New turbo for the cabover(my toy)

More concrete forms

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Drywall and spackle getting done at the kitchen project this week

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Doing a reside of sorts for a client. Pulling all the aluminum siding down, securing the foam board with cap nails, taping the seams, new layer of tyvek. Managed to get a couple rows back up today, perfect weather for this project. Bonus was fitting it in while my other project is getting spackled


At some point, someone did a patch and used lots of duct tape as their replacement foil barrier...

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Doing a reside of sorts for a client. Pulling all the aluminum siding down, securing the foam board with cap nails, taping the seams, new layer of tyvek. Managed to get a couple rows back up today, perfect weather for this project. Bonus was fitting it in while my other project is getting spackled


At some point, someone did a patch and used lots of duct tape as their replacement foil barrier...

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Fanfold or thicker board?

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Getting this ready for steel roof. Doing an overlay with 1/2 osb.

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Looks a little better

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I understand we're just talking about a flat, side of a house here, but you crushed this. That looks so, so much better than what was there. They must be thrilled.

 

Trusses.

So bloody easy with a lift. Me and one guy. 32 footers. 👍

 

Even easier with a crane someone else is operating.

 

We get a crane and have him lift one at a time. It goes quick.

We have one guy rigging and two on the plates.


Mike.
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We get a crane and have him lift one at a time. It goes quick.

We have one guy rigging and two on the plates.


Mike.
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Cranes are too much money here to lift one by one... If we use a crane they go in a bunch.

 

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1100 square feet of this stuff- my mason kicks ass!

 

Been there, done that.
Props to your mason. Clean work!
Let him know he rocks. --pun intended.

 

I don’t mind them Setting bundles on some thing small, like a 20’ single story garage.

When they get into the 30 and 40 foot range, I make them set them one by one.

Anything over 8 or 9 feet too

Eaves are 16’ above grade on this one. Crane plus lift. 👍👍

 

Oh, sorry. I meant prima donnas, lol.

 

Ha, not this one- just an OCD perfectionist- in fairness, my 100 square feet was loose laid in crusher fines- did look like chit next to his….. Farthest from prima Donna possible- bitched when I made him come pick out stone, then was like a kid in a candy store.

Finished the upper section on this job this afternoon.

 

But I reiterate. Nice clean work.
What's that firepit made of?

 

Heavy gauge fast weathering Cor-ten, it changed super fast and then has stayed the same. I kind of wish it was a little more orangish. I love all kinds of Cor-ten!

 

Gorgeous the way it is, imo!

 

I dig it too- just happened too fast. Or do you mean the tastefully applied 'accent' silica dust.......? Whole back concrete patio area is set up for use as a stage- I was skeptical but the acoustics are actually great too. Probably the best, most tasteful high end custom I've been around- I kind of hate the 'bigger is better' houses and this one is only about 2.5k.

 

"Bigger is better" budgets make it all OK.
Nice to work on something different when the opportunity arises.

 

"Bigger is better" budgets make it all OK.
Nice to work on something different when the opportunity arises.

Too true- just seems like most of those clients don't have the 'taste' or thought put into things. Personally, I'm a usable, functional, then aesthetic guy......

Any recommendations for bulk 14" diamond stone blades? I'm losing my mind over in the Masonry section on it- damn TS700 and stone are just killing blades,(2 in a day- maybe 4 hours of actual cutting....)

 

I have never seen a truss set one by one.
We have to do so much work to the gable ends with the blocking every 4 feet I think it's easier to do with them spread out on the top plate.

 

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The silly things I do…

Tom

 

Been there done that. That small pc can be a challenge

 

The train is rolling on this big one. The hard part is finding good guys to work.

 

Seems to be the hardest part everywhere.

Tom

 

Awesome part of this job is that there's no formal design. Clients have basically given my mason and I creative license to 'go crazy' within some very loose parameters. There are lots of challenges, but it's nice to just be able to decide everything on our own; it'll end up being a showcase project.

 

Then its on you to get a tell-handler or whatever to stack them on the plates?

That sucks.

 

That's every house that I have ever framed as an employee and about half of the ones I did is a contractor. Truss day the plate monkeys getting another c note out of my front pocket of they are on my payroll

One of the big changes for me as a contractor and I think any subcontractor who works with us with atest to that, is that I believe in equipment over manpower when it comes to safety or just moving heavy stuff. I'm also not going to ask people to work 20' off the ground all day on some busted ass scaffolding when I can get a lift. That barndo in summit Springs I have a elevator lift inside and a boom lift outside and had a telehandler there Pretty much the whole time

More than a few houses we did not even have a telehandler you just carried the trusses's up the ladders and stacked them on one end of the plates. We did my dads shop that way when I was a kid, I won't forget it because it was my 1st time and it took me 3 tries to get my 1st truss on the plates bench pressing it over my head, he said that football muscle isn't good for **** I guess. Lol

On my personal home we did this same thing but would use my tractor with a fork welded on it. Brothers house just man handled

Until about 10 years ago we never hardly used trusses, everything was cut in, that's how I was taught. Wasn't much better moving a big ass glue lam or lvls or a steel I beam in place though. I'm not going to kill my guys backs or risk their safety is your safety to move some sticks into place. The customer can pay for a ****ing lift. Lol

Was worse on baot docks. Carrying a 115 lbs pipe driver up a f'ing step ladder to set it on a pipe 15 ft up, or carrying drill stem over a pair on floats with wake boats going off lol

These hands are spoiled by comparison and that's OK with me

 

That's what I see in Ohio too. Roller bed dump on the ground. Hope they don't split.

 

They do, usually the most expensive one that’s on the bottom of the pile.

 

Every time.

Dropped off the roller flatbed. Sometimes we get a broken web, site fix those.

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I guess you have a lift on site to get them on the top plate.

 

Setting inbeds

And then after work at my house

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Setting inbeds

And then after work at my house

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First pic looks annoying to say the least.

Others, well, where's the footers and mortar? Not required? Just curious.

 

And blocks not permanent yet…you know how wives are [emoji849]


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NOT PERMANENT?!?!??

She can throw them biatches around as much as she likes to see how they look. I'll lay 'em in mortar when the time comes, lol. Done deal.