Nice, do they require big foots for the bottom of the tubes? Once I had to start digging 2ft wide holes for them I went to helical. My excavator digs trenches and uses the pre cast square ones and is reasonable price wise but helical is so much less invasive.

Good luck look forward to seeing some finished pics.

 

Doors and drawer fronts done today.

Did the milling of the stiles, rails and panels yesterday. Today I cleaned up the drying room of all kinds of color samples that haven't seen the light of day for a decade, so I chucked them. Primed the panels and then assembled the doors, made the slab drawers and primed both sides. Sanded the doors, sized them and put the edge profile on them.

Been having an issue with the thermostat in the drying room. Been happening since I put the heating system in. Turning on the fan cools the drying room thermostat faster than the room seems to cool. So the heat stays on longer than it should. I think I finally figured it out. The hole where I fished the wire through can get outside air when the fan is on. I suspect the cooler air outside the room reduces the temperature of the thermostat more than the room actually cools. So I took it off the wall and put a pc of 1/2" rigid insulation behind the thermostat with a hole only big enough for the wire to fit through. Screwed the thermostat back on the wall and then put a pc of tape over the wire hole anyway just in case. Put it back together. Couldn't test it very well as the temp in the shop was 68F so it wouldn't show well enough. It's going to be cold in a couple of days so I'm sure I'll figure out if it solved the issue. Pretty sure I wouldn't have to deal with this if there was no 17,000 CFM fan ... lol

 

Now that you chucked the samples, you're going to need them right?!...

 

A few of a guest/weekend house on the Llano River. For just 2k Sq ft was well laid out, 3 bedrooms, Jack and Jill, powder bath and laundry room

Main house will be substantial, on a 125 acres across the road they own, was supposed to be a 2024 start, but he's a big wig in a production home company, he's not making chit in 2023 so I won't hold my breath.

I have a nother custom, 3200 sq ft living, 4600 under roof starting 5 lots down from this one, right at a mil, and we passes on a nother house 3 doors down in the other direction yesterday, they had accepted our budget but we changed our business model on projects per year and it didn't make the cut.

This little subdivision is in the middle of no where, 20 mins from small town, and ot was a 5th gen ranch until the old man died, his grandkids subdivided his ranch ans sold put in a day in 2019, 125k a lot, 115 ft wide, 550' long. A year and a half ago I offered 258k on a lot that sold originally for 125k and was listed for 280k, someone bid 285k and got it. I thought what a dumb ass - until he sold it for 360k a couple months ago.... people flipping lots lol

I have three lots in Kings Cove off LBJ that are tax valued at 300% more rhan i paid for them in 2016, my horseshoe bay lots doubled and i wouldnt sell for tripple. I dont sell lots unless im building the house, and ill wait until they are worth tripple or more and collect my lot money plus my build fee. The whole stradegy was to pick up attractive lots to get the house, you want the lot i build the house. I can't take credit and say I knew I could make a chunk on the lots too.

Its cooled off a lot but i dont see anything thats not low or median end lower in cost yet

PS im not a fan of the serving wondows, or the little anemic looking eating bar below it

 

A few of a guest/weekend house on the Llano River. For just 2k Sq ft was well laid out, 3 bedrooms, Jack and Jill, powder bath and laundry room

Main house will be substantial, on a 125 acres across the road they own, was supposed to be a 2024 start, but he's a big wig in a production home company, he's not making chit in 2023 so I won't hold my breath.

I have a nother custom, 3200 sq ft living, 4600 under roof starting 5 lots down from this one, right at a mil, and we passes on a nother house 3 doors down in the other direction yesterday, they had accepted our budget but we changed our business model on projects per year and it didn't make the cut.

This little subdivision is in the middle of no where, 20 mins from small town, and ot was a 5th gen ranch until the old man died, his grandkids subdivided his ranch ans sold put in a day in 2019, 125k a lot, 115 ft wide, 550' long. A year and a half ago I offered 258k on a lot that sold originally for 125k and was listed for 280k, someone bid 285k and got it. I thought what a dumb ass - until he sold it for 360k a couple months ago.... people flipping lots lol

I have three lots in Kings Cove off LBJ that are tax valued at 300% more rhan i paid for them in 2016, my horseshoe bay lots doubled and i wouldnt sell for tripple. I dont sell lots unless im building the house, and ill wait until they are worth tripple or more and collect my lot money plus my build fee. The whole stradegy was to pick up attractive lots to get the house, you want the lot i build the house. I can't take credit and say I knew I could make a chunk on the lots too.

