Home Depot’s 2025 July 4th tool sale has been ongoing for some time now, but I’ve been hesitant to bring it up for two reasons.
First, a lot of the deals are seasonal special buys that have been around for quite some time already.
Second, all of the deals have been blurring into each other. Home Depot’s Memorial Day sale spanned several weeks, and then we had Father’s Day deals, and now this multi-week-long July 4th sale.
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But, there are some new tool deals and pretty good bargains if you shop carefully. You just have to know your prices. If you don’t, ask away and I’ll give you my frank opinion.
Here are some highlights:
Milwaukee – See All July 4th Cordless Power Tool Deals
Milwaukee – Free M18 Tool or Battery with Starter Kit Purchase
Ryobi – Save up to 55% on Select Tools
Dewalt – Save up to $100 on Select Power Tools
Milwaukee – Free M12 Tool with 2pc M12 FUEL Combo Kit Purchase
Milwaukee M12 Brushless 2pc Combo Kit – $149
Milwaukee M12 Cordless Screwdriver Kit – $79
Milwaukee M12 Fuel Brushless 3/8″ Ratchet Kit + FREE Tool
Milwaukee M12 SURGE Impact Driver Kit with Cordless Blower – $179
Home Depot’s Ryobi Days tool deals are still ongoing:
Ryobi 18V Starter Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $99
Ryobi 18V HP Brushless Starter Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $199
Ryobi Days Tool Deals
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See Also: Ryobi Days 2025: Free Cordless Power Tool Deals
Home Depot says their July 4th, 2025 tool deals will end on July 9th.
Here’s an example of why you need to shop carefully.
Home Depot has this Dewalt 20V Max Atomic series brushless 2-tool cordless power tool combo kit, with drill, impact driver, 2x 2Ah batteries, charger, and tool bag, for $249.
They have a “4th of July savings” sticker on top of the page, to the left, and “Special Buy” tag.
$249 is a terrible price for this Dewalt cordless power tool combo kit. This combo kit features the brand’s value-centric offerings. The same Dewalt 20V Max 2pc combo kit was recently $169, and it was $149 last holiday season. $249 is a bad buy.
Acme Tools has the cordless drill kit for $99. They also have the cordless impact driver kit for $99. They’re not the only retailer with such pricing, and it’s not clear why Home Depot is charging a lot more.
If you buy the standalone kits, you get the drill, impact driver, 2x 2Ah batteries, 2x chargers, and 2x tool bags for $198.
Lowe’s has their Atomic-competitor Dewalt 20V Max brushless 2-tool combo kit for $169 right now.
There are lots of good bargains to be found, just don’t trust that every “deal” will save you money.
Jim
“$249 is a terrible price for this Dewalt cordless power tool combo kit”
Just another example of why this is my go to site for tool and tool deal info.
Thanks Stuart
Peter
👍
ColeTrain
Agreed
MM
This definitely raises a pet peeve of mine: tool kits are very often poorly described. This just says “lithium ion combo kit” without making it clear which models are included in the kit. You have to dig quite far into the fine print to find out exactly which models you’re getting, and that matters a great deal.
On an unrelated note, I just spotted an ad for a Dewalt tool I hadn’t seen before: the “Impact Connect nut-runner” no. DWANRRIR. I don’t have any use for that but it’s neat to see more tools in the Impact Connect series.
eddiesky
If I were an electrician or uni-strut installer for overhead ducting, pipes, that nut-runner is really cool. I can imagine the time saved on building mechanical installs.
fred
Years ago, we tried a “nutrunner” from Lobster (Lobtex) tools – a Japanese brand we liked for the few items we had from the. This was not one of them:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183771321705
I too spied the Dewalt attachment – that they say works with other brands too. Seems pricey – but could pay off on 1 large installation job.
https://toolup.com/products/dewalt-dwanrrir-impact-connect-nut-runner-attachment-for-1-4-5-8-nuts
A manual approach is:
https://toolup.com/products/dewalt-dwanrrir-impact-connect-nut-runner-attachment-for-1-4-5-8-nuts
MFC
For the first time ever I got push back for trying to return part of a BOGO deal at HD. I bought the Ryobi Vac and Battery deal and tried to return just the batteries and the manager was called up front and said that I needed to return both or none at all. I insisted that they are separate skus and that I didn’t need the batteries and he eventually caved, but I was not expecting that.
