Brent

March 24th, 2009 at 8:33 am

I am slowly finishing out my basement and intend on buying some salvage wood flooring, So I will need a floor sander to do that project. Also, it would be nice to use a paint sprayer to do all the priming of the drywall, if not try and attempt the actually painting.

Patti

March 24th, 2009 at 8:40 am

I will be renting a 4 HP aerator by bluebird. I will use this on my lawn to get it ready for some reseeding, and just to make the soil “healthier”.

erin g

March 24th, 2009 at 9:11 am

My fist pick would be the pressure washer… the north side of our house is looking a bit green! But, $200 may go a little further… I need the demolition hammer to break up a random patch of concrete. And the lawn is crying out for he aerator. And the rototiller. I better get busy!

amanda

March 24th, 2009 at 9:12 am

My husband and I bought a house 2 years ago, and the backyard is atrocious! We would certainly use both the breaker & demolition hammer to break up the concrete that overpowers half of the backyard, and re-use the concrete pieces as filler or (depending on the size of the chunks) as edging for various little island gardens.

Meagan Lynn

March 24th, 2009 at 9:22 am

Wow. This couldn’t have come at a better time for me. I will be renting the 20″ Gas Chainsaw by Makita. And I will finally be able to tackle the rest of the unwanted dead brush at the end of the yard and turn it in to a full vegetable garden! I tried raising tomatoes last year for the first time, and that’s given me enough courage to try other vegetables. Food definitely tastes better when you grow it yourself!

Amber R

March 24th, 2009 at 9:55 am

I have designed a light fixture for our living room that reuses pallette wood and LED lighting to decreases energy useage as well as creates a piece of art.

Lisa

March 24th, 2009 at 10:01 am

My husband and I just bought this house and the exterior is in bad shape. We just finished installing new siding and plan to paint soon. We would love to start landscaping but money is pretty low. We have weeds that are as high as 6′ tall. I would looove to rent the mid tine tiller. Our end goal is to xeriscape and install a catchment system $200 would help us alot. Thanks

Brian

March 24th, 2009 at 11:05 am

We moved into a 100 year old house with a great yard and lots of old trees. Unfortunately, the weather has taken a toll on a few of the trees and they were either knocked over from wind or died from drought. There are a bunch of other older trees in the yard and they will need to be replaced eventually. We want to make sure that in 10 to 20 years, the house has shade in the summer and trees to make it a greener place to live.

We now have 5 stumps from a several inches to a couple feet across. We need to get rid of some stumps before planting more trees, so we would rent the larger chainsaw (all the work destroyed our small electric one) and the stump grinder. We would then rent the hole digger to help plant the 6 trees and 5 shrubs that are still left to plant.

We would also rent the large wood chipper so that I could use the wood for mulch. We rented the small one when the first tree was knocked over and we cleaned out the dead shrubs. With the giant pile of branches gone, we could expand my composting area.

Andy

March 24th, 2009 at 11:10 am

We wanted to grow our own patio vegetables by mounting these really amazing verticle hanging pots on our back wooden fence. This will provide organic vegetables with no transport costs, shade from the intense western sun, and a more comfortable outdoor eating area. However, the middle fence post is rotten and collapsing, so I’ll rent the post-hole digger to install a new one.

Maria

March 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am

I plan on renting a Hand-Held Hole Digger this summer to fence in our yard. I would love to find a fence made of a recycled material, like the decking that you can buy that is made from old plastic bags. This will provide some much needed shade for the yews that we have growing along the souther edge of our lawn.

Dawn

March 24th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

I’d rent the 4HP aerator - our lawn is in need of refurbishing and I’m planning on starting up an organic lawn care program for it. I’m looking forward to a healthy, chemical-free lawn for my kids, their friends and our cat. I’m also putting in a raised organic veggie bed, so I don’t want chemicals around that, either.
thanks for holding this contest!

Ryan

March 24th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

I’ve rented a number of tools from Home Depot over the years to assist in green property renovations. I really like having access to so many tools without the expense of buying them, the hassle of maintaining them and without having to store them. My most consistent rental is the drum floor sander. An important part of green building is restoring existing materials. It is much more ecologically friendly to restore old floors than it is to put new flooring (even bamboo, cork or natural linoleum flooring) over existing floors. Coupled with a no or low VOC finish like those offered by Osmo or BonaKemi refinishing floors is one of the most visually impacting changes for the money anyone can do to improve their home. I’m also very interested in renting Home Depot’s aerator for mold suppression. I haven’t tried this tool yet but it looks like a great tool to get rid of mold in properties that have moisture issues. I’m pretty sure the liquid applied with the aerator is non-toxic.

Aimee

March 25th, 2009 at 4:50 am

I plan to rent a sodcutter to remove 1000 square feet of lawn. After that, I will rent a mid-tine tiller to till in soil amendments. I plan to install some blackberry and blueberry bushes in the former lawn space. I’m going to build eleven raised beds from 2″x12″ boards and 4″x4″ lumber for the corners (also from Home Depot), then I’m going to rent a post-hole digger to install them. All the vegetables for these raised beds are currently growing on my kitchen counter. I can’t wait for my new square foot garden!

Anna M

March 25th, 2009 at 6:08 am

I would love to rent the floor sander - our townhome has beautiful wood floors throughout that could use a little TLC. I’d also like to try raising the vegetable garden and, so, would rent the post-hole digger to install the corner posts.

Tiffany Carpenter

March 28th, 2009 at 1:12 am

I am a brand new first time homebuyer of a rather older home previously owned by big time pet owners who left the house rather stinky and marked so my tool of choice to rent would have to be the pressure washer. I could pressure wash out the garage and all of the side walk and could even use it inside maybe to pressure wash out the old tubs, shower and tile walls that really need it!! It could be great!!

Joe Torelli

July 10th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

I just had my offer accepted on an amazing condo. The problem is that as a foreclosure, the previous owner did maintain it well, it has a lot of damage; this gives me ample opportunities to green my condo right from the start. I need to rent many of the tools available since I could never store even one of the items available in my condo. I am looking to improve everywhere, including: LED lighting, replacing damaged interior doors with salvaged hardwood doors, replace deteriorated carpeting with salvaged hardwood flooring (hardwood floor stapler, wood floor edger, drum sander and square buff sander, then floor maintainer), sand and repaint walls and ceiling with green, zero VOC ( I do have to live there while I am doing the work and want to be free of hazardous chemicals), natural-material paint (3000psi airless paint sprayer) and of course just for about every project I need the finishing nailer and compound miter saw. It’s amazing the amount of tools need to do the job right, yet a normal DIY person either can’t afford them all (especially when they just need them, or doesn’t have the space needed to store them. This is the best option for the DIY since you most likely only need most of the items once.

Kym

September 16th, 2009 at 8:45 am

My husand and I bought a home in foreclosure and it has many needs. Our master bathroom has a leaky shower we intend to redo ourselves. I have rented the tile saw from Home Depot many times. Once again I would need a tile saw to redo our shower, countertops and floors in the bathroom. It is tough to choose just one tool because our home needs so many repairs.

gcastillo5665

September 28th, 2009 at 10:17 am

It looks like you’re contest got a lot of response. What project ended up winning?