So, Whatjya Do Today....

Leo G

I started a thread like this on another forum and it seemed to be pretty popular. Almost like a blog of your activities. You can talk about what you did, or plan on doing. It'll let others know how you do your job and what it entails. It can be a good learning tool and you might learn something that you didn't know.


Making a cherry kitchen:

This is the first full day on it. On Friday I got my solid Cherry, last Tuesday I got my plywood. I always like to build my FF's and doors first then the boxes. So on Friday, before my solid stock arrived I started to built the vanity for the same house, still Cherry. Made the FF, door parts and slab drawer fronts. Today I shaped the panels. sanded them, sprayed a thinned coat of pre cat lacquer on both sides to seal it, assy the doors and sanded them (2 doors). I also picked out all the stock for the FF's for the kitchen. Cut it to width, length, jointed a face, planed, jointed an edge, planed the opposite edge and got 6 out of 16 FF's assy. I was also dealing with a lady who wants to update her kitchen and we were conversing by email about changes and updates to what we had already discussed. Probably 10 emails today. I also did a few cabinet renderings in eCabs so she could decide on how she was going to proceed.

Not use to actually working through the day. It's been a while. The time change screwed me up. I forgot to reset my shop clock and didn't notice until it said 6:30, it was really 7:30. So it was a long day.

Tomorrow I should get the rest of the FF's assy and get started on the doors. Probably get the stock cut and a bunch of panels glued up.

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Leo G

Continuing on the kitchen:

To many visitors today. Ya, just visitors, no customers. The lady who I am making a small gloss white Euro style kitchen for her place in NYC stopped by today. We needed to go over the dimensions of the kitchen area, the GC that is working on the place gave me the numbers and something didn't seem right. We tried to do it through email, but she doesn't like email so she came by. She is a good client, got lots of work from her and many referrals with a few that came through. We know each other pretty well now and can talk other than business. So we did, for about an hour. Continued on the FF assy. The lower FF's are more complex than the upper, plus they have a furniture style toekick, so that takes about 15 minutes each to cut out and sand up. My landlord stopped by a few times today, good guy, doesn't act like a landlord. I have a FAX machine and gets his FAXes through my machine. I received 2 for him, plus I act as his secretary (an ugly one, wife approved ) and typed up his minutes for his condo association meetings (he is a member). Takes about 10-15 minutes. Plus because of the time change I needed to change the light timers in his building, I am in charge of general building maintenance. I get $100 a month off of my rent to take care of a bunch of small things, usually about 20 hours a year. So I continued on with the FF's and got to the last one that I can assy. I left 2 unassembled, the lazy sue corner cab and the corner upper. I like to build the cabinets first and fit the FF's to them. Less problems this way. As I was gathering the parts for the pantry FF, the last one, my buddy Ron came by. He's another local WWer. His shop is about 3 miles away and we talk a few times a week. Usually about job pricing and business related stuff. He is setting up a spray booth and comes by my shop to steal my ideas. So that burned up another 45 minutes. I have another kitchen remodel coming up, he doesn't have any work on the burner and I can't handle the load that has dropped on me all at once. So I subbed all the doors out to him, I'll do the cabinets and we will both do the install. Finally got around to making that last FF. By now it was about 5:30pm. A lot of time burned up by visitors. I should have stayed and picked out the stock for the doors but I wasn't in the mood. So now I am down by about 2-3 hours from where I figured I would be. Just typical. Just so you know, I am a late starter, doctors hours the guys tell me. I usually start around 8:15. Such a Lazy Bum I am.

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greg24k

Woke up... That was a good sign .

Had my breakfast, checked what was going on here while having my coffee. Picked up my brother and took a ride to my property to fix a silt fence around new house I am building ,because some guy called complaining it was blowing all over the place. Stopped at the township to pick up a building permit jacket for a re-roof job I am doing for an old customer. After had to make a stop at the tile store and select tile for the house I am building. Took my brother home, stopped at my friends Italian deli he just opened near my house, had a nice freshly made Focaccia bread with Roasted peppers, Prosciutto and fresh made Mozzarella. Chased it with a double espresso and a shot of buca. Went to the cable company to get a Digital box for the TV I got for my bedroom. Came home and checked the messages, checked what is going on here and went to radio shack to get HDMI cable for the TV, cable company did not give me one $140 a month for cable and they can not give me a piece of wire. Came home, hooked everything up, and its dinner time. Had dinner, wrote a proposal for a bathroom remodeling, watched some TV and its zzzzzz time.
This morning
Woke up- Thank God
Sent my wife out to work. There was Victoria Secret Spring edition on the table, got that and went to a nice and quiet place to check it out what is new this season: Now having my coffee and waiting for a cable guy to show up to install signal amplifier for my cable signal.
To be continued...

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WisePainter

Hey this is just like Twitter!
ugh...

Today, woke up, dropped the kids at the pool, drank coffee, checked the new posts, yelled at kids to shut up while I am interneting, apologized to kids and gave them money, posted some more, hit the quick reply button...

ProWallGuy

Damn josh, er, leo. You know when you occasionally hit the ENTER button, it does wonders for creating paragraphs, etc.

This is what I'm doing today, probably tomorrow, and maybe even Friday.
Don't hate me.

