37 Home Depot Black Friday Deals (2023): Tools, Grills

Take a gander at these Home Depot Black Friday deals from the comfort of your living room without having to line up at the gates to do battle with the masses in the store. Winter means, for more of us than not, spending a lot more time at home than we’d otherwise choose to spend. Vacations are a fine remedy, sure, but who has money to travel all season long? Make home a pleasant place to be, inside and outside, with these deals on equipment for your garage, backyard, and home, and you won’t want to leave.

WIRED tests products year-round and handpicked these deals based on the actual discounts, not just the discounts retailers claim to offer. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We’ll update this guide through November. Be sure to check out our best Black Friday Deals.

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Garage Deals

This is arguably the best value in a garage workbench out there right now, and it’s $45 less than when the sale first started. The solid-wood top is 1.25 inches thick (!), and the legs are adjustable in height. It’s capable of holding an astounding 3,000 pounds. One cool feature of the Husky workbench is that two of either the Husky 1-Door-2-Drawer Base Cabinet or the Husky 2-Door Base Cabinet will nest right underneath the workbench for extra, out-of-the-way storage, with the same impressive build quality and cohesive design.

Closed doors keep the dust off your equipment and the messy tangles of extension cords out of sight. This cabinet is made of 24-gauge steel and is powder-coated in your choice of red or black. There’s also a 30-inch and 48-inch-wide versions if you have less or more room to place a cabinet. Mount a Husky Wall Cabinet for $130 ($70 off), which offers the same look and build quality, over a workbench if you need shelving but don’t have the floor space for a freestanding cabinet.

You won’t overload this shelving unit. Each shelf is, when properly weight-distributed, capable of holding up to 2,500 pounds. That’s per shelf. Forget the “boltless” version of this shelving unit that Husky also makes. Bolts are not that scary to fasten during assembly, and they’ll hold the shelving unit together more sturdily.

Hand me a blank check and tell me to pick out the finest power tools at any hardware store, and I’ll beeline straight for either Milwaukee or DeWalt. There are plenty of fine brands out there, but these two seem to last just a bit longer without developing any annoying performance issues. You get your money’s worth with Milwaukee, that’s for sure. If you haven’t joined the cordless power tool revolution and need, well, nearly everything, this combo can’t be beat. You get a power drill, circular saw, grinder, and more. The two rechargeable batteries fit all the tools and come with a charger, so you can have one charging while using the other.

You should be airing up your tires every month, at the very least. For that, you’ll need an air compressor. While a tiny, portable unit can do the job (slowly), you can shave a lot of time off this crucial task with an air compressor that has a reserve tank of pressurized air all ready to go.

Everyone should have a vacuum capable of sucking up not just dry messes, but wet spills. Use it for keeping your garage routinely tidy and for cleaning out the interior of your car. Like most shop vacs, it comes with a wide assortment of attachable tools and nozzles to fit into every nook and cranny around shop furniture and inside of cars’ interiors. I’ve had good luck with the performance and long-term durability of several Ridgid wet/dry vacuums over the past decade, to the extent that nowadays they’re the only brand I shop for.

This is the six-in-one version of our favorite utility knife, the Milwaukee Fastback, which is featured here in our guide on How to Build a Home Tool Kit, along with a compact version. The larger tool features a wire stripper, screwdriver, and bit driver, which includes a reversible Phillips #2 and flathead ¼-inch bit.

My favorite tape measure, the extra-thick FatMax resists folding in and collapsing when you’re extending the tape far out without any support. This two-pack is only a dollar more than a single FatMax, so buy a spare and keep the other in the garage, your R/V, or just give one to a buddy, because you’re just that nice.

There are high-quality floor jacks made in the US (unlike this one), but you’ll pay a pretty penny for them. If you’re tight on cash, save your money on the jack and spend it on good-quality jack stands instead. Always rest the car on good, solid jack stands before going underneath it. Don’t just leave it up on the jack and slide under—jacks have been known to give out, and if that’s all that’s holding…