here’s our latest…. converting an attic space over the breezeway to a bedroom and bath…..natcherly… someone pulled the plug on the thermometer…
the coldest days we hid out inside, laying new Advantech subfloor and prepping for the front dormer..
here’s mobilization… and the subfloor…. it was about 5 deg F. outside but our propane space heater and a 100 lb. tank made it decent and gloves off..
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next we prepped the front roof for the new gable dorner...
stripped.....
open the roof....
maneuver the prefabbed gable end and frame the roof... and tarp
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next day we sheathed and made it weatherproof... installed a plastic window so we can move things in like drywall off a boom-truck.....
here's some of the interior framing...not all is in place.. just what we needed to close it in...
and a view showing the new next to the existing ....Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
moved to the other side for the shed dormer... about a 12' hole here... the front one was 6'....... we spent a couple days cleaning up the front.... and prefabbing everything we could..... but the rear roof was so complicated i didn't want to cut rafters until we could get some more measurements...
here's some of the pre-fab..
and we stripped the outside and papered in with RoofTopGuard II.... and the sidewall..
surprise.. the siding subs must have taken a few shortcuts.. notice the Typar wasn't pulled down over the step-flashing.. it was all bunched up behind the shingles..
also .. they stapled the shingles so we will have to strip all the way to the roof.. no sense in trying to theif staples out...Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
yesterday..... we cut the hole and framed and tarped..
here's the sheathing removed...
and Jim showing me his new tape..
and the new blue grotto at the end of the day...Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
k5 open jpeg ...
Mike ..
I always thought the new scaffold went on the bottom ....
looks sturdier that way .....
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Artistry in Carpentry
just another example of how to do things backwards... did you see mike guertin and rick arnold shingling from the top-down in JLC this month?... mike says he usually works with his brother.. but i always see rick on his photo jobs..
hey... the new stuff always gets into the pics.. so we look like prosperous builders..
luka.. i'm going to try posting at half res. ( from Irfan) and see how the quality works.. (edit.... half res... gives me half size... whadda ya think ?)
here's yesterday's work.. closing it up... thursday we got a couple pics in the local weekly paper... talking about how cold it is outside.. well.. the pics were ACTUALLY from some more milder days... so we got paid back yesterday... 13 deg. with the wind blowing 15 knots... on the shady side of the roof..
and Jim came in but was pretty sick .. so we were down 1 guy... and friday is bookeeping day so i disappeared for 2 hours with the bookeeper.. all in all about as miserable a day as i can remember in the last 5 years
here's the ground shot... tight site.. no good camera angles.. unless you go next door to the neighbor's 2d floor window....
and a shot of the roof with our RoofTopGuard II and Grace in place... ready for the elements...
monday we can work with the heat on.. bring the shower unit in thru the window hole.... and finish the framing under cover
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finished framing the ceiling /rafters... and put in the Propa-Vent
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Mike.
In the picture below, what is it that I have circled?
Can't figure it out.
Looks good...
but you knew that and probably don't need me saying it ;)
Looks like pink board insulation shaved to fit out of the way of the wallboard....that's not a mistake, it's rustic
we used one of the 2x10 rafters we cut as a valley plate to land the jack on.. then i cut out what ever was in the way..... elegant , huh ?
the overhang can catch some drift.. but i always take pains with the flashing and membrane in those areas... no leaks yet (knock, knock )
before we reroof we'll strip the old ridgevent off so we can get good flashings at the intersection of the new and old peak...
this is just to keep us under cover...Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
8" of snow... and waiting for the plumber, electrician, & HVAC to do their thing.. so everyone stayed home..
here's a view thru the snow of the rear dormer
same view... 2 different resolutions...
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totally impressed w/ professionalism of your project and glad to see the Mike Smith prerequisite wood shingles
couple questions zipping thru your picsa here at lunch - photo K - 5 closed 106 kb i think do you have a temporary wall to the left of camera eye to hold that load i.e. under those collar ties?
on that header on the gable doormer are you able to end nail or do you need a factory authorized hanger for that baby to be installed later?
ah yes and then the insulation been here at brktime just a little while but two of the most pointed biases I've noted ( deservedly so ) are Piffin's compulsion w/ sheetrock screws and yours w/ fiberglass insulation - Is that from prior construction and you're feeling compromised having to work around it or are you sneaking some by us?
keep warm John
moi ?... sneak something by vous ?
hah, hah, hah.. lessee.. that wall WAS an exterior wall at the end of a hallway on the other side.. ie: this attic space was unheated so the insulation was ther when we go there.. my intention is to leave it in place and blueboard over it... it will give a little sound attentuation... and seperate a heating zone.. so it serves a useful purpose..
the hangers have not been installed on the ceiling joists/collar ties yet.... yet..
i made a judgement call on cutting the roof that nothing was going to move if we cut those rafters off and we could turn them into a site built truss during our framing... i'll try to get a pic of how we eventually nailed it all back together.. bottom line ..nothing moved.. and we turned them into site-built trusses.. sorta shade-tree engineering..
what else ?
how's that for tap dancing ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
john... this pic , right ?