These tariffs and financial fears seem to be putting both Lowes and HD on high alert. Both stores have raised prices on things and are being a lot more stingy with deals and discounts.
eddiesky
Second that. Tried to return, again, to a Lowes, to exchange a Craftsman flex long 3/8 ratchet (Made in USA, -V- series) and the customer service staff had me wait for a manager that refused exchange. She walked with me to the Craftsman tool display and showed me the $41 ratchet, not the V series $79 ratchet. BOTH no longer stocked. I was told to contact Craftsman and she would provide me her card where she wrote the support phone number (she had wrong number btw). Calling Craftsman support is a mire of hold times and no call back. I was really just wanting to rebuild the ratchet since it was the first one I got as a teen with a car.
Making that..oh I am old…
Jim Felt
I think that long ago and far away warm fuzzy “Craftsman” feeling died with Fast Eddie and his dismantling of Sears and their lesser competitor K-Mart. RIP
Matt_T
Were you returning the batteries you paid for but keeping the tool you got for free?
Big Richard
That’s not how BOGO deals work at HD. They didn’t pay for the batteries and get the tool for free, the discount is prorated onto both items. At that point you can return one of the items and keep the other at the prorated price. It’s a very common marketing practice, makes it look like you are getting something for “free”, but you are not. If you return part of it you are getting refunded exactly what you paid for it.
MFC
Like Big Richard said, I paid $102 for the batteries and $98 for the vacuum, or something like that. It is advertised as “Buy this $199 battery kit and get the vacuum/Drill/Whatever free!” But then they just split the cost between the two items.
So, it’s prorated like Richard said. It’s considered a gray area “hack”, but like Stuart has said, if they didn’t want customers to be able to do this, then they could just bundle the items into one sku, like they sometimes do, and then you couldn’t return part of the deal.
But my guess is that they’d rather make something, than nothing. Because I can guarantee I would never have purchased the vacuum by itself at its usual price. It was just strange that they were more willing to lose a sale, than just to return an unused/unopened box of batteries.
Matt_T
Thanks for the clarification. I had no clue that’s how a “BOGO” worked.
Took a look at their website. Looks like they’ve overpriced the bare tool then pretended to give it away with a battery kit. The ~$100 you ended up paying is probably fair.
Scott Ripley
I was told by a manager the same. I explained that she was wrong. Instead doing a little investigating she refused to budge. I called the next nearest HD and they said of course I can return half the purchase so I went there.
Marc
Marketing 101 = Lie to consumers
SamR
Those deals are dry!
Hopefully, better deals will be available in the next few days.
Julian Tracy
Home Depot receipts literally list on the receipts how much $$ the item will be refunded at. You can return with no receipt and just the card used and the computer will simply refund that amount (show in parenthesis on the receipt to the right of the real price).
Lowes, for years, would do BOGO deals on the receipt as paid $299 for combo and the free item would be line itemed at $0.00. That left them open to full purchase pricereturns of the BO item that yielded no cost GO “free” items.
They no longer do that though – now they do the same as HD where the prices are spelled out on the receipt with the promo deal prorated among the items.
HD’s deals of the day combos are the complete opposite – they are literally one sku number for all of the whatever was included tools. So no partial returns on those whatsoever.
mark w
Hope you’ll keep an eye out for gas lawn mower deals
Stuart
I can try, but I am usually much more familiar with cordless pricing and promos.
JB
Is HD going to get the new Honda battery powered mowers?
Stuart
I doubt it. If at all, maybe online.
Big Richard
For that DeWalt Atomic kit, you can get the same drill and impact, but only one battery, for $169 at HD as part of a bundle – https://www.homedepot.com/p/DEWALT-ATOMIC-20-Volt-Lithium-Ion-Cordless-Compact-1-2-in-Drill-Driver-and-1-4-in-Impact-Driver-w-2Ah-Battery-Charger-Bag-DCD794D1WCF809B/324810167
Still a better deal dollar for dollar to buy the separate stand alone kits as you pointed out, but if you do not need the batteries, go for this.