back at the marriot hotel build.. working on c.f.s mostly. the site is down to 1 crane from 3 and theres multiple trades fighting over using it to get material to the rooftop… really slows things down

usually i just use kraft paper which is then covered with 1/4″ osb

i was back at my compostie deck job today working on some siding repairs. went to put the siding back on where it had to be removed for a beam pocket to be created…. only to realize the home owner must have thrown out the piece of j channel i kept for that location….. gotta go pick up a piece during the week now

ive been working on a hotel build for roughly 4 months. we are fastening cfs walls to the precast floor slabs with 3 /16″ tapcons for which were using sds drills to pilot drill.. on average per floor we have to drive about 1500 tapcons .. we go through about 40 bits per floor.. they wear out and break regularly.. basically it comes down to the…[Read more]

ive never heard keeping the battery on the tool causing issue.. however having them on the charger can and will kill hte battery if its not plugged in.. my first drill was a 18v nicad it died do to this

ive never heard keeping the battery on the tool causing issue.. however having them on the charger can and will kill hte battery if its not plugged in.. my first drill was a 18v nicad it died do to this

ive talked to mark a few times on instagram via dm and in his live chats.. its funny how i was one of his first 100 follows when he joined the ig community

i havent bought one yet as i still have 2 fully working stilletos… however i do want a m4

similarly i have talked to mark about doing some artwork for him

im a litle late to this party… happy belated canada day guys.. i was deck building on the 1st

mark did in fact improve upon the stilleto design when he came out with the m1… hes very active on instagram… he does live feeds regularly.. he talks about all the different versions of stilleto he made before the tibone along with wood handle

he lives fairly close to where occi is based out of so they did in fact team up and they act as the…[Read more]

ive used teh tapcon ones only a couple times, they work well, at the hotel build ive been on the precast concrete crew have been using hilti ones to ancohr their guard rail system to the precast floor slabs

i havent posted in this thread in some time,

ive spent the better part of 4 months at a marriot hotel build, we are landing Cold form steel structural steel walls on that that project, its 8 stories. also we have 2 office interior jobs on the go downtown in seperate towers.

this week we took over the icf foundation of a very…[Read more]

if your using a stool profile bit without a bearing pretty sure you have to use a router table.. its a larger profile which needs the more powerful router

im on the list of tool testers as well. but i dont get any real contact from it… im in direct contact with the canadian bosch office though. if theres something coming out they contact me or if its something new and cant find listed anywhere to buy i ask

i leave my batteries in teh truck all the time too, other than charging them…

i have a ton of batteries but i dont carry a charger, i charge dead batteries at home overnight.. ones that are still charged stay on teh tools in the truck

if bosch is sticking with teh socket ready design on newer models i hope they make it more compact… the size is my number one complaint about it..

milwaukee used to have a radio that charged batteries but i think they got sued as well… they just stopped making them at that point.. every readio since from red can run off a battery but cant charge it

my guess is the patent has run out hence bosch not having to pay anymore

construction adhesive, window and siding polybutyl caulking along with dap just get left open.. they typically get used up pretty quickly anyway.

open silicone tubes just get tossed, its not that often that i need it and no matter how well i seal the tube it just ends up curing anyway

the new m18 table saw and the jig saws are probably the two things im looking forward to the most. also the plate levels look good.

the updated circ saw isnt that big a thing for me as im not really a fan of their circ saws anymore.. makita has been my goto for about 6 years

the new cordless super sawzall looks like its gonna be a beast, they…[Read more]

hey hey, ive hardly been active here lately,, but been keeping busy.. ive mostly been working on the marriott hotel job landing majest wall system panels

the weekends have been spent on a custom desk for my buddys brand new barbor shop, a small baseboard job elswhere and pricing up several deck jobs that are in the works