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this is the part i felt would stay without moving... the new rafters were going to load only the ridge and the new exterior wall.. so we just cut them off..
in the pic below you can see how they became part of a truss again the cut off 2x10's are in the foreground.... the new 2x8 rafters span from the new wall to the ridge... and the collar ties / ceiling joists intersect the lower third of the rafters.. not shown is a strut from the mid-span of the new long rafters to the intersection of the old cut-offs and the collar ties.....alls well that ends well... i hope..Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
john ... this is how we modified the framing into a truss on the rear shed dormerMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
In the picture with the window on the back dormer, I noticed you used a, what looks
like a site built box header(full of insulation I assume). The span looks to be pretty
long, was wanting to know how you size these, as I'd like to use them at some point
in time. Thanks for taking the time to post these pictures, as I enjoy every single
one.
in the code book it shows how to size plywood box headers..
the way we build them is with 2x3 frame & 1/2 " skins in & out ( makes up the same 2x4 thickness as the plate)... then we clue & nail with 6d on 4" centers..
i think this one is 9" with only a roof load above..Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike, thanks for the reply, stupid question though, what "code book" are you
refering to as mine doesn't have this table (that I've seen). I'll look again to make
sure.
i'll see if i can remember to look it up.. it's either our old CABO with RI aendments or our new IRC with RI amendmentsMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
butch... i looked it up..it's in the current RI code which is an amended version of the 2000 IRC.. my page 112.. section R602.7.1 Wood Structural panel box headers.
gives 2 sizes...9" & 15"....spans dependent on depth of house... up to 7' for 9"
& 8' for 15"... read all the notes.. and walk it by your inspector so he won't be surprised when he sees it.. mine likes them because of the extra insulation Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
i posted this once , but the pics were a little big on the file size..
the HVAC guys are running central air as part of our contract.... this is the air handler for the 2d floor... we moved a couple rafters and headed it off to build a utility closet for them..
and we're priming and backpriming all our trim in the gargage so we can get the shingles on the roofMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
our work is in the breezeway attic.. but when we did a thorough inspection of the main attic we found some pretty lousy insulation....
in this outside view the big gable dormer on the left is a cathedral ceiling over the dining room
the next pic shows what this area looks like inside..
generally we found about 8 recessed lights with large air gaps, a 2d floor bath vent was just stuck into the soffit.... the scuttle from the 2d floor was uninsulated and had a huge hole all around the lid..
and that attic area shown above was just a lot of gaps in the insulation... this is pretty much what i find whenever i get to inspect some of these new style neo-colonials with all of the volume ceilings.... terrible insulation detail... i find it hard to believe they can even heat themMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
this attic is pretty typical.... R30 batts laid between the ceiling joists.. ( 2x10's).. gaps all over the place..
we offered a change order to insulate teh main attic along with the insulation work we are going to do in the new work..
to start. we build some chicken walks in the hole formed by the cathedral ceiling over the dining room...
all of the new ductwork for the central AIR CONDITIONING.. is in place.. so we built a 2x8 catwalk down the middle
later we'll blow a 6 " cap of cellulose over everything... including teh new ductwork
we'll extend all of the propavent above the new insulation line... vent the bath thru the roof with a roof jack
put caps over all the recessed lights
here's some pics of the prep work... catwalk.. & chicken walks Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
we blew the old attic on Friday..... about a bag a minute.. 'course it took 3 hours for 40 bags... so most of the time was spent moving around ...
wound up with about an 8 - 10" cap... which should settle to about 6" - 8" ..
we'll insulate the new area as soon as we get the rough inspection from the Bldg. InspectorMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
got our inspections... furred the walls with 2x2.. put up the insul mesh and glued it yesterday.. so today is our first time blowing a "mooney wall"....
here's the nozzle we use for dens-pak.... we also had a couple of floor areas that are out over a porch.. so we bored those bays and blew them too..
sometimes we use a 2" pvc nozzle.. but so far this one seems to work best...the main drawback is that it clogs easily..Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
here's the blowing operation... the material on the floor is what comes out moving from hole to hole without shutting the nozzle....
and the 2d pic. is the finished section... our first Mooney Wall.....
how about it Tim ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike,
What are you using for the insulation mesh? Seems to stay nice and tight, without bulging. Looks like a decent system to me. I might want to try it. That front dormer looks like it should have been there from the start, from an design perspective anyway. Nice job!! Sure alot prettier than the 45 yards of concrete we poured into the ICF's today. Atleast it was warm today 36 degrees, what a heat wave! Sure beats the below zero that we had here lately. Gotta love winter in the north!!
