My stairshop is back in order and I thought I would post some picures in chronological order from the day of the storm on July 13th till now. Here are some storm day pictures. I was just halfway under that workbench when my ceiling came in.
Most important…no one was hurt.
Stan
Natural light, taller ceilings, and more functional spaces transform this midcentuary-modern home.
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Here are some "during" shots.
Here are some almost finished pictures. I basically just have to trim out some windows...etc.
The last picture is a stair that I just moved out of the shop yesterday. I have an electric hoist to lower them to the floor. Much easier on the backs.
Stan
stan.. i see you're still tempting fate with the big trees around the shop..
i've got one oak overhanging our garage that i keep thinking about ..
nice to have it.. but sure would hate to see it do to our house what your's did to your shop...
anyways.. good to see you back in business !Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Looks nice, didn't realize that your truck was involved too.
If you don't mind me asking what did your insurance
end up doing with it, replace or was it repaired?
Butch: My truck was totaled. I posted a picture of its replacement with my stairshop logos on the doors.
Stan-
I'm glad your shop is back online. I enjoy your stair pictures very much, craftsmanship at it's best. I often wondered, how did you learn this craft? Are you self taught? Keep posting the pictures.
In my younger days I always wanted to fly a hang glider,than an ultralight. Those were the days when I had a more adventurous side, now just going to work everyday is enough adventure.
Greg in cold connecticut
Greg: I basically taught myself how to build curved stairways. I could not build anything staight...so curved ones were easy.
Stan
I see you got the other cupola up. That is a neat element, I like 'em.
Although, I'm STILL wondering about those bare bulbs in the addition. Wasn't there a better lighting choice? Were you going with incandescent for the color of the light when you're staining? I saw in the paint section at Lowes the other day they had a display that you could alternate the light on a paint sample from fluorescent to incandescent to sunlight. Not sure how they did the 'sunlight', but it was interesting seeing how colors change under different light.
Stan, you've gotta setup a website. I realize you're not trying to pick up business from around the world, but a website with basic info and lots of project pics would be a nice link for locals to see your work (and what I'm really saying is that it would be nice for us curved-staircase junkies to have all the pics in one place). Then you could have your website address on yer business cards and in the phone book.
I did a whois search and found out that
http://www.stansstairshop.com
is available.
jt8
John: I had considered getting a website. I am kind of slow when it comes to figuring out computers and stuff. I almost need to have it hired done. I like the web address you checked out for me.....thanks....I may get it done yet.
I dont have any problem with my bulbs...I guess I am missing something? Its nice and bright...thats all I need.
Stan
Stan....no airiel shots???
You use a DeWalt Chopper? (Dont tell IMERC)...I do too by the way and it just crapped out on me...checked the brushes (at least 3/4" of meat left on them)took out the trigger/switch and sanded all the contact point to no avail...ugh...and I need it bad for this coming week to do my wide plank pine floors....So now its in the truck to be taken to the repair shop tomorrow morning...bummer.
Real glad you turned lemon into lemonaid.
the shop looks even better now, not to mention the truck.
Glad you were safe...thats the main thing!!!!
Be well my brother
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I had considered getting a website. I am kind of slow when it comes to figuring out computers and stuff. I almost need to have it hired done. I like the web address you checked out for me.....thanks....I may get it done yet.
I'm a little out of the loop on making websites, (it has been a few years since I've set one up) but it isn't hard. The website type that would probably serve you best would be more of a small, static (as in not being changed very often) site. You are basically just using it as an information website that has your company name, what you do, where you're located, contact information, and then a gallery page or two showing finished projects.
So basically once you unroll it, you're only gonna get on there to maybe tweak it once in a blue moon or to add another group of pics. Otherwise it just sits out there and does its thing (i.e. gives folks a place to anonymously look at your work, and if they're interested, contact information to get ahold of you).
As far as cost, you're looking at registering (really its leasing, AKA 'purchasing a domain name') the website name for "X" number of years at so much per year (probably around $8-25/yr depending). You then need a location to host it. Yahoo can do it for about $10 bucks a month. Your local ISP can probably also host it. I think I pay about $2/month for 20megs of space. You can probably get by with 20, but more is always nice. Convenience is worth a couple bucks too.
Among your contact information you could put an email address (some people create a Yahoo/Hotmail/Whatever email account just for their websites since website posted email addresses draw a lot of SPAM). Its not a bad idea to use this address when you register the domain, cuz domain registrations are public information.
One of the features of the Yahoo hosting, is that they will give you something like 5 email addresses that you can alter. So even though its a 'yahoo' address, you could have it setup as: [email protected]
When Yahoo receives an email with this email address it would automatically fwd it to your yahoo account. But I'm starting to ramble, so I'll stop here.
I dont have any problem with my bulbs...I guess I am missing something? Its nice and bright...thats all I need.
Hmmm...lets see. Nice big workspace, low maint. exterior, finished interior, fancy cupolas on the roof, and.... $.99 porcelain fixtures. :) I'm wasn't being serious, I was just giving you a hard time. If they work for you, then there's no reason to waste additional $$ on anything else. In a heated space, I really like fluorescents... if for no other reasons than they last a while and burn less watts. But your work is about 100 steps further up the craftsmanship stairway than mine, so I'm not about to make any suggestions. BUT I do reserve the right to give you a hard time about the lighting, cuz I haven't seen anything about your staircases that I can give you a hard time about.
jt8
Edited 11/15/2004 10:23 am ET by JohnT8