Replacing the traditional hammer, pneumatic nailers allow you to significantly speed up the time taken to drive nails into a range of materials, such as steel, wood, metal and concrete. Our comprehensive range of pneumatic nail guns allow you to work with nails as short as 10mm, all the way up to nails as long as 160mm and are available in both straight nailer and angled nailer variations, with safety features such as a sequential trigger or contact trigger. Manufactured by brands such as Ace & K, BeA, Fasco, KMR, MAX, Metabo HPT, Montana, Omer, Primatech, Senco and Tacwise, we supply first fix nailers, such as framing nailers, flooring nailers, roofing nailers, T nailers, SCRAIL nailers and positive placement joist hanger nailers, in either coil nailer or strip nailer forms, for use in heavy duty structural applications and second fix nailers such as 23 gauge, 21 gauge, 18 gauge, 16 gauge and 15 gauge finish nailers, brad nailers, micro brad nailers and pinners, for finish and trim applications.
While an air nailer and stapler are both hand tools powered by compressed air, they are also vastly different. Pneumatic air nailers are designed to fire nails into a wide variety of materials and can be categorised into two main groups, first fix and second fix. The type of application a pneumatic nailer is used for will largely depend on which of these two groups it falls under.
First Fix Nailers:
A group of air nail guns designed for use in structural and heavy-duty applications, these tools are widely available in both strip nailer and coil nailer variations. As well as their design, different types of first fix nailers have different applications, these are as follows:
Flooring Nailer – Designed to assist in fitting hardwood flooring to subfloors, a flooring air nailer not only speeds up the task but helps in achieving better results too.
Framing Nailer – Considered to be the sturdiest type of air nailer on the market, pneumatic framing nailers are designed for use in heavy duty applications, such as large-scale construction and building projects.
Positive Placement Joist Hanger Nailer – Manufactured with a protruding tip, a joist hanger nailer is designed to get to areas that most nailers are unable to reach. It can be placed directly against hard to reach targets, making it ideal for applications such as those that involve joists and rafters.
Roofing Nailer – A must have tool when working on roofs, a pneumatic roofing nailer helps fix materials such as shingles and insulation boards to roofs, with only a fraction of the effort that is required when using traditional hand tools such as a hammer.
Second Fix Nailers:
Designed for applications where the aesthetic finish of a job is a priority, second fix air nailers
provide a better finish than first fix nail guns, however, they provide a weaker hold.
Pinner – Designed for use with 23 gauge and 21 gauge pins, a pinner nailer is intended for use in applications where an aesthetic finished is required, although due to the size of the fastenings fired, glue is often required to provide extra hold.
Brad Nailer – Generally used with 18 gauge nails, an air brad nailer is the perfect compromise between the aesthetic finish provided by an air pinner and the hold provided by an air finish nailer. It provides a middle ground between the two.
Finish Nailer – Firing 16 gauge, 15 gauge and 14 gauge nails, the finish nail gun provides the strongest hold of any second fix nail gun, with the downside of a slightly less aesthetic finish, due to the larger fastenings it fires. Therefore, an air finish nail gun is meant for second fix applications where a stronger hold is required.
