$33.70 at Total Tools
Researched, not tested. How we choose.
Opens Total Tools’s site in a new tab. You buy from them, at their price. Small parcel, express post, dispatch within 1 to 2 business days, except special orders, then Metro 2 to 3 business days, Hobart 3 to 4, regional 3 to 4, remote 6 to 9. Returns: 30 days from delivery. Fine unless you buy very early.
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The dad mid-renovation who keeps borrowing a 3m tape from the kitchen drawer
10m metric tape measure with high-impact case and rubber overmould, patented slide lock, coated blade and 3-rivet end hook.
A 10m tape with a stiff blade will stand out several metres unsupported, which is the difference between measuring a ceiling alone and needing a second person. Tape measures are the tool most likely to be lost and least likely to be replaced.
Dispatch and transit are separate windows and the estimate on a product page is usually only the second one. How long Australia Post actually takes.
30 days from delivery. Fine unless you buy very early.
Exchange, not refund. Unused and resaleable. Excludes sale, promotional, spare parts and order-in products.
A faulty, unsafe or misdescribed product carries a consumer guarantee no store policy can remove. Total Tools’s full terms.
Total Tools’s delivery and returns pages were read on 3 September 2026. Policies change without notice; theirs at checkout is the one that binds.
One reading so far. We record every change from here, so a sale price later in the year can be measured against this one rather than against whatever a retailer says it used to cost. Why that matters.
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The dad who opens boxes with his car keys and has three blunt knives in the shed
Has a cutting edge. Total Tools sells it to over-18s only and verifies age at checkout.
The dad who does his own car and plumbing jobs and currently balances a phone torch on the floor
The dad who works on cars or under the house and keeps running his phone flat using it as a torch
The dad who works in the shed at night and does not own any cordless tool battery platform
We will email you three weeks before Christmas, and three weeks before Father’s Day, with the shortlist already narrowed and the post still able to get there.
Two or three emails a year. Not a newsletter.
