First house I've built with a car lift in a garage for me, I just bid one for late 2022 that has 3, and I have one in design with one. Everything comes in fads.

I did build a shop that had a mechanics pit and lift but it was for farm equipment

 

Those things always made me feel like you're setting yourself up for the most expensive oops, but I guess that's the thinking of somebody who doesn't need an expensive car lifted over another car.

 

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Looks like crane day,, what were you lifting???
Today was crane day for us too,, no pics of the crane

 

Another Spice/Oil rack pullout for a small cabinet.

The secret sauce for the Blum slides.

 

Set the debarker inbed today so we can finish bracing it tomorrow. We’ll fly the chipper inbed in tomorrow. That one “should” go quicker since it only calls for 4 hollow corner supports with holes unlike this one that called for a whole pile of verticals lol


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Had to create a drainage swale out of concrete.

 

Nice work, Tom. 👍

How do you get the slope? Just trowel by eye?

 

Screed board, 36" to the left, 24" to the right.
my finishers did the hard part, I just got them on the right track. 2-1/4" drop to the off center.
I had doubts as we were finishing that maybe it should be deeper, but it turned out ok. I like subtle.

 

Got this one ready to pour.

Have to wait a week for a concrete truck and a pump. 😳

Never had to wait more than one day before.

Thai is one of the busiest years I’ve seen.

 

 

Super clean man. Excellent work!

 

Nice and simple looking. Came out great.

 

Thanks. I was worried about everything being white but I think it came together nice. They are over the moon. Used to be a neo angle with a weird gap on the left.

 

I like it, it's traditional.

 

Looks good.

I know it's the camera giving it the wide on top look, but I wonder how that would work in real life.

Might make you feel like you had more elbow room.

Of course, then just make the whole thing wide.

Meh, just a very relaxed carpenter doing some pointless thinking tonight.

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That would be the same idea as the curved shower rods. They really help with a tub feeling bigger to shower in so the concept works.

 

Took a week off and finally finished the pantry for my own ongoing remodel.

Edge glued pine “U” shape 1-piece shelves, painted white for upper shelves. Stained counter-level shelf. Melamine adjustable down below.

COB Led strips in aluminum channels dado-ed into the casing. Wires run through door frame gaps, wired to the pantry dimmer switch.

My wife posted it on our Social media accounts and I’ve already got 2 people wanting bids for their own. So I guess this wasn’t completely a personal-only project.

 

Mike.
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Calidecks and doggy doors?

 

Buddy’s new pool addition needed a couple of code-compliant gates so we are giving him what he wants. Radiata Pine with exception to GC Posts in footers. Wanted him to stain but his wife wants painted a semi-gloss Charleston Green which is basically snot black.

 

I see you disagree with her paint color choice....

 

All good as long as she don’t look @ the joint work in the brick which looks original


Mike

 

Not really a job but it for doing jobs in my shop. Finally replaced the last high pressure sodium vapor lamps in the shop. Been there about 16 year and this is in the storage area which I use as an assembly area on occasion. The main area of the shop was replaced with T5HO fluorescents quite some time ago. 6 bulb hi-bays that produce about 30K lumens.

This is a single UFO style LED hi-bay that produces 35K lumens. It claims 42K but if you do the math of 140 lumens/watt and 250 watts you get 35K, not 42K. But it might be anyway because there are 300 LEDs and they are either .9 watts (270w) or 1 watt (300w)

And a picture of the sun

 

Hey, that's pretty clean for a storage area. I'd be embarrassed to post shop at this point. Storage is basically where I work now...

 

Every so often I think about those first lights you replaced, and what an incredible difference that was. Good times.

 

Yup. Going from two 400 watt sodium vapor lamps to a bunch of fluorescents. I have 28 T5HOs in various configurations in the work side of the shop. At about 4' off the floor directly under the 6 bulb fixture I got 850 lux. Under the LED it was just over 1000 lux.

 

That's because we had to get a 7 yard loader into the area so I could get up to the 26' ceiling. That machine is HUGE. 11' wide bucket through a 12' door.

 

And I pushed a broom right before the picture. Not for the picture, but because the space didn't have all the cabinets on carts in the way. There is no room in the spray room because it's full of all the stuff that should be in the storage area.

 

Seems like a lifetime ago.

 

Finished up soffit and fascia on this today. 3' overhang Glad it is done. Used more ladders on it then have in a long time. Bright side customer paid me $400 more then bid it for. NICE.

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Hey. A win, is a win, is a win.

You won. Doesn't matter how you got it, lift or ladder, you won.

 

Next new build have to get dried in tomorrow. Get standing seam on the hole roof this time.

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The pic makes the house look tilted.