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 such as long walks on the coastline if you can accurately think the weight of this tool bag we will allow you win the net for eventually with it careful with how it lays so when a plumbing technician comes to your residence they'' re normally going to be carrying a bag comparable to this you'' ve commonly wondered what'' s inside the bag today we'' re mosting likely to show you [Songs] i like a half bag and what i imply by that is the back half is level so that method when you'' re lugging it on your shoulder or by the manage it can rest against your body wonderful and easily and you'' re not scrubing all your tools against yourself i'' ve obtained a manage band for me to bring it by my hand i'' ve likewise obtained an adjustable shoulder band that lets me bring it by my shoulder we'' ve obtained an option for a measuring tape hook on either side of the bag a good metal hook on each side of the bag for a measuring tape is remarkable let'' s look at what some of these tools do firstly okay so allow ' s take some time and look at some of these tools and see what we ' ve obtained in the bag firstly we have a sheetrock saw clearly a great deal of the piping that we need to fix is behind sheetrock and we need a great means to get into that sheetrock i like to utilize a handsaw such as this as opposed to a sawzall because sawzalls have a way of cutting whatever in the wall a great deal of which we wear'' t want to reduce so i will certainly use a handsaw this point is quite sharp so i actually inside my bag i have a little copper sheath that i'' ve produced this saw so that whenever i drop the saw down right into the bag it doesn'' t obtain caught on anything it can simply slide down the sheath we have some pipeline joint compound this is a lubricant that helps us screw points with each other helps us obtain them very tight so that they wear'' t leak we have three different sizes of network lock pliers i have a lot more pliers'than this however they put on ' t fit in my go bag a few of them are bigger i prefer the nimpex brand name pliers they appear to have even more adjustability for all the numerous sizes that we require to function with a few other people choose the network lock brand name personally i put on'' t like channel locks they put on'' t appear to size out properly for plumbing piping so i used an impex brand name we have some crescent wrenches i carry 4 different dimension crescent wrenches in my bag i'' ve got a 10 an eight a six and after that my favorite a four inch crescent wrench believe it or otherwise utilize this individual a fair bit we have some electrical stuff plumbing technicians every when in a while need to do some electric work as we'' re electrical wiring in disposals and sump pumps and tankless water heaters and any type of various other different point that we'' re doing that requires electricity number of different uh cable cutters and strippers and afterwards i'' ve additionally obtained what we call a dead male stick i can turn this point on put it right into an outlet or touch it near a cord and it'' s mosting likely to tell me if there is current experiencing that wire prior to i cut into it saves me from obtaining surprised we have what we call a jeweler'' s saw this does very fine cutting for extremely small locations things like commode bolts and stuff like that of a little level head screwdriver think it or otherwise i utilized to have a matched set where i had a tiny phillips head screwdriver too i lost the phillips head screwdriver years ago and i'' ve never ever needed it so i has to have never ever used it flathead screwdriver we utilize a fair bit for touchdown little cords on little terminals i have a series of o-ring selects these normally come in a collection of 4 one of the choices is a straight choice really the only point the straight pick is great for is stabbing into your hand when you'' re attempting to utilize it i prevent that i'' ve also pitched it out of my bag because i maintained stabbing myself with it we'' ve obtained the three'we ' ve got the semi-angled the tilted and afterwards the addicted pick i'' m not even joking regarding stabbing yourself in the hand a plumber must never ever need a straight choice they'' re actually great for making your finger extra divine we have three different sizes of adjustable nut motorists they'' re three various sizes they are adjustable for a quarter inch screw or a 5 16 screw it'' s a magnetic tip you simply pop it off rotate it around put it back on there and you can go from screwing in a quarter inch screw to a 5 16 inch screw three different links due to the fact that you never ever understand what we'' re going to get into worst situation scenario we can also stack them together and get longer sizes if we require next up putty blade basically the only time i ever use this is for scuffing toilet wax off of bathrooms or off of wax rings or flanges when we'' re doing toilets we just 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 couple of screwdrivers both of these are in fact similar i much like to lose screwdrivers and so i have 2 of them among them is established for a quarter inch nut chauffeur if i pop completion off among them is set up for a 5 16ths nut vehicle driver if i pop completion off i'' m kidding about shedding them i very seldom shed my devices besides the flathead screwdriver to save time from trying to switch all these around to make them help 5 16 or quarter i just have two of them we have a pair of large screwdrivers one is phillips one is flathead these will certainly utilize a lot for mounting garbage disposals and tankless hot water heater anything where we'' ve obtained larger screws in position that we need to collaborate with the larger takes care of on the screwdrivers make them truly comfy to make use of two various versions of allen wrenches we'' ve got conventional and we ' ve obtained metric taps seem to have any