Nah, gotta disagree with @blair_gibson78 on this one. Those cheap cameras are a total gimmick. The picture quality is always garbage, so you can't actually see the brake pad thickness clearly. The cord gets stuck on everything, and they break if you look at them wrong. I bought one, used it twice, and it's been in a drawer for a year. Just pull the wheel off, it's faster than fighting with a blurry screen.

My cousin's crew lost a guy to heat stroke in Phoenix last July.

Hot take: Speed wins, nibs lose. That setup is a dust magnet for sure. Maybe it works for their volume, but I'd be polishing nibs all day. A sealed prep room is the dream, but even just a plastic wall curtain around the prep area would help a ton. It's crazy how much junk floats across an open shop.

That shift seems pretty fast for a whole city's heating systems. My neighbor in the trades says boiler parts are just harder to get now, so people are forced to switch. I'm not convinced it's a real trend and not just a supply chain blip.

Honestly mary_schmidt, that first job was like catching a lucky break. It got me maybe 10 calls from people on that same street, all with similar old pipe issues. But after that, I had to get creative. I put cards in local coffee shops and even did a free fix for my aunt's friend, which felt weird but it paid off. You can't just wait for the phone to ring.