I didn't want to be involved in the delivery or installation of this beast. Him or none of his guys has a truck with an 8' bed. So no men.

So now I'm stuck dragging this thing down to his house and he says he'll have guys there to offload. With me included. I'm to old for this chit Tin.

Blankets all around and that interlocking floor padding works too. Gonna use those shoulder straps you use to move furniture and appliance around with. to move it through the house. The only thing I know for sure is he already has a 12' top on the metal frame now. So he was able to get that into his house. It's just 1 1/2" 2x10s glued together so the weight difference is going to be significant.

Oh damn, he's gonna make me help him move that too..... isn't he.

 

Probably had a few 30 year old movers do that, not an old guy.

I marvel at some of these appliance delivery guys and how easy they move big appliances. A few years ago 1 guy moved a 600lb fridge up a set of deck stairs himself and then get it tangled in the light fixture in the dining room. I told him to just rip it out of the ceiling. He gently moved it to the side.

 

Just call Reggi. He'll fix you right up.

 

My first amazement of movers was in Germany when we were getting ready to come back to the states.
2 Germans (big Germans) and a strap.
They carried a refrigerator down 3 flights of stairs (6 sets of stairs) and probably another 100' to the parking lot.
Guy in front, looking forward with the strap around his forehead and the guy in back with the strap around his neck.

The next thing was....one guy bent over...a moving box under each arm and then his partner puts one on his back.
very impressive.

 

My favorite so far was watching a dude load a cast iron tub in a pickup solo, no cart or straps or anything. I mean he was smart about it leaning one end in first but still…

 

Priming and painting some stained celings, patching some damaged walls and repainting them. Nothing fancy but it gives you an idea what I’ve been up to.

 

A couple befores of the typical late 90s/early 00s master bath, and what took way too long to get done (not one sub or crew got out of this job without having something go wrong and delay things another week...shower glass an inch short, granite wrong finish, plumbing just shoot me lol). I'll write a book about it some day, but I think they're happy. I hope they're happy.

 

Other than the shower doors, I prefer the before.

 

That's brutal.

 

Got the topcoats on the top and bottom now. Yesterday I went through the grits from 100-150 grit. Stained the top and edges. Had to wait 90 minutes for the stain to dry. Wiped down the top and applied the sealer. I might have been able to put a 1st topcoat on the tabletop but decided not to because it would have been rushing it. I let it sit overnight at 68ºF.

This morning I came in and scuffed the top. It's the first time the Isolante sealer has ever powdered up for me, so that was nice. No rubbery balls to get rid of. Mixed up a coat of gloss thinned 20% and sprayed it on. Let it dry for 90 minutes and did a pretty hard scuff with my RO sander with 320 grit at 70% speed. Blew all that off, then wiped it down with denatured alcohol and mixed up a new batch of finish but this time satin. Thinned this at 30%, which I wished I had thinned the 1st coat to. It filled the grain a little more than I wanted.

Sprayed that coat and at 90 minutes burnished it lightly with a brown paper bag to get rid of any dust specks that might have fallen in. After that I sprayed the foot board of the table with is the same Cottenwood but about 6" wide and 8ft long. Just did three coats of the satin mix because I don't care if it's buttery smooth or not.

The table was out in the shop while I sprayed the foot board so there would be no overspray to contend with. Plus it takes up a lot of room. It's back in the sprayroom and will stay there til Friday morning when it gets delivered.

 

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Got the topcoats on the top and bottom now. Yesterday I went through the grits from 100-150 grit. Stained the top and edges. Had to wait 90 minutes for the stain to dry. Wiped down the top and applied the sealer. I might have been able to put a 1st topcoat on the tabletop but decided not to because it would have been rushing it. I let it sit overnight at 68ºF.

This morning I came in and scuffed the top. It's the first time the Isolante sealer has ever powdered up for me, so that was nice. No rubbery balls to get rid of. Mixed up a coat of gloss thinned 20% and sprayed it on. Let it dry for 90 minutes and did a pretty hard scuff with my RO sander with 320 grit at 70% speed. Blew all that off, then wiped it down with denatured alcohol and mixed up a new batch of finish but this time satin. Thinned this at 30%, which I wished I had thinned the 1st coat to. It filled the grain a little more than I wanted.

Sprayed that coat and at 90 minutes burnished it lightly with a brown paper bag to get rid of any dust specks that might have fallen in. After that I sprayed the foot board of the table with is the same Cottenwood but about 6" wide and 8ft long. Just did three coats of the satin mix because I don't care if it's buttery smooth or not.

The table was out in the shop while I sprayed the foot board so there would be no overspray to contend with. Plus it takes up a lot of room. It's back in the sprayroom and will stay there til Friday morning when it gets delivered.

Looks like Formica tops in some IBM office the 80s. hahaha

I really like that color though, great job

 

Looks better in person of course. Plus a bad angle to take the picture at. Not enough space in the shop to take the picture from the side. And if I do that in the sprayroom the lights produce lots of glare on the top.

 

Finally got some photos of the tile I did for my folks. Not my paint job.

 

Why did you do 1/3 on walls and 1/2 on floor?

 

That’s what they wanted and I’d already lost so much time to indecision and changing minds I just went for it. The walls tiles are also a tad smaller which I think helps.

 

The cottonwood slab table is home.

Even with 4 guys it was a struggle to get it in there.

 

Is cottonwood going to hold up well enough for a table top? I would have thought it was too soft.

 

I was pretty frik'n hard when I was working it.

Plus if it gets beat up it'll just match with the house. Everything is old timber frame and such.

 

The view from the end had too much glare from the window. From the sink it was too close. So the only pics I got were from that perspective.

Ecstatic.

 

You didnt' charge them $350 did you?...

 

Ya, to bring it there.

 

How much to carry it in once ya got there? 😉😁

 

4 of us struggled a bit. But then again 65, 61 and the two others which looked to be 65 and 55. He keeps this up with these slabs and I'm gonna hire a stone company to bring them out.

 

Should have added a senior citizen surcharge to your fee.

 

I'm gonna have to start charging that.

 

Beautiful day for a little
Lake Michigan roof repair.

 

Beautiful day for a little
Lake Michigan roof repair.





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Is that one of those mirror filters?... if not, who's your twin smiling?...

 

@A&E Exteriors I worked with a guy right before I went out on my own that could be your identical twin.

It really threw me off first time I saw your pic. 👍😂

 

Doing a tiny job for one of the guys in my building. Just a couple doors with a face frame and then two floating shelves.

The floating shelves will use the Sheppard Brackets which use holes in the rear which fit onto a metal frame with posts to hang them from.

The stain is a pale gray that is translucent to match the vanity in the same room.

 

I don't see any splotching. Did you use a conditioner?

 

No, and it's Birch. I tried to make it more splotchy because the vanity is horribly done. Just a simple wipe on and then off after 10 seconds.

 

Had to buy a point roundover with a 1/8" radius. Planned on doing it on the router table but asked my buddy with the CNC if he wanted to play. He did so I did it on that. The beads came out really well. And the Amana solid carbide bit did much better than expected he said. It was only a standard $25 bit, not something designed for CNC with a real price tag.

 

Making head way on this. Sure is Is tedious , have had to cut in 50 outlet holes for just side walls so far. Pulling off for a while, have to wait on the insulators to do the ceiling.

 

Got those doors installed along with my face frame and the plywood bottom to make things look pretty. The uppers that I built to match the existing lower vanity.