As a remodeling contractor, I learned early on that containing remodeling dust and keeping that dust out of the non-remodeled portion of your client’s home is often more important than the quality of your work. It’s a fact that construction transports fine dust particles into parts of your home that are not being worked on. […]
I’ve been working in the trades for almost 20 years now, and it seems that I’m driving more and more fasteners than ever. My first impact driver was a 14.4V DeWalt and a gift from my brother the plumber. He told me he saw a carpenter using it on a job site, tried it and […]
As a carpenter I mainly find myself using grinders to occasionally cut through rebar or get structural bolts out of the way. It was by happy coincidence that, on the same week, I bid the Lally column job and the folks at Bosch allowed me to test their brand new Bosch AG50-11VSPD paddle switch grinder. (In […]
Today’s building trends are constantly evolving from lighter and stronger materials to rot-resistant plastics and better insulations. As a carpenter, I can attest that my job site needs to change and evolve with these newly developed materials, updated building techniques, and streamlined methods of working. While a cordless saw like the DeWalt DCS391L1 20V Max […]
In the world of pneumatic nailers there’s not much that excites me anymore, unless we’re talking about brad nailers and Jennifer Aniston in the same sentence. And then I came across the 18 gauge Bostitch Smart Point brad nailer. It’s not Jennifer, but to a guy who works as a carpenter all day, it’s at […]
