Looks great Mike! What is the handrail? That looks like a long section in the middle.

 

That foot block is important! HO wanted minimal obstruction.

 

The weather has not been on my side for this project but at least I didn’t end up with any issues before the concrete pour.

Decking is island mist.

 

We framed up the floors and walls on one while waiting on trusses, we are now back working on the roof of the other.

 

Not my current job; I built this air conditioner surround over 30 years ago. The lattice is cedar with resorcinol adhesive at the laps. A little Abatron on the finials and it'll go through another 30 Ohio winters; longer than I will.

 

I love going by areas where I built houses or additions or did a large remodel, but the funniest one is just at the top of my street. I built a bump out for a shower on the second floor of a bungalow., they had short pockets to finish the exterior and it was suggested that I put roofing shingles on the sidewall to get them through the winter….. that was 40 years ago😂 I’ll try to get a picture and post it up here later because it’s still there.

 

Like a glove

 

Looks like a table to me🙃
But OK😂

 

What's wrong with your eyes. It's as plain as day a glove.🤪

 

Getting Trex Island Mist

 

Getting Trex Island Mist

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I just got this sent to me. Have you ever come across this product?

FastenMaster ICON Success Story: Rob Pichette

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5 weeks in on our Llano Ranch custom, sticks are going up on main house and they poured a slab for the large car port yesterday, when they have framed the main house the carpenters will frame the guest/bunk house, 5400 sq ft under roof between both houses. Starting a 4k sq ft steel building/barn soon on the same property

 

Full gut remodel, new MEPs, added a bunk room over the garage. Pella Lifestyle windows, all new stucco, Boral tile roof (Architectural Committee required because of the amount of stucco, wanted 24 gage technical lock which is our go to. Be a good one, probably a 200k kitchen, looks like a 140k kitchen to me but inflation is a ***** 😆

Nice to get a renovation 👍

 

You can do this? Hack away most of the joist and put a "duct" through it?

 

You can do this? Hack away most of the joist and put a "duct" through it?
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It was already there we just ran new ducts, gets steel straps, there's a structural engineer on board for the steel beams and footings

It hasn't delected in 31 years fwi, I'll show pics of all the engineered steel when it's done. We took our a wall on bottom story and installed a big beam over 24 ft

 

I would expect it to survive because of the design of the I beam system. I've just never seen one taken out so completely and it a couple spots in one beam. If you did that to a normal joist it would have crumbled years ago. But the integrity of the 2x3s isn't broken and the stiffness of the OSB is still there in 90%+ of the I beam.

Seems to have worked.

Would they allow that now?

 

No they wouldn't, and I've only used the I beams once for rafters, they are a chit floor system compared to 2' floor trusses with 1 1/8" tng glued and screwed

I'll post the repair when the engineer inspects

 

That would fail inspection bigtime around here.

 

It did here too. We get a stamped letter instead of engineered drawings on remodels for this reason. When we expose defects (this house has like 12) they then specify repairs, we repair, they inspect and stamp an approval letter for the city - if it passes. New homes we engineer drawings

That's not even that bad around here, I've seen some jacked up hack work done by diyers 50 years ago lol

 

Boulder benches

 

Making your own Stone Henge?

 

Just need to ask Mater to come with his tow hook.

 

Your picture is crooked....

 

For some odd reason they wanna save it. Over the years I’ve taken on jobs that would label me one of the braver, or dumber work horses. Probably the latter.

 

We did an old house when I was just starting out with the 1st company I would wood for. It was my job to be inside the house when they where pulling it straight. That was the exact opposite place I wanted to be. But everything went well and we got the house plumb from over 4" out. Lots of creaking and noises. Put plywood on the sides of the house and when the straps were released it only went back about 1/4". They should have expected that and pulled it farther and tried a few times while sheathing it to see how it reacted. If it pulled bring it back and put more sheathing on.

 

Ready for railings, today was brutally hot!

 

I'm not a TJI guy like I said but they are brand specific, every manufacturer has different rules just like truss designers. This isn't weyerheauser (can't remember which it is) but the engineer will pull their specs off their website I'd imagine. Or maybe they just say **** it 😆

I don't let trusses get cut without the truss designer telling me what they want in an email.

House isn't terrible framed but I doubt the boys gave much of a chit about rules in 1999, I never saw an engineered or stamped drawing until I was 22 and I was in the trades part time all through high school, mostly new framing. Lots of big ass houses with guys like me who graduated 225 of 227 in their high school class just be spit balling figures out for their hands to butcher lol. I've never been scared to use a span chart and do my own specs either until my insurance agent fkipped out in 2017 and acted like they were going to take away my birthday - lol. Anyway no Mas spit balling, I even get retaining walls and docks engineered

Trusses all the way, even that little bunk room over the garage has 18 inch trusses

 

This isn't weyerheauser

Silent Floor is TrusJoist which is Weyerhauser.

 

Weyerhauser specs.

It does look like the pipe holes are too close to the duct holes. Probably have to add web stiffeners.

 

I've been looking at these specs myself. Have an addition coming up later this summer that has TJIs.

SPECIFIER'S GUIDE FOR TJI 110, 210, 230, 360, AND 560 JOISTS - USA - tj-4000

Featuring Trus Joist® TJI® Joists for Floor and Roof Applications

www.weyerhaeuser.com

 

2001 field guide for Silent Floor by Trus-Joist, a Weyerhauser company.

 

Fence replacement had some scope creep.

Customers had pea gravel around their gas fire pit. Tired of it being tracked in.

Brought in my concrete sub. While he was here, I also got a price to auger out and set the fence posts. They have more experience run skid steers and there are lots of roots so hand digging was out.

His number came in under what I had included in the bid for that work. Win.

I had the concrete truck wash out into wheel barrows and that water is being used in the dry poured placed post concrete.

Flagged all sprinkler heads and valve boxes ahead of time to avoid accident breaks.

 

poured placed post concrete.

🤣🤣😜

 

Never heard it called scope creep. It's always "While you're here, can you do .....?"