Decking is on now to get it sided. 6 weeks before cable railing will be in, on a container somewhere, thanks Biden.

 

Is that in an area that you can watch sunset at 10PM in the summer?

 

Nice looking work....God's country.
Question since you were pretty much living there.
Did you have any visitors such as bears, mountain lions, etc, etc?

 

It is very nice up there. Customer is a fairly nice guy too, Lefties would have a cow if they came to his place. Has showed me quite a few of his toys. Has us in for supper sometimes too. No unexpected visitors. LOL Have tried to do my best on this, little learning on it , but he is real happy with it.

 

Pretty nice to be able to put kids to bed and watch the sunset. That only works when they're the right age. ....

 

Try again to see if my pics will load.

 

Nope. Still not working. 😡

 

 

Working on a project where I have to put moldings inside a shaker door. The moldings are rabbeted on the outside and that makes it difficult to just cut them production style like you should be able to. Mark it, cut it and it fits almost every time.

Couldn't remember how I did it last time, maybe just guessed and plodded along, don't know. But this time I figured it out so it like cutting a normal molding.


1st you cut all your rights or lefts. I left mine 1" over length. Make sure you have dead nuts 45º of course.

Then I flipped it to the opposite 45 and put a pc of tape on the base of the miter saw

The solid line is the perfect miter and the smaller line is the offset for the rabbet that I use for the line to cut the molding.

Then I mark the molding. I started out by nesting one side and looking under and marking it, then drawing a line with a square and marking the front. After two cuts I realized I can eliminate all of that by just marking the front of the molding directly this way.

Then you line the line on the molding up with the offset line on the tape and cut it. I'm always pushing it a bit farther past the line by maybe half a line to get it so all 4 moldings will nest without being too tight.

And so far I've done 2 doors without having to make any extra cuts. I use a mallet to get them in because the fit is so exact. Couple of light taps to get everything set and then it pushes down.

 

And I had to make two glass doors that include this molding insert. Wasn't sure how I was going to pull it off so I just went simple. Dadoes some slots that a .125"x 1/2" strip would fit in and then did a half lap and viola! mullions. The molding setup fits into a shaker door without a panel.

Still pencil lines on it. Wife called me for dinner and I went a runnin'

 

And I had to make two glass doors that include this molding insert. Wasn't sure how I was going to pull it off so I just went simple. Dadoes some slots that a .125"x 1/2" strip would fit in and then did a half lap and viola! mullions. The molding setup fits into a shaker door without a panel.

Still pencil lines on it. Wife called me for dinner and I went a runnin'

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Never heard that euphemism before…..

Tom

 

I’m OK now. Got to spend the day on the mini-ex. 😅👍

So tired of trim, and drywall, paint, tile, siding……

Gotta get my ass back in the dirt before I go insane.

Fortunately, I have a bunch of dirt work and concrete jobs. 👍

 

Eat dinner at home, or eventually, you’ll have all your meals alone.

 

I try my best. 6:30 is a bit early for me since I start at 9

 

Finally wrapping up....

 

Got those glass doors together and fitted into the cabinet. Behind the glass doors will be 2 glass shelves behind the mullions and there will be lighting above. Below the doors will also have lighting to light up the countertop. In the nook between the cabinets will be a wire rack wine bottle holder that will also hold stemmed glasses, they hang under the wine bottles.

The cabinet is laying on it's back if it looks a little off to you.

 

New Owners moving in weren’t impressed with the built in cabinets, so I made them go away.

I took them to the curb, hoping someone would take some or all of it away.

It rained tonight, so I doubt anyone took me up on my fine offer of free fiddy.


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That's because the TV niche is too small for a lot of TV's nowadays...

 

A couple hundred grand in masonry and 3 scrarxh coat stucco with Sto starting on Lake Buchanan project. Met with an engineer this morning for final inspections on some stairs we added to the back down to the beach. Dude was smoked by the time he got back to his truck a couple hundred yards up the hill to the street. Probably get charged extra. 😆

He complimented our gutter and drain systems we did outside the engineered French drains. Drains and pipining gutters away from the house etc are something we consider from before the first form stake getting driven

 

Nice you take the drainage so seriously! I’ve been doing a bunch this year. Pisses me off that so many GCs here ‘leave it up to the gutter guys then landscaper’. Tell me you didn’t use the wimpy black corrugated pipe.

