The Streamlight LightBox Rechargeable Lantern is a great light for service plumbers. For some reason they just don’t put plumbing in well-lit areas and lighting the area where we are working is always a pain. Most flashlights don’t have a bright enough light, and are troublesome to keep pointed at the work area, and [...]

The Ridgid R8823 Cordless Dual Voltage Impact Driver is going to show a lot of people who use a cordless drill primarily for driving screws that they are using the wrong tool for the job. Don’t get me wrong cordless drills are a great tool and timesaver they can screw in fasteners. But, when you [...]

I’ll never forget the first Ridgid 24” Pipe Wrench I ever owned. I still have it today and I can truthfully say it is better now than the day I got it even after years of use. At work we had an old Ridgid 24” pipe wrench. After years of heavy use the teeth on [...]

Ridgid makes some really nice equipment for threading pipe. Of course you need to pick the equipment that can do the type of work that you perform and can have a payback with the volume of work you do. Equipment choices range from small hand threaders to powerful machines that can thread up to 6” [...]

Every winter many people in the colder climates face the danger of frozen pipes. Naturally construction techniques should be used to minimize the possibility of frozen pipes such as not running pipes in outside walls and through unheated areas, but, even then there is the possibility of a draft through an area that was [...]

A few years back I bought a torch that taught me a lesson. For years I scoffed at the thought that a small MAPP Gas handheld torch was a plumber’s tool. After all real plumbers use Acetylene “B” & “MC” tanks with a regulator and hose. It’s what I learned to sweat pipe with. [...]

The RIDGID brand of plumbing tools has been around for many years. RIDGID makes the best copper tubing cutters on the market today and most professional plumbers refuse to use anything but RIDGID copper cutters when it comes to working with copper pipe.
There are a few different types of tubing cutters in the RIDGID copper [...]

If you are going to work on some plumbing in your home of business and need to use a pipe wrench for the job you will need to know which pipe wrench to use. Using the right type of pipe wrench can make the job you are doing go much faster. The brand of your [...]