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Speaker 2: essential homeowner tools weekend that we're doing. But right now,
Speaker 2: top of the hour, as is our custom, it is
Speaker 2: time to go to the phones find out what's going
Speaker 2: on with your home. I want to talk to Tim. Hey, Tim, welcome.
Speaker 3: Home, Hi Dane, how are you? Good morning?
Speaker 2: Good morning sir? How can I help?
Speaker 3: We got a fourteen year old house and a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago we had a pinhole leak in one
Speaker 3: of the copper pipes above our kitchen and the ceiling.
Speaker 3: So the plumber came out, cut off that section and
Speaker 3: replace placed it with a new section of pipe. And
Speaker 3: then last year we had another pinhole leak in the
Speaker 3: same section of pipe. It's like a ten foot section.
Speaker 3: We've gotten a water conditioner for the house. So the
Speaker 3: fear is is this the start of many pinhole leaks?
Speaker 3: Replacing all the piping sounds like a nightmare. I've done
Speaker 3: some research. I found one company that does repiping, as
Speaker 3: they call it. It looks like they inject some kind
Speaker 3: of polymer into the existing pipes as a coating to
Speaker 3: protect it against future leaks. But I wanted to get
Speaker 3: your thoughts on what's the best way to address this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I feel for you, you know, And it's
Speaker 2: a fourteen year old house. That's young for above ground
Speaker 2: copper to be failing that is young. Are you guys
Speaker 2: in a Have you guys had your water tested? You
Speaker 2: know what? Do you have heavy mineralization in your water?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very hard water here where we live. We're
Speaker 3: in San Diego, and that's why we went for the
Speaker 3: water conditioner. When I researched it, everybody I talked to
Speaker 3: it seemed to be a fifty to fifty toss up
Speaker 3: between the conditioning system and the other type of system.
Speaker 3: So we went with the conditioner to reduce the lime
Speaker 3: scale on the pipes.
Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, well okay, so yeah, I feel for you.
Speaker 2: You do have a young house, and normally, normally in nowadays,
Speaker 2: we consider copper piping to have a twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: year lifespan to it. To say that there aren't systems
Speaker 2: out there that are way way older than that, but
Speaker 2: that is essentially what you know the copper manufacturers are
Speaker 2: actually saying. Listen, this is what it's good for. And
Speaker 2: most of the time though, that's it when we've got
Speaker 2: in ground plumbing and you're talking about overhead stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I am a little concerned about that. So what do
Speaker 2: we do? Well, you've got two choices, essentially when it
Speaker 2: comes to a well three when it comes to dealing
Speaker 2: with the system that you've got there at the house.
Speaker 2: Number One, you keep going to bed nervous every night
Speaker 2: because another pinhole league develops somewhere else and potentially damages
Speaker 2: other things, and that's no good. So is it wise
Speaker 2: at this point for you to look to the other
Speaker 2: two alternatives and just get it handled? Sure, of course
Speaker 2: it is. The two main alternative you've got is a
Speaker 2: physical repipe okay of the house, meaning that new pipes
Speaker 2: are run, new plumbing lines are run to all of
Speaker 2: your fixtures in the home, and the copper isn't necessarily
Speaker 2: pulled out. I mean when they when re pipers will
Speaker 2: they'll pull out what they can, but they're not going
Speaker 2: to go tearing up walls just to get an abandoned
Speaker 2: copper pipe out of the wall, because it doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: it's doesn't have water running through it anymore. They'll just
Speaker 2: leave it in place, doesn't hurt the wall, doesn't hurt
Speaker 2: the house as they run the new material. That would
Speaker 2: be in my recommendation to run a new system or
Speaker 2: repipe system using pecks piping. It does not react to
Speaker 2: the hardness in the water the same way that the
Speaker 2: copper does. And the thing with pecks, it's flexible, which
Speaker 2: means that we can minimize the amount of joins of
Speaker 2: actual you know, ninety degree fittings and so on everywhere.
Speaker 2: A PEX system can theoretically be run end to end
Speaker 2: from manifold all the way to the end of a
Speaker 2: fixture without any additional fittings, which means it's that much
Speaker 2: more reliable in terms of not worrying about a fitting breaking,
Speaker 2: which is most of the time where a leak occurs.
