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Taking care of loose ends for a kitchen remodel in this 50's Modern style home today. Owners are retired candy makers who sold out to Brachs. Cool House with sweet owners.
Here's whereI worked today:
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I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
For gosh sakes Boss, try to relax. You look like a bundle of nerves.Tom
Douglasville, GA
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Boss
who shot that pic, the real boss.
Doug
Somebody who was capable of getting the calender in. What month is that?
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What month is that?
Its my favorite month, but of course maybe the other 11 are my favorites as well!
Doug
It's feb on one calender and march on the other. Boss must like Miss Feb too. He left her on display
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Actually, the calendar(s) on the left are partially covered so you can't see all of 'em. I take the picture pages off calendars and hang 3 months at a time up with just the date part showing. That way I can see more readily what's coming up and/or what's happened recently. It's especially helpful near the beginning/end of each month.I actually can't keep the girly calendars in my office - They get stolen by the plant guys.
Wisdom is not knowing what to do now, but what to do next.
They get stolen by the plant guys.
Those sob's, is their no decency left in this world!
Doug
hey boss... try training yourself to use the mouse in your left hand.. that leaves your right hand free for the keyboard
also it relieves some of the stress on the right hand so you won't develop carple tunnel
a side benefit is that it's easier to drive in Endgland & Ireland
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My left hand isn't that coordinated - I doubt that would ever work.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. (Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge)
neither was mine.... but you'd be amazed at how easy it is to pick it up
i met an architect this weekend, said she was trained in school to use the left... but never did
then she broke her right wrist so she had to use the left... took her about two weeks.. say's she would never go backMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
You can swap your click buttons too. Helpful for lefties. So right click on stuff instead of left and vice versa.
jt8
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." --Albert Schweitzer
I use the term 'contra-click'. I switched long ago to free up my right hand for taking notes or working a numeric keypad.
Boss, even if I hadn't picked up that you were from IL by reading your posts elsewhere, that Burris seed corn cap is a dead giveaway...edit: sorry Mike; that was supposed to be aimed at BossHog
Edited 10/3/2006 9:20 pm by torn
that's ok... lot's of people mistake me for bossMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Do you have Burrus seed corn up there?Their HQ is abotu 75 miles from here. I have a cousin who works for them who keeps me in hats.
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
No; I haven't seen any this far north... I grew up just north of Jacksonville, though, and my dad is friends with Ronnie and Jim and the crew...
Owners are retired candy makers who sold out to Brachs. Cool House with sweet owners.
BOOOOOOOO! Bad pun. jt8
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." --Albert Schweitzer
I work for the architectural firm that designed the new Local 150 Operating Engineer's training center. Here's a couple of links about the project and an overall rendering of the building.
http://www.constructionequipment.com/article/CA6266402.html?text=local+150
http://www.asiplocal150.org/WilmingtonSite.htm
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An indoor earthmoving arena...who wouldda thunk it? Interesting project.
That rendering doesn't begin to give you an idea of how big this job really is. The "T" shape of the building is approximately 850' long by about 800' deep. We're about half way through the proposed 21 month construction schedule. Goal is to be complete by this time next year at the latest. The push right now is to be weather tight by thanksgiving which is realistic since most of the roof is on and detailed and the windows start being delivered in two weeks.Here's the highlights of how the building is split up looking at that rendering:Far left (3 overhead doors visible with 3 more on the opposite side) is the training bays where equipment repair / diagnostic training takes place. Welding training and storage are in the slightly raised area to the right of the training bays.Either side of the main entry is classrooms and administrative offices on two floors. This area also includes an auditorium where a machine can be brought in (through the basement) for presentations and a full service cafeteria. Basement is in this area for electric service, fire sprinkler service, water service, record storage, and building engineer office. Entire central area is designed to easily add a third floor in the future if needed.Behind the main entry (to the north) is additional offices, locker rooms, receiving dock, freight elevator, print shop, with the third floor being a mechanical penthouse. Farther north are equipment repair bays, steam cleaning bay, and covered equipment storage.Far Right front to back is an asphalt paving training bay, the indoor operator's arena, and a covered storage area on the backside for equipment designed to be enclosed with precast concrete walls if required in the future. The arenas are currently 300' long with the ability to be extended another 600' in (2) 300' sections. The indoor earthmoving arena is based on a Caterpillar facility in central Illinois. I'll try to post some more pictures after I go back this coming wednesday.
