Finished up a couple of jobs yesterday, an Andersen patio door, and also a large window here in town.

Haven’t posted in awhile, but I’m still hard at work installing replacement windows and doors, and still buying new tools from time to time. One of my latest is a new 4 1/2″ speed square from Milwaukee, has almost replaced the regular sized square I’ve carried forever. I make a lot of aluminum trim pieces to cover the exterior window trim, these…[Read more]

Sorpa wrote:

brianpeters wrote:
Haven’t posted anything in a long time, but I’m still busy installing replacement windows and doors. Spent all day today bending aluminum on the brake and installing it.

I like it!
How do you miter the corners?

To miter the corners, I run my side pieces up first, with the face extending to the top of opening. The…[Read more]

Haven’t posted anything in a long time, but I’m still busy installing replacement windows and doors. Spent all day today bending aluminum on the brake and installing it.

Replaced a garden window (I think that’s what it’s called) in this kitchen. This house is quite unique compared with other houses around. I’ve never worked with wood shingles before. This will look better once everything is painted.

Doobie wrote:

brianpeters wrote:
Well, I seem to have fixed my driver (for now anyway). I sprayed some electrical contact cleaner into the switch area and into the vents, and now it’s been working great! Probably isn’t the proper fix, but seems to have done the trick. Maybe something was just dirty ?

What kind of stuff is that? Is it liquid Fre…

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Well, I seem to have fixed my driver (for now anyway). I sprayed some electrical contact cleaner into the switch area and into the vents, and now it’s been working great! Probably isn’t the proper fix, but seems to have done the trick. Maybe something was just dirty ?

I replaced an 8′ sliding patio door today
(not by myself). First time on one this big, it was heavy! I got some before pics, and one after it was in but not finished out.

cmeyer25 wrote:

brianpeters wrote:
Not sure if this is the right thread, but I am needing to buy a new 12 volt driver to replace my PS22. I’ve had it a few years now, and it just quit on me. Lights up,fresh battery, but won’t do anything. It’s done this off and on for awhile, usually if I would slap it around, blow on it, it would get going again…

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Not sure if this is the right thread, but I am needing to buy a new 12 volt driver to replace my PS22. I’ve had it a few years now, and it just quit on me. Lights up,fresh battery, but won’t do anything. It’s done this off and on for awhile, usually if I would slap it around, blow on it, it would get going again, but this time nothing works.…[Read more]

Taking a break from the jobsite today, on my way to the Farm Show in Louisville, KY.
I’ve never been to it, but some friends were going and invited me to ride along.

I bought one of these vacs awhile back, it is so handy when replacing windows. I always like to vacuum after cutting out the existing windows, and dragging my big corded vacuum around can be a nuisance!

I agree a neat caulking job looks the best.

I’ve never run into those guys here…must be in bigger cities maybe?

I haven’t been on this forum all that much lately, sad to hear this. Does the rewards list get updated much?

Doobie wrote:

Boschmanbrian wrote:

brianpeters wrote:
Ordered the new Bosch 18 volt canister vac today. Looking forward to using it for those smaller cleanup jobs.

Congratulations Brian, that’s definitely one on my list as well,
Looking forward for hearing what you think about it.

Same here. I see there are now places here in Canada that a…

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RonW wrote:

brianpeters wrote:
Well today I got an email from Bosch saying I’m a winner! Not sure when they’ll start shipping them out…

Alright. Congrats Brian.

I got a DM on Instagram from Bosch a week ago saying I’d won. I actually submitted two videos to the contest, the first was more than 30 seconds long so I made a second. Would be crazy…[Read more]

Well today I got an email from Bosch saying I’m a winner! Not sure when they’ll start shipping them out…

Well today I got an email from Bosch saying I’m a winner! Not sure when they’ll start shipping them out…

Ordered the new Bosch 18 volt canister vac today. Looking forward to using it for those smaller cleanup jobs.