Brudoggie
i think it's trade name is InsulMesh.... but i'm not sure.... where are you located?
i've bought it in Indiana and right here in RI..
heat wave tomorrow.. supposed to be 45... we'll start the day by putting in the mulled window in the rearMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike,
I tried to reply last night, but couldn't log in coming from outlook. I'm in NE Wisconsin, on the border of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Today, it's the Great White North. All local schools canceled due to a snow storm. About 4 to 5 down overnight, and expecting 8 to 12 more today. Good thing I love snow. Have to put the plow back on the truck. Spending the day in the office and shop today. Have a bunch of soft maple trim to finish milling. Might play hookey this afternoon, and go skiing, since the kids are off school. Looks like this weather is heading your way, after the weekend. Hope you don't get the freezing rain that's falling south of here. I'll check with some of my suppliers regarding the mesh. Things are a bit behind the times here. We just got our first spray foam insulation company in the area recently. Do you use a vapor barier over the dense pack? Or figure that there is no movement possible? I like cellulose, other than the dust when installing. Blown FG has gotten big lately here for attics. I tried it once, but switched back to cells. I don't think the FG is near as good a blanket. Thanks for the quick reply.
I don't post alot here, by the time I get on board, greater minds have already spoken. Better to keep my mouth shut and let folks assume I'm an idiot, than to open my mouth and remove all doubt!!!! :) Have a good one!
Brudoggie
Mike, I must say you look marvelous! There's little in life that's more fun than blowing cellulose. That comment may seem a bit twisted, but don't you enjoy watching the cavities fill?Arguing with a Breaktimer is like mud-wrestling a pig -- Sooner or later you find out the pig loves it.
i do, i do, i do...
sometimes a little mindless occupation is good for the soulMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Seeing that mess reminds me of the time I blew cellulose inside my walls
I did it from the inside(through the s.r.) w/us still living in it. Talk about making
a mess!!!! We were vacuuming cellulose up for a week.
yes, indeed ... figuring out how to keep the cells out of the living areas is always a challenge....Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
here's Kent come to hang the board so they can start skim coat tomorrow...
Jim & Dave moved outside to put in the window we had left out so we could get our board on boom delivery....
and a pic. of the neo-angle shower with the plumbing wall padded so we could get a 4" duct in from the bath vent of the floor below....Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
here's the new front dormer, finished... the old one on the left is going to get a face lift also.. soon as it's new window arrives..
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Nice! Loos like its always been there!
No divided lights??Jake Gulick
[email protected]
CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
snap-in grills... Owner's choice....
while Jim and Dave were working around the plasterers.. and insulating with me..
Roy went off to another job..
the Owner's wanted a railing up their double winder staircase.. they had a short ugly one on the half-open side..
here's Roy's handiwork..
he assembled it into 3 sections.. and i stained and finished the sections in the basement.. then final assembly .... sand the last two joints and ready for final finish..
the painters will do the skirts walls and ceiling
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at the same time they wanted built-in bookcases... 18' around an inside corner..
i designed a 16" base unit .. the upper unit has one fixed shelf at the bottom to form a display area on top of the painted counter..
above that will be two adjustable shelves..
here's Roy's progress so far....
a pic of one wall before, and the other two walls as of yesterday...Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike: You sure do a lot of interesting and a very nice variety of work. Keep the pictures coming. I like looking at nice details. You can tell a lot of thought and care goes into your projects.
stan..... i'm always telling my customers how much inspiration i get from the guys and gals here on BT..
so consider yourself part of the process... even larry heppedMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike: Speaking of Larry...I still say that was one rail running guy. I would be freakin in the way if I was on one of his jobs.
larry was great at a lot of things.... too bad he let his personality get in the way..
sure am glad i don't do that ..... hah , hah , hah
but just watching him run some of those drops and swoops was certainly inspiringMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
roy is making the last of the doors for the base units.. and everything is primed and caulked.. some filling and sanding and we'll be ready for finish paintMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
beautiful Mike!
thanks , john.. meanwhile .. back at the ranch.. the snow is off the roof so we started on the last dormer work.... this one was butt ugly... either they made the dormer too small for the window... or the window too large for the dormer....
leaked like a seive besides... anyways.. here's a before.. and also our start at 700 this AMMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
and here's the new window... one of those new KML customs that Andersen bought to give them a custom line.. this one has the grills between the glass.. nice unit
the view inside is in the vaulted living roomMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Nice looking work & cool details Mike. Looks like you run a good clean jobsite too.
