Finished this one up before the GC had the space ready. Small kitchen going into a pool house. A vanity for the small bathroom and a linen closet for the towels to dry off after swimming. That's the one think I haven't assembled yet.

Pile of doors and drawer fronts.

Vanity

Left of Stove

Trash Pull Out

Sink w/Flipper

Over refer

Over Sink

 

I believe you.

 

Nice work Leo. You trim guys have it made, heat and AC shop, hardly get dusty.

 

We also have to drag more tools in & out than any other 3 trades combined.


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A recent job.

 

Sweet. It's nice when the budget lets us go farther with the finishes.

 

matched up this profile for mirror frame I’m making for the bathroom I’m doing. I don’t know why they didn’t order a mirror to match when ordering the cabinets. I only used two router bits and sanding.
now to try to match the finish. I mixed some trans tint black dye and a little India ink with denatured alcohol. It’s close but not perfect. That’s tomorrow’s job to spray the dye.

 

Matching is always fun. Most shops never really use dyes like that.

 

I hate matching. Sometimes I want to tell people if you want everything to match I’ll gladly paint it for you. My finish will be a little on the black side but if I can help myself from not going to dark I think it will be ok. The cabinet company wanted 130 for a quart of there spray stain plus shipping. The guy didn’t want to pay it so he will have to live with it.

 

Wrapped up my part on this today ,in spite of the crazy wind last few days. Soffit and fascia.

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Elevated press box demo right on the 50yd line
No access with anything as big as a 320 exc
Demo'd it with a 19k Takeuchi mini, and a skidsteer to haul the debris 300 lf away to the dumpster
Pretty easy demo until I started on the footings.
They decided to save the FPL meter and feed, so I charged them an extra $1k to soft dig around it prior to removing footings (thank God for Florida sugar sand)
Damn things for 5'x5'x36" thick.
Could get them out of the ground with the mini alone, so had the track machine help me. 4 biguns!

Now, just gotta put the ho-ram on the skid-steer, and bust them up, then load and haul.

 

I helped Leo do a little bar and this is for the same client, in the basement, add another door to the bathroom, and build a wall for a …. Office space!

 

What's the long wooden L shaped 1x4 thing....a homemade square?

Little bit of rafter framing to tie in part of this huge addition/rebuild. A lot math was done this morning. Worked out perfectly! View attachment 536437

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Nice rips. Bet that took a while.

 

Looks nice. Much more permanent than the original plan.

 

Because of the Berber carpet I chose to lay down three-quarter inch plywood and shoot it in with 2 inch pins, luckily we were able to catch a double floor Joust so just a few screws into the ceiling is all it took, once I do the taping it’s definitely permanent.

i’m just wondering what kind of surprises once I go into the bathroom, what will I need for a threshold?

 

Little bit of rafter framing to tie in part of this huge addition/rebuild. A lot math was done this morning. Worked out perfectly!

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Figure the hypotenuse of the triangle made by the intersection of the ex roof and new rafters using the roof slope and run, then snap a line and cut? Trying to reverse engineer your math... Looks super clean.

 

...only 366 posts ago. lol

 

Must have been during my 2 year hiatus.

 

A somewhat typical job for me.

I did a few items for the Homeseller prior to close of sale a few months ago.

New owners are getting new flooring installed this week and discovered this:

The underlayment had been previously replaced. I was curious about why there was fixall plaster at the joint to the existing. Ding dingdongs had installed 5/8” instead of 3/4 MDF.

The plate was gone, so I built a PT pony wall on the foundation wall. South side gets hammered by weather here and it’s a second story wall on that side. Wind pushes two stories of water in. PT for prudence.

Vycor wrapped sections of subfloor got banged in under the bottom plates.

I put some Vycor on the subfloor sheet when I laid it down.

Letting the dehumidifier work for a day or two, there is a wet plywood edge under the threshold. Underlayment in a day or two.

5x the standard rate, I’m in it a total of 5 hours + two boards and two studs.

Flooring can go in on Thursday as planned, making me the hero.


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A somewhat typical job for me.

I did a few items for the Homeseller prior to close of sale a few months ago.

New owners are getting new flooring installed this week and discovered this:

The underlayment had been previously replaced. I was curious about why there was fixall plaster at the joint to the existing. Ding dingdongs had installed 5/8” instead of 3/4 MDF.

The plate was gone, so I built a PT pony wall on the foundation wall. South side gets hammered by weather here and it’s a second story wall on that side. Wind pushes two stories of water in. PT for prudence.

Vycor wrapped sections of subfloor got banged in under the bottom plates.

I put some Vycor on the subfloor sheet when I laid it down.

Letting the dehumidifier work for a day or two, there is a wet plywood edge under the threshold. Underlayment in a day or two.

5x the standard rate, I’m in it a total of 5 hours + two boards and two studs.

Flooring can go in on Thursday as planned, making me the hero.


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Did the insulation get wet?

 

When I'm 3/4s the way into the job and I'm still going back to the truck to fetch more tools. Usually for crown cause it's a different set of tools. Now I need a compressor, air nailers, chopsaw. Before I was getting away with levels, lasers, screw guns, belt sander and jigsaw. More tools involved than that - especially since I was the one building the cabinets I'm now installing.

 

Before I was getting away with levels, lasers, screw guns, belt sander and jigsaw. More tools involved than that - especially since I was the one building the cabinets I'm now installing.

Hence my point of using more tools than 3 trades. I’m sure you’ve built on site some time back. I’ve got a guy in Houston & one here that builds on site. One an ol German & the other a younger crew. Both do excellent work, but I don’t understand loading & moving every week or two vs shop built


Mike

 

Making some progress... I tell you what. I don't much enjoy cutting those shake panels.

I set up a production crosscut station out of 3 table saws and my miter saw stand. 6 1/2 sheets done in about 30 minutes. 🦸‍♂️

 

2 tick marks and connect the dots with the track.

 

 

If I had it with me, ya.

 

That's why I have 2

 

@Easy Gibson bring your shale bar Monday...

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Not using helical piers? At this point I wouldn't even consider digging tubes.

 

That would involve actual work, so count him out

 

Finishing a kitchen a home owner did. He's done most of the other cabinets in the house and did an OK job on them. He wants me to do the sink wall and then make all the doors for the other cabinets. It's a long cabinet at 110" plus 2 end panels that extend out another 25 1/2" on either side for a total of 161" of cabinet run. It'll have a stainless steel farm sink on the left.

Just starting out. Face Frame and some door parts. Gonna be slab drawer fronts.

Have to make 3 drawers for another cabinet in the room along with their corresponding drawer fronts.

 

Wow...one piece. That will weigh a few pounds.

 

Won't be that bad, only 4 drawers. If it was a bunch of drawer banks man, that would be heavy.

1.5 sheets of 3/4, 4pr drawer slides, almost 3/4 sheet of 1/2". 90+28+36+12 so about 165lbs. 85lbs for each guy. It will be awkward because of it's size. I get to handle it by myself while it's in the shop but no back for most of the time.