keeping things moving
tonight i stopped at our friendly local Home Depot and picked up a Porta-Nailer 402 and some nails (gotta love buying new tools, i sure do). don't worry, the sign says your are getting the now discontinued model 401, but the actual box says 402 on it. after dinner, we went to the house and after figuring out how to load and use it, we put down just a shade over 30 SF of floor in about 2.5 hours. we think we can probably get that up to 15 SF/hour after we get more in the swing of things. the new nailer works really well. it has a ratcheting system that allows you to take a couple swings if it doesn't drive fully the first time. this is really useful if you are in a location where you can't take a full swing (near a wall, inside a door opening, etc.). with the other nailer, you had to really wind up and hope you hit it square in those tight spots (or pop a finish nail in instead). i don't, however, like the mallet that comes with it. the handle isn't as comfortable, the steel end of the hammer is shaped differently (worse in my opinion) and you tend to rip up the building paper when tapping pieces into place, and at one point the end just came off of it. i'm contemplating hunting down a different mallet ... but we'll see. it's not awful, i just liked the ones we had Saturday much better. we're hoping to put 35-45 SF down tomorrow night. well, my back is sore from bending over so much ... so i'm gonna grab the heat pack and rest a bit before bed. gotta track down a back brace i think.
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 11:34 PM
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