Potrero hill, a nice neighborhood in San Francisco. It's got great views on the non foggy days, and today it was sunny all day.
I'm working in the house of a glass sculptor, so in the yard where my tools are set up, beyond the miter saw you can make out a 6' high tower of plate glass. 2' behind me when I'm at the saw, is a pile of probably a hundred very thin-wall glass tubes, like large flourescent lights, but without ends. It's what you might call a delicate situation. The inside of the house is similar- before I start pounding on a wall, I need to think about what's on the other side.zak
"so it goes"
Whoooo! One of my nightmares is tight, delicate work sites - I tend to go around on tip toes, and my neck hurts at the end of the day from hunching my shoulders.
Forrest
Like a bull in a china factory! ; )My Hitachi SCMS is like yours, but a generation older...a good tool.
Here's where I'm working today. Shop is attached to the house.
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Douglasville, GA
Nice.Your elevation is higher above sea level than mine (way up here in MN), that is interesting.
Isn't it cool to be able to do that? I always feel like I'm in "Star Trek" and scanning a planet.
Guess I'm just old. . .
Forrest
Yeah, google earth is amazing. My kids love to watch it. Tom
Douglasville, GA
I don't need no stinkin' Google Guys to get aerial pics of my place! ; )
Not actually my SCMS, and I just ordered a Makita, but it is a nice saw.
Yesterday I was pulling a 2x4 from the bottom of the pile, and because of where the 2x4s are stacked, I grazed the bottom of the plate glass tower when I got it out. Major cringe there. I have no idea if anything holds that tower together other than gravity.
Good thread, by the way- it's kind of amazing the diversity of projects worked on here on BT.zak
"so it goes"
Don't forget to stop at the Anchor Steam Brewery tour before you leave...
Feeling like a bull in the china shop?
;)
[edit] oops, looks like someone beat me to the 'bull' analogy. Great minds think alike I guess.
jt8
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." --Albert Schweitzer
Edited 9/1/2006 10:49 am by JohnT8
In my shop! Making stuff for the Portico Project.
Forrest
I work here (pretty much every day)
http://www.grosshillrentals.com
And if you squint really hard, you can make out my cube...
http://www.grosshillrentals.com
I just started design work for another addition to this old house. The first thing they want is to restore the entry portico that was removed years ago.They handed me some drawings of the existing prepared by an architect who had made a start and whose concept ideas were not liked. They figured I could work from them.80% of the dimensions were missing and of the ones left, half were wrong, so I spent the morning penciling in the right dims to work into my CAD model.
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A couple of picuters got prosperoed. I think they took this time
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Ha! You work down the street form me. Right off 128 right? Unless they have more than one building that looks exactly like that.
Edited 8/31/2006 8:05 pm ET by xosder11
I wasn't there today but the hangar on the left is where I normally work or often on a plane parked out on the pad. Sometimes I fly to all kinds of exotic places to change egines and do sheetmetal work etc.. but all I ever get to see is the airports. Tom
Douglasville, GA
Nope....That be the building.Where u at???
http://www.grosshillrentals.com
RT 38 woburn
Small world - I was doing voice/data drops for a customer last weekend at Baldwin Green Common on Route 38 in Woburn.
Bob
Almost a year after I started, and I'm finally back to work on the bar. Sad part is that it doesn't look much different.
The job has been at a stand still for almost 8 months over some building permit, and maximum occupancy rulings and appeals.
