jamesroofer

depending on the soil test for the block you're building on i would try to bury the compressor, dirt is a marvelous sound insulator. don't worry about heating, make a wood burner. Your chippie mates will have more off-cut wood than you will ever need. Fire in a workshop gives it a soul, even a new shiny new workshop. Maybe polish the concrete floor its not that dear down here and its a nice finish

Tools may be a means to an end, however if the tools aren't there the ends never comes. I do both the big stuff and ppls homes and if i dont have the appropriate tool on hand to do my job i feel like the homeowner(particularly) and/or site manager assumes its amateur hour. I smash my tools but i take care of them too. Most of my hand tools i have had for more than 5 years and i've laid km's square of roof. Had my socket set for 15 years and it still rattles home coach bolts and gets kit sheds to lock up. Love your tools and they stick with you. Any contractor that isn't a toolaholic is in admin i reckon.

760 mm fubar? i "lost" my fubar and it wasn't 760 mm, didn't cry tho... just. if you are grumpy enough and it MUST BE DONE the shorter one can take 30 metres of gutter of a 2.4 metre high fascia in about half an hour. We dont have the big ones in Oz yet i'm very jealous. no damn xr radio yet either, 240v mains a blessing and a curse.

G'day i'm a chef from Tasmania who has been working as a metal deck roof plumber for the past 6 years. My job entails removing all types of roofing materials and replacing them appropriately; all types of internal box, valley and custom fold gutters as well as fascia gutters of any type(spouting); down-pipes; wall-cladding of many types; roofing/wall structural construction and repair; all manner of roof windows, skylights, etc... Also due to my locale i have my ticket for asbestos removal and encapsulation, i reckon a third of the houses i work on are heritage listed. Dewalt xr for cordless =), irwin grips and folders, an insane looking stewart hammer, Hilti screwgun(corded, even xr will struggle with roof zips from 6 till 6), irwin gilbows and stanley offset snips not the fatmax ones with the crap grips the old school ones i have had for 4 years. Work for a company that employs about 120 souls but most of them work in laser cutting, powder-coating and fabrication or admin. We got about 20 roofers. I run a crew of 3 me and two apprentices, its winter here cold wet f&^%ing windy around 38 to 50 kph on the hills, we had 2 days off for weather so far this year lol they both been in the last week.