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Finally got my crew to stop eyeballing pipe cuts after a redo cost us a day in Cincinnati.
I used to think my old Milwaukee tape measure was good enough, but after marking a 2-inch stub-out wrong three times last fall, I switched to a laser measure for every layout, so has anyone else made a simple tool swap that just fixed everything?
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seangarcia1mo agoMost Upvoted
Man, a buddy of mine had the same fight with his guys over cutting joists. They kept using a speed square and a pencil, and the whole floor felt like a funhouse. He finally bought a cheap angle finder with a digital readout and made it a rule. The next deck went up in half the time with no shims. Sometimes you just need the right tool to make the mistake impossible.
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cameronb971mo ago
Yeah, my contractor swore by those too.
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sarah_brown13d ago
Make the mistake impossible" is such a good way to put it. So was it just the digital readout that fixed things, or did the tool itself force a different way of marking the cut? I'm curious what @cameronb97's contractor liked about them, if it was the same thing. Some guys just hate changing a routine even when it's clearly causing problems later.
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