More than likely it's chestnut, depends on house location. Chestnut is a bit softer than oak and smells when its sanded. Houses built in the earlier 1900s had chestnut trim

 

I’m assuming you’re referring to the lighter wood with less grain? Any tips for IDing it? Grain is similar to maple-mostly very faint but it has a little bit of yellow to it, it’s not as light in color as maple. It seems fairly heavy and dense

 

T and M paid weekly too

 

This customer had an arch removed and now her bar top wasn't long enough. Fortunately she had removed a desk, so we had material match:

Josh freehanded the end and right side of the repair piece to get the edge profile match. Probably could have replaced the top for the repair cost, but they didn't want a contrasting bar. Got a 5-star review too.

 

Old boy did a nice job on that little foundation in Spicewood, my boys will be sad (not) but they may be out of the major concrete business. Framing package comes tomorrow, sometime between now and dark thirty I need to get a skid steer loaded and come back an move all this dirt so we can get around the site Wednesday. Looks like me and Juan will sqaure the slab and pop lines, picked up some re siding work for an old client waiting on 4 other projects to start - so I'm short handed and not making any money 😆

Made a cut list for the carpenters, if I cna get out of a site meeting in Fredonia Wednesday afternoon I will stay and cut the headers, cripples etc and get a kid to nail them up. Juan can plate the house with the other helper. That ought to get them moving

 

Last turn key slab I subbed out was 2012.... the rest were a mix of full in house and independent finishers, or sub forming and rod busting labor only, buy the fill, steel, concrete, form materials and supply equipment, bring in independent finishers for the pour. Most of the finishers are small slab men themselves, 2-3 man crews, hire 3 of those guys and send 3 of mine on a decent pour for 10-12 men.

This was pretty nice just giving specs and some mild corrections otherwise was easy as pie

 

Used some salvaged materials to turn a mini fridge hole into shelving.

Made some cleats to hang sound absorbing art in the treatment room.

Patched a piece of floor that had the groove edge break off.

I'll continue to do this client's handyman work because they keep getting me new clients. Looked at projects yesterday for two more of their neighbors. One needs a deck, one needs a roof and roof decking. Pretty sure I'm the only one they are having come out to bid those jobs.

 

Client had an old curly cherry table they didn't want anymore. Asked me to use it for this little vanity. Felt dirty staining such beautiful wood, but I really like how it turned out. View attachment 544218

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Couple of clamps

Even on a ladder I'm having a tough time getting the whole thing in.

Right leg

Base.

Top.

Intersection.

Now I have to figure out how I'm going to flip this thing over by myself and then I have to do the two angle wings and that'll complete the building of the entryway. Still have to mortise the hinges and make the windows and the stops to hold them in.

 

Apparently not out of my range for flipping over.

Pretty impressed it stood up steady by itself. And it wasn't even tippy.

The bottom pic is the side I have some more work to do on. Clip the corners of the curved trim and then make the angled trim to connect the inside and outside together and glue it up. Hope I didn't forget anything.

 

Are you going to leave the voids empty or insulate them? Window and door foam?

 

Door is inside a building. No insulation required. Entryway to an accountants office.

 

Setup crew managed to get the two bottom units installed yesterday. Today was a fresh start, and after adding some additional height to the beams we got underway.
No major issues, and we're looking forward to getting on with taking this project through to the end.
Major activity should kick in to gear at the start of next week.... For now we'll have the setup crew complete their scope of work and try to get the electrician and plumbers on site to get going.

 

That's cheating.

 

That's winning. You're awesome. Wish I could be like you 😁

 

Looks great Leo.

Tom

 

I'd be done if it weren't for these stupid curves.

 

The door is QSRO and gets this finish.
3 step process.

The rest is just regular plain sawn red oak and will get a color
as close to this as I can get it.

 

Starting another one on the Llano River in Castell. Cool lot. Supposed to get my construction drawings this week, starts in next two weeks, I'm meeting my septic engineer and new slab man out here today. Been dealing with redesign since October. We built a house last year 4 lots down

 

I couldn’t imagine doing big jobs like that. Lots of important decisions to make I bet. I always just did remodeling and home improvement and that can be stressful enough. Lots of money involved I bet.

