Home DIY

The biggest issues with gas powered guns are:

1. If you don't use them often the gas has a habit of going bad. How butane had a sell by date is beyond me. When this happens you need to buy new gas but many places (especially the type where you can turn up and buy what you need on the day) don't stock anything other than gas/nail combo packs. This means you end up with many, many collated nails that you don't have the gas to drive, and if you're like me.you hoard them.
   
2. They need to be serviced regularly otherwise they won't spark. It's a relatively simple procedure but worth while paying someone to do it every 3rd time or so just to give it a safety check.
   
3. If it's cold the gas won't spark so you end up wandering around site with a couple of nail gun fuel cells in your thermals. Sometime you forget and go for lunch or to the pub after-work people give you funny looks when you're sat in the pub and pull an aerosol can of butane out of your crotch.
   
   

For all of these reasons gas less unit are becoming very popular. The best examples I know of areade by Milwaukee, hikoki and De Walt. The first two have a small compressor in them the last one uses a flywheel to drive the nails.

If you think regular paslode are expensive look up the positive placement models (they're designed to attach joist hangers). Or my Hilti powder actuated gun: