Spec house I just finished.

5603 Doliver Dr, Houston, TX 77056 Listed by Erik Heyne on Vimeo

 

Nice!

 

Looks great Allan.

I’m still not a fan of pivot doors, just something about them…

Tom

 

I guess drilling into a water line isn't enough to keep this GC from calling me. Put in these laundry cabinets today. Kitchen gets delivered tomorrow.

 

First interesting (for me at least) project in a while: door replacement on an 1895ish building downtown. Original mortise locks were failing, and all of the exterior doors are rotten to some extent or another. The jambs and the sidelites are a single unit, seems to have been built on-site. Bought solid alder doors and trimmed them to fit, bored them for modern hardware, added a third hinge, and painted them with PPG Command. Two down today, going back for the last one tomorrow morning so the office can open Monday. Definitely need to get back in the gym, 3/0 8/0 doors didn't used to feel that heavy 😅.

 

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Could we see more of the stepside and the Volkswagen?

 

well latest job was racing the triple A guy on unlocking my truck (misplaced my spare key)
And Oakie rigging my son’s grave digger for a little more fun. Basic, but I nice break.

 

Hell of a day off, customer's gas station burned down last night, boarded it up early this morning and got medieval on the floor safe to salvage a weeks worth of sales for him. Going to be interesting, trying to get my foot in the door to do the rebuild, go big or go home eh?

 

i’ve done my fair share of fire restoration, but almost all of them were residential homes, apartments, and condominiums, going forward I would get in touch with the structural engineer to assist you with what’s good and what’s not, most cities in towns that we dealt with wanted everything ripped down to the dirt and start over…. might actually save you money.👍

 

Get after it man, keep in mind commercial is much higher than residential. Check what the work hours will be as I assume they will be open.

 

Thank you, yeah I'm going to talk to my mentor about running a big commercial job as this would be my first. Store is definitely not going to be open though, the whole building is a scrape job. Roof collapsed, I literally climbed over the rooftop AC to get to the front counter area.

 

Not that I have much personal experience, but to me commercial doesn’t care as much about budget as it does timing. Not like stingy home owners do anyways. Of course there’s care all around.
Best of luck on fire restoration

 

 

And this is exactly why I have a router bit setup for this profile. Making this on the shapers is possible but can be a pain. With the router bit you don't need templates because you just run the bearing on the part. And I don't have to take my shaper setup apart only to have to put it back together again.

 

New guy has flown the nest and is driving the telehandler on his fourth day, bringing gravel inside a house. I tried him on the Brokk first but the learning curve is steeper and we weren’t getting much done.

 

Make sure he doesn't eat lunch while you aren't looking..... 😝

 

I’m always looking.

 

Using a wheelbarrow to move tons and tons of gravel per hour.

 

Dude you get after it, nothing you are doing is easy. I've gotten to subbing everything but interior trim. When I started out I would do anything but now I'm a baby.

 

Cheater.

 

Made the sides, front and the opening that will hold the vent insert in place. Have to make the angled front along with cutting out the opening that will be behind it.

 

20 hrs at 100° .
She left her books on the deck. It rained.

Another $8.95😔

 

It does not dehydrate chit!

 

Had to make a hood. It's going into a maroon stained cherry kitchen, this will be black to match the stove itself. It's made out of Solid Maple and 1/2" Maple Ply with smatterings of Poplar for support structure.


Bottom view to show where the vent hood will go and how I covered up the end grain of the plywood.

Back view to show some support structure. The horizontal Poplar is mostly to straighten out the front pc of plywood which had an 1/8" inward curve in it. Angled pcs are a just in case. I don't want that area to develop a curve over time.

Side view shows the cutout on the top. The 1st horizontal cut is the top of the existing cabinets and the 5" extension goes up to the ceiling and out enough to catch the existing crown on the cabinet so it can die into it.

Front view showing the service access for installation and possible maintenance if it's ever required.

Here's the mounting holes for the front angled panel. The two Philips screws secure the angled panel to the body while there are alignment locking strips on the bottom of the angled panel that lock the bottom of the angle panel into the curved panel.

Here's the cap with some magnets and a dowel. I couldn't get the magnets to hold it securely enough for my liking. In the short run it would work but I wasn't sure about years down the line. This is so you can have access to the screws that hold the angled panel secure.

And all put together. I'm thinking I might want to put a fake box on top of the cap that looks like it holds the ducting. But I'll decide that after it's installed to see if it needs it. The top 2" will be covered with a crown that will also eventually be installed after I put in a stained soffit that was never put in when the house was built.

 

Ya... Compound miters. What a PITA. Bottom angle on the angled panel was 15º. Bottom angle on the side board of the angled panel was 18º. The taper was 6 7/16" to zero over about 26". The backside of the sideboard was 90º but the front side angle was -3.2º. I cut it 3º and that's where I noticed it should have had a bit more. But I dealt with it.

 

Once you go black....

 

That's a very complex piece. Nicely executed!

 

Those are the pieces I hated to install by myself

 

Because it's only 1/2" plywood it's going to be very lightweight. The stove is going to be in the way and I'm not sure if I want to deal with it there or slide it out which is a pain too. I refused to make the surround before I got the vent and damn glad I did. It was 1/4" smaller in width than the specs said. Actually helped being smaller.

 

Monday started like this ...

And Thursday ended like this...

Had to modify the opening in the tall cabinet to fit the oven which caused the loss of one drawer.

I would have used 2 fake door panels on the side of the island. I think this looks weird. But I didn't design it so I just smile and nod.

You'll notice one upper door not installed. That door was on backorder when the cabinets were delivered. It came in today but without hinges.

They didn't want crown but there's an uneven gap at the top of the cabinets. Late decision was to add scribe mold. I'll be back after flooring to do that and touch ups.