I believe that the NiCads do well in cold weather whereas the lithium are sluggish until put under use for a bit. I suspect direct sunlight and heat are bad for Lithium Ion so I try to avoid that.
I never bothered to take these tools out of the truck on a daily basis. Like I said other than my Lithium being sluggish in the cold I have never an issue

brianpeters wrote:Still working on these Andersen windows, all the windows are in, just trying to wrap up the aluminum trim work. Seems like it’s taking too long, but it’s turning out well.

Nice tight brake work on the bills. What did you do insert windows?

Helped a buddy bang down some Trex.
I have the TG gun……such a time saver.

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:Other than a Facebook page for our business we have not done any advertising on Facebook. We do not update or post to our facebook page as much as we should. We do seem to get a fair amount of visits to our page as well as our website.

This year we are focusing on larger jobs instead of the smaller ones. Hopefully…

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Thank goodness the underside is open.

Wasn’t uncommon for brass traps to rot out the galvanized nipple coming out of the waste line.

I hope you don’t have to deal with that trap arm………

Another hiccup I have run into is the sink drain location. Some of the older wall mounted sinks had tight bend/ close quarters traps that won’t fit s modern plastic bend without killing the…[Read more]

No advertising here other than word if mouth.

A couple of years ago, fir several years work flow was terrible and I felt I was left out not having any internet presence. I didn’t want one either. Too many drive bys wasting your time.

I did local newspapers and I sold whatever came out of it but for the most part it was dead compared to the old days.

No it was an existing wall outlet, no harm in leaving it. Just added an extension ring.

Did add pull chain lights though.

Yeah it doesnt seem possible. I will have to lift up in position before any drawing together efforts.

Hopefully they act a bit in unison and Im not fighting each individual step

So I forgot to do pictures but the customers happy

So I was sent some pictures, Friday I am going to see what I can do.

Heres the severity of the problem. By the pictures it doesnt look like the walls are spread but they must be. Im going to try turnbuckles, ratchet straps….whatever I can to pull back together and work it back into position.

I use a little wire brush and dig the blade of a untility knife through the grooves.

I still think the trap is the least of the problem.

Did you change the trap? The trap doesn’t look as bad as the trap arm.

Usually those nipples rot out and you have the challenge of cleaning it out of the threads. My plumber has a larger tap for that occasion. I don’t and when faced with the situation I tephlon the crap out of a PVC adapter.

I see these more often going into the basement where there are no side walls holding the stairs together.
In this case some threaded rod and nuts on the outside draw things back together.

I read an article a few years ago that I never forgot. It was about plumbers moving a cast iron tub out of the second floor down the stairs and fall into the…[Read more]

Yes with housed stringers you basically have solid stair and riser spanned between the size of 5/4 solid skirting.

Instead of having cleats supporting stairs and risers the fabricator routes out a mortise into the five quarter to accept about 3/4 inch of the stair.

They are then slid into place wedged and glued. When installed the side skirting…[Read more]

Brian do they use housed stringers in your area or cut dimensional lumber?

Nice project clev08

Sorry about your buddy Ron, that’s a heartbreaker

A little of this and a little of that chugging along with the cedar closets. Hoping to tomorrow to come close to the end