Unique Use for Reciprocating Saw
Hi! I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. I have a little bit of wall damage here where I’m sure my wife or my son ran the car in back of the garage wall. I’m sure I can take out my key little saw and my razor knife on the studs to cut this back for a repair. But I’ll show you a unique way to use the sole saw to get these out easily. Let’s get to work.
Now after finding my two studs and putting these two marks on the two studs, I want to have a take a level and just leveled me a line around here. If I grab up my on my sole saw, the way that this is right now, I’m just start cutting in here with my sole saw, (a) I would be hitting that stud on this side and (b) there’s a potential that there are wires or plumbing pipes, or something along those lines in there that I really don’t want to get in to. Here’s a simple way to take care of that.
Putting your thinner blade and sole saw, making sure that your sole saw is unplugged, the first thing you want to do is pull up on the sole saw, extending this as far out as it can do. I’m taking a scrap of the material that I’m cutting out, it centered on top of this guide and I take a marker, and I go ahead and I put a mark right at where the top of that of that material is. Taking a pair of thin snips, go ahead to that thin blade and cut it off right at the mark. Plug your sole saw back in and you’re ready to cut up this patch. The nice thing about doing this way is not only it will cut out on the open spaces, but they’ll also cut right down on this stud without bottoming out on the stud or do any damage to the stud.
[Demonstration]
Now as you see, using a sole saw like this, doesn’t damage the stud, you can cut right down on the stud. It gives you a nice, great, breaking place. All I did was take my knife after I was done cutting it and clean up with a lose paper around the edges, I’m ready to patch this tube I can.
So there you go, a unique way of using an old sole saw blade that might make doing some repair work a little bit easier for you and making sure that you don’t any damage to any electric or any plumbing that maybe inside that wall.
I hope you enjoyed this tip. I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. If you like this video, please subscribe. If not, check out our home channel. We have many other tips and advice there, thanks.
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