Speaker 2: So there's that, or there are companies out there who,
Speaker 2: as you were saying, are doing epoxy re pipes, and
Speaker 2: it's basically where they take the system that you've got
Speaker 2: and they will shoot inside of those pipes under high
Speaker 2: pressure and high volume flow an epoxy substance that clings
Speaker 2: to the inside of the pipe and essentially becomes a
Speaker 2: lining for the inside of the pipe. Have I seen
Speaker 2: those done successfully, Yes I have. Have I seen them botched?
Speaker 2: Yes I have. So my advice to you is twofold
Speaker 2: number one. You got to get it priced out, okay,
Speaker 2: price out both options. Price out a repipe among two
Speaker 2: or three qualified services, and price out a an epoxy
Speaker 2: on the inside of the existing copper lines, and price
Speaker 2: that out with two or three qualified services. And when
Speaker 2: I say qualified services, it's not just any old plumber
Speaker 2: who occasionally does an epoxy job on pipes. Go with
Speaker 2: a company that has a guarantee and that does this
Speaker 2: a lot, because it's easy to mess up, because if
Speaker 2: it isn't done exactly right, then the epoxy can build
Speaker 2: up in some areas too thick, even clog up, and
Speaker 2: significantly reduce flow in your copper system. So it's a
Speaker 2: it's a it's a valid, viable way of lining the
Speaker 2: inside of aging failing pipes. It works, it works, but
Speaker 2: it's got to be done by somebody who really really
Speaker 2: knows their stuff. And is it going to be cheaper
Speaker 2: than a repipe, don't know, don't know. Honestly, it's not
Speaker 2: a given that it's cheaper. Is it a little less invasive, sure? Okay,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't necessarily. You know, a little bit of
Speaker 2: drywall removed here and there for a repipe is not
Speaker 2: the end of the world. Drywall is inexpensive and it's
Speaker 2: easy to fix. So the question is what's it going
Speaker 2: to cost for your particular home. You should always homeowners,
Speaker 2: always get multiple bids and explore every avenue before you
Speaker 2: make a decision.
Speaker 3: What do you think the chances of this one twelve
Speaker 3: foot pipe is just a defective pipe. Since I've had
Speaker 3: both ten o lakes in the same pipe.
Speaker 2: It's possible. It's possible, it's a little odd, and it
Speaker 2: may just be its location or the way that the
Speaker 2: water settles in that pipe. It's just really really hard
Speaker 2: to guess. But because you've had problems with that section twice,
Speaker 2: if it's accessible, if it's something running through the attic,
Speaker 2: I might suggest replacing that section with a piece of pecks,
Speaker 2: not copper again, but pecks which can tie into copper
Speaker 2: lines just fine. And then cross your fingers and see
Speaker 2: if anything else goes bad anywhere else in the house,
Speaker 2: and you know what, you might be in the situation
Speaker 2: where it holds up just fine. You're like, yeah, for
Speaker 2: whatever reason it was that bad pipe or that pipe
Speaker 2: located with our water in this bad situation. But if
Speaker 2: anything else goes bad anywhere else in the house, then
Speaker 2: you've got to assume that the whole system is beginning
Speaker 2: to show its age or is failing for whatever the condition.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense, Tim, I gotta go. Thank you
Speaker 2: for your call. I hope that helps. Always, always, always
Speaker 2: explore every option. Windows shopping is free, getting qualified estimates
Speaker 2: for everything so that you know ahead of time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we've made the most informed decision possible. Thanks for your call, Tim.
Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, more of your calls
Speaker 2: your home with Dean Sharp the house whisper. I am
Speaker 2: I Jean Sharp, the house whisper at your service. Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us on the program today. What is that?
Speaker 2: That's the sound of my basketball? Yes, I am holding
Speaker 2: them back. This is my emotional support basketball. I hold
Speaker 2: on to it when I'm exceptionally tired and life just
Speaker 2: get you know, it's just a basketball. Uh, we're not
Speaker 2: talking about basketball today. We're talking about essential tools for
Speaker 2: your home. But right now I am spending some time
Speaker 2: going to the phones. I want to go back to
Speaker 2: the phones. Before we get back to essential tools, take
Speaker 2: at least one more call let's talk to Ivan. Hey, Ivan,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning. I am well sir, how.
Speaker 2: Can I help you?
Speaker 4: Well, here's a question about roof sheaving seven sixteen OSB.
Speaker 4: My question there is what length of screws rather than
Speaker 4: nailing it would you use to anchor it to the raptors?
