A Day In The Life Of A SERVICE PLUMBER (#3)- Tool Edition
A Day In The Life Of A SERVICE PLUMBER (#3)- Tool Edition
A Day In The Life Of A SERVICE PLUMBER (#3)- Tool Edition
do you like long walks on the beach if you can properly think the weight of this device bag we will certainly allow you win the internet for eventually with it careful with exactly how it lays so when a plumbing technician involves your residence they'' re usually going to be carrying a bag comparable to this you'' ve often wondered what'' s inside the bag today we'' re going to reveal you [Songs] i prefer a half bag and what i suggest by that is the back half is level so that method when you'' re bring it on your shoulder or by the manage it can rest against your body great and quickly and you'' re not massaging all your tools against on your own i'' ve obtained a manage strap for me to lug it by my hand i'' ve additionally obtained a flexible shoulder band that lets me bring it by my shoulder we'' ve got a choice for a measuring tape hook on either side of the bag a good steel hook on each side of the bag for a measuring tape is awesome allow'' s look at what a few of these devices do most importantly all right so allow ' s take a while and go over a few of these devices and see what we ' ve entered the bag first and foremost we have a sheetrock saw obviously a great deal of the piping that we need to fix is behind sheetrock and we require a great means to get involved in that sheetrock i prefer to make use of a handsaw such as this rather than a sawzall since sawzalls have a means of cutting everything in the wall a great deal of which we put on'' t intend to cut so i will use a handsaw this thing is rather sharp so i actually inside my bag i have a little copper sheath that i'' ve produced this saw to make sure that whenever i drop the saw down into the bag it doesn'' t get caught on anything it can just slide down the sheath we have some pipe joint substance this is a lube that assists us screw things with each other aids us obtain them extremely limited to ensure that they put on'' t leakage we have three different dimensions of network lock pliers i have much more pliers'than this however they wear ' t suit my go bag a few of them are larger i prefer the nimpex brand pliers they appear to have more adjustability for all the numerous sizes that we need to function with some various other individuals choose the network lock brand directly i wear'' t like channel locks they don'' t appear to size out appropriately for pipes piping so i utilized an impex brand name we have some crescent wrenches i lug 4 various size crescent wrenches in my bag i'' ve obtained a 10 a 8 a 6 and after that my favored a 4 inch crescent wrench think it or otherwise utilize this individual a fair bit we have some electric stuff plumbings every as soon as in a while have to do some electrical job as we'' re electrical wiring in disposals and sump pumps and tankless water heating units and any other numerous point that we'' re doing that calls for electrical power number of various uh cable cutters and strippers and afterwards i'' ve likewise got what we call a dead guy stick i can transform this thing on placed it right into an outlet or touch it near a cord and it'' s mosting likely to inform me if there is existing experiencing that cable prior to i reduced into it conserves me from obtaining shocked we have what we call a jewelry expert'' s saw this does really fine reducing for very tiny locations points like commode bolts and things like that of a small level head screwdriver believe it or otherwise i used to have a matched set where i had a small phillips head screwdriver too i lost the phillips head screwdriver years back and i'' ve never required it so i has to have never utilized it flathead screwdriver we utilize a fair bit for touchdown little cables on little terminals i have a series of o-ring chooses these typically been available in a collection of four one of the picks is a straight pick actually the only thing the straight pick is excellent for is jabbing into your hand when you'' re attempting to use it i stay clear of that one i'' ve also pitched it out of my bag due to the fact that i maintained stabbing myself with it we'' ve got the three'we ' ve obtained the semi-angled the tilted and then the addicted choice i'' m not even kidding concerning stabbing on your own in the hand a plumbing professional ought to never require a straight pick they'' re really good for making your finger additional holy we have three various sizes of adjustable nut vehicle drivers they'' re three various lengths they are flexible for a quarter inch screw or a 5 16 screw it'' s a magnetic pointer you simply pop it off rotate it around placed it back on there and you can go from screwing in a quarter inch screw to a 5 16 inch screw three various web links since you never ever understand what we'' re going to obtain right into worst instance scenario we can additionally pile them together and obtain longer lengths if we require successive putty blade pretty a lot the only time i ever utilize this is for scratching bathroom wax off of bathrooms or off of wax rings or flanges when we'' re doing commodes we only touch this end of the putty blade we never ever touch this end since that end has actually been in the doo doo zone we have a number of screwdrivers both of these are really identical i similar to to shed screwdrivers therefore i have 2 of them among them is established for a quarter inch nut vehicle driver if i stand out completion off among them is established up for a 5 16ths nut vehicle driver if i stand out the end off i'' m joking concerning shedding them i on and off lose my tools with the exception of the flathead screwdriver to save time from trying to switch all these around to make them benefit 5 16 or quarter i just have two of them we have a set of big screwdrivers one is phillips one is flathead these will use a lot for mounting waste disposal unit and tankless hot water heater anything where we'' ve obtained larger screws in position that we require to function with the bigger handles on the screwdrivers make them really comfortable to use two various variations of allen wrenches we'' ve obtained standard and we ' ve got metric taps appear to have any mix of either of them some of the faucets nowadays that are coming off of like amazon.com will have both conventional screws and statistics allen screws we have to maintain a full collection of both and you would certainly be shocked both of these sets are still 100 complete have never shed an allen wrench we'' ve obtained the classic stanley fat max tape measure it is difficult to use this thing without attempting to send it out and see exactly how much you can get it to go without it damaging over and i assume we'' re concerning ready to break over today oh there it was about 11 feet on a non-windy day i'' ve gotten this point out to about a 12-foot attract attention without it damaging over it helps whatever a plumbing technician needs to work with it it'' s a 25-foot design they make them in 30s and 35s practically anything i ever requires a 25.
