Preachin' to the choir there @the_max... that trick saves so much grief.

My uncle used a garden hose on a space heater once to get hot water for his driveway slab. It worked okay but he said it was a pain to keep the flow steady. Small tricks like that are the backbone of every trade craft out here.

Is that Fine Homebuilding article the same one where they dropped the lasers on concrete instead of packed dirt? Because last time I checked, most job sites don't have a nice cushioned landing pad. I've seen a DeWalt get bounced off a scissor lift onto rebar and it still held its calibration better than any Bosch I've had in my hands. The rotating lock ring thing might be a fail point but so is the plastic housing on the Bosch that cracks if you look at it wrong. And those gel leveling feet Joel mentioned just turn into a sticky mess after a summer in a hot van. Seems like a lot of fuss over a tool that costs twice as much as a decent Hilti or a used PLS.

Honestly that's exactly how it goes sometimes. I bought one of those fancy squeegee things for drying film and it scratched the hell out of my negatives the first time I used it. Ngl I was pretty bummed about that. tbh what worked best for me was just using a regular old wooden clothespin on a string. No marks no scratches and it cost basically nothing. It's funny how the simple stuff always beats the overpriced gadgets.

Wait, 20 years? That’s almost as long as I’ve been watching the show myself. I had no idea the main guy had been doing it that long.