The British chap I liked his idea. To me it looked like the eyelets that clamped to the sheet had a pretty big hole compared to the size of the hook. That would allow you to shimmy the sheet around maybe an inch after it was swung up and I could see that being close enough. Is the tool for a pro to replace a lift? I would say no. Is it easier to get into a basement and something someone could afford to buy? I would think yes. One of the things I liked about it was he looked like a normal old dude and it wasn’t a slick presentation, he was fumbling around just about what I would do trying to hook both hooks. I’m not sure why he made it two parts instead of connecting them together to avoid measurement stuff. I wouldn’t call it useless.
The guy with his DIY swing blocks I didn’t think was all that bad from a DIY point of view. I do a lot of jigging stuff up like that because I normally don’t have a helper. When I built the deck last fall out of used materials I sometimes had a half a dozen C clamps in play holding one end of something and bending it straight when I shot in a few screws in. Nothing wrong with jigging a job if it saves your back.
The swing ups wouldn’t have worked for me as a lot of my ceilings were not new construction and I had strips and or plaster behind my sheets. But then again I could see face mounting something with screws to do the same thing.
Sometimes a thread like this points out the difference between DIY and the way it would be done by a pro.
The guy with his DIY swing blocks I didn’t think was all that bad from a DIY point of view. I do a lot of jigging stuff up like that because I normally don’t have a helper. When I built the deck last fall out of used materials I sometimes had a half a dozen C clamps in play holding one end of something and bending it straight when I shot in a few screws in. Nothing wrong with jigging a job if it saves your back.
The swing ups wouldn’t have worked for me as a lot of my ceilings were not new construction and I had strips and or plaster behind my sheets. But then again I could see face mounting something with screws to do the same thing.
Sometimes a thread like this points out the difference between DIY and the way it would be done by a pro.