Very nice Kowboy, your work is very impressive.

 

Did a little garage slab today.

 

That's the purtiest set up I've ever seen for a garage floor! We usually have the wire on the stone and pull it up as we pour. Visqueen only for attached garages.

Nice neat job!

 

Gonna get this thing done in one day. Although I did put an hour into the other night, cutting the plywood and gluing it into an L. Clipped the corner, made 4 strips and glued them onto the edges. Had to do it sequentially, clipped one, left along with the left end and then the right. Sanded, routed the solid wood edges. 2 coats of normal primer on the underside and then a clearcoat. Flip it over and a coat of primer. Came home for dinner and then back scuff sand it and the first coat of finish. Gonna head back around 10 for the last coat.

 

I put poly down on all my jobs. I find that it makes the concrete cure more evenly.
For instance, an area that has more moisture in the subgrade will set slower than an area that is very dry.
It can screw up a finish, when you have wet spots and the rest of the slab is cooking off.

Thanks for the compliment. 🤓

 

Looks like something I have seen in my tilt-up days. Nice work Tom.


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Git R Done

Got the last coat on tonight.

 

Came out nice except for the sag on the front right of the clipped corner. But I saw that last night and was able to control myself from touching it. Had the paper towel out and ready to screw the whole thing up, but I didn't.

This morning I scraped it with a razor blade til it was flat and got out the fine sandpaper and did 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 wet sanding. Way too much, it was gloss. Put the 2000 back on and did a little more wet sanding (30 seconds or so) and brought it back down to about satin. No one is going to notice. Topside came out very nice considering it has a 3/4 hour open time. Very happy with the results.

 

And got it installed today.

Used The original Granite Bracket brackets to support the floating desktop.

The wall angle was off more than I thought. I checked it with a 6' level and a framing square extending it with another 4' level and the wall was inside by 5/16". When I made the counter it's dead square with 3/8" of scribe available. Turns out the wall is out more like 1/2" so I had to tilt the desktop to make that bigger space smaller. That turned a little scribing into a hell of a lot more scribing. But in the end it came out nice. Squeaked it by with about 4 thou clearance at the spindles. A folded paper wouldn't fit in, while not folding it would.

Now they want a 6' bench for the desktop.

 

Can't remember if I shared pics of this house when we finished, built last year. I should of gotten some of the garage, it's got a lift in it with a couple Porshes and a G wagon.

It's defintely a custom for the person living there, which is our game, you can have whatever you want. The fan is a windmill off their family ranch where thats built, found a company to make it

 

A few of one of our customs, the porch will be screened in. The bottom will be screened with expanded metal and screen to let water out but keep bugs "out" - that's a court yard in the middle of the house. Bronze 24 gage mechanical lock standing seam roof, drystack sandstone, board and batten and stucco mix.

I love the Azek Haervest line we used on that boat dock, it's our ninth project with it

 

This is almost 10 years old. Was a massive project at the time, was stoked. Still friends with owners, pur girls went to the same Christian academy together. I was bagged up full time on these. I honestly miss being the guy on site quite a bit, making calls, putting in work, seeing to all the details.

Was a kitchen/living room remodel and garage addition . 113k all in.... wow 😆- was 2k under budget

Concrete, framing, demo, trim in house.

BTW I'd kick a super in the balls for letting thst mud on that limestone. Get some hay MF, I was slipping 😆

 

Second house I built, bags on whole thing, 2011. Was a guest house really. Concrete, framing, trim etc... Roofed and sided as well

Client was a phsyco - learned a lot on that one. I was 28.

 

Some Custom work today. Outdoor fire pit, dry stone mosaic.

 

 

Interior pics of a nice project I just dropped the Schluter for the showers off at.

I could handle the view from the office 👍

My 10th house with an elevator, I'm going to try to get a hat or something

I'll get some exterior pics next time. Other than the soffit color it's a pretty cool exterior. Driveway cost more to build than than my house 😆

 

Interior pics of a nice project I just dropped the Schluter for the showers off at.

I could handle the view from the office 👍

My 10th house with an elevator, I'm going to try to get a hat or something

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Looks good. Does your paint sub spray everything on nc (walls/ceiling/trim)? Finish is consistent and almost has a build like Sherwin Williams Pro Mar or Super Paint

 

Kind of. We get him to do.it the easy we had our in-house paint crew do it for years. PVA primer on walls and ceiling, oil based primer on moldings. Sand moldings amd vacuum, spray coat of Proc Classic alkyd on moldings, sand, vacuum, second coat.