Mike.
another view of the inside with the casing appliedMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
while on the north end of the island , Roy was finishing his bookcases... here's the strawboss checking on the finished bookcases... the lighting is still being installed..
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nice job mike
Have you found that site-made or local-shop-made doors beat the cost of buying them from one of the door places like Conestoga, Keystone, Scherr's, etc.?
We have been buying them out and only making them here if they are funky (birchbark-paneled, etc.).
Cost, delivered, for doors like in the pic, factory painted, run us about $18 / sf, prepped for and including the euro cup hinges.
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bob... i've never checked into buying them from a door company.. those doors are MDO with an applied molding and a Euro-hinge ( Amroc , actually )..
and their finished size was determined at the last stage...Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
We get 'em in most any species you can name, finished or unfinished, and sizes are always custom per order. Normal lead is about 4 weeks, but we can pay a rush order premium and get them in 10 days. That cost I gave you was for paintgrade species (soft maple or poplar) and a factory paint job.
We have switched to specifying and using Blum euro cup hinges, type "Inserta." Completely tool-free installation, both on the cab side and the door side. Insert the parts, flip over the cams, and done. Labor savers, plus no more dents or scratches from slipped phillips bits.
bob... thanks for the "Blum" tip... i've used Grass.. and Amroc...
the no tools i assume also means it is not a cup hinge ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Here is the Blum Inserta hinge, going onto a door. No screws required. Those two small "holes" are where the alignment studs are.
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It is a "cup" hinge, 35mm bore, two flanking 8mm shallow holes receive the studs. Once that thumb goes down, she's solid. Easily removable.
Here is the clip base being mounted on a cab side. The two "flippers" wedge-draw studs tightly into the two 5mm mounting holes, spaced 32mm apart.
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Do it all at the end, wear cotton gloves, leave no fingerprints, save labor, risk of finish damage from slipped bits, etc.
What we like is that the hinges are fully adjustable all three ways, using a phillips-head screwdriver, including up-down. No loosening base screws.
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I like those hinges too...great adjustability. But I haven't used the "Inserta" type.
How do you do your drilling? It sounds as though jigs and templates are key. Jake Gulick
[email protected]
CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
If you do your own drilling for euro cup hinges now, it is no different, except that you might need an 8mm bit for the prep on the doors. The location of the 8mm bores is the same as for screws for a screw-on hinge. The cabs get 5mm holes for the plate mounts at 32mm spacing, which is standard line drilling. Cup size in doors is standard 35mm.
We've got jigs and bits for drilling if we need to, but most of the work is done with door and drawerfront packages purchased, and when we buy 'em like that, they come complete with hinges, hinge plates, and doors already prepped.
When everything arrives, we start doin' what you see in the cartoons, above.
hey, jake.... you still comming to jlc ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Hey Mike!
Yup. Got my info the other day and am planning on Fri -sat. You?Jake Gulick
[email protected]
CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
Friday.... but might get talked into Saturday... we'll see
planning on Angelo's for lunch ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Sorry I mssed your reply. For some reason i got an email notification of the first, but not the latest response. Odd. Angelos? I am now! (Planning that is)Jake Gulick
[email protected]
CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
The blum hinges are super nice and the adjustability is great. Now they even have a clip on soft closer that you can retro fit to them and they are dirt cheap.
back working on this house..... replacing a couple windows ( 1996 ! )and some window trim replace / repairMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
these are Brosco, single glazed with storm panel inserts
but all the exposed ones have rotten sills and most of the 5/4 finger joint casing is gone also
the initial contract is to replace 3 of them and repair 5 others
our repairs consist of West System epoxy to the sills and Azek for the casing
here's a typical,.....
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these were painted shortly after the dormer project... including some Bondo repairs......
this one is the worst that we decided to repair..... the ones we replaced were even further gone... this one we cut the front off the sill and epoxied a new front on
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here's another... this is epoxy , epoxy & micro balloons.... then Bondo for fairing in
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hey mike....just wondering about those micro balloons...who gets to blow them up?
say hello to the little dutch girl for me
mark.... you got it...
the little dutch girl is quite happy with her new grandson , Finn
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this is the most prominent culprit
an big mulled DH with an arc top...