Maybe I'll get paid before the end of the year.
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Don't call me daughter.
"maybe I'll get paid before the end of the year"
or better yet, before you move?
It's one of those jobs, I've given up hope of getting the money. If they pay, they pay.
Maybe it will be a Christmas present.Don't call me daughter.
That project looked cool...bummer when what should be a good job goes goofy. I have a 7.5K account like that...really bites! I hope we both get the $.
good luck, and don't give up.
I've gotten paid on a couple of jobs where I thought I'd never see the $.
So miracles can happen
Since we're doing ariel pix - I'm working here right now - I'm in the octagonal wing- the sun room.
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Forrest
Izat yur shop?
Well, this is just the annex, where I type right now as I eat breakfast - my real shop is up and to the left!
Forrest
Lets see if I can attach this...
Tetons?
Yes, Idaho side.
One winter, I took a snow coach to Old Faithful Inn, then back-country skied through to the Ferris Fork of the Bechler River and out to the Bechler Ranger Station (near Ashton, ID).It was a wonderful week in a magical place...I'll never forget it. Never saw another soul (except at the beginning and end of the trip). Took a shower under a thermal waterfall, when it was 10* below zero. Fantastic place!
I worked in a cabinet shop located in an old warehouse in Winona, MN today.
Assembled flush, door-in-frame, cabinets...kinda tedious.
I'm now on the other side of the bay from my last job. Near the top of the Berkeley hills, putting a beautiful old growth redwood greenhouse onto an expensive/expansive concrete home.
I should have taken pictures yesterday, when the air was clear, and the Golden Gate bridge was easy to see. I could barely make it out today, and it didn't show in the pictures at all.
The greenhouse is about 8 feet wide, 12 long on one side of the corner of the house, and wrapping around about 8 feet on the other. We put in most of the fixed glass windows today- it gets a glass roof later on, too.
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zak
"so it goes"
Pretty wood; crisp work
I can only afford redwood for trim and details here on the right side of the country - beautiful to see it for framing.
Forrest
Pretty wood; crisp work
I can only afford redwood for trim and details here on the right side of the country - beautiful to see it for framing.
Thanks. Wood like that is not cheap even here. I find it difficult to work with, in that it's very easy to dent or mar after you think you're done with it. All the wood gets wrapped in dropcloths until it's ready to put up. Of course, it cuts like butter.
What's cypress like to work? I've always wondered about it, but never seen it out west.zak
"so it goes"
Cypress isn't so soft that you'll dent it, but has a lot of density variation between the rings. You have to use sharp knives in the planer, or the grain compresses and pops back up. Kinda weird - you feed a fairly smooth board into the (dullish) planer, and it comes out "rougher"!
I like it, and it seems durable, but its's hard to get it and keep it really smooth.
Forrest - building a redwood pergola in my dreams
Is that dry stack block in the second photo?
Read about it on this forum, but have never seen it used.
How does a green house pass the seismic requirements in CA ?
Dave
It's not dry stack. The whole house is built with block, including the 3' high wall that the bottom plate of the greenhouse sits on.
As far as seismic issues, I've been wondering about that myself- it's a small auxilary structure attached to the main house, but still, it doesn't have much resistance to shear forces.zak
"so it goes"
Zak, we've crossed paths in some threads here and I know your in the Berkley area now. I am currently doing some drywall work on a house in the hills and the owner is looking for someone to trim it out. Your name came to mind.
Any interest? Paint grade craftsmen stlye 3 level house. Email me if so and we can talk. Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
Thanks for thinking of me, emailed ya.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
Today I worked very near the site of the "Little House in the Big Woods" Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood home. This new home is on a wooded lot overlooking Lake Pepin, near Stockholm, WI.I'm four days into a 12 day stint as a trim sub. Finished all the upstairs work today. Tomorrow I install a bunch of cherry doors downstairs.
Worked on a relatively new house (for Winona, MN), up on the bluffs above the Mississippi.