mix of either of them a few of the faucets nowadays that are coming off of like amazon.com will have both standard screws and metric allen screws we need to maintain a complete set of both and you would be surprised both of these sets are still 100 full have actually never ever lost an allen wrench we'' ve got the timeless stanley fat max measuring tape it is impossible to utilize this point without trying to send it out and see exactly how far you can obtain it to go without it breaking over and i believe we'' re concerning ready to damage over now oh there it had to do with 11 feet on a non-windy day i'' ve obtained this point bent on regarding a 12-foot stand out without it breaking over it benefits whatever a plumbing technician requires to work with it it'' s a 25-foot version they make them in 30s and 35s practically anything i ever needs 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
One more stanley item below we'' ve got the utility blade i such as this one due to the fact that in the manage we can keep added blades and extremely quickly you can change the blade if you need to plumbing technicians often tend to undergo a great deal of blades a lot of what we are reducing is on like ceramic tile or something like that so the blades get dull pretty fast blades are economical i like sharp blades since they'' re a lot much safer than dull blades so stanley for the wind there now we'' ve got a collection of uh husky these are home depot brand husky tubing cutters these are for pex piping or any kind of thinner smaller sized plastic piping normal common tubing cutters these you can obtain a changeable blade for however for the price of the blade you might as well just buy an entire new set of cutters i'' ve got a number of sets of tin clips in my vehicle nevertheless i only maintain one set of slightly offset reds in my bag i'' m right-handed the reds function actually well for right-handed they'' re slightly balanced out because if we need to cut a little circle or anything we can these are rather inexpensive one of the important things you'' ll notification too is a great deal of these devices are relatively cost-effective the reason for that plumbing technicians like to get their devices wet half of what we'' re dealing with is either dripping or leaking or flooded in some way form or form so our tools obtain submerged all the time my sheetrock saw is all rustic due to the fact that it gets submerged in wet sheetrock regularly there'' s actually not a considerable factor in investing severe dollars right into some pipes devices due to the fact that they'' re going to get rustic they'' re going to obtain broken and and you can just replace them right a few of the devices i do buy these nimpex pliers they'' re not cheap yet they clean up from corrosion fairly well i mean i'' m utilizing husky brand name crescent wrenches and husky brand o-ring chooses every one of this things you can grab in the house depot rather cheaply we'' ve got a small eight-inch level certainly with pipes some of the stuff we mount demands to be degree several of it requires to have a certain quantity of incline and this degree allows us to capture every one of that wouldn'' t be a very good plumber if you did not have a level in your bag successive we have a water stress gauge this is essential since every little thing in plumbing on the supply side manage water pressure excessive water stress can damage a great deal of things and plumbing we have a scale to ensure that the water stress remains in check and also ensure that when we'' re adjusting it we'' re setting it exactly where we want it to be this certain scale is filled with glycol to enhance its shock absorption level and additionally reduce its chance that it may freeze in the wintertime time we are based out of kansas city missouri and we freeze in the wintertimes here so we need to ensure that our gauge does not lastly on completion below we have some smaller chances and finish stuff i'' ve obtained a little set of tubing cutters this isn'' t the only pair of tubing cutters i have yet it'' s the only set i have in my bag a small collection for making close quarter repairs absolutely nothing even more than that here we have some lavatory grease a whole lot of times when we'' re putting together taps or reconstructing faucets as we'' re placing every one of the different rubber seals with each other we will layer them in a wonderful level or layer of grease or as we'' re screwing shower deals with back on we will layer the set screw for the shower deal with in a layer of grease to make sure that the following person has a possibility to get that established screw out two different designs of tape on the vehicle two completely different objectives one is electrical tape used for electrical and one is pipeline string tape it is teflon tape and it is another variation of a lubricant that we can put around the threads of a pipe when we'' re screwing it together to assist us obtain that pipe tighter a whole lot of individuals think this is sealant and it'' s not it does absolutely nothing for sealing it just assists lower the friction degree to enable us to get the pipe tighter to make sure that it can make a seal on its very own lastly i have some extra these are called poly ferrules these assistance seal little water lines from your taps and your toilets these ferals like to obtain shed or they such as to be missing out on periodically so i maintain a tiny sleeve of extras so i am never without currently you recognize what'' s in a plumber ' s bag since we understand what ' s in a plumber ' s bag we can go offer that back to the individual we swiped it from subscribe as the young kids would call it okay currently you recognize what'' s in a plumber ' s bag so if you liked what you saw provide us a thumbs up on the video if you place'' t registered for 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A Day In The Life Of A SERVICE PLUMBER (#3)- Tool Edition