Nail guns are the natural progression of construction, with all the downward pressures on price as a builder you have to work smarter not harder. I could cut finish molding with a hand saw and a miter box made of wood instead of a power miter saw and the argument could be made that doing it with a hand saw yields a better product, but once Pandora’s box has been opened and everybody else is taking advantage of a tool for productivity it is mighty hard to go back. I have hammers, but they get swung very rarely now a days. For every productivity tool that comes along there are set backs in regard to some degree of quality but what makes us professionals is adapting new methodology and quality controls that ensures a finished product that at the end of the day both you and your client can be proud of.
They may not build them like they used to anymore (houses) and I say THANK GOD! Those old solid houses are full of knob and tube wiring, crumbling stone foundations, impossibly energy inefficient walls and all manner of crap. I'll take a manufactured glue lam beam over a warped, old growth joist that has been cut through to look like swish cheese by an army of plumbers and electricians over the decades, desperately trying to bring the house into the realm of something useable for a modern family.
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