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this, why are you thinking
Speaker 2: about using screws versus nails?
Speaker 4: Well, looking at thinking they won't pull out like nails do,
Speaker 4: because I've got an older roof and I've seen some
Speaker 4: of the nails have pulled through the you know, work
Speaker 4: their way out through the plywood, and some of the
Speaker 4: old plywood has warped. So I'd like to replace all
Speaker 4: that sheathing there, Okay, and I figure screws would hold that.
Speaker 2: Uh, screws will hold better. You're it's a lot of
Speaker 2: work putting screws in up there versus nails. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm just implying. So here's the thing. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to answer your question as far as the the length
Speaker 2: of the screw you know, generally speaking, the thickness of
Speaker 2: your sheathing and then that thickness again into the wood. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you got roughly you know, half inch. When it
Speaker 2: comes to a screw, you've got roughly half inch sheathing,
Speaker 2: and if you can get a little bit more than
Speaker 2: a half inch penetration into the wood with your screw,
Speaker 2: then you'd be in good shape. So a one inch
Speaker 2: screw inch and a quarter inch screw you want to
Speaker 2: go deeper, you know, by all means you don't really
Speaker 2: need to go much deeper than that. So there you go.
Speaker 2: Now there is an easier way though that I can
Speaker 2: give you some advice on if it were me. If
Speaker 2: it were me, I would still be using nails up
Speaker 2: there and not screws. You know, by and large, you know,
Speaker 2: in the industry we don't screw down sheeting sheathing for roofs.
Speaker 2: We still nail it. But if there's a concern about
Speaker 2: anything working their way out in the future, then I
Speaker 2: would use eight penny nails, and I would use a
Speaker 2: particular kind of nail that's known as a ring shank nail. Okay,
Speaker 2: a ring shank eight penny gun nail is a nail
Speaker 2: that has ridges on it, and essentially it's kind of,
Speaker 2: if you want to call it, this barbed and so
Speaker 2: because of that, ring shanks do not easily work themselves
Speaker 2: lose under any circumstances whatsoever, and yet they shoot in quickly, effectively, efficiently.
Speaker 2: And so for a roof sheathing situation, eight penny ring
Speaker 2: shanks is kind of like the ultimate in long lasting
Speaker 2: performance for the sheathing and ease and speed of installing
Speaker 2: the roof sheathing itself, because you can use a pneumatic
Speaker 2: nailer or you can use an electric nailer and actually
Speaker 2: get it all done faster and more efficiently. Now, just
Speaker 2: one little area of a roof that you're repairing, that's
Speaker 2: one thing you know, have at it, use whatever connective
Speaker 2: you know, fasteners you want to use. But if we're
Speaker 2: really talking about resheathing an entire roof, it's just a
Speaker 2: big road to hoe. As they say, there's just a
Speaker 2: lot there, and so if you want to take the
Speaker 2: time to screw it all down, that's fine, go for it.
Speaker 2: But we typically don't do that because number one, we're
Speaker 2: not worried about it creaking or anything like that like
Speaker 2: a floor. That's why we don't even glue down roof
Speaker 2: sheathing two rafters, it's just nailed and applied because they
Speaker 2: will hold, They will hold long term if it's done right.
Speaker 2: And if the nail makes connection. So it's a little
Speaker 2: unorthodox to use screws for a roof ivan, but I'm
Speaker 2: not going to tell you not to. I just want
Speaker 2: you to make sure that you know what you're in
Speaker 2: store for. Ultimately, I would still use nails in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2: And if I wanted things just really, really firmly a
Speaker 2: fixed up there, then I would use a ring shank
Speaker 2: style nail and you will be in good shape. My friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your call. Appreciate it. Hope that helps.
Speaker 2: I know it does, really would encourage you. Just go
Speaker 2: ahead and nail that roof sheathing in. You won't regret it,
Speaker 2: not if you use the right nails. All right, y'aul.
