About three years ago, while temporarily off my meds, I volunteered to help my son create a bedroom in his previously unfinished basement. We put 2X4 pressure treated sleepers down over the concrete floor and on the concrete block walls. We put plywood down for the floor, capped it off with laminate flooring, and insulated and drywalled the walls. By far the biggest pain in the ass of the entire project (aside from hauling everything down there) was attaching the sleepers to the floor and walls. We used a hammer drill and Tapcon screws, which hold great, but which are extremely labor intensive. Faced with another project that requires quite a bit of wood-to-concrete mating, and remembering how much fun we didn’t have on the previous job, I figured it was time for a new plan. After doing a bit of research, I decided to invest in a Ramset MasterShot powder-actuated nail gun. Read More