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A couple hundred grand in masonry and 3 scrarxh coat stucco with Sto starting on Lake Buchanan project. Met with an engineer this morning for final inspections on some stairs we added to the back down to the beach. Dude was smoked by the time he got back to his truck a couple hundred yards up the hill to the street. Probably get charged extra. 😆

He complimented our gutter and drain systems we did outside the engineered French drains. Drains and pipining gutters away from the house etc are something we consider from before the first form stake getting driven

 

My 8’ tall batter boards. 😳🙄

 

My 8’ tall batter boards. [emoji15][emoji849]

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We do the same thing on big slopes.


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This was a pretty heavy lift for us. 1200 sq ft of hardwood floors to refinish, 2 flights of stairs to refinish. Reface kitchen cabinets, to include new doors, drawer fronts, reveneer face frames, replace all drawer slides with undermount soft close. New newels, handrails & ballasters. Rails & spindles built in house. Repaint fireplace & bookcase. Unfortunately, didn't get before pics of stairs, or bookcase/fireplace. Both were same honey oak color.

Originally, we had 3 weeks to complete the job. The day before we were to start, got a message from homeowner that the bank was requiring more paperwork & it would delay our start. Left us with 8 days till they closed on their other house. We busted our asses to get the cabinets revenered, new skins & painted, then moved to the floors & stairs. It was tough, but we got all the floor work & paint work done before they moved in, but still had 5 days of work left to get all the finishing touches wrapped up. Completed last night.13 long days straight, without a day off. I haven't turned a tap yet today, not sure if I'm going to. We're beat.

 

This was a pretty heavy lift for us. 1200 sq ft of hardwood floors to refinish, 2 flights of stairs to refinish. Reface kitchen cabinets, to include new doors, drawer fronts, reveneer face frames, replace all drawer slides with undermount soft close. New newels, handrails & ballasters. Rails & spindles built in house. Repaint fireplace & bookcase. Unfortunately, didn't get before pics of stairs, or bookcase/fireplace. Both were same honey oak color.

Curious on the drawer slide replacement- how did that work? I’m thought that undermounts require a specific box construction and typically a wider width than drawers built for standard slides. I can’t imagine a retrofit being possible without new boxes in most cases.

The work Looks great, BTW. I’m very impressed with what you accomplished in that timeframe.

 

Looks great pin.

Tom

 

Beautiful as always!

 

An after of the chimney in the avatar pic...

@superseal Told ya the bread and butter was boring. I'll see if I can find you some toast and jam.

 

Bread and butter is always boring. 👍

But that’s the money right there.

 

Went back to the bar job to put in lally column covers and a table.

Gluing up the table top using a ratchet strap.
With the levels making sure everything stays
flat and true.

These are the brackets I got to support and keep the table from rotating.
Plus they have characteristics from the foot rail on the bar.

Porshe emblem laser burned into the table top.

And the Porshe in the background.

Along with the bar.

 

Rendering by ScipioAfricanis (Andy) should start this ocean view, cliffside deck in San Clemente in a couple weeks.

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That's quite a rendering... what software did he use for that?

 

Mike, is that overlooking Tstreet beach?


Mike

 

Isn't that in Encinitas?


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The guy I did the bar and table for decided that he needed some coasters too.

Did the Porshe emblem for the front and on the back is cork, I burned his company logo on it.

 

I guess the hardest part in that is coming up with the pricing for it... what would you charge for something like that out of curiosity (ballpark is fine)?...

 

Nice!

 

Initial thought before I started was $10 each. It'll probably end up more. But things are batched so it goes quicker.

15 minutes to put the design in the computer, all 12 at once. 16x16 pc of 1/4" maple plywood. 41 minutes laser time which I wasn't there for 90% of it. Another 45 minutes to cut out the circles and sand the edges smooth. Each of the corks took about a minute 30 to burn and swap out to the next one to burn, the 1st two were failures because they over burned so I did 14. But the good thing is it went from 1:30 per to 1:04 per.

Next thing to do is spray them. Good chance I'll do all 12 at once, but might do 6 at a time, depends if I have the right side board to lay them on. 2 coats on the front, one coat on the rear and then the cork goes on.

Like I said, more than $10 ea

He doesn't care.