What's that black all over the beams?

 

Paint

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3 phase commercial feeder pull.

120’ and a little 30’. 4-3/0 copper and just me and one helper for a couple hours.

Im tired. 😥 500’ of 3/0 is heavy.

 

3 phase commercial feeder pull.

120’ and a little 30’. 4-3/0 copper and just me and one helper for a couple hours.

Im tired. [emoji26] 500’ of 3/0 is heavy.

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Get a puller, best investment I ever made. Got a maxis, I believe, uses a corded super hawg. Works great

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You guys have already heard a bit about my ceiling adventure but here's a few more photos including some of my ventilation set up and the new spray rack I made for pre-finishing

 

Side hustle, yarding out a rental that some tweakers abandoned. Already paid for the dump trailer with these jobs. Not sure what to do with the quads though.

 

Get them re-keyed and sell them.

 

I was hired for disposing of two non functional gas ranges recently.

It was as easy as dollying them from the kitchen to the curb. They were gone the next day. Metal scrappers.

I’m not sure how much you could make repairing and selling garbage Chinese ATVs, but I’m sure someone with aspirations would haul them off.


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Yeah, I believe by California law the owner must store any property valued at over $500 for a certain amount of time before it can be disposed of. Everything else was trash, but I want to do it right if I'm going to try to make some extra cash on the quads. My helper made off with a Home Depot tote full of canned goods, dude is a scrounger .

 

See, this is the chit you have to go through when you glue something up and assume it's square.

 

Today is the day I finally get that big doorway out of my shop.

Finally.

 

Kilronan, main foundation was poured a couple weeks ago, about to pour the garage (about 3k ft), won't build breeze way to connect until the end. Will start framing in a few weeks, about to lose 4 good carpenters for the summer here, and a couple helpers. Be a fun one. 24 ft walls in the great room, 30 ft door opening in that wall. Long hall way with a groin ceiling, garage has vaulted ceiling, hoping that gets TNG.

I'm proud the kid in the hose for compaction hasn't quit. Boring as hell since mid January and he was pissed my super told him take the ear buds out, dangerous. 8 - 9 hours a day on a hose for the guy on the roller or on a plate compactor for the bags and edges. I actually haven't done any kind of drudgery or chit jobs like that since my mid teens, I had enough skills at 17 I was put on the tools when I left my dad's employment. Dug lots of ditches and footings but never just relegated to 2.5 months of that kind of chit work. I'd of taken a pay cut to quit and put my bags back on 😆

 

Door is 95% in. Need to put the trim on the other side. It didn't get done because the sheetrock is a big mess. Here's the guy that got me the job on the ladder taking a strip of sheetrock off on the curved area because it bows out about 3/8" on both sides. On the back side the sheetrock has a big angle on it that won't let the trim contact the jamb even though it's nearly flush with it. So we have to play games in order to get the other trim on, which will happen tomorrow along with fitting those slabs into place in another room.

Frame is just clamped into place.At least the walls were plumb.

Got the door swinging.

Windows in

Backed up a bit

And then a bit more, This is probably the best, truest color of the door. There is a crappy light right above it that really doesn't shine on it nicely.

 

Beautiful Leo,,, The guy can operate a broom like a pro.

 

He was there to carry it in his trailer, even though I could have brought it in the truck. I felt better having it inside the enclosed trailer. Help carrying it in and as you can see take care of the botched sheetrock and some clean up. After the doorway was put into the hole he attended other business in the building. Talking about the slab countertops for the Bistro and the conference table for the conference room. Gave me the updates on some things they were going to do to "help me" and then took off before 3 because he had to get to the bank and then get his daughter. We worked until about 4:15, the last thing was cutting the legs down for the other side trim and then clean up and we were out by 5.

 

I don't like the position of the door. They could have pushed it over to the right more. There will be some stone veneer put up to surround it and now because it's got one of the legs more or less against the wall there will be no stone facing you on the left. It could have easily been moved over to the right 3, 4 more inches, and that would have gotten some stone on the left facing you as you approached the door.

I made a template for the curve of the rough opening and that included the edge of the trim so they could make the call as to where the trim would land.

It'll still look great, but I think that 4" band of stone would have made a better look as you approached it.

It'll look great from my shop. 😝

 

I don't like the position of the door. They could have pushed it over to the left more. There will be some stone veneer put up to surround it and now because it's got one of the legs more or less against the wall there will be no stone facing you on the left. It could have easily been moved over to the right 3, 4 more inches, and that would have gotten some stone on the left facing you as you approached the door.

I made a template for the curve of the rough opening and that included the edge of the trim so they could make the call as to where the trim would land.

It'll still look great, but I think that 4" band of stone would have made a better look as you approached it.

It'll look great from my shop. 😝

Why didn’t they center it? Definitely would have looked better with stone on both sides

 

No idea. I pick things up, I put things down.

 

Maybe there were things in the wall that I don't know about. Other than that, it should have been pushed to the right.

 

They should delete that troffer and put a couple gimbal trims in there to spotlight your work. Is it getting a brass sign?

 

Not privy to that information. If I find out I'll let ya'll know.

 

I'm extremely happy with the color and the color match between the door and the frame/windows. Took me 2 days to figure out how to make them look the same because the stain on the quarter sawn and the flat sawn took the stain totally different.

 

What’s the knob going to be?

 

EMTEK Thumb latch and a separate digital bolt lock.

 

Two story boat dock progress

 

Had one of the worst ice storms since the bad one 25 years ago... Cleared some trees off the road on my way and puttered around on site until our 2nd floor wall package showed up. All ready to rock for next week.

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Still afraid of the Rona?

 

Nah, he's slow 😆

I assume it was cold

 

Fit the slabs to size. All the sheetrock was angled the wrong way. The post on the left the front was the biggest and got smaller as it went back. The whole width of the back wall got wider as it got closer to the window. So no way to do tight scribes. The angle is of the miter was 136.6º so the miters were cut to 23.3º, cut with the track saw.

The Rigid flip stands worked great for the temporary "brackets" to get things sized.

 

Master bath remodel in progress. Deleted a stand alone bidet, swapped the original vanity location with the existing jet tub, expanded the shower, new freestanding soaker tub. New vanity will be semi-custom cabinets with a tower, quartz top and tile backsplash. New shower has a wall-mounted rainfall head and handshower.

Was the first big project I put together on my own back in August, and took awhile for our schedule to open up and get it going. Keeping it ticking along while the owner and his wife are on vacation. Schedule anxiety is a doozy. Have a kitchen remodel starting right after this that we need to complete by Memorial Day, and then get ourselves over to another big first floor remodel (basically swapping bathroom and kitchen locations in a 1920's home) beginning of June.