The first—and best—part of any renovation project is the demolition. With these burly tools in your arsenal, you can destroy entire worlds. Or at least that ugly drywall.

1. Bosch 36 V SDS-Plus Rotary Hammer | $749

A key step in any kitchen redo: pulverizing every inch of that tile floor. Bosch’s machine gun of a rotary hammer can chisel, drill, and flat-out decimate any surface—just swap in different bits. The beefy 36-volt battery will deliver hours of cordless mayhem.

2. Ironclad Industrial Impact Gloves | $40

These reinforced finger-savers are nimble enough for finer work, but generous thermoplastic rubber plates keep your knuckles and metacarpals intact when crushing time comes. A grooved palm (from footwear maker Vibram) keeps the tools in your hands.

3. Fiskars IsoCore 10-Pound Sledge Hammer | $70

This sledge has a chisel-shaped face on the back of its traditional hammerhead. By concentrating all the force on a single point—and flinging debris away from you—you’ll get through thick drywall in a single swing without losing an eye. (You’ve got safety glasses, right!?)

4. Milwaukee M18 Fuel Sawzall Reciprocating Saw | $299

A good Sawzall is this galaxy’s closest thing to a lightsaber. Wield this 9-pound weapon with a customizable stroke speed next time you need to slice clean through some old pipe—or whatever you’ve already measured twice.

5. Stanley 36-Inch FatMax Wrecking Bar | $40

Meet the ultimate open-sesame device. It can pry boards, pull nails, split wood, crowbar the ever-living you-know-what out of just about anything. Spring-steel construction gives it the brawn to withstand crazy force without bending, so go ahead and throw some muscle into it.