Speaker 2: When we come back, let's dig back into our list
Speaker 2: of essential home owner tools to take care of the
Speaker 2: stuff that happens around your house. Remember how I said
Speaker 2: not to be expecting to pull a bunch of nails
Speaker 2: with your claw hammer. Well, what are we gonna pull
Speaker 2: nails with? We will discuss pride bars and nail polars
Speaker 2: and chisels when we come back your Home with Dean
Speaker 2: Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2: the house Whisper, the place where we talk about all
Speaker 2: things regarding your home design, construction, DIY, decor, landscape, interior scape,
Speaker 2: you name it. We're here to talk about your home today,
Speaker 2: and we're starting out the year this first weekend of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five by giving you my list of essential
Speaker 2: homeowner tools for your essential homeowner toolkit. Now, this is
Speaker 2: not a project list. This is not like, oh, I've
Speaker 2: got to build a thing, you know, whenever you have
Speaker 2: to do something like that. The project is going to
Speaker 2: define the tool list itself because it needs certain things.
Speaker 2: This is the toolkit that's sitting in the garage or
Speaker 2: the workshop, or wherever the case may be, or closet
Speaker 2: somewhere in the house. This is your go to a
Speaker 2: what I call reactive tools. This is when something goes wrong,
Speaker 2: something's up, something needs to be fixed or adjusted, or
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. That's essentially what this Essential homeowner
Speaker 2: toolkit is. And is it a given that most homeowners
Speaker 2: have a toolkit like this at their house. Nope, nope.
Speaker 2: I got to tell You've been in a lot of homes,
Speaker 2: lots of homes, sometimes homes of my friends, and they're like, yeah, Dean,
Speaker 2: this thing happened. I'm like, oh, well, let's take a
Speaker 2: look at it. Wish be able to fix that up.
Speaker 2: Let me, Can I get a wrench or a screwdriver
Speaker 2: from you? Ooh yeah, I think I think I have
Speaker 2: one of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So this it's not expensive. It's worth putting together
Speaker 2: and worth it to you to have for your home.
Speaker 2: Now we've been talking. We've talked toolboxes or better a
Speaker 2: tool bucket, and I gave you explicit, cutting edge professional
Speaker 2: advice when it comes to the right hammer to have
Speaker 2: for your home. Now, let's talk about accessories for that hammer,
Speaker 2: accompanying tools for that hammer. I told you that I
Speaker 2: don't want you spending a lot of time prying nails
Speaker 2: with your claw hammer, even if you get the right
Speaker 2: kind of claw hammer, pulling out a bunch of nails.
Speaker 2: That is the job of a nail puller. I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about a person talking about an actual tool in
Speaker 2: the back in the day. And I think this was
Speaker 2: always a this was always a nickname. Although I think
Speaker 2: for a while it was an actual brand name. Back
Speaker 2: in the day, we used to call them in the
Speaker 2: framing world a cat's paw. A cat's paw is a
Speaker 2: steel tool, all steel, and these days I like the
Speaker 2: fact that they along the shaft they have a little
Speaker 2: rubber comfort handle, but on one end relatively straight with a
Speaker 2: very very small head and a little split in it
Speaker 2: like a mini mini hammer clawset way way better cupped
Speaker 2: and pointed for digging in and digging out the head
Speaker 2: of a nail and getting it going, and then the
Speaker 2: other end with a ninety degree angle on it to
Speaker 2: really get great leverage. They're about twelve inches long, and
Speaker 2: they're an essential part of any toolkit because that is
Speaker 2: what nails should be getting pulled out with. They're all steel.
Speaker 2: They're heavy duty, tempered steel, so you can use your
Speaker 2: hammer to drive them into certain situations in order to
Speaker 2: dig that nail out right. Not gonna be a clean dig,
Speaker 2: but that we're not talking about, you know, delicate finish
Speaker 2: work at this point. We're talking about when a nail
Speaker 2: needs to get pulled out of a piece of wood
Speaker 2: or whatever the case may be. An actual nail puller
Speaker 2: and along that line, different though pride bar. Now, I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about a big old crowbar, the kind of
Speaker 2: thing that you see, you know, like on murder mysteries
Speaker 2: where somebody gets you know, killed with a crowbar. I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about the three foot long demo style crowbar.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about a flat pride bar. It's about let's say,
Speaker 2: fourteen inches long, it's about two inches wide. It is
Speaker 2: flat spring steel on one end again, gentle curve on
Speaker 2: the other end, ninety degree turn. There are innumerable uses
Speaker 2: for a pride bar. It could be used to leverage
Speaker 2: and lift something up temporarily, to get under or to
Speaker 2: level something. It can be used to separate studs. I mean,
Speaker 2: I could go on and on, but just trust me.
