Tools You Need To Start as an Apartment Maintenance Tech!
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- In Depth Tool Bag Tour of all the tools you will need to start a career as a apartment maintenance/Building maintenance Tech. i hope this video helps people interested in starting a career in this field. If you have any questions about the tools just email me at themman86@gmail.com or leave your questions in the comment section. like, share and Subscribe. Thanks!
00:00 Introduction
02:10 Very Basic Hand Tool Must
14:17 Advance tools but come in handy
33:17 Power Tools 
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One suggestion I have is watch your Lowe's, Home Depot, Menards etc for deals. Go to them once a week at least. It's a great way to find deals on tools.
A benefit from it, is if you go the same day, same time, you'll probably get to know employees after a while. They can be a source of information. I've also gone in and they had put display tools out for sale at a great discount. $20 for a Flex or Kobalt charger. 36v 7 1/4 in Metabo circ saw, bare with 1 blade for $38. Bosch oscillating tool $20. Flex 5ah battery $20.
With patience, you can build up a very good set of tools on the cheap.
Lowe's every year has Dewalt 110 and 100 piece impact bit sets that are $49 full price. They reduce them to $39 for several months. Then $25 and I've bought them as low as $12.50.
If you have the time and some money, not a ton, you can build a professional set of tools.
I pinned this because you are 💯 correct. Also the tool reps are good to know because they can hook you up as well from time to time depending who they are. Great advice!
@@themaintenanceman1 very true about the tool reps. I've never been lucky enough to meet mine. Closest I've come is seeing a Dewalt pickup in the parking lot.
Then a little bit down the road, he passed me🤣🤣
@@bwselectronic 😂😂 I will say that Milwaukee and Ryobi are always at HOME DEPOT and dewalt, flex and Bosch have been at lowes all pretty consistently. And I talk to them. I feel like I’ve been fortunate because the ones in my stores will always try to get me coupons or offers when I’m looking to buy but they never try to force sales and they all love just talking tools. Both good and bad about their lineups so that’s been pretty cool
I've never had trouble with my Fastback utility Knives. I currently cary the one with a screwdriver bit. I just run a file across the blade about 5 times on both sides once a week. I'm usually cutting up some cardboard boxes everyday. I've used the same blade for a year just filing it. I will say the Milwaukee blades are the best I've found.
If it works for you then that’s all that matters. On mine the blade would always pull out on me which is a good way of getting cut. I’ll stick with the husky’s for now. As for blades I’ve always enjoyed the Lenox gold or the dewalt carbide or the tajima ones are nice. The Milwaukee carbide ones aren’t bad at all either. Thanks for watching! I appreciate it buddy!
Perfect bag and assortment of tools that you can get those maintenance repairs done, hell I think "you" could build a house with that bag.
Lol thank you TGG!! I appreciate it! You would need a lot more to build a house but this would be a darn good start! Thanks for watching brother 🤜🤛
Spot on!
Thank you! And thanks for watching and commenting! I appreciate it 👍
Good video and a nice assortment of tools. I like the focus on redundancy and that eventually you get to the point where you end up having multiples of things. Those Kobalt screwdrivers look nice, I've never been much of a Lowe's shopper but when I went to one last month they seemed to have a lot more quality-looking hand tools than I remembered.
Thank you! I’m glad to get some good feedback on the video and I appreciate that! Thank you for watching! And yeah I use to be at the depot all the time at my old job but now lowes is closer and their tool selection has definitely gotten better. Hand tools are pretty solid their. I still like the commercial electric stuff at Home Depot though. But nowadays even that stuff is over priced. Thanks for watching and have a great day 🤜🤛
Working with tenants, a temp probe is going to be more useful than a non-contact temp sensor. "The hot water isnt working", the thermometer says its coming out of the faucet at 120 degrees. "The AC isn't working", the thermometer says the air coming out the vent is 50 degrees. "The fridge isnt cooling", the thermometer is reading the fridge is at 38 degrees... ends the argument quick.
I don’t disagree there but both serve their purpose and accomplish the same thing. Only complaints we ever really got was heat in the apartment. Go to the center of the room point at floor and get reading. And radiators show them they are at temp. No argument after that. It’s amazing it would be like 76 in their apartment and they would have the electric oven on with the door open 🤦♂️. Thanks for watching!
Hey Neil, great video & tools for getting into the industry. Hope u been good bro 👍
Thanks for watching brother! I’ve been doing great! Hope you are as well!
@@themaintenanceman1 All good over here! 💪
@@ApartmentMaintenance glad to hear 🤜🤛
Bro I love my Kobal but those electrician screwdrivers are awsome
They are man! They have been a solid set for me. I have a few kobalt things in my regular rotation now. Thanks for watching buddy! Have a great rest of your week!
Good informational video. Thank you!
Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment! Thanks for the support 🤜🤛
Very comprehensive list of tools although I would hate to carry even 75% of them on a daily basis....As you suggest towards the end, I think the idea of a small core of tools, plus adding additional tools as need on a per job basis is definately the way to go!
Thanks for the comment Peter and thanks for watching! And yes once you learn the properties and learn the most common things to fix you’ll just take what you need and maybe a little something for backup but not much to it imo. A lot of people tell me they take everything with them on a golf cart but we don’t have golf carts and we have to carry everything up stairs. So you learn quick what you need lol
Awesome video.
Thanks for taking the time to watch it James! Coming from you that means ALOT! So truly thank you. I hope you are doing well. Have a great night buddy!
@@themaintenanceman1 I always watch your videos. I give up on BS on TV
@@jamesmull3537 i appreciate that! And I agree with you! Tv is all reality and fake news
Great video as always. Thanks for sharing!
I do suggest a Thumb Detecting Nut Fucker.
😂 you are correct about that! Thanks for watching brother! Great having you stop by! Hope you and heartless are doing well 🤜🤛
I really can't stand Ryobi drill and impact driver. They're cheap for a reason, my impact driver lasted 6 months. Go with Hilti products cost more but will last a really long time.
Hmmm. You couldn’t stand them so went with hilti. And here 14 years later my ryobis still work 🤔. Sounds like I came out on top of that one. I did own the hilti 12v lineup for a time and they are fantastic tools but overkill for a maintenance worker. Save your money for other things. Don’t waste it on tools. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend.
@@themaintenanceman1 I might disagree on the Ryobi but video was great overall. Very helpful for maintenance beginners
@@andrewlacerenza667 I understand the Ryobi dislike. You get a bad tool or battery and it sours the brand. Happened to me with Milwaukee so I went back to Ryobi and they work for me. But if you want to spend money on hilti I’d like to see that over people buying into the Milwaukee machine lol. I appreciate you watching and thanks for the feedback on the video. I truly appreciate it. In maintenance it’s to me impossible to make the “perfect bag” but I thought this was as close as you can get. Thanks again for watching Andrew 🤜🤛
@@themaintenanceman1 I'm in same field facilities maintenance at a University in NY. I can relate
@@andrewlacerenza667 awesome! Well keep it up it’s a great field to be in. I like it just because you not doing the same thing over and over everyday. And we can’t be replaced by robots lol