5 Small Deck Building Accessories || Dr Decks

[Music] hey guys dr. Dex here I appreciate you visiting our channel today today I want to talk to you about five small useful accessories to help build your deck with all right so number one on my list is a tapered pre drill bit this one has a hex shank so that you can stick it right in your impact drivers and lock it in so you're not dropping it if you notice there's different sizes this is a number eight they have a number six and number eight and number ten and varying sizes all over the Internet this one tapers down Dewalt makes these fuller makes easier one makes these and a couple guys on on Amazon make them as well but what this does it's very exact point so before we've run screws sometimes into a board we'll use this to taper and we can pinpoint where we want to put the screw then we pre-drill and then the screws going really easy the reason I like tapered bits is because the thread of the screw will grab better when it gets towards the bottom of the hole so that's number one tapered pre-drill bit number two on my list these are called squee jigs they're brand new and what they are they are a clamp that clamps down to your building square so you can layout staircase jacks the reason I like these so much see this part right here this is why I love these so much they have a really thick base so that they roll along better on the edge of your treated lumber if there's Wayne or a crack or a not on the edge of the board these are gonna compensate for that and if you've ever laid out a set of stairs axe you will get what I'm talking about if you have it these are a great investment squ I dot J IG on Instagram it's my fact here's a square let's just say we have an 11 we have like 11 inch run and a 7 inch rise okay you can put these on the inside you can put them on the outside it really doesn't matter but you can clamp them down to your or you clamp them down to your square and then see how this table has a curve to it these will not slip they'll roll right along the edge you to by and you can just lay out your stair jacks this is something new on the market I'm really excited about and it's my number two small useful tool on the jobsite number three a Martinez square I really like the Martinez square a couple reasons it's the last square I'll ever have to buy it's made from titanium it ain't cheap but what is when you're talking about quality one of the coolest things about the Martinez square it has a self-leveling vial in it a bubble so by having that bubble in the square I can now figure out the angles of many things but mostly what I use it for is to figure out the angle of my stair jacks which is very important when you're running trim and railing on top of your stairs so if you have your stair jack your stair jacks going like this you put this on the edge your stair jack you bring it up to level you look over here oh I'm at 32 degrees so that's what why this is a very handy tool not to mention that it's a speed square and it has several markings on it to do different things there's all kinds of different details here for inch and a half two inches three and a half you don't have to pull out a tape measure you can just run the square along the run and make your line on a long piece of board you can go 20 feet another cool part right here built into this square is a nut driver that fits your skill saw so you can tighten and loosen your nut on your skill saws without em and I think chop saws as well right here so you don't have to if you're always losing that special key you got one right here built into your square and one other cool thing there's a bottle opener right here for those of you that partake excuse me there's a bottle opener right here for those of you that partake in bottles that need an opener this is my number three useful tool to have on a jobsite okay so we have our number-four useful accessory to build a deck with now this one I really didn't think we would use as much as we do we use it way more than I thought as a matter of fact when I get another one of these or I find another one I'm gonna pick it up it is a very small quarter inch socket set I found this one at Costco for 10 or 15 dollars at Christmas time three years ago and I bought four of them because of that man that's cheap and these are cool it sat in my toolbox for a while I gave one to my son Calvin and Calvin do you ever use yours for those not in the know I'm a audio engineer and I keep it in my studio and I use it way more often than I ever thought I would so do we especially when we're doing railing parts and things like that but what it is it's a it's a metric in a standard universal socket there's an adapter there's a little ratchet and extension and then it has all these different fitted bits and then I haven't even a couple custom ones that I've added to it just for things that we need it for but we use this thing on the daily I find my guys going into my personal toolbox to grab this out of it all the time which I don't mind cuz I know they're doing something good with it and I'm blown away at how often we use it and this thing I've had for years and it's not all rusted out except for this right here but um it's been a great little chrome Vande I'm just something simple it's not it's not snap-on I do have a quarter drive snap-on set but I won't take it to work because it cost too much so these are great ways pick yourself up a couple extra ones next time at Costco during the holidays it's coming up so I'm definitely looking for them if I find out where they are if I do see them I will actually do a video on IG about it this is my number four gotta have small tool accessory for the job site number five small accessory to have on the job site to build decks is this thing I don't know exactly what it's called but I just call it a shape finder okay so let's say that I need a notch a deck board around this my forehead with this thing I can do it all you got to do is take the whatever part you're trying to replicate stick it into it and now you have a perfect mimic of what you need it may not be perfect you just said it was perfect well that's close enough then you can trace this and get really close to the shape that you're looking to do this works great for angles whatever you're trying like any funky angle that you need okay I'm not sure exactly where to get these I'm sure you can find one at Home Depot this is on amazon.com that's where DJ studio man got mine this was a gift from him I don't use it quite as much as some of the other tools that you've seen today but this is a very handy tool especially when you have double pipes or something that you try to notch a deck board around this can save you I'm gonna say it might save you an hour not just minutes but could be multiple minutes trying to figure things out so definitely worth looking into this one's made by General I'm sure there's other brands out there as well this is the fifth of my top five small deck accessories that become very useful in the jobsite I actually have a six probably the one I use the most and the most questions I definitely get on Instagram about is the magnetic pencil holder it's called a quick snap so here's your bonus this is actually number six but I think it's well worth talking about they used to make these on a retractable band or retractable thread now it's a magnet you can see on the back and it's called stay there that's called a quick snap made by magna grip and this will change your life you'll find yourself at home on the weekends wanting to write something down and you're gonna go like this and there's nothing here because you don't you're not wearing it because you wear it at work you don't wear it on the weekends I'm at night on a bit I go like here to reach for it because you get so used to doing this as long as you drag down and away this clips gonna stay on your clothes I wear it on t-shirts I wear on hoodies I worked on my rain gear if it's coming down raining outside whatever so great product I'm not even looking at it you don't have to it just sticks all right so there's your little bonus for today about the really cool accessories that we use the small deck building type accessories that we use on a jobsite so look if you liked what you saw click that subscribe button and if you want to be notified every time we're putting out fresh content hit that Bell icon as well thanks for watching I really appreciate it hope you learned something today have a great day [Music]

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Length: 9min 24sec (564 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 23 2019