Rack-A-Tiers: What kind of jobs have you been working on lately? Any cool projects or tools that stand out that people would be interested in reading about?

Daniel: The last job that we did was some commercial work for OC Tool House. We did all the lighting for them. We used a bunch of Rack-A-Tiers tools, like the new fish sticks that you click together. We used them to fish in the wires for all the recessed lights that we did.

We also did some work on the industrial side, where we used the Skybender on a scissor lift. It saves you a lot of time by not having to go down the scissor lift to make your bends. We did a lot of wiring on some new panels, so we used the Penguin Puller instead of making loops at the end of the wire, which saves you a lot of time. With the Penguin Puller, you can just strip it at the end and then snap it inside, lock it down, tighten the Allen keys, and you’re good to go. We’ve been working with the Wire Waffle, too. Those things are amazing. Those things are really nice for everybody who does residential work.

The next day, we went over, and the walls were down already, so we started running some new wires. The problem was that they didn’t have as much space between the roof and the ceiling, so we couldn’t get from one light to the other light. That’s when we used the Rack-A-Tiers Click ‘N’ Fish sticks to fish down the wire for each individual light. You put it together, put the wire and then at the other end, start pulling the wire with it.

Rack-A-Tiers: How did the Click ‘N’ Fish compare to other fish sticks or fish tapes you’ve tried?

Daniel: It was really good because, when you have other kinds of sticks, sometimes you end up poking or scratching the walls. The Rack-A-Tiers’ fish sticks come in pieces. You screw them together to decide the length based on the distance between the other light. We were able to fish all the wires for the lights without damaging or scratching the walls.

Rack-A-Tiers: What was the next step after running those wires?

Daniel: After that, we had to go up to the attic, where we found some open boxes and some wire splices that were not enclosed. So that was not up to code. That was done totally wrong. I keep some Open Splice Junction Boxes inside my truck because they don’t take up too much space. I just told my apprentice to go to the truck, grab me a couple of those, and bring them back to me so I could show him how splices can be properly secured inside the box without remaking splices.

All you do is open it, push in the notches on each side, and then screw the box down with a double-ended impact bit and that’s about it. We did that at OC Tool house in a few places in the attic and that job came out really nice because at the end of the day, all those splices were capped off and safe.

Rack-A-Tiers: So, you ran wire through the attic and got everything up to code. What was next, installing lights and switches?

Daniel: We were doing all the recessed lights with Romex running from one light to another. I was using Croc’s Wire Strippers with the V-Cutter to make splices and to cut my Romex. It’s much easier than using my pocketknife and damaging the wire. When you use the V-cutter, you just attach it to your Croc’s, and it’ll cut like butter. We ended up installing about 40 lights for them in the whole showroom.

After that, we ended up running our switches for all the lighting. We used the Ferret Inspection Camera to find the right hole for the wires because we had no space in the attic. Without the Ferret Camera from Rack-A-Tiers, I wouldn’t have been able to be able to see obstacles or where to run the wire.

Next, we installed the switches for them and tested them. Everything was working perfectly.

Rack-A-Tiers: What are the last steps to a big job like that?

Daniel: The last thing we had to do was put the sign for OC Tool House outside. We ended up running power for the sign by bringing the wire through the attic using the fish sticks. And then after that, we were completely done with the job.