You know it's bougie when there's 3 ice makers and 2 dishwashers on the plan. Reads like a typical home's bed/bath count.

Yesh, yesh, my kitchens a 3/2, hmmhmm 😅

 

2 in wall coffee makers at about 5k a piece caught my attention on the first glance.

The appliances cost more than the first house I built as a GC, I think I was almost 28, so about 2010. 😆

 

Test piece cleaned up nicer than I was expecting and the customer was really happy with how much of the original grain came through though I don’t feel the minwax gives quite the same deep, rich color as the General Finishes Gel I’m used to.

Going to town on the rest of it inch by inch

 

Too sick to work on an occupied house today, so I was working on my trailer. Did a double Folgers curve in the workbench to make sure I had 36" clear through the doorway and around the shelving. Not happy with the scribe against the nose of the trailer, was fine tuning it with a belt sander and figured out the nose was flexing every time I slid the top in, so I was chasing my ass. Scrap Unistrut on the ceiling to hang a 9' piece of 6" perf for a conduit/trim rack, used a 4" holesaw to make an access hole near the front in case something slides forwards. E-track on the driver's side wall for securing cargo, though only 2 of the 3 I ordered showed up. Painted last week, used that cheap Behr anti-skid deck coating for the floor, still need to cut in the edges. Time for hot tea and Netflix, coughing up a storm.

 

Thursday and Friday started replacing culverts in a dike, Monday and Tuesday was spent polishing and doing wheel seals lol

 

It doesn't get much flatter than this!

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Finished up one of the gable walls on my place, about half way through this residing project. Super happy with it. Homeowner makes me work weird hours but I get to bang his wife.

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More clamps. This is getting to usual. Making some railings.

 

And... SQUEEZE...

 

Plenty of squeeze of those 4 boards.

 

Working on the curved window for the doorway. It's not like any other curved window I've made before. All of them have had a curved top that ends up being a half circle, ellipse or arch and the bottom leg is straight. So the stick cut goes onto the curve and the bottom leg is essentially with square ends for their copes.

This one has angled sides and a curve on the top and bottom. Racked my brain for a bit to get this to work but came up with the solution and then ended up modifying it when I was actually able to look at the parts and the jig for a much better outcome. My original plan had me destroying the pattern while the 2nd version wasn't a destructive cut.

I made my blanks for the curves and then put them onto my patter of the actual size of the window.

They are screwed from the rear into areas that will be cut off later on.

Then as you can see in the above picture I have the pattern against my tablesaw fence with the wood parts facing down on the table. The fence is set up at 1 3/4" so it will remove 1 7/8" from the Oak. I need the curves to have 5/8" left over from the 2 1/2" from the side stile.


I pushed the boards through the saw and it left me this.

The nice part about it is I still have the pattern intact so if I need to do this again I can.

I put the copes on the ends of the "curves" still in their uncut forms and did a test and it took me a while to find where on the stile the parts go. It's very picky and will only work properly at the exact distance. The top and bottom of the window will measure about 14 15/16" all around. Took me about 10 minutes of moving things around to find that sweet spot.

It's really hard to see in the picture but there are lines on the top and bottom parts that show the actual curve. The top part on the right you can see the best.

 

Leo:

Please post a picture of the arm and leg that you're charging these customers.

 

Well that's it for today boyz.

Got all the parts made. Now I have to figure out how I'm gonna glue this up. If I want to embarrass myself and use screws or do it the right way and just use clamps. The screws would never show, they'd be on the edge. But I'd know they were there LOL.

 

The Greene brothers used screws so I think it’s ok for you to use screws.

 

Ditto with George Nakashima

 

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We used computer cable grommets for the rail posts.

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Very nice work as always but the rope ends where they descend look like a potential tripper?

 

That's exactly what I removed that was there before.
We put it back the same.

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Kilronan, main foundation minus summer kitchen, planters and stairs. Can't get it one pic, need to get a drone

As plumbers start roughing we are setting up the garage foundation, over 3k sq ft garage and it's 13.5' tall in the back, cathedral ceiling, spray foam, hvac, went from stone floor to a score and stain with outlines for the cars, two daily drivers and 4 exotics/collector pieces.