Walls are SW Duration, normally brushed and rolled, sometimes sprayed but bankrolled. 2 coats.

Ceilings Pro Mar 200 if white, two coats, if same as walls or 50% color Duaration

I'm fine with super paint, but we like the Matte sheen in Duration line

I'm primarily on the residential repaint side but yeah Duration matte is one of the best wall paints out there and oil trim paint is the best with all that sunlight it'll hardly amber. Most builders I've seen in the nc world will do great work overall but go low/mid grade on the paint and cut it with water sometimes. What a difference with high grade paint on new drywall.

 

I'm primarily on the residential repaint side but yeah Duration matte is one of the best wall paints out there and oil trim paint is the best with all that sunlight it'll hardly amber. Most builders I've seen in the nc world will do great work overall but go low/mid grade on the paint and cut it with water sometimes. What a difference with high grade paint on new drywall.

Huge difference. To me makes a big difference if the drywall is sealed as well

PC oil doesn't yellow like BM or other paints in my experience

 

Have I ever said how much I hate making dentil molding? Especially long runs of it? Not exactly a long run, but it's going to be 64'. I need 54' but it's because I'm doing 4 at a time.

This is the quick sample I made

Made a simple jig and I'm using a 1/4" spiral downcut bit. Sorta makes it a pain because it packs the slot with chips. But it's pine and the downward shearing force keeps the top chip free.

I bought a 8 1/8"x 16' board and milled it down to 1 1/16" thick. Cut it into 8' lengths to make things easier to handle on the router table. So far I've got one of the 8' boards with the dentil teeth cut into it. I'll route the profile onto the edge and then cut the linear notch last.

 

Dang dude, you’re kind of somewhat okay with this wood stuff

 

That looks almost as bad as sanding[emoji14]

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Sanding is worse, there's so much more of it.

Plus, I have to sand this too.

 

What's the finish going to be on that dentil?

 

Who cares. All I have to do is make it.

It's exterior and getting primed and painted.

I ran the router jig across the 8.125" board to get the teeth across the whole board. Then I ran the edge through the router table. 1st pass has a 1/4" bed shim so the bit engages properly because the cut is deeper than the bit is designed to do. Then a 2nd pass to complete the profile. Then I cut the part off at 1 7/8". I did both sided of both boards and then cut the molding out of it. Then I had to repeat it once more on the remaining board with the teeth. Got me 8 moldings.

Then I had to cut the square notch out which makes the height of the teeth and the transition to the ogee.


1st profile past. Sorry, no pic of second pass - spaced.

 

Who cares.

I did.
It's always been a pain to apply any finish to when I've made it.

 

He asked me to prime it and I told him no way. Tough to do by spraying and slow as molasses to do with a brush. Spraying leaves all the corners dry. I've done it with very low pressures and very close. It works but it can get sloppy in a hurry if you let your mind wander for a second.

I got a nice new sharp all carbide spiral downcut bit to do this so there wouldn't be a need to sand every single tooth. The quickest way to do dentil is on a radial arm saw with a pin that registers the gap so you have even teeth. But it always leaves a crappy finish with tons of sanding. You really gain no time. It took me about 35-40 minutes to do each board full of teeth. Where as I think it would take about half that with a radial arm saw, maybe even less. But then you are stuck with trying to make it look good with sanding.

 

renovating a 428,000 sq ft office building and found this today which was really cool

 

Did that dude leave his ssn?

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Very cool.

 

Put it right back up there and say something similar.

 

I found a beer bottle in a side wall of a step from 1952 in a church. Meant to leave that with another in a Ziploc with a note saying "This is what they drank in '52. This is what I drank in '02. What you guys drinking in 2052?"

Never did. Loser 🙁

 

My side gig of doing a patio. In my spare time... After "real work"... In the 93 degree heat... In full sun... Cause it was too hot to stay at work... . 🙄

I know how to dial it down for weather...

 

Only pic of "real job" so far. Went to rebuild steps and found a little rot. I'll get more pics tomorrow to show situation better.