![]() That and having a homeowner see how clean your truck is will put them at ease, giving them the perception that you are going to take care of the home as if it were yours. That saves a ridiculous amount of time and only takes about 10 minutes to accomplish. Simply dropping those rugs in various points of the house (front door and any door to a room you are working in) and putting 6 mil plastic down for your walkways not only saves you time for cleanup, but stops your customers from looking over your shoulder while you are working. First thing? Go to Dollar Tree or Ollie’s and spend whatever it takes ($20-$50) on a heap of entry rugs as they are $1 apiece. ![]() I do restoration (water/fire/sewage/mold) and it’s a dirty job. It may take time, but it saves more time not having to look for things that are buried. All you need to do is go into work about an hour early (or on a day off) and really categorize your truck, putting tools/supplies/machinery in the forefront so they are there for the taking. I am religious with both that and taking exceptional care of people’s homes. I take a lot of time to keep them that way-a little too much.įor tools that have any rust, I have found that Evaporust (Harbor Freight/Ace/Wal*Mart… even Tractor Supply) works incredibly well as I can get every bit of the rust off.Ībove it all, a few people mentioned the decency of their work truck. I definitely go overboard as I have a DeWalt shelf at home that holds about 35 tools (the FlexVolt Miter and FlexVolt Table take up a lot of that space) and they all look like they’ve never been used. What I have gotten the most is “Tools are SUPPOSED to get dirty. When it comes to tools, I have been mocked (in a friendly manner) for how clean they all look. In rhe past if I had an employee that didn’t take care of things I made them buy and bring there own hand tools and impact its amazing how much it matters when it cost them money. 3 in 1, wd40 and rags are in each tool bag in rhe shop/van for a reason. Many of thoes are 50 to 90 years old and great and are rust free so a title wipe down is worth the effort. I also carry a veto bag onto job sites of purely personally owned and bought hand tools so its my money on the line there. I do alot of these tasks as a Forman myself to show as well I don’t care who you can take care of company property including the vehicles. Thoes few man hours gets us into people’s home when they tell there friends they left it cleaner from when they started. Just like having a decent apprentice with vehicles, cleaning up after your work a simple caulk gun not looking like a fly by night paint/drywall crew came in inspires confidence and cleanliness. ay be odd to people is caulk guns must be clean ish after each use even though it’s a small amount of man hours. I do find that transfer if dirt grease ect happens and it saves me money in the long run. I stress cleaning of tools on the jobsite often! That’s a shift on the weekend for one of the apprentice or me if none are working. So aside from what needed to be done, I cleaned the rest of the tool out of habit. With the Dewalt saw shown above, I only really needed to clean the front grip area, under the shoe plate, but I spent a few minutes wiping down the rest of it, and picking the grip area mostly clean. ![]() You clean kitchen knives between uses, right? It’s not a good to go from cutting raw meat to cutting vegetables. If a screwdriver handle is greasy, where can I put it down when assembling furniture? If pliers have metal shavings on the handles, will it be a good idea to use them when working with electronics? If I use a saw to cut chemically-treated wood, I don’t want to transfer sawdust into living spaces if I can help it. I rarely know what a tool’s next task will be. I also prefer to keep my own tools clean because I never know where they’re going to be used next. Even if I give away a tool that has been used, I’d rather it not be very visibly used. Part of the reason is that I sometimes work with my own tools, and other times I use review samples that I plan to eventually give away. It’s wet, oily, greasy, or outdoor environments that tend to dirty up tools.Ī lot of my cushion-grip hand tools tend to pick up residue from when I work with black oxide-finished fasteners.Īll that said, I prefer to keep my tools clean. All this got me thinking – do most users clean their tools? Whenever I see professionals or tradesmen working in public places, I peek at their tools, but there doesn’t seem to be any pattern.ĭry materials – sawdust, drywall, or metal chips – tend to brush off easily.
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