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the sill got the epoxy treatment, but the mull strips
and the casing is going to be replaced with Azek.. we bought a 4x8 sheet of 5/4
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i bought an Arcus blade & skill saw base over the internet after Tim Uhler sang it's praises..... arcusblade.com
we set up on our EZ SmarTable
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we made a test cut on some 1/4" luan... Chuck got to do the honors....
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then we tried our test cut to make sure we had the correct radius
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and made our cut in the Azek.... we could have made the arc in ONE piece, but i thought we would be courting trouble with expansion
so we made the arc in 3 pieces to allow the caulk joint to take up the expansion / contraction... we modified the trammel ( made it longer ) with some aluminum shapes from the hardware store
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after using the Arcus blade , the edge was baby smooth & we didn't even need to sand .... no more router setups for us if we have true arcs to cut
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here's the arc in place
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and painting the edges on the casing before we install it
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we also replaced the gable end window over the garage
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Mike,
Thank you for sharing your learning curve. It helped me a lot and to understand what that blade can really do in the hands of good man who cares about quality work!!
Bill
wait 'til you talk to the lady who invented it...she's a trip ....
great toolMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike: Nice stairwork....
Mike
The thing I always look for when I see something that has changed on a house is, does it look like it was "added onto" or "it was always there", yours as usual is the latter, belongs on the structure.
I think a lot of carps can build nice things but it takes a little more to make it look like it should be there. Yours always does that.
Doug
john.... here's the framing as-built on the shed dormer....
and the front dormer...Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike, Another way to reduce the photo size with Irfan is to change the DPI. Or mostly I will just keep aspect ratio and change width to something slightly smaller by typing it in. ( this is go > image > resize)
i.e. if the shot is 720 wide, I will resize to about 600. At 72 DPI it will show good here.
And I notice that when I lighten one up or adjust the gamma, I lose file size. must be that it drops the darker pixels to make the adjustment. But hen the reciever sometimes sees a more washed out shot. Gotta be careful doing it..
Excellence is its own reward!
piffen .... usually i manipulate pics in ThumbsPlus4... great little program.. if i want to change the res. i open them in Irfan..
the normal res with my pics at my camera setting is say 150 k
in Irfan i just click on "half" and i usually gt 640x 320 which is small enough for you dial-up guys (i hope )... anyways most will wind up in the 50 - 60k rangeMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
ye of no faith well excuse me but I was seeing bullets under those tap dancin feet of yours but then I referred back to the ext. shot of the shed roof and saw that it is mighty close to the ridge - still probably think of you as the cantilever kid!
Nice work and great pictures. Just looking at the 48KB picture showing the top gable end above the shed. Looks like you would have a water problem where the existing roof meets the shed roof.
How do you keep snow etc. from building up under the overhang and causing problems.?
Mike,
Is there some way you can get thouse down to about 50k apiece ?
I'm on dialup heah...
Yaaarg !¡!!¡!!! Stand still... While I smite thee !
quittintime
don't know... i'll import them into Irfan and see what happensMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
hmmm.. testing this thread to find out what came forward and what didn't.....
some pics survived.... many are just red "x"'s
and there was an add-on to the 2004 story... we went back in 2008 and did some more work.. but that isn't at the end ....... it's near the end ... then it goes back to
2004 again.. so the chronology is wrong
Seems like only the attached pics in the first posts transmogrified... the rest just mogrified.
nice clean job shaping up - I'm impressed with your organization - a plan, the right tools, knowledge to handle inclement conditions - clean job site - looks like a good crew - I'm sure it'll warm up after you get er all weathered in -
i'll try replying to the LAST
i'll try replying to the LAST post in the thread..
i guess they just get added in behind which ever post you reply to...
that screws up the chronology.. which to me is more important than people replying to specific posts
I wish they could get the pics to show up again.
patchogue.... me too... take a look at what's left of adverse conditions
hey ..read a great book about your neck of the woods and mine
R.A. Scotti...."Sudden Storm".... about the '38 hurricane.... easily equals "Issac's Storm " about Galveston
wonder what this means ...."Increasing forum cache count for this post"....does "post" mean thread ?
"POST" means "SAVE" !!!
Neither of which increases my "cash count".
Every time we get a big storm, the news stories always bring up the `38 hurricane. Keep saying "we are due" for another. Just makes it hard for me to get homeowners insurance.
Ya know, I considered your "blog" threads as a "how-to" and reference for details on how I would do things for my own home (if I could get my 'cash count' high enough to do so). Wish I had cut-n-pasted pics and descriptions, and saved them on my own computer. ::sigh::