This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. If you’ve been around job sites much, you can probably recall seeing someone grinding or cutting concrete while creating an enormous plume of dust in the process. To make that scenario even worse, if you’re also on that jobsite, you might be sucking in that same dust cloud unless the breeze happens to be favoring you. Unfortunately, concrete dust typically contains crystalline silica (aka quartz), which – when inhaled – can damage your lungs. With enough exposure, silicosis or even lung cancer can result. Not to be Debbie Downer, but silicosis can cause major lung damage and even death. On that chipper note, let’s dive into why this topic is getting so much attention right now (hint: OSHA Silica Dust Regulations), what you can do to protect yourself, some key points to know if you’re an employer of workers exposed to silica, and how Bosch is rolling out numerous solutions to drastically reduce silica exposure – including their innovative Speed Clean Dust Extraction Drill Bits. Read More
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Bosch HDH183 Hammer Drill Review – A Cordless Way To Beat The ‘Crete
Sometimes, things are just hard. Concrete, for example. Fortunately, great minds are at work helping us find ways to overcome these hard things. As they pertain to making holes in concrete, anyway. The latest example of this is the new Bosch HDH183 18V EC Brushless Brute Tough ½” Hammer Drill/Driver. Since that’s a tad cumbersome to say (and type) more than once, I’m shortening it to the Bosch HDH183 Hammer Drill, so I can finish this before bedtime. Bosch sent one to HomeFixated HQ to evaluate; we’ll see if it makes a hard job any easier. Read More