It is a 25 y.o. place that got a new Marvin window (6-0, 6-0).
Edited 9/20/2006 11:29 pm ET by basswood
Started putting beaded-board paneling into this little summer home today near Alma, WI.
Trees are turning on the bluffs. Nice spot with a small apple orchard, overlooking the Mississippi.
Back to working on my back porch.
Used mahogany 5/4 x 4 T&G for the floors and cedar for the rails, posts and spindles I fabricated in my shop. For the posts I routed a beading to the top part of the post corners and widened the base with just straight corners.
I have it almost all oil primed w/ B.M Problem Solver. The stuff works nice on cedar.
The railings are about ready to be spray painted, cut to the right lengths and reinstalled.
I changed plans midstream. Wuz gonna just do what I had in the last picture where the railing are all up but decided to get more intricate.
Its killing me to keep things so plain so I went ahead and got it out of my system...lol.Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.
looking good.... did Justin take his sign back ?
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looking good.... did Justin take his sign back ?>>>>>That night it was raining I was up there taking it down for them watching over youz guyz : )
Thanks...maybe my next house will have a view like the one on the job you're on...but sorta doubt it....who knows? This time though, I ain't doin' the the wood shingle roof. I've had enough for a lifetime. Let others do it...I'm getting too old...lol.Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.
Andy:
How are you sealing the floor?
How did you roundover the ends of the floorboards. I have the same setup and I need to redeck my mahogony porch. I can't run a router down the edge because the posts are in the way. The current setup has end piece of 5/4 x 4 with the outer edge rounded over, but I like the look of yours better. "With every mistake we must surely be learning"
mike...thanks. Actually, like an idiot I got ahead of myself and forgot to route the edges so I went back and cut into the framing members
1 1/2" with my saw to give me the three inches I needed to get my router in there.
Thats what made me think to make the bases wider than the tops. Turned lemon into lemonade...seems to happen alot around here.
What you could do if you absolutly can't get a router in there would be what I was "gonna" do, which was to make the end board go on the horizontal in front of the other boards to sort of set it into a frame.
That way you could route it before you install it like I did with each side end board.
Either that or...being that you're going to redeck it anyway, make the deck come out another three inches if possible.Orrrrrr..lol..glue together the pieces that'd fit in front of the colums and route it before you install it.
I sealed all eight sides of every floor board with Cabots Austrailian oil. Personally I think the stuff is really good. If you do use it though be sure to folow the directions and DON'T over apply it!! It's not at all necessary.
Also, I sanded the top of every plank with 80 grit paper first on my belt sander to get the mill haze off so the oil could penetrate better.
Took a good couple of days to dry before I was able to install them.
I can't imagine any other oil finish would be much better. The front two porches I did last year are still in great shape with a lot of heavy traffic each day. If I have to oil them again next spring ...big deal. Takes no time now that its down. No oil is going to last more than a few years IMO.
Good luck and have fun.,
Andy...Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.
One other thing mike...why are you redecking your mahogany floor? The stuff is so expensive. Why not just sand it down???Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.
Thanks for the guidance.
They've been sanded twice in the 13 years I've owned the house. I've never been happy with the sealants that I've tried. I tried Spar urethane and marine varnish. Between the rain, sun and traffic they always end up looking bad. I thought about synthetic material but I haven't found one that has the right dark brown color that I want and I refuse to buy a synthetic and then have to paint it.
I might redeck in Doug Fir and prestain/seal with Sickens or a Cabot oil. No more urethane. Think it will hold up?
Nice web site.
Is the silver van your work rig?
David,Yes, that is my VW work rig. I really enjoy working out of it. I've mentioned it a few times here. It is a serious 3/4 ton van and gets 17-19 mpg fully loaded with tools.
Worked in the modest house on the right today in Winona, MNIt was a crisp Fall day (first windshield frost of the year...kinda freaked me out).