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TempestV

Well, not much going work wise, and the cold weather isn't helping. The past couple of days I've been getting my paperwork together for independent contractor status, but now I'm waiting on the state and the insurance company, so I don't know what I'm going to do- probably clean the house and watch a movie.

neolitic

I thought paperhangers wore whites?

Best thing today?
Woke up looking at the
green side of the grass.

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EricTheHandyman

Check CT, went to the hardware store just to hang out with the gang there (pitiful I know), check CT again, have lunch, check CT while eating, take mom to the doctor, check CT, go to church tonight, check CT before going to bed.

Soon, the snow will melt, and you guys won't hear from me again until next January!!

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Leo G

I was wondering when I would get busted for this thread

Get yer a$$ back to work !!

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camaroman2125

I woke up, got the kids ready for school, and then went to a job that I am working on. Just walked in the door and I'm ready to lock the kids up. Tomorrow will probably be the same routine.

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Deicide1

Well, I just finished a 1st floor remodel on a ranch today. Finished off the cherry baseboard, 3/4'' round, and chair rail. Turned out nice, all coped joints, very nice to use a coping saw and files and feel the wood. Miter saws are too impersonal...I need to feel the wood!


Tomorrow, I start a remodel of a commercial company. Need to put 2 bathrooms where there are none presently (concrete slab),replace all doors with in house built jambs/casing/doors and replace all trim (base,chair,crown). Also, need to build two soundproof rooms for sound testing. Should be about a month worth of work, lots of sq. footage.

Gus Dering

I'm gonna surround myself in wood. It's gonna be like a log cabin. 'Cuz I *need* wood around me. Wood, Jerry [Snaps fingers]... Wood.

"Wood is good."

AtlRemodeling

Today I finished framing the walls for a media room and a storage room. Moved a couple of walls to enlarge a bathroom in a basement we just got started. Met another client to review the locations for additional can lights in the kitchen of the home she just bought.

Met with and finalized the quote from my HVAC man for above noted basement. My guy is approximately $2000 less than the "guy the homeowner knows real well" for nearly identical system. Still reviewing HO's guy's convoluted quote to make sure he didn't screw something up.

BMAN

Did five estimates yesterday, three today, checked on two crews, delivered some materials, early day went home to the little ones at 1

D.Foster

Nice! love to see some pics.

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English Roofer

Picked up my worker, then on to the roofing supplier,got breather felt, battens and nails oh and coffee!
Drove about 30miles to the job which is a new slate roof over a kitchen extension, felt, battens and loaded the roof up in slates,had lunch which was corned beef and chutney sandwich(home made).
Afternoon started slating in which i left the other guy doing while i burned(welded) some lead around a boxed rsj which was partuding though the roof, slated 3/4 of the job which we now should finish tomorrow.
Drove home via the roofing suppliers picked up more lead for the flashings and a box gutter for tomorrow, got home had shower and relax............
Had kip (sleep) woke up had tea watched tv( more construction programes) came on here wrote this and then bed!!

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Mrmac204

got my wife up at 5:30am, made the coffee- read the paper (two more gang shootings- 2 dead I think that's 20 dead in the last 3 weeks) did some research on the net - got ready to take father in law for an MRI scan, they phoned, the machine's broke.
Drove into the city, got some 2x's, went to the saw shop, got some carbide router bits - off to my shop, cut/plane/joint. Got gas and a coke, drove home, printed meatloaf directions offa the net, made meatloaf, reading CT - surfin channels for some.... uh..... "scientific discoveries" ya, that's what I meant to say

tomorrow gonna set up my jigs and larn how to make some little jewellry box's -
Getting about one call a week, and the odd quote- I may have to re-think my advertising. I see that many of my neighbours have put a flyer on the "super mailbox's" all around the district.
also spent 2 bucks on a lottery ticket

Leo G

Found a whoops in one of my FF's on the kitchen. I didn't screw the FF up, I screwed the dimensions that the door opening should have been. I made it to plan, the plan was wrong. Found out that a 7" opening isn't wide enough for one of my panel doors, the panel flat was only 1/2", looked stupid, so I remade the FF. Picked out the Cherry for the stiles and rails of the cabinets doors. Faced them on the jointer, planed them to thickness, jointed one edge, cut to width, and then length. I had a few shorter rails that needed to be done a little differently. Have to keep them longer than 7" and cope one end and run the profile on the edge. Then cut them to length and cope the other end.

Got a call yesterday for 120 LF of my custom crown. So at the end of the day I made the 4" blanks and ran the crown through the Williams & Hussey molder. All 16 footers

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user38755

Changed the plug and cleaned the carb on the bike. Finished painting the rear fender. Blew out under the fridge with the air hose for wife. Smoked a cigar and cleaned up trash in the garage. Think I'll have another cigar and a beverage tonight, maybe put some of the bike back together.

WarnerConstInc.

Have been, since 5:30am, and still am fighting off a flood. I have 4 basements with a combination of 2" sewage pumps, universal pumps, trash pumps (gas) and about 4 new sumpumps all puming water out jus about fast as it is coming back in. I just got to the last one at 7p.m. because the managment company kind of forgot about it.

Plan on this lasting untill tomarrow after noon.

There were probably about 100 houses that flooded completly.