Before you buy the biggest set you can find, ask yourself what your priorities are – if you just want a set for occasional DIY, then you don’t need a 100-piece set with every possible head. Equally, if you need a set for specific technical jobs, in addition to everyday home DIY, then it pays to make sure you buy a set that covers every eventuality, and has a suitably wide range of head types and sizes. The Stanley 5-65-426 with its colour coded ends make it easy to identify the correct screwdriver for each screw type. 12 solidly constructed screwdrivers with soft grip bi- material handles which are securely bonded to chrome vanadium steel bar shafts. Comes complete with a mixture of parallel, flared, phillips and pozi screwdrivers in a carry case. Features: Constructed from heavy-duty carbon silicon steel for added strength, performance and longer product life The Stanley FMHT65426-0 is a 12 piece FatMax screwdriver set containing a variety of different sizes of Parallel, Phillips, Pozi and Flared screwdrivers. These screwdrivers are colour coded for ease of tip identification and feature precision-machined tips for strength, performance and long product life. They are also sand-blasted for protection against corrosion and wear. Features: Tethering hole integrated into the handle, ensuring tools are never mislaid or dropped, and delivering additional safety for users when working at heights.

Tethering hole integrated into the handle, ensuring tools are never mislaid or dropped, and delivering additional safety for users when working at heights Colour-coded with specifications and drive type clearly marked on the surface for easy identification of the appropriate tool for each job Narrow waist and smooth, domed end deliver excellent torque, speed, control and ease-of-use in challenging fastening or loosening applications, ideal for driving wood screws A halfway house between the Stanley Fat Max set and the cheaper ones, this set from Draper Tools offers a good range of different blades.

Here we’ll explain all the key technical features you need to consider and suggest some of our favourite screwdriver sets. Read on and you’ll find everything from screwdriver sets for the reluctant DIYer to the most proactive home improvement enthusiast. Something a little bit different. Wera launched its handle shape in the 1960s, basing it on the contours of the human hand. And despite a few tweaks, it’s stayed basically the same ever since. Human hands, Wera says, haven’t changed in that time either. Constructed from heavy-duty carbon-silicon steel for added strength, performance and longer product life

COMFORTABLE ERGONOMIC HANDLE: Large soft-grip, tri-material ergonomic handle designed to reduce of fatigue and increase comfort in repetitive applications Everyday DIY is one thing, but screws are as common as nails in woodworking, and if you’re into building electronics the need for a specific tiny driver with an unusual head is a regular occurrence. Thankfully, you have plenty of choice when it comes to screwdriver sets that are suitable for any eventuality. Is 58 screwdrivers enough? Could you make do with 12? Does each one need a handle, or will a series of interchangeable heads work? Do you need them to be insulated? Or magnetic? What about hex, truss or Torx heads? If we showed you a set of 100 screwdrivers, would you think that was overkill?Manufactured at the STANLEY® Arbois factory in France to rigorous standards and specifications for outstanding usability, durability and reliability

NARROW WAIST AND SMOOTH, DOMED END: Deliver excellent torque, speed, control and ease-of-use in challenging fastening or loosening applications, ideal for driving wood screws COMPATIBLE WITH NEXT GENERATION RANGE: Part of the next generation STANLEY® FATMAX® professional screwdriver range It comprises 17 screwdrivers, including three Torx, plus sets of imperial and metric Allen keys, and a universal handle with ten interchangeable ends. There’s something here for almost every kind of job. Sizes range from a big 8mm to 2mm straight-slot, with similar Phillips and Pozidriv options. There’s also an eight-piece precision screwdriver set that includes four Torx drivers, perfect for taking laptops apart, and even a pair of offset screwdrivers, with a different bit at each end, for those really awkward spots.Stanley always makes good-quality tools, and this set is no different. The blades are moulded directly into the handles to make them “virtually unbreakable”, and the handles themselves are large, with soft rubber for an excellent grip. Handle moulded direct to bar virtually unbreakable bond. Highly reliable and providing an extra long life tip life* CNC precision-machined tip delivers strength, performance and long product life. Ensures optimum dimensional fit, accuracy and control, and reduces cam out. Sand-blasted for protection against corrosion and wear. Sets that comprise a universal handle with many interchangeable tips are popular because they’re light and easy to carry, but once you lose one of the tips it tends to stay lost – they’re not very big and are often dull in colour. Lose too many and you’ll have to buy a new set of tips, or potentially replace the whole set. Can’t I just buy any old cheap screwdrivers?