, from complete property renovations to kitchens, bathrooms, decorating, flooring, carpentry and countless repairs.
Every recommendation on this page comes from real experience on real jobs.
If a product saves time, improves the finish or simply makes life easier, we'll recommend it.
If it doesn't, you won't find it here.
🔨 Featured in our TikTok videos
Seen one of our TikTok videos?
This is where you'll find the products we've used.
Everything is organised into collections so you can quickly find exactly what you're looking for.
🏡 Kitchen Renovation Essentials
The products we use when installing kitchens and solid wood worktops.
✔ Clamps
🚿 Bathroom Renovation Essentials
Products we've found make cleaning, repairing and renovating bathrooms easier.
✔ Crevice Cleaning Brushes
✔ Silicone Removal Tools
✔ Grout Cleaning Products
✔ Tile Cleaning Brushes
✔ Sealant Guns
✔ Scrapers
✔ Sanding Products
👉 Browse Bathroom Essentials
🧰 Everyday Trade Essentials
These are the tools that live in our van and get used almost every day.
✔ Tape Measure
✔ Utility Knife
✔ Spirit Level
✔ Impact Driver Accessories
✔ Drill Bits
✔ PPE
✔ Knee Pads
✔ Work Gloves
👉 Browse Everyday Essentials
🧹 Cleaning & Restoration
Sometimes the simplest products make the biggest difference.
Our favourite products for restoring kitchens, bathrooms and tired homes.
✔ Detail Brushes
✔ Crevice Brushes
✔ Grout Restoration
✔ Degreasers
✔ Microfibre Cloths
✔ Cleaning Accessories
👉 Browse Cleaning Products
⭐ Paul's Top Picks
These are the products I'd happily recommend to friends and family.
⭐ Crevice Cleaning Brush
Probably the product that's featured in more of our TikTok videos than anything else.
Brilliant for grout, taps, sink edges, radiators, ovens and all those awkward places larger brushes simply can't reach.
⭐ Router Drainer Jig
If you're fitting a solid wood worktop and want professional draining grooves, this jig makes the job quicker, easier and far more accurate.
⭐ 80 Grit Sandpaper
Simple, inexpensive and incredibly effective.
Perfect for restoring tired grout before spending money on expensive cleaning chemicals.
⭐ Laser Level
One of those tools that saves time on almost every project.
Ideal for kitchens, shelving, panelling, tiling and picture hanging.
We only recommend products we'd use ourselves.
You'll never find hundreds of random gadgets here.
If it's on this page, it's because we've tested it, used it and trust it.
Our reputation is worth more than any commission.
Follow our journey
We're back on TikTok sharing:
🏡 Real renovation projects
🔨 DIY tips
🧰 Honest tool reviews
✨ Before & after transformations
💡 Trade tricks we've learnt over the last 20+ years
Follow along and learn with us.
Thank you
Whether you're tackling your first DIY project or you're an experienced tradesperson, we hope these recommendations help you achieve a better finish and enjoy the job a little more.
Thanks for supporting Victor George Homes.
We look forward to sharing many more projects with you.
— Paul & Sue
Victor George Homes®