Contractor Shares Simple Trick That Makes Lining up and Screwing Boards Flush Easier

Haley Mast
·2 min read

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Our local hardware store and Home Depot always has a section that's stacked with discounted lumber. It defiantly takes some digging but typically you can board that are in pretty decent shape. Often being cut a bit from its original length, having a small split on one end, or being a tiny bit warped.

Warped boards aren't bad boards per se, and typically work just fine for building just about anything. The only tricky part of a warped board is trying to screw it flush to another board, you often have to find the perfect sweet spot of pressure with your body while you try to screw it into place. My fiance often hollers for my help to hold a board when he needs one of his two-by-fours pressed down so he can have a flush mount before screwing it. I was so excited to see the hack that Youtube and carpentry page @tooltips shared because it makes lining up two by fours- or any board- flush top the other easy, and even better you can do it solo.

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There are lots of skills involved in carpentry and often the professionals have so many nifty tips and tricks, and this one fits right in the hacks of the trade.

Instead of getting someone else to help push or pull the board into place so you can screw it perfectly flush, you can do it all on your own with this simple crowbar screw hack. The carpenter first screws in a shorter screw close to the board that needs to be pushed into place, but on the one that will be screwed into. After it's in place they use the forks on a crowbard to grip the screw and use leverage to push down the board perfectly in place while the other hand screws the larger screw through the board, securing it tightly.

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