Senco DuraSpin rocks the house

Until very recently, I've taken the pea-shooter approach to screwing in drywall.

Pull a screw out of my pouch, load it onto the tip of my screw gun, drive the screw into the drywall.

It's kind of like having to load a nail gun one nail at a time. Add in the extension cord I had to drag around, and the whole approach doesn't work all that well.

Today's self-feeding cordless screw guns, like this 18-volt Senco DuraSpin, make a heck of a lot more sense—especially for those of you sticking with tried-and-true methods because that's just "the way you got it done."

With this gun, you load a strip of screws into the gun, press and go.

I will say that the gun is a bit heavier than my old screw gun, and I find myself using two hands to drive the screws sometimes.

But, not having to hold and load screws while wrestling with a cord while hanging drywall is worth the few extra pounds the gun weighs.

The guns can jam, and the screw strips are a bit more expensive than a box of drywall screws.

But if you've got a couple of rooms to rock this is a convenient sidearm to have in your holster.

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This is another one of those tools I wish I owned (all of which I've tested, by the way).

I also wish I owned this 18-volt Makita cordless impact driver.

And this Festool C12 drill/driver.

And while we're talking Sheetrock, here's how to finish drywall with two kinds of tape.