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Learned last Tuesday that a $4 tube of dielectric grease saves you a callback when the pedestal floods
Was on a job in Council Bluffs doing a 12 unit apartment rough in and the old timer training me watched me seal up a pedestal without grease on the ports. He didn't say a word, just pulled a tube out of his bucket and made me redo all 12. Said hes been doing this 22 years and water in the port is the number one thing that brings him back out. Cost me 20 extra minutes that day. Fast forward to last month, we got 3 inches of rain in one night and I got zero callbacks while two other guys on the crew were out there swapping fittings. Whats the one cheap thing you always keep in your bucket that nobody talks about?
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grantp1414d ago
Did the old timer show you anything about how much grease to actually use though? I've seen guys glob it on so thick it pushes the seal out of the port, then they're worse off than before. I keep a tube of the clear stuff in my bag and just give each port a thin coat with a q tip, seems like the trick is a little film not a big wad. Curious if your guy had a rule of thumb for how much, because 12 units redone in 20 minutes means you weren't sitting there babying it. Also did you grease the threads or just the sealing face, because I've heard guys argue both ways on that one.
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