Main foundation is over 500 yards with the walls and footings we've already poured, whole house will be well over 650 yards. The compaction worked, plumbers are bitching 😆. Dude on the roller, dude on the hose and a couple of guys on plate compactors are probably ready to do something else. But they got that garage base to do yet

 

This will be a cool house when it's done, all of the cathedral ceilings in the main living area will have wood ceilings. Elevator, lots of cabinets, big appliance applications. Rock and stucco, 24 gauge standing seam etc.

This one's killing me on selections lag

 

This will be a cool house when it's done, all of the cathedral ceilings in the main living area will have wood ceilings. Elevator, lots of cabinets, big appliance applications. Rock and stucco, 24 gauge standing seam etc.

This one's killing me on selections lag

What rain screen are you using behind stucco?

 

Does your framer install?

No, our roofer, who does all of our sheetmetal fabrication, does all of our metal work, they install. I have a particular way I want it done.

 

No, our roofer, who does all of our sheetmetal fabrication, does all of our metal work, they install. I have a particular way I want it done.

That makes sense. When we have subbed framing (rare) our carpenters install doors, windows and flashings. Never thought about a roofer for the flashings but that would make sense

 

Made a deal for this one Sunday evening sitting in my Side by side after clearing brush, covered in sweat and mud drinking an ice cold friendly in my snake boots. 👍

1 mil budget. I wrote the intent before 5 am monday and emailed it, Got signed Intent to Build yesterday and a nice 5 figire wire transfer from her home in Montana.

Construction contracts being drawn up, meeting architects here now and our first design meeting is at 4 today.

Scope of work is tear the front section of house down, rebuild with 10 ft plates, big laundry/mud room, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.

The front - tear down that shed and build a 2.5 car garage attaching to mudroom/laundry, with a storage shed on the opposite side of the lot, and shed roof covering a a single car stall between. Drill a new Pressure cement well in the driveway and install new well pump and tank in the garage, with a Navien on demand

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Gut the rest of the house, new wire, plumbing, hvac, inch of closed cell spray foam and fill cavities with open cell, Carrier Infinity 21 seer variable speed hvac, 24 gauge standing seam roof. New floors, New fireplace. Master bath completely rearranged, big California style closet with an island in the center with quartz top

This isn't part of the budget, but added today - eliminate the stairs on the dock, build new ones with a landing on the far left side. Bridge from house to Dock tying in at old stairs location, add a half shed roof over the left side of the deck. Widen the swing by 30 inches and move to far right corner, leave gate for a jump gate.

This house and the guest house in front (looks like a garage) we did 3 doors down in 2014, some of yall may remember it, lots of pics of it on here. Tore down all but 600 sq ft, gutted that, built 2800 sq ft New (two story part), redid garage into guest house, tore down the old dock - built a new one. Did that in 27 weeks for 645k, grosses about 100k on it. Hard bid, against 2 other bidders. I was there all day almost everyday hands on, bags on when we framed it, and my brother did all the cabinets with a helper we had just started the cabinets.

Pretty nostalgic today looking at it thinking about that job, and that time period when you don't know if you're going to make it or ever be established and that ball in your gut until the end of the job on whether we'd make any money etc. That job and time line took more balls to sign than any I've signed since probably. Some before that we did for much less money took more balls than this one. No allowances really other than fixtures, lots of risk

My wife used to bring my oldest daughter to see me and bring snacks for my crew and we'd eat lunch down at the lake. My youngest wasn't born and my oldest was about 5. My wife and her wore matching spring dresses and still do. Maybe why I'm nostalgic, my wife texted me earlier and said today's the day I asked her to marry me 20 years ago, got married in October. Pretty cool she remembers the date, I didn't 😆

That and some of the hands on that job are lead carpenters now, and my right hand guy then is the head honcho now. Dude who framed the house above this thread was a know nothing ditch digger then,.smart as hell though and once we fixed his attitude he became an ass kicker