Speaker 2: A flat pride bar and a nail polar as accessories
Speaker 2: to your hammer. Okay, does that make sense? And here's
Speaker 2: an area where it gets a little gray, but in
Speaker 2: my opinion, it's well worth it. And that is a
Speaker 2: small set of wood chisels. Now, typically wood chisels something
Speaker 2: that I like to keep out of the hands of
Speaker 2: a homeowner because they're sharp, and they are usually for
Speaker 2: building projects, for making projects for woodworking. But over the
Speaker 2: years I have found so many just random uses for
Speaker 2: a good wood chisel, whether you know, don't use it
Speaker 2: as a prie bar per se, but as a space
Speaker 2: as something that can cut a nail. And I don't
Speaker 2: want you to go out and buy some super expensive
Speaker 2: set of Japanese wood carving wood chisels. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: a basic set of wood chessels that's not going to
Speaker 2: run you more than fifteen bucks or so, so that
Speaker 2: if you end up damaging the tip of the chisel,
Speaker 2: like having to drive through the shaft of a nail
Speaker 2: to cut it off or something like that, then you
Speaker 2: know you're not worried about it. You're like, oh, there
Speaker 2: goes my super expensive wood chisel. Now these are just
Speaker 2: utilitarian items. You only need three okay, quarter inch half
Speaker 2: inch three quarter inch wide wood chisel blades. They can
Speaker 2: find them in sets of three to five and you
Speaker 2: should have them on hand. Infinite number of uses for
Speaker 2: that tool as well. All right, I got more for you.
Speaker 2: We'll do it right on the other side, can' if
Speaker 2: I Jean Sharp the house whisper a welcome home. Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us on this cool Southern California Saturday morning,
Speaker 2: the first Saturday of twenty twenty five and we are
Speaker 2: getting you ready for a productive maintenance year for your
Speaker 2: home by talking about the essential homeowner toolkit. These are
Speaker 2: the basics of that I think makes a complete essential
Speaker 2: toolkit for taking care of your home, not building new projects,
Speaker 2: but taking care of the things that may come up
Speaker 2: along the way. Let's dive back into the list, shall we.
Speaker 2: We got time today for a couple more, and of
Speaker 2: course we're going to continue this on tomorrows show, Part two,
Speaker 2: the Big Show tomorrow morning from nine to noon, we
Speaker 2: will go further as well as taking more of your calls.
Speaker 2: All right, no toolkit is complete without a full set
Speaker 2: of screwdrivers. And in my opinion, the best essential toolkit
Speaker 2: screwdriver is not a whole set of screwdrivers, but one
Speaker 2: multi tip, multi purpose screwdriver, now, is there. You know,
Speaker 2: I always get this argument from certain folks like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you should have a full set of screwdrivers. Okay, because
Speaker 2: they're lean, they have better access, you know, they're not
Speaker 2: as bulky, and it's just it's proper. Well, yeah, that's fine,
Speaker 2: you're right, there's nothing wrong with having a full set
Speaker 2: of screwdrivers if that's your thing. It's just like there's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with having a full set of standardized fixed wrenches. Okay,
Speaker 2: But for the average homeowner, for the average repair, for
Speaker 2: the average bit of home maintenance, ninety five maybe ninety
Speaker 2: nine percent of the time, you don't need the specialized
Speaker 2: slim screwdriver or the specialized fixed open and closed end wrench.
Speaker 2: What you need is a good screwdriver and a multi
Speaker 2: tip screwdriver and an adjustable end wrench. More on the
Speaker 2: wrench as we get to that part of the list.
Speaker 2: So just to say, multi tip screwdrivers, a multi use
Speaker 2: screwdriver is worth its weight in gold. You have more
Speaker 2: than one, have one sitting in the tool drawer in
Speaker 2: the kitchen, one out in the bucket, in the you know,
Speaker 2: in the garage, whatever the case may be. My preference,
Speaker 2: and it's just my preference, but of course I'm correct
Speaker 2: about this. My preference is I'm not a big fan
Speaker 2: of the multi tip screwdrivers that store tips in the handle,
Speaker 2: you know, where that little dial access back there. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. There's nothing more frustrating than going
Speaker 2: to your screwdriver and you need a particular tip and
Speaker 2: find that it has fallen out, you know, because the
Speaker 2: dial accidentally was left open, and now this tiny tip
Speaker 2: is you know, god knows where it is. I like
Speaker 2: a multi tip screwdriver in which everything is embedded into
Speaker 2: the actual shaft of the screwdriver itself. Now that's not
Speaker 2: a thirty tip screwdriver, it's not a twenty eight tip screwdriver.
