If you’re considering doing any soft furnishing or reupholstering, maybe a settee or something in the car or the boat, an excellent tool to buy is a stapler like this, as you can get a lot of downward pressure and they’re easy to use.

A question that often crops up is, how do I insert the staples into the stapler? The answer is quite easy. At the back of the tool, there’s a little sprung-loaded bracket. You push it in and down, and out comes the staple chute. You then insert your staple in to the end, insert the cover, and reinsert the sprung plate.