SK Tool’s modular tool boxes have landed at Home Depot, or more specifically their online store.
I wouldn’t have known about this, had I not seen Home Depot posts advertising the SK tool boxes in my social media feed.
SK launched a new line of tool boxes earlier this year, featuring metal construction and features aimed more at workshop users.
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Home Depot is not carrying the complete line yet. SK launched 6 types of tool boxes plus a 4-wheel rolling cart. Of these, Home Depot is carrying the cart plus 3 types of tool boxes, and a 3pc combo pack.
This isn’t a big deal, as it seems there is a low barrier to entry into Home Depot’s online store, but I still found it interesting.
At this time, here’s what you can buy from Home Depot:
- 1-drawer tool box
- 2-drawer tool box
- 3-drawer tool box (shallow and deep drawers)
- 4-wheel rolling cart
- 4pc combo set
The full line is available at Amazon, with additional options including a 2-door cabinet, 1-door cabinet with stowable door, and a tool box with 3 equal size drawers.
The 4pc combo, with 3 tool boxes and a rolling cart, is available for $499.97 with free shipping.
Personally, I went all-in with Milwaukee Packout, and am eagerly waiting to see whether Dewalt’s ToughSystem DXL system will reset my preferences.
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The SK system is different, and I’m interested in seeing if or how it will be expanded in the future.
dale clark
Where are these stores going display all the different brand tool boxes? This field, much like the tool industry, is crowded
Stuart
In my opinion, these are never coming to Home Depot stores.
There’s potential at Lowe’s, but not at these price points.
Jim Tealman
Perhaps online only.
Stuart
That’s my take on it, unless my understanding of Home Depot’s in-store brand proclivities are wrong, or something significant happens to change that.
Jim Felt
Love the color way! Otherwise too late to the nearly, if not already, over saturated party?
Maybe together with Klein they could be bundled as pumpkin patch buddies ?
MattT
Even though they have carrying handles, it seems like these are less alternatives for things like Packout and more a way to build a custom tool cabinet.
Bill
Why at this point would anybody purchase an SK tool?
CMF
Why not?
nicholas contos
I love SK wrenches.
TerryT
Agreed. Great Star has diminished whatever was left of a once-great American tool manufacturer. I did admire their aluminum cabinets a few years, but I suspect very few of those were made (in the USA, of course) and these new boxes appear fairly generic, except for the color.
Blythe
To me, being able to get something from Home Depot online is a significant purchasing influence, because the return process is easy. I’m more likely to try something out that I’m questionable about
Joe E.
I know a lot of people are put off by the SK brand these days, but Home Depot could use a fresh face for their hand tool house brand. SK could make a viable competitor to Craftsman at Lowe’s.
The Husky brand is lackluster and dated. It’s rebranded Apex tools in boring packaging. 90% of my hardware store purchases (which is a lot) come from Home Depot, and I don’t pay their tool department any mind when I go in there.
CMF
Apex or SBD, how many cells in the pack or are they 21700’s?
I think the majority of contractors or pros making a living with their tools, more often than not, do not know who is the parent company or what is in the internals.
They buy what has worked for them, or they switch.
Champs
WalMart and The Home Depot are similar in that there is a technical difference between their physical stores and their respective dot-com websites.
Most memorably, I’ve run into this ordering certain product lines from HD partners. If you return the item in-store, they give it a sticker and segregate it for direct return to the warehouse instead of store inventory. I can’t imagine entire brands would be any different, so these may never show up at retail.
aaron+s
They’re marketing photos on home Depot has some pretty weird stuff like no one proof read it. The box is 17 inches deep but they’re advertising it as having 20 in deep storage in the drawers. Presumably they mean wide not deep. They advertise metal drawer slides that give it a professional look. I don’t want a professional look, I want durability. Somewhere between haphazard and misleading.
aaron+s
Okay the drawers are 12.6″ by 16.5″ so the “20.5 in deep storage space” advertisement on the other image is straight up misleading
John
These are metal correct? If only being shipped to buyers, expect a lot of damaged boxes. I wouldn’t even bother unless HD offered them in store.
bwh
Home Depot is quickly going the way of Amazon. While SK is a brand name to some, many shoppers will just see yet another brand name they don’t recognize pop up when searching.
With how bad home Depot filters are when searching, this is just going to last to more abandoned carts and unfilled searches.
MFC
The single drawer listing reads a lot like the poorly translated Amazon listings:
“Allows units securely stacking up.”
“Cut-outs design”
“Keep drawers securely locked” (This is under the drawer slide bullet and not the lock)
“Aluminum side carry and drawer puller”
They have the bullet arrows pointing at the drawer slides, talking about the “drawer puller” and the bullet arrows pointed at the drawer pull talking about the slides…
It’s not as bad as the AI generated nonsense on Amazon, but oh my goodness! Pay someone that speaks English to write these things, or at least proof-read it. If I was doing it in Spanish, even though my Spanish is decent, I’d still have a native Spanish speaker (or two) proof-read!
Anyways, I really like the single drawer with it’s metal housing and dual slides… Milwaukee?
Ken H
I bought every SK box my local Lowe’s had. They are excellent. Well made. I’m ordering one of the 3 drawer ones. My Lowe’s doesn’t have any with drawers.
Stuart
I have NEVER seen these at ANY Lowe’s stores, and they don’t even have these SK tool boxes on their website. The line seems to have been an Amazon exclusive until now.
Was your store doing a test run?
CA in NJ
I bought 3 and the casters from Amazon on Prime Day for a little over $500 total. They get delivered tomorrow, I’ll report back with initial impressions. I went with these because I needed something to go in a pretty narrow space and it was a bonus that they are modular so I can move them separately.
CMF
SK, Klein, Flex and some other brands, may have come a bit late to the party, but it’s never too late.
I very often hear of people giving up on a brand – multiple reasons – and either slowly transition a new brand in for newer purchases, or lock, stock and barrel get rid of the old and buy a new brand.
No one is born with tools and storage boxes. Every day there are probably 100’s of people across the country getting into trades or new DIY ventures and will buy their first tool or toolbox.
If SK, or any brand has a good product, decent marketing, some value and/or innovation, then there is no time like the present; they have a chance to make it.
Tool storage has been around forever, but the big boom probably started when Dewalt introduced the first gen ToughSystem and had success. Milwaukee and other brands scrambled to get their systems to market, and these systems have been selling well. Is the boom over; maybe or maybe not.
But there is always room for other players if they have something good to offer. I heard many in the past say “I wish they weren’t plastic” or “why doesn’t someone make steel one”.
Time will tell.
Tim
These boxes are shockingly awesome btw.
Amatts
Uh unless you are a certain it is what’s an SK