A co-worker of mine, we both work in industrial construction, has a wife who is a “home improvement genius”. Normally, she does good work, if with interesting effects sometimes.

When using any grinder wear both a pair of safety glasses and a face shield. Double eye protection is a good thing with grinders. The face shield protects your face, but the eye protection gets that metal dust floating around. Better then basic safety glasses is spoggles.

Women seem to like men who can cook. Here is an easy recipe to impress.

My house has three nest protects (recalled ones, but they turned off the wave feature) and the nest thermostat. BIG improvement in cost ($185 budget billing per month to $55) and it really helps out in a house fire. When the Nest protects detect a fire, they light up red and flashing, announce where smoke was…

You want to be careful with this approach. Hammering a saw blade is a common approach to fixing a blade. If your blade is creased, throw it away. Most readers will not have tools/skills to handle a creased blade. Wear a face shield, long sleeves, and gloves. Those blades can occasionally snap in odd ways. Anvil works…

That is definitely the gold standard in beginners’ books. More focused on what is reasonable and basic skills.

Portability with a lot of storage would be a job box, which at at least technically portable. Of course, I have seen them where they required a skip loader to move. Your mileage might very based on type.

Yeah, I actually work in training, which is one of the favorite punishments for someone who just had an incident.

LOL. The Hilti is nice. I’ve used them in training on the job site. The really fun tool is the rebar scanner that Hilti has that creates rebar layout drawings.

Not a bore scope, even though they are a lot of fun.

How can you see above the ceiling? Stud finder, at least a good one. Money no object - buy Hilti’s - lol, they are mighty proud of their product. I use Bosch.

Having worked on a really big construction site, the balance-traction-grip issues I have seen are amazing. We overestimate how good of a hold we have on our tools. I dealt with the fallout of someone cross-grinding due to being left handed and their grinder was right handed. They could have moved the handle, but were…

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Stud finder.

Unfortunately, those aren’t safety glasses. He could drop the drill on his face, for example. Remember, you have been lucky. Catches a metal stud or conduit, breaks the bit, bucks, and its glass in the eye.

When drilling over your head, gloves are a great idea, helps increase grip.

Who here thinks that drilling into a ceiling where you can’t see what you are drilling is a bright idea? OMG, are we nuts or what? Note the lack of eye protection and gloves. Safety first kids.

Get rid of the venom removal tool. It is actually very detrimental to you for snake bites. Depending on the bite, either anti-venom or anti-histamines are the best tools.

Oh, a coworker in safety mentioned that the polo shirt is artificial double knit - which is not your friend... unless you want to be the human torch. Wear natural fibers, preferably cotton.

As have we all, brother. LOL.