It's my real 1st foray with compound miters, let alone with curves. Just simple step by step to move forward. But there are definitely pitfalls of not doing something in order. I have to do the back bevel on the outer circumference before I can double up the thickness or I won't be able to run the router along the edge with the bearing.

 

Next phase tearing apart the kitchen. Floor might be a bit out of level

 

Nah. Looks perfectly level to me.

 

May just throw a rug over it and call it good

 

There’s a condo building I do a lot of work in. Every floor is a couple of the stacks of units is fish bowled center 2-1/2” in 20’.
Always fun explaining to the customer that we need to bring in a ton of leveler or they are going to have a bunch of slopping trim.

 

Pulled siding and flashed the first window, prefabbed casings. Hoping to pull siding on other window, install casings and j channel, and start to get the siding back up today but we'll see.

 

Looks like a very solid install

 

Ripped up some flooring that was an inch proud of adjacent flooring. Customer was hoping we’d find that the old hardwood continued under this floor and would be salvageable. Nope, 3/4 ply. Ripped that out for him so he can build it back up. Whoops, subfloor is gone. It’s time to discuss taking these cabinets off the wall and gutting the kitchen.

Nice guy and I feel his pain but I knew he was gonna find all kinds of horsepoo in the hacked together cottage. Shoulda just gutted the whole place from the start. He asked me on day one what I would do and I told him straight up, if it was my place I’d rip everything out, based on what I saw.

Bathroom studs are basically liquified from water hitting the window sill and running down behind the fiberglass surround. When you see workmanship like that, don’t be surprised if underneath three finished floors in the kitchen, the subfloor is disintegrated from seventy years of ignored leaks.

 

So you do only demo?

A HO calls you and you demo, then have to keep demoing, until you have the kitchen gutted.

So what does the HO do then. Call another new random contractor who might not have time for a whole kitchen, and does he then get stuck for 6 weeks with a hole in the floor?

Not being snarky, juat haven't seen this business model. We make good money on our demos. But then do the rebuild as well.

Just wondering how it all works.

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Sometimes drilling a small hole through the floor in an inconspicuous place tells you all you need to know....

 

And ruin the surpise?

 

Finished up today

 

What product? Corner pieces included?

 

It looks sad.

 

Didn't see that!!! Lol

The eyes are the mounts for the TV.

Hilarious!

 

Feeling bad I guess the suppliers are short materials still, especially lvls but other stuff too. My salesman has raised other people's orders for us 3 times in 2022. Hate it for that guy but I'll take it, we spend enough in there to get bills twice a month often (100k cap for everyone)

Lake LBJ Addition moving along. Will demo after tie in - we are using a stolen lvl to carry the roof above the existing roof as long as possible - then we will demo that room and cut the roof in on the otherwise of the lvl

Some salt concrete pics for @Robie

 

2nd day working on the bar at the clients home. 1st day didn't really get any pics but put up the wainscoting, got the lower nook cabinet installed, got the pedestal installed and the bar body attached in place to the concrete floor.

Today the goal was to get the flip up bartop in place and working. So we had to get the partition in place, the outlets cut in for the ice maker and refer and the outlet in the cabinet for the condensate pump of the ice maker. Had to cut a big hole in the plywood backer so the fridge would set in farther since it's 29" deep.

The wainscoting still need the cap and undermolding

After that we started to work on the bartop. Had to put the sub top down first. That got screwed down from the top except in the drink trough area. Then we had to attach the bar rail to the bartop and then the bartop to the sub top and another round of screws to the bar rail again.

Then we cut to size the swinging area and temporarily screwed things down because everything is still raw wood and will need to be brought back to the shop to be sprayed with gloss and polished out.

This is what we came up with for the hinged area of the bar rail. We used the left over parts to figure out which way to go and this was the best way for it to be. The original version had a 1/4" gap in the front and when we did the final version I made the gap in the front much smaller while still keeping the rear of the bar rail is still at 1/4" wide with the bevels so it can go to 95º.

