This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. Take a stroll through pretty much any job site where there’s carpentry going on, and it probably won’t take long before you come across someone using a power miter saw. Whether it’s for rough or finish work, the sliding compound miter saw has become one of the must-have tools of the trade. While all the major tool makers have been working toward a cordless job site, there are a few tools that demand a lot of power – like miter saws – that have foiled their plans. Until now. Milwaukee’s engineers have combined a highly efficient brushless motor with proprietary advances in battery capacity and output, and come up with the Milwaukee M18 Fuel Miter Saw. They sent one to HomeFixated HQ, so we could see if it has enough slicing and dicing power to convince you to leave the corded saw in the truck. Read More
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Ridgid R4040S Tile Saw Review – Cut It Out And Plunge In
First, let’s get the disclaimer out of the way: I am not a pro tile installer, although I have many attributes in common with them. Crappy knees, a sore back, and an extensive vocabulary of colorful language, for instance. Despite that, I have installed a fair bit of tile over the years, bringing about glorious transformations to several bathrooms and kitchens. On many of these projects, I used a cheapo basic tile saw, aka the Community Tile Saw, borrowed from my buddy Steve. Recently, though, he moved, and selfishly insisted on taking “our” saw along. Since I had a bathroom floor to install, I was very happy when a large orange and white box, containing a Ridgid R4040S Tile Saw, showed up at my door for a review on HomeFixated. Read More
