Santa has offered to bring me nail guns for Christmas but I have to pick them out. My two main needs are one for trimming doors, windows & base & one for putting up Hardi-planks. Can you give me some suggestions? Air or cordless gas?
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well...it depends on how you use them and what other kind of things you do.
myself, I am sold and swear by my paslode gas trim nailers. I have the 16g angle and the 18g pinner. I use them ALL THE TIME. As a remodeler, I do a variety of things from pouring a cement slab to hanging crown mouldings. The thing I like about the cordless nailers are:
If I get to a job and just need to slap up casing for 2 windows, I don't have to get out a compressor and hose. OR if I have 3 windows...one in the basement, one in the kitchen and one in the upper bedroom, I don't have to MOVE the compressor or hose. No hose to tangle up in my ladder...and I hang them right off of my belt so they are there when I need them. They, along with my impact driver, are 2 tools I wonder what I ever did without.
HOWEVER...if you are doing work where you need to use a 23g pinner, or are doing more production type work and need to set up a hose anyway, why not just save the cash and get a set of Senco, Porter Cable or DeWalt nailers...I see Home Depot usually a deal where you can get them all together...and If you do go with a "ball and chain nailer" (as my brother and I call it when we HAVE to use hoses and guns), do yourself a favor and invest in the flexeel hoses or the small rubber ones. They are the BEST!
as for the cement siding nailer...I use the Hitachi NV65 (I think) and have loved it. If you have a roofing nailer, you can blind nail with those. I've even seen some applications where a 15g trim nailer was used...
Do a search...you'll get lots of recommendations. You just have to decide how you will use them.
btw...tell Santa I could use one of these...I've been a good boy!
http://www.boschtools.com/tools/tools-detail.htm?H=189200&G=70084&I=69859
it's ok to think you're as old as you once were...just so long as you don't try to prove it...
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Thanks everyone. I mostly only need to do the trim work & the siding so I'll look into these. I'm leaning towards not having a compressor so I don't have to haul it around or store it.
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btw...tell Santa I could use one of these...I've been a good boy!
http://www.boschtools.com/tools/tools-detail.htm?H=189200&G=70084&I=69859 *
Charlie, I'll tell Santa for ya. I'm getting nail guns & I haven't even been good . Maybe he'll bring me one of those too. ;-) Bobbi
I have the bostich straight 16 guage nail gun that currently is in need of service. Best gun I ever had. Got it three years ago, 150 trimmed houses later. Never complained. always did its job, and then after the job was over I would throw it in the back of my truck. I figure that gun cost me about 1.00$ per house. Best employee I ever had.
mark
I use a Senco 18g 12v cordless for short work days or when working in a house where young babes might be sleeping and a compressor would wake them.
air on oak handrails& balusters
Best to you and yours, Chris.
Some say I know too much.
For trim?
I'm stuck on Senco.
Mine is old and has trimmed a few hundred houses. Still works liek new.
Nails are a little more.