When it comes back finished I'll have to put the hardware on it that covers the hole and lowers is with soft close and helps raise it up. The upper nook cabinet and the cap and molding on the wainscoting.

 

Nice work. that’s how I do my bars.

 

Well said


Mike

 

Been pouring a lot of mud lately, seems like we have a pour a week with slabs and driveways

 

Little patio reusing stone onsite. Also a schedule filler; weather has been bad for working outside this winter- so the little ones work out good.

 

Nice work


Although I’m not sure I would have gone with lime green galvanized culvert for pillars, but hey, thats just me, and your customers obviously did. 😳🤣🤣🤣

 

Bowed stud.

Peeled the siding off, reinstalled it after cutting off the convex.

Have to get some paint on the top ripper I couldn’t save and the caulk joints.

It’ll end up about one man-day.

[emoji268]fiddy x a half dozen.


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This is a common problem in my climate caused by moisture forced into exterior walls faster than it can escape. Hydrated studs and exterior sheething during cold months.

AND of course, that random problem stud with a mind of it's own.

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At least it works for today. 👍

St Patrick’s day and all. 🤣

 

That's much mo betta..
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They've been using the same standards for decades. But now they use fast growth lumber which doesn't have the stability to be using the old standards. Too much uneven shrinkage of the wood because of the huge growth rings.

 

I did some demo today and pulled out some old studs. Still 3.5", but man it was dense and heavy. It was nice lumber.

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The old lumber at my project are 3 3/4 x 1 3/4. Super dense.

The splinters are unreal though.

 

Some pretty wild aluminum work, turned out well I think. Kinda messes with your mind the longer you look at it. Ties the existing roof line with angled soffit and square cut fascia to an off angle attached addition with a different wall height and level soffit/plumb fascia.

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Current project we are doing, garage is 24x24 with a salt box roof. 2x6 rafters spanning 10ft in the front and 20ft in the back. Sistered up 2x8 to all of em and took 3" of sag out of the ridge and 2" of sag in the 20' span.

The wall between the bedroom and bath/closet in within 12" of the garage beam that has 2x10 joists. Yes 2x10 joist spanning 12' with 2x6 rafters in NE. Anyway, we post up from that center wall to the rafters to get the span down to about 15'. The walls are only 7'6", otherwise I would have gone 2x10.

Took out wall between kitchen and dining area, opened up sunroom to main house and cut back a closet and opened up some openings in family area. We are installing all new windows once they arrive and will do all interior trim and install kitchen.

Got one more day and then sparky and turd wrangler need to get their stuff moving. Heading to another ongoing project cabs show on Wednesday to do about 4 weeks of work and we will head back to this one. Amazing how easy scheduling is with a few phone calls and materials showing up on time! Don't we all miss those days?

 

Oooo Even more fun. Compound angle scribing!! I was going to go with angles and just use the bevel block that I used to support the frame when I was getting the angles correct. But for some reason it doesn't work. Probably because the boards were cut when they had a straight edge and now they are curved. Oh joy is me.

 

FHA loan appraisals require some silly stuff. No peeling paint, specifically.

Here I am, knocking down the splinters on a cat-scratched door jamb before I stain it.

The dog scratched door jamb got the same treatment, one minute with the cordless sander, before getting a coat of paint on the 8 lineal inches of bare wood.

A threshold covered the bare particle board underlayment. A piece of casing I found there was ripped to cover the exposed surfaces and edges.

[emoji268]fiddy for the hour. We did a bunch of other Littles there, but these were worthy of Wall of Shame, so I posted for the benefit of y’all’s amusement and ridicule of me.

As I tell my helper, “it ain’t the tour of homes.”

Low expectations suit me fine. Appraiser, both realtors, Homeseller and homebuyer are all happy. Win/win.

And yes, in case you were wondering, the split jamb looked a lot better after stain.



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Nice to see a blast from the past. Well not that long ago. Repeat client so I got to see a past creation all dolled up instead of just installed without the homey touch.