About Us
Trade Built Tools started because I got tired of doing things the hard way. I’ve never been accused of taking the hard way around a jobsite. If I can cut out a few trips across the building, I’m doing it. If I can keep from measuring the same thing three times, even better. Some guys collect tools. I collect shortcuts, but not the kind that get you a layoff.
The kind that get you to the roach coach five minutes earlier.
If a job takes ten trips, I’m figuring out how to make it five. If I can carry it once instead of twice, even better. If I can avoid carrying it altogether… well, that’s what apprentices are for. Some people call it being lazy.
I call it respecting my knees.
That’s exactly how The Hole Shot happened. I got tired of measuring and laying out the same conduit over and over, figured there had to be a better way, and built one. Trade Built Tools is for every tradesperson who’s ever looked at a task and said, “There’s gotta be a better way than this.”