Speaker 2: That makes it more like a nine in one or
Speaker 2: eleven in one multi tip screwdriver. But for your general repairs,
Speaker 2: that's enough. It means that there's a Phillips head tip
Speaker 2: that's large and a small one. It means that there's
Speaker 2: a large flathead and a small one. It means that
Speaker 2: there's nut driver settings as well, and probably some square
Speaker 2: shaft of stuff as well. The point is, the point
Speaker 2: is it's enough. It's enough for the typical homeowner repair.
Speaker 2: And so you know, go for the like an eleven
Speaker 2: in one. A clin makes them, to wall makes them,
Speaker 2: Milwaukee make that. You can find these just about everywhere
Speaker 2: and they're well worth it. And I like one with
Speaker 2: a little rubberized handle too, just because even if you're
Speaker 2: you know, unlike the handle on the homeowner hammer, which
Speaker 2: I told you earlier in the show, I don't really
Speaker 2: care what the handle's made out of as long as
Speaker 2: it's not cheap, because you know, how many nails are
Speaker 2: you going to be as a homeowner doing a repair job. Okay,
Speaker 2: you're not doing probably a thousand nails, right, That's when
Speaker 2: the comfort grip and shock absorbing handles come into play.
Speaker 2: Just a handful of nails, Just a handful of nails.
Speaker 2: But I do like a nice rubberized grip on a screwdriver.
Speaker 2: And why is that? Because you know, screws are a
Speaker 2: whole different thing, and you're putting a lot more effort
Speaker 2: into driving in a screw or removing a screw just
Speaker 2: a single screw, then you are, you know, nailing ten nails.
Speaker 2: And so I do like a screwdriver that is all
Speaker 2: set up with a good rubberized handle on it. Along
Speaker 2: this line, the other thing that I want you to
Speaker 2: have on hand are hex wrench sets or what some
Speaker 2: people know as alan wrenches hexagonal wrenches. This is the
Speaker 2: kind of stuff that so many things these days have
Speaker 2: little hexhead screws. Whether you're putting together furniture, whether you're
Speaker 2: assembling something, or you're just maintaining a device, A folding
Speaker 2: hex wrench set is my preference. Again, sometimes you can
Speaker 2: find individual wrenches alan wrenches that are stuck into a holder,
Speaker 2: and the problem with that is, again long term, what
Speaker 2: are the odds that you go back to that thing
Speaker 2: and find that the one that you need is the
Speaker 2: one that's missing because it fell out of the holder.
Speaker 2: It came out. I like a folding hex wrench set,
Speaker 2: kind of like a Swiss army knife set up with
Speaker 2: the folding wrenches. Now, yeah, sometimes it's a little bit
Speaker 2: bulky and it might get in the way of access.
Speaker 2: And that's when if that's the case, you know, you
Speaker 2: run to the hardware store and buy one, just the
Speaker 2: one hex wrench that you need. Now, when I say that,
Speaker 2: I've set that all up for you, so you're imagining
Speaker 2: what that is, right, this folding kind of Swiss army
Speaker 2: knife that's got six or eight or ten hex wrenches
Speaker 2: of various sizes. I want you to have three of these,
Speaker 2: not all three of the same. I want you to
Speaker 2: have one set that is a hex wrench set that
Speaker 2: is metric. I want you to have another that is imperial, okay,
Speaker 2: and I want you to have another these days that
Speaker 2: is not actually a hexagonal wrench, but is a TORQS
Speaker 2: t RX, A torque set and it's little star bits
Speaker 2: because they are so so common. If you have those three,
Speaker 2: if you've got hexagonal wrenches that are both metric and imperial,
Speaker 2: then you got that covered. And if you've got a
Speaker 2: torquees set on your folding hex wrench set, then you're
Speaker 2: pretty well handled. And chances of finding something outside of
Speaker 2: that in your home, yeah, it could be a little
Speaker 2: specially item. Again, that's when you go to the hardware
Speaker 2: store and just buy that one little tool for a
Speaker 2: couple three bucks and take care of it. Otherwise, these
Speaker 2: guys right here, they'll have you covered all right. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: my friend, we are going to continue this list. It'll
Speaker 2: be part two of our Essential Homeowner Toolkit. But that
Speaker 2: wraps it up for me today. Here, thank you for
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