Anyway this house someone else owns now, that's how I got this job. Was originally a 2 mil new build, got all the way to the 1 yard line and she bailed. Then decided to remodel after she scraped it - I don't blame her. She decided she doesn't want to live on the lake, she just wants a weekend lake house. Think they will be outstanding clients 👍

 

Gut the rest of the house, new wire, plumbing, hvac, inch of closed cell spray foam and fill cavities with open cell, Carrier Infinity 21 seer variable speed hvac, 24 gauge standing seam roof. New floors, New fireplace. Master bath completely rearranged, big California style closet with an island in the center with quartz top

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This isn't part of the budget, but added today - eliminate the stairs on the dock, build new ones with a landing on the far left side. Bridge from house to Dock tying in at old stairs location, add a half shed roof over the left side of the deck. Widen the swing by 30 inches and move to far right corner, leave gate for a jump gate. View attachment 544789
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This house and the guest house in front (looks like a garage) we did 3 doors down in 2014, some of yall may remember it, lots of pics of it on here. Tore down all but 600 sq ft, gutted that, built 2800 sq ft New (two story part), redid garage into guest house, tore down the old dock - built a new one. Did that in 27 weeks for 645k, grosses about 100k on it. Hard bid, against 2 other bidders. I was there all day almost everyday hands on, bags on when we framed it, and my brother did all the cabinets with a helper we had just started the cabinets.

Pretty nostalgic today looking at it thinking about that job, and that time period when you don't know if you're going to make it or ever be established and that ball in your gut until the end of the job on whether we'd make any money etc. That job and time line took more balls to sign than any I've signed since probably. Some before that we did for much less money took more balls than this one. No allowances really other than fixtures, lots of risk

My wife used to bring my oldest daughter to see me and bring snacks for my crew and we'd eat lunch down at the lake. My youngest wasn't born and my oldest was about 5. My wife and her wore matching spring dresses and still do. Maybe why I'm nostalgic, my wife texted me earlier and said today's the day I asked her to marry me 20 years ago, got married in October. Pretty cool she remembers the date, I didn't [emoji38]

That and some of the hands on that job are lead carpenters now, and my right hand guy then is the head honcho now. Dude who framed the house above this thread was a know nothing ditch digger then,.smart as hell though and once we fixed his attitude he became an ass kicker
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Anyway this house someone else owns now, that's how I got this job. Was originally a 2 mil new build, got all the way to the 1 yard line and she bailed. Then decided to remodel after she scraped it - I don't blame her. She decided she doesn't want to live on the lake, she just wants a weekend lake house. Think they will be outstanding clients [emoji106]

You do need a drone. All the awesome builds you do, it's a natural fit.

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Got it glued up. I used screws. But not "that way". I used them as clamp extenders. A trick I've used for decades when working with angles.

While I was waiting for the window glue up to cure I started making the curved quarter round that will go into the top and bottom after the glass goes in.

And here's the nearly finished window. Cut to size and fitted. Came out really well I think. Was worried about the straight copes meeting with the curved rails. Usually the mullion is only an inch or so wide. These are 3" including the beads, 2" on the flats. Can you see it? Sure, it's about 5-7 thousandths. I'll stick a bit of glue in there and sand over it and the sawdust will fill the "gap"

 

Holy cow... It fits!!

Well ya.

 

 

indeed

 

Demo of the old house, garage and asphalt to make way for a new three story on Inks Lake

 

Finally did the scary part. Cut the curve on the top of the door. Only scary because if I screw it up I ruin the door. But I made it through it. Cut 1/4" past the line and then used a pattern and a 2" flush/pattern bit. I used the upper bearing and rode the router on the pattern if you must know.

Now the bane of my existence - sanding the whole door.

 

Sometimes I like when the sanding starts. It is less stress than the build and I feel like I can relax a little bit.

 

Ya, after 35 years let me know what you think about sanding. I usually listen to music while I'm sanding so that part is relaxing. But usually that means I have a lot of sanding. Something like a kitchens worth of doors. After that much hand sanding breaking edges my skin can be pretty tore up. I've tried lots of things but covering your fingertips just means you can't feel the parts you just sanded.