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That access is delightful.

Where you located, man? I really like the look of that house, although it could be the sublime lighting you've got going on at that moment.

 

Utility Solar Project damaged by a brushfire last year. Picking and replacing damaged modules.

 

That's a few panels.

 

You start at one end, I'll start at the other. Pack a lunch.

 

All your swatches get vetoed?

 

Ya the wife liked the revere pewter better, pretty neat color it’s gray in some light and tan in others so prepped most of the house and shot that color, the side with the access is the sun side and hadn’t been done in 30 yrs so just shot that side half assed and I’ll media blast it next year when I have time


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I have Revere Pewter in my hallway, it's a nice color. Plays tricks on people's eyes with its "color changing"

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Lots of hidden things found lol and last pic was showing the wife how light it makes it

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If you look carefully, you can see the artist himself in the window reflection.

 

[mention]Easy Gibson [/mention]learned something valuable buying that house lmao if a contractor ever the bright idea that he’ll want to work on his house after working on everyone else’s, he won’t [emoji1787]


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How much concrete do you have into that job now?

 

[mention]Stunt Carpenter [/mention] 220 yards as of today, 265 tomorrow since we couldn’t get mud last week we have back to back pours this week


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[mention]Stunt Carpenter [/mention] 220 yards as of today, 265 tomorrow since we couldn’t get mud last week we have back to back pours this week


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Nice job.
Tip,,, try the reply button for the quote to show up above your reply.

 

Is that you my friend? I think you from the bottom of my heart for your selfless service. Hat tip.


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Late seeing this my dude but yeah we had some Air Force SSGT photographers come out mid rotation and take pics that someone later sent me from Getty’s files and happened to sure enough be my Battalion and most my Company for whatever reason. Hence the clean shaven faces per our prior memo to do so. Miss those days every day being with the boys doing the Lords work haha.

 

Traditional is generally out as far as décor around here for popular homes, was very happy with the results of the judging. And we will see if we get any 2023 contracts out of it

 

Bribing the judges with cookies I see.....

 

Beer and wine too

7 parades I'm an old pro. Key is to cook the cookies in the house within an hour of them arriving so they're still kind of warm and the spell is in the air. Lol. We got doubly lucky being the last house on the route and guessing correctly that we would be, they left 2 beers and an 1/8 of wine 😆 3 cookies.

 

Best of parade or best at cooking cookies and putting beer on ice? Lol

 

That's an old trick that realtors use on house warmings. Keep the cookies fresh baked so they essence lingers.

 

Today’s pour

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The small kitchen is installed. A small challenge. On the window wall the slope of the floor from the back to the toekick of the cabinet was 5/8". From one end of the "L" to the other dropped about 3/8". The window wall was pretty straight until the window and then moved back about 1/2". That gave me a false reading for the measurement on the stove wall. Made it seem 1/2" longer than it really was. Good thing I had a fair amount to scribe off that tiny cabinet to the right of the stove.

The upper cabinets should have been simple. We put up a cleat and screwed the cabinets together along with a triangle in the back between them to force them to stay 90º. Lifted it up onto the cleats and put two lasers on them and wow. All kinds of out of plumb. It shouldn't even be possible but there it was. Both walls leaned back about 3/8" and the corner was about 92º. Scribing and shimming and lifting it into place 3 times did the trick. Oh ya, one stud was at a big angle and that was one of the reasons it had to be taken down so we could find where the damn stud was. Leaned at least 1 1/2", no wonder we couldn't find it.

Upper cabinets are just under 4' tall.

 

The small kitchen is installed. A small challenge. On the window wall the slope of the floor from the back to the toekick of the cabinet was 5/8". From one end of the "L" to the other dropped about 3/8". The window wall was pretty straight until the window and then moved back about 1/2". That gave me a false reading for the measurement on the stove wall. Made it seem 1/2" longer than it really was. Good thing I had a fair amount to scribe off that tiny cabinet to the right of the stove.

The upper cabinets should have been simple. We put up a cleat and screwed the cabinets together along with a triangle in the back between them to force them to stay 90º. Lifted it up onto the cleats and put two lasers on them and wow. All kinds of out of plumb. It shouldn't even be possible but there it was. Both walls leaned back about 3/8" and the corner was about 92º. Scribing and shimming and lifting it into place 3 times did the trick. Oh ya, one stud was at a big angle and that was one of the reasons it had to be taken down so we could find where the damn stud was. Leaned at least 1 1/2", no wonder we couldn't find it.

Upper cabinets are just under 4' tall.

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I think code says you need a minimum of 18" space between the lower and upper cabinet.


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Holy crap, I responded to All About Homes Instagram post….(Robert wont let me go near the company account, he knows I’d screw it up)

Tom

 

The house on Insta is Bad ass, much respect. Glad someone's building houses worthy of Tom's work.

Now we just need a 5 mil builder building houses in Connecticut for Leo

 

Rather just do smaller jobs. Large kitchens and whole house cabinets is a hell of a lot of work for a one man band.

 

That’s how I was (for 30 years), then I got thrown into this situation. The first two homes I did when I first got here (not what I was supposed to be doing, it was to be just one house and done) I had 90% done by the time I hired my first employee and found a shop. Both of these homes were the builders Parade homes, that year we won kitchens and masters for our casework.

I could not do this without the crew I have. I just hired my first female employee, I hope to train her to be a finisher.

I was contemplating retirement from this and doing something else after I did the first two homes. Now my goal is to build something for the crew to have for themselves when I do walk away.

I’m looking for a new space, took the wife to see it as she would be buying it, company would lease it back. She’s terrified by the cost of the building. The number would terrify 99% here.

Tom

 

And?

 

And I noticed you have 18.5". Nice work Leo! Lol


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Actually with the countertop it'll be 18 1/8"

 

Out of curiosity, do you guys like the attention that parade homes bring? I did it one year and won an outdoor space for 2-5mm dollar homes or something like that. GC contacted me, told him cool and to not give out my number. Asked if I wanted to go to some award thing which I thought his business was putting on. Politely declined.

The supplier still asks me if I do work for that GC. They were a pain in the balls to deal with. No way I wanted more of their stuff. Might be kinda cool if I liked the company but it seems people in the trades are just as different as people in real life. I hated that outdoor space. It was so dysfunctional and silly.

Was asked to do another the next year, nah - here's some guys who might be into it. Very cool to set up a business for your employees, gonna be tough when the big fella leaves the seat open. Seems like unneeded stress.