 

Just depends on what your used to. I came up as a carpenter and superintendent doing custom homes and later was a commercial superintendent, commercial public work for the state, liquidated damages (you pay by the day if your late) and almost all 2 mil plus budgets, 45 - 60 day gut renovations.

As a contractor I've felt a lot of pressure on kitchen and bath remodels to protect my profit and come in on time, it's all relative. A lot of surprises in renovations and especially when I was a rookie - surprise MF you don't get to go out to eat for a while 😆

This is a simple house, 3300 sq ft hvac and 4700 under roof.

 

This one is Fredonia, outside Mason, about an hour and 9 mins from our office, about half an hour from the one in Castell I just posted. It's getting tweeked right now at the designers, will be 100% native rock, no stucco like shown. On 100 acres. Start the 40x30 metal building slab in two weeks.

My brother and I met our septic guy out here today.

Will be starting three houses back to back to back, and really probably 4, waiting on final ok on another tear down right now

Going to be a busy summer, I hate starting them like that, but all have been held up in design or engineering or permitting

 

Kiloronan. Dude on the big ride roller and the young fella on that water hose are probably getting pretty bored and getting snowblind from road base. Least it ain't hot.

We've poured 167 yards in the footings and walls (oversized) and the cap for the main portion of the house without the summer kitchen, planters and stairs will be about 350 yards. I want to set up two boom pumps but the finishers will get final say so as long as it makes sense. Going to have to shuttle guys in, even on 28 acres there's not enough parking outside the trees for the guys coming to the pour

About to start forming the garage, it's pretty good sized on it'd own, leaving the connecting passage way until the end so we don't have to drive all the way around the house to get to the back

 

Kiloronan. Dude on the big ride roller and the young fella on that water hose are probably getting pretty bored and getting snowblind from road base. Least it ain't hot.

We've poured 167 yards in the footings and walls (oversized) and the cap for the main portion of the house without the summer kitchen, planters and stairs will be about 350 yards. I want to set up two boom pumps but the finishers will get final say so as long as it makes sense. Going to have to shuttle guys in, even on 28 acres there's not enough parking outside the trees for the guys coming to the pour

About to start forming the garage, it's pretty good sized on it'd own, leaving the connecting passage way until the end so we don't have to drive all the way around the house to get to the back

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Looks like Wayne Manor.

 

Kiloronan. Dude on the big ride roller and the young fella on that water hose are probably getting pretty bored and getting snowblind from road base. Least it ain't hot.

We've poured 167 yards in the footings and walls (oversized) and the cap for the main portion of the house without the summer kitchen, planters and stairs will be about 350 yards. I want to set up two boom pumps but the finishers will get final say so as long as it makes sense. Going to have to shuttle guys in, even on 28 acres there's not enough parking outside the trees for the guys coming to the pour

About to start forming the garage, it's pretty good sized on it'd own, leaving the connecting passage way until the end so we don't have to drive all the way around the house to get to the back

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Don't forget my sleeves!

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Got the two side lites done today.

 

Wrapped up this siding job today. Should have just taken pics from the ground but had a lift so used it...

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That looks miserable 😩

 

That looks miserable [emoji30]

A lot more detail than what would usually be required when you think steel siding installation.... Priced it like Hardie panel. Man hours ended up pretty much the same.

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Bet he's talking about the snow.

 

Ah... Ya that's just another Thursday 4-6 months a year for me. Was actually a pretty nice day yesterday, atleast after the freezing rain and wet snow stopped.

Wet, cold, muddy season should be upon us in 2-5 weeks hopefully.

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Sticks going up in Spicewood, demo of the original house started Jan 26

 

A WCI plumbing plan, this ones for Kilronan, use the DWGs from the architect for it. All locations measured and marked, we make sure it's actually where it'd supposed to be ahen the plumbers finish roughing. My dad takes it to the next level, mat and I just meet the plumber on site and show them where we want the trunk line and where the fresh water comes in (interior wall) and where the DWV needs to stub out. Then we verify this was done, but typically don't draw it. On large foundations we always do though, can usually get him to draw it for us 😆

A 3/32 scale seems to throw a lot of plumbers off, and even with quarter atleast one pipe usually has to get moved when we check it - when I run jobs I typically put two strings for each plumbing wall so there's no mistakes. Pain in the ass to get them back out