Its cooled off a lot but i dont see anything thats not low or median end lower in cost yet

PS im not a fan of the serving wondows, or the little anemic looking eating bar below it
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Crazy numbers. Sometimes I wish the whole inflated housing market would fold. It seems like some lots are priced much higher than the house that will soon be built on it. Like that Armondo Mentelongo house, I would guess that was in the multiple millions, yet it was barely 1 mill. BOTOH......3-400K don't get you a whole lot...at least around here.

 

Finally finished up the basement project for Leo’s customer, I couldn’t find a threshold that would work from the room into the bathroom, so I bought a one by eight of Oak and made it myself.

 

 

Garage goals as my nephew would say. House we built a couple years ago, came across the pic. The 15k sq ft house we are about to start has a garage that blows this one away, 2600 ft, car lift, stone floors, glass doors, hvac.

 

Builder I do work for put one of those lifts in a 3 mil home w/ 3 car garage. Owners had him remove it I thought they were nuts. They are from Texas and I had to retrofit a gun safe and some fancy door locks on the master. Very nice people.

 

"Living in a van down by the river"....Chris Farley.

 

I did that after the 80s bust


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Looks like you bounced back nicely .

 

Just finished this up.
Did the one on the other side of the house last year.
This one isn't as visible so he didn't want to spend as much time ($) with it.
Replaced a lot of boards (could have replaced more)...all new molding where the light green field is.

This is the first day into it.

Great having that tree in the way. I did take an old satellite dish down. That helped.

 

Grapevine joints with the mortar on those pavers.

 

Nice project...

Just curious... what was happening here...

...and here...

 

4 color scheme.

Someone cut my hands off quick before I pick up a brush....

 

Robie lives for that chit

Looks sharp.

 

Next on the list....
I am kind of looking forward to bringing this back to life.
It's the ceiling over their back entryway. Supposedly built by a boat-builder many years ago.

 

Man you are a gluten for punishment. Looks like most of the paint might come off with a leaf blower LOL

 

‘Nother driveway.

Had 4 super dumps running today. 290 tons of base.

Still got some grading to do

I’ll do a stamped and colored concrete for the drive, and it looks like I’ll be doing a plaster finish on the wall at some point.

 

‘Nother driveway.

Had 4 super dumps running today. 290 tons of base.

Still got some grading to do

I’ll do a stamped and colored concrete for the drive, and it looks like I’ll be doing a plaster finish on the wall at some point.

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Awesome. Any veneer on that building? I see a brick ledge.

 

I was hoping you could tell us.

 

Not critiquing... just curious... as they stood out in the pics you posted...

 

Had one big stump to pull.

Took most of the day.

Ended up cutting it in half. My 10k capacity tele-handler could not lift either piece. Even close. Barely rolled them.

Took the combined effort of the excavator and tele-handler just to roll them out of the pit.

Prolly 30k lbs my guess.

 

Give it your best guess.

 

I know how I would have likely fixed it.... just curious as to how you got there before even discussing it as sometimes the two are not congruent based on the specifics of the site condition... not interested in playing games... if you don't have an answer or don't want to address it, fine by me... move on then...

 

 

Just stucco I think.

They were originally going to do thin stone, but ended up being a bit too pricey.

 

Just stucco I think.

They were originally going to do thin stone, but ended up being a bit too pricey.

Always nice to have the option of adding stone later, that ledge is a bummer to add later. Is there a structure on top?

 

110" long kitchen cabinet. Shaker panel will be on the left of the cabinet with a DW and the slab panel will be on the right of the cabinet and hold a small refer. Doors and drawer fronts on the rack. Building the drawers tomorrow.

 

Frame job in Tanglewood.

 

So I had my stucco guys use a color so the Home Owner can see what light brown looks like before they paint the whole house.

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That project looks amazing, what's the plan for the surface of the deck? Azek?

 

Trex Transcends Tiki Torch with a double border in Lava Rock.


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7 drawers today. 4 the same size and 3 the same dimensions but 3 different heights. As per usual got one with my logo burned into it. Cut the blanks yesterday. Today they got the dovetails milled, slot for the bottoms, made the bottoms and sanded everything internal. Got them assembled and then put the notch and holes in the back for the slides. Sanded everything and got a single coat of clear on the 7 of them.