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Essential Tool 4: Small Level

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TOP 5 TOOLS UNDER $25

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The fourth tool featured is a small level, such as a rocket level or a pocket level (e.g., 6-inch or 9-inch). The presenter emphasizes the importance of having a small, portable level for various tasks, from hanging pictures and TVs straight to ensuring toilets are level. He also mentions its utility in plumbing for setting the correct slope (e.g., 1/4 inch per foot for 2.5-inch pipes or smaller, 1/8 inch per foot for 3-inch pipes or larger).

Goal: Identify and understand the utility of a small level.

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Little rocket levels, little pocket levels, little either a 9 in level or a 6in level. I got a level at work that's probably a 3-in level I keep in my coveralls. I absolutely love it. I use it all the time for for everything. Whether I'm hanging a whiteboard or you can set this on a toilet to get your toilet level or a picture or a TV or whatever you're doing. If you're welding something and it's got to be level, levels are a must have in your tool bucket, especially for homeowners. You don't want to get your wife's picture all crooked and You know what I mean? So, level, that's going to be my number two tool. Also helpful in some trades like plumbing where you don't want it to be level, right? Like you want a certain degree of slope on that plumbing as you go, you know, like eighth of an inch per foot or whatever it is, right? So level number two tool. Put that in my bucket. Let's move on to number one. So my number one tool for homeowners in this top five of this category

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