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   Gabe | Nov 05, 2003 04:02am | #1

   Ain't nothing wrong with that.

   Good work.

   Gabe

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   butch | Nov 05, 2003 04:05am | #2

   thanks Gabe, coming from you that means a lot

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   StanFoster | Nov 05, 2003 04:23am | #3

   Butch:   Nice work.  Do you travel a large area doing these installs..or can you stay busy locally?

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   butch | Nov 05, 2003 06:23am | #5

   Stan, thanks your work I really admire, and I love the pictures of the gyro.

   I stay pretty busy in memphis, but do have to travel about 100 mile radius with

   the company I work for.  But I have company vehicle, and get paid for travel time

   so its not to bad.  I pretty much enjoy what I do as with any job its got its good

   and bad.

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   Piffin | Nov 05, 2003 04:30am | #4

   Good looking set of appliances!

   Like all true craftsmen, I see that you left a minor mistake or two to prove how humble you are and to tease us with finding it.

   The third washer from the end is off level a little.

   Right? Did I get it? Huh?

   I knew it!

   Seriously, glad to see fine work in any endeavour. The gem, excellence has many facets.

   .

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   butch | Nov 05, 2003 06:30am | #6

   Ah the great one , Piffmeister you let the secret out of the bag, lol, actually I didn't

   install the washers, but did level ,helped w/venting and did gas work on the dryers.

   I did the floor ,painting and little bit of carpentry but the mistakes are in the floor,

   although the floor is so busy you really got to look to find em. 

   Edited 11/4/2003 10:47:06 PM ET by butch

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   Piffin | Nov 05, 2003 07:08am | #9

   LOL, Ain't that a great way to use up all the odd lots of leftover tiles from other jobs! Nobody notices any mistakes that way. There's one that's the wrong colour. Now let's see, which one was that there.....

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   ProDek | Nov 05, 2003 09:36am | #10

   OH yeah Now I see it..........the colors don't match :-)

   Looks good to me butch, and thanks for posting the pictures...............

   Be proud of that job...Man, it makes me want to go to the Laundry Mat.........

   Nice Job!"Rather be a hammer than a nail"

   Bob

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   IMERC | Nov 05, 2003 01:22pm | #13

   Color sequence 

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   butch | Nov 05, 2003 01:43pm | #14

   That's it, although I don't know if its seen in the pictures I posted, the pattern is

   using 5 colors then skip two then repeat.  I went crazy trying not to make any

   mistakes but I'm not perfect.  Once you lay a piece into the glue you play heck trying

   to get it loose. Also being under some time restraints didn't help any.  That's why I

   really admire what Stan does in his stairs because "if" there is a mistake I'm sure it

   would broadcast "here I am"

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   rjw | Nov 05, 2003 06:51am | #7

   Little photo tip -in the one where the windows are included in the shot the interior is pretty dark because the light sensor figured you wanted to be 1/2 way in between.

   With most digi-cameras, when you have really high contrast lighting, point the camera toward the area you want to be properly exposed, press the shutter release 1/2 way to "set" the auto -exposure, and then, holding it 1/2 way down, turn the camera to include what you want

   Also, now that you have the bug, consider a good image editing program - attached is the univcab01 photo with some gamma correction and contrast adjustment - its amazing how much info can be hiding in the shadows in those pics!

   (I also reduced the size 50%)

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   butch | Nov 05, 2003 12:50pm | #11

   Thanks for the tips, as a matter of fact I just learned about pressing the trigger half

   way then pressing the other half to help also in focsing, put didn't know that you

   could do that with exposure. 

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   JDRHI | Nov 05, 2003 07:07am | #8

   Damn nice work Butch! I`ve avoided doing much "commercial" renovation as most folks I`ve come in contact with want it done fast and cheap....quality has never been a priority. I can see that it is with you. Keep up the great work!

   J. D. Reynolds

   Home Improvements

   "DO IT RIGHT, DO IT ONCE"

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   butch | Nov 05, 2003 01:11pm | #12

   Thanks jay,I've been with this company almost 15 yrs and I've kind of been able to

   develop some quality (=time) into the job, and I think that everybody appreciates

   the results. I wished that I'd been able to take pictures of the after "plumbing"

   This plumber we use does the most awesome work, probably one of the best, and

   that's  where a lot of my inspiration comes from. I mean what he does looks so

   "pretty" and yet he knows its going to get covered up and  yet still makes it

   lookgood

   So now when ever I do any  work I try to make it look like I cared when it was done. 

   Here are some pictures of some gas work I did recently.

   
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   kostello | Nov 08, 2003 07:07pm | #15

   the floor looks like linoleum tiles????

   we've used them at home and they look really good.

   i like the mixture of all those colours.

   aleks

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   butch | Nov 08, 2003 07:19pm | #16

   They are actaully 1/8" armstrong v.c.t.  12"x12"

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   kostello | Nov 08, 2003 08:33pm | #17

   sorry to appear dense.

   whats vct?

   aleks

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   butch | Nov 08, 2003 08:52pm | #18

   I don't believe there is such a thing as a stupid  question , Vinyl Composition Tile

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   IMERC | Nov 08, 2003 08:56pm | #19

   Considering where some have wanted to vent their dryers and range hoods..... LOL

    

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   Phat | Nov 08, 2003 09:07pm | #20

   There is allways a stupid question - it's the one you don't ask.Liberal Arts Graduate

   Will Think for Food