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Tools for DIY and Home Repairs - F

This page of our A to Z of tools for DIY and home repairs is for tools with names beginning with the letter 'F'.

• Ferrule - For paint-brushes a ferrule is the metal part between bristles and handle and for screwdrivers it is the metal part between the handle and blade.
• File - Rough-bladed tool for smoothing metal and wood, removing burrs and irregularities.
• File card - A file cleaning brush with short fine wires.
• Flat lining brush - A special brush designed for painting edges and corners.
• Float - A wood plastering or rendering tool.
• Flogger - Specialist long-haired, wide, flat brush, used dry to drag through a finish.
• Floor sander - One of two types of machine used together for sanding floors: the large drum sander sands the main area and the smaller disc sander cleans the edges.
• Floorboard saw A special saw for cutting through foorboards when they need to be removed.
• Flux - A paste which removes oxides from metals and inhibits oxidation while soldering. Flux Paste makes solder easily when it is heated for joining pipework.
• Forstner bit - A special type of drill bit which drills exceptionally clean, flat-bottomed holes in wood. It is guided by the outside cutter and not by the point.
• Frenchman - A tool for neatly trimming the mortar when using the weathered type of pointing.
• Fret saw - Used for cutting intricate shapes in thin wood. The deep frame of the fret saw allows clearance when cutting relatively large sheets of plywood etc.