Periodically I make siding and wall repairs to a watefront summer house where some flashing mistakes were made. It's a nice place all the way at the end of the road, looking out onto the bay. Not much sound, lots of deer around and recently a seagull brought me a nice fish, although he had already eaten the good part. The owner makes wicked brownies with powdered sugar sprinkled on top. I can generally find a moment to enjoy the view at lunch. They seem to want to remodel the kitchen there, which sounds good to me as long as they're living at their other house while I do it.
Next week I've got some work at a horse farm. These folks raise, train, and sell some sort of exotic beasts, I've forgotten the name but I'd never heard it before. There's a stallion in the paddock nearest to the house, and man is he one beautiful horse. If you wanted to shoot a movie with Mel Gibson riding a massive, snorting, muscle-bound beast into battle... that's your horse. There are quite a few mares also. All of them are far above the usual horses I see around here.
I've been working in a small 1960 ranch home (kitchen remodel) and in a 100 y.o. four-square home (kitchen & bath) that are a few blocks from each other in Winona, MN.
Here are the pics:
I always think those 4sq look naked without a big porch on the front.
jt8
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Working on this bar room cabinet project for a client who is scared I wont finish for their Christmas party.
I will finish with time to spare and then I will be his hero (I like being the hero, Doesn't happen often!!!!)
-Lou C
Edited 12/2/2006 5:57 am ET by loucarabasi
Please forgive my ignorance, what's a 4 square? thanks.
Please forgive my ignorance, what's a 4 square? thanks.
Just think of it as a cube with a roof.
http://www.oldhouseweb.com/stories/Detailed/12269.shtml
1895 - 1930: American Foursquare
Picture Dictionary of House Styles in North America and Beyond
The Foursquare style, sometimes called the Prairie Box, can be found in nearly every part of the United States.
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jt8
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thanks John, actually I had a meeting this morning with my brain cells (a small get together) and I thought maybe that's what it was. Ah, the power of brainstorming.
This was my view today, in Misquamicut, Rhode Island looking towards Block Island.
I've worked on Block Island in the past.........wish I could be out there more often. Nothing like island life on island time!
Rod
Oops.......here's the picture.
Cool!
Where's the island?
I don't see the island, either. Nice shoes, though...
Bob
Different day........different view.....there's the island!It amazes me..........the power of the ocean, to move tonnage of sand! One day the sand is there, the next day it's not. In the other 2 pics you can tell by the stones how much sand comes and goes.It is really nice to work and watch and hear the surf, literally 50' away. There is no backyard, just ledge down to the water.Yeah...........I've been milking it a bit. Rod
Man, that sand / no sand pair is cool! Gotta show DW.
Forrest
planning stages were last week.
This week its "still" working in "This Old Dump" : )~
Namaste'
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Was werkin away yesterday and I sensed somthing large in my peripheral vision ,Rik
Houseboat...nice!
Hi, Looks to me like another fine job by the Nickel bros. Moving. I watched them bring one in by barge here in my hometown. Up and over the sea wall. It was like watching a finely tuned orchestra. Very professional.
This AM, I went to one of the jobs to meet the roofer to help solve a unique chimney/wall/roof/ridge intersection flashing problem.now I am about to begin surgeryon my wife's PC. If you don't hear from me again, I got killed for losing some of her files...;)
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I have been enjoying that same view for about 6 months now down in quonie. It is always amazing how different the beach is from day to day. Some days the sand is 4 to 5 feet lower than the day before. But can't complain, 55 degrees in December on the coast is a god send.
Ain't that the truth! I'm in the masonry biz, and I'm lovin this weather. Just makes everything eazzier. Rod
You may want to do something about the high water table before you start building on that lot.
Gabe
I worked in the cold today right near the river. My bones was shakin'.
I stayed home and watched my twin boys 6.5 months old. Hardest day I ever worked in my life. I'll be at my shop sat morn at 5am. I love my boys, but thats some hard work!!!!!
-Lou
p.s. Have kids one at a time