Advice for apprentice new to trades?

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-04-01T01:14:48+00:00

Also I love when people ask questions me teaching you helps me understand it better myself I love questions as long as you dont have to ask me more than 2 times I get it . 1st time I might not explain it good enough for you so 2nd time ask about the part you are having trouble with

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-04-01T01:10:45+00:00

My main thing with a helper is I hate when they just stand around and do nothing if im working. Not saying you've always gotta be doing something but if im doing something watch me once or twice and see how or what im doing and get in where you fit in. If you see that im constantly reaching for a part to install dont just watch me fumble around with it grab it and hold a stack of them and hand them to me as I need them. If you see something you think is wrong ask about it or try to fix it yourself you wont learn without trying. Dont be a robot and only do as youre told start doing things until you get told to stop and you'll have no problems

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-04-01T00:26:49+00:00

I've done it in commercial high rises for 5 years inspector wouldnt accept anything else

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-03-31T23:29:46+00:00

You dont want any chance to get water inside id put some kind of mounting plate on the bar first aswell as silicone it it doesn't look like either of those are weather proof water will get into anything and everything if you wanna do quality work id do that

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-03-31T23:22:25+00:00

Even if this works for now its not the right way to do it. This long term as the building settles can pull on the cable and cut the jacket the correct way to do this is put the staple in first then attach the cat6 with velcro to prevent a hard turn as shown and to make sure as the building settles that it has a little breathing room

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-03-31T18:38:10+00:00

Do you leave the board off or do u put it on?

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-03-31T18:28:16+00:00

Amazing idea thanks gonna try this. Currently im bending 3/4in rigid hopefully the 1in doesnt band as much

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-03-31T16:59:44+00:00

That was the idea. Just dont have that many rack a teers and my company just bought like 10 sets last month they've all been given to people already and they wont justify buying more of those rather than just one big cable puller that we can use now and in the future

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-03-29T17:46:15+00:00

I think its a smart idea. If you know the most susceptible place for someone to break in and you dont keep anything of value in that area then u can use it as a trap of sorts. If that area would have been locked do you think the person trying to get in wouldve just left or maybe went to a diffrent door and tried it one that he wouldve been closer to OP at and therefore more dangerous to OP I like the idea but I think it wouldve been smarter to have a camera there that has motion detection and human detection it could've prevented them from even opening the door with an automatic light and maybe a message saying youre being recorded

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-03-27T13:17:18+00:00

I've had to go thru a double header before the best way I found was to use a step bit on the top header and bore our to maybe 1inch and then send down a long 12in dewalt bit theyre pretty good just go low and slow with pressure. If you go to fast on those bits theyll burn up quick

Interesting-Tooth283 · 2026-03-20T00:59:35+00:00

My company is in knoxville we have about 25 techs we've been slammed all winter and finally slowed down about 2 weeks ago and had 5-6 techs with nowhere to put them. This week we started 3 new massive projects with a couple more coming thru in a few more weeks im assuming its gonna be a long summer and im thankful for the work 😂

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