Tools Soko is an independent product research site. It does not run a test bench, it does not employ testers, and nothing published here is presented as if it does.
This page previously described a testing programme, a three-person test team and a workshop in Industrial Area. None of that was accurate. It has been removed, and what follows describes how the site actually operates.
| Tools bench-tested by Tools Soko | 0 |
| Numeric scores published | 0 |
| Paid placements | 0 |
| Reviews shown to a manufacturer before publication | 0 |
What This Site Covers
Things a household buys and then lives with. Appliances and kitchen equipment. Gadgets and home electronics. The fixed systems a house comes with, from water heating to ventilation. Garden and outdoor equipment. And tools, which is where this site started and which it still covers in depth.
It is written for readers wherever they are, which puts the specification first: what the figures mean, what the manufacturer is and is not claiming, and which details change the answer depending on where you live. Mains voltage is the clearest example. A 120V-only appliance is a different purchase in Nairobi, London or Sydney than it is in Chicago, and a review that never mentions the restriction is worth very little outside one country. The same goes for warranty terms that are honoured in one market and meaningless in another.
Coverage runs from the kitchen counter to the workshop bench. Appliances, consumer electronics and home wellness equipment are all in scope, alongside the tools the site began with. The test is not whether a tradesperson would carry it. It is whether the specification is confusing enough, or the marketing loose enough, that someone deserves a straight answer before they spend.
How Our Articles Are Built
From published manufacturer specifications, technical documentation, safety standards, distributor and retailer listings, and the reported experience of people who own the product. Where sources disagree on a figure, we say that they disagree rather than quietly picking one.
Every article opens with a sentence stating what it is based on, above the fold, so you know how much weight to give it before you read it. Manufacturer claims are attributed, not adopted. Nothing carries a score, because a number out of ten implies a measurement we have not made.
The full version of this is set out in How We Work, which is the authoritative statement of our editorial method. Where this page and that one ever differ, that one is correct.
Who Writes It
Tools Soko is written and edited by Kepha Olwal, in Nairobi. One person, no staff. Every article on this site carries his byline because he wrote it.
Kepha has spent three and a half years in business-to-business sales of building and interior products in Kenya, working daily with contractors, specifiers, and hospitality and residential developers. That is the background he brings to this site: what gets specified and what gets substituted once work starts, what the local supply chain actually stocks, how a warranty behaves when a claim is made in Nairobi rather than in the country the tool was designed in, and where the Kenyan price of a piece of equipment diverges from the international one and why.
He is not a product tester and does not claim to be. There is no test engineer here, no workshop, and no bench. It is one person doing research, and the articles say so.
Affiliate Disclosure
Tools Soko earns a commission when you buy through some of the links on this site. It never changes what we recommend, and it never changes the price you pay.
When you follow a “Check Price” link from this site to a retailer such as Amazon or Jumia and go on to buy something, we receive a small commission from that retailer. You pay exactly the price you would have paid going there directly.
That commission covers the running costs of the site and the research time behind the articles. It does not buy influence over what we recommend. We regularly rank products we earn nothing from above products we do, and where the one we make money on is the worse buy, we say so plainly.
Every monetised link carries rel="sponsored nofollow", and the disclosure sits near the top of the article rather than buried at the bottom. An article with no affiliate links carries no disclosure, because a disclosure on a page with nothing to disclose is its own small dishonesty.
What we will never do: accept payment for a review, accept payment for a ranking position, or publish a review a manufacturer has been allowed to read in advance.
Corrections
We correct in place and say what changed, as this page does. If you find something here that is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and note the fix.
Scope changed 10 September 2026: coverage widened from construction tools alone to household products, gadgets, home fixtures, garden equipment and tools, and from a Kenyan readership to a general one. Six articles withdrawn earlier that day under the previous narrower scope were restored. Last corrected 10 September 2026: removed a claim to have been testing tools since 2021, a “405+ tools tested” figure, a described bench protocol, a listing of team members who do not work on this site, and a test workshop address. Numeric scores and per-brand “tools tested” counts were removed from the brand pages at the same time.
Privacy
We collect the minimum needed to run the site: anonymous analytics on which pages get read, and, if you subscribe, your email address.
We do not sell or share your email with anyone. Every newsletter carries a one-click unsubscribe, and unsubscribing removes your address entirely rather than suppressing it.
Terms of Use
Content on this site is published for general information and is based on research rather than on our own testing. Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions and the safety regulations that apply where you are working. We are not liable for outcomes arising from the use of any product we cover.
Contact
| Reason | Address |
|---|---|
| Editorial: corrections, tip-offs, article requests | editor@toolsoko.com |
| Based in | Nairobi, Kenya |