A Day In The Life Of A SERVICE PLUMBER (#3)- Tool Edition
A Day In The Life Of A SERVICE PLUMBER (#3)- Tool Edition
A Day In The Life Of A SERVICE PLUMBER (#3)- Tool Edition
An additional stanley item right here we'' ve got the energy knife i like this one since in the handle we can store extra blades and extremely quickly you can replace the blade if you need to plumbings often tend to experience a lot of blades a whole lot of what we are reducing gets on like ceramic floor tile or something like that so the blades get dull quite fast blades are low-cost i like sharp blades since they'' re a whole lot much safer than boring blades so stanley for the wind there now we'' ve got a collection of uh husky these are home depot brand name husky tubing cutters these are for pex piping or any type of thinner smaller sized plastic piping typical typical tubes cutters these you might get an exchangeable blade for but also for the price of the blade you could too simply buy an entire brand-new set of cutters i'' ve obtained numerous pairs of tin trims in my vehicle nonetheless i just keep one pair of gently offset reds in my bag i'' m right-handed the reds work really well for right-handed they'' re slightly offset due to the fact that if we need to cut a small circle or anything we can these are rather cost-effective one of the important things you'' ll notice as well is a great deal of these tools are relatively cost-effective the factor for that plumbing technicians like to obtain their tools damp fifty percent of what we'' re functioning on is either dripping or leaking or flooded in some way form or type so our devices obtain submerged constantly my sheetrock saw is all corroded due to the fact that it obtains submerged in damp sheetrock regularly there'' s really not a significant factor in investing severe bucks right into some pipes devices since they'' re going to get rusty they'' re going to get worn and and you can simply change them right a few of the devices i do spend in these nimpex pliers they'' re not low-cost however they tidy up from corrosion rather well i suggest i'' m making use of husky brand crescent wrenches and husky brand name o-ring selects every one of this stuff you can select up in your home depot rather cheaply we'' ve got a little eight-inch degree undoubtedly with pipes some of right stuff we set up demands to be level several of it needs to have a specific quantity of incline and this level permits us to capture every one of that wouldn'' t be an excellent plumber if you did not have a degree in your bag next up we have a water pressure scale this is critical because whatever in plumbing on the supply side bargains with water stress too much water pressure can destroy a lot of points and plumbing we have a scale to see to it that the water stress is in check and additionally make certain that when we'' re readjusting it we'' re setting it precisely where we want it to be this specific gauge is full of glycol to enhance its shock absorption degree and likewise lower its chance that it might freeze in the wintertime time we are based out of kansas city missouri and we freeze in the winters below so we require to make certain that our gauge does not last but not least on the end below we have some smaller chances and end stuff i'' ve obtained a tiny set of tubing cutters this isn'' t the only pair of tubing cutters i have but it'' s the only pair i have in my bag a little collection for making close quarter fixings nothing more than that below we have some lavatory oil a great deal of times when we'' re constructing faucets or rebuilding taps as we'' re placing all of the various rubber seals with each other we will certainly layer them in a good level or layer of oil or as we'' re screwing shower takes care of back on we will coat the established screw for the shower deal with in a layer of grease to ensure that the next person has an opportunity to get that set screw out two different styles of tape on the vehicle 2 totally different purposes one is electric tape made use of for electrical and one is pipe string tape it is teflon tape and it is an additional variation of a lubricating substance that we can put around the threads of a pipeline when we'' re screwing it with each other to help us get that pipeline tighter a great deal of people assume this is sealer and it'' s not it not does anything for sealing it simply helps reduced the rubbing degree to allow us to get the pipeline tighter to ensure that it can make a seal on its very own lastly i have some extra these are called poly ferrules these aid seal little water lines from your faucets and your bathrooms these ferals like to obtain lost or they such as to be missing every so often so i maintain a small sleeve of additionals so i am never without now you recognize what'' s in a plumbing technician ' s bag now that we understand what ' s in a plumbing technician ' s bag we can go consider that back to the person we took it from subscribe as the young children would call it okay now you know what'' s in a plumbing professional ' s bag so if you liked what you saw offer us a thumbs up on the 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A Day In The Life Of A SERVICE PLUMBER (#3)- Tool Edition