Finally got most of the laundry room done, I had to do more than I wanted to do myself, I hate remodeling as a carpenter, I built all the structures on my property but I lose interest when structural is done lol. Set the cabinets and trimmed it, I'll finish siding and rebuild that key board tray tomorrow hopefully.

Start the butlers pantry next, guess I'm doing demo and installing a 6 header with temp supports so I can install a pocket door - 32 hands and they can't spare me two 😆. Butlers pantry is stain grade like the rest of the house

That whole wall be hind the sink gets a designed tile and Schulter around the window, it's white with dark accents. Wasn't wild about colors but it's not my room (used to be my study) anymore. A 60 inch gun safe goes behind the big doors. The clear sealed tall box is for hanging clean clothes up before going to closets. The doored storage on the other side is to hang coats and jackets in for storage she has two basket cubbies in the lowers and a double trash pull out.

cabinet hardware is late should be here next week

 

I was never a big fan of the farm sinks, then I did a couple with Leo and I have to say they grew on me😂

 

PITA sink.

 

Yep, one in the kitchens a copper apronsink was a sucker to install

 

Stairs trim. Old stairs, scribed skirtboards.

 

Is it me or are those risers really tall?

 

Getting this put on. A lot of cutting and fitting. Would much rather be working with metal.

 

Getting this put on. A lot of cutting and fitting. Would much rather be working with metal. View attachment 570076

I cut my teeth on wood siding, then along came aluminum, not too long after that vinyl, and after a few years of doing vinyl, I was begging to go back to wood😂 I guess sawdust is in my blood.

 

Almost got the tile done this week, got one grout line off right at the door rushing to beat the mortar setting up and then the client decided, since I was pulling tiles anyway, they might as well have me change some other ones they didn’t like the color of. At least they’re grateful for my patience, happy with the end result and I’m billing T and M (I will cut them a break on the one I screwed up).

 

Almost none of those sinks are square, straight or normal. If you want them to look good in the cabinet the opening needs to be scribed to the sink. It's a real PITA. I've only had one of them, a SS sink with square corners that needed a normal simple opening.

 

Kohler has a apron sink with a lip around the front to cover the cutout. I've been using Kraus and they are pretty square and a great price.

 

When farm house sinks first became popular the Kohler ones all had to be scribed and 1 out of 3 were delivered broken, they had no idea to package them.The were a pain to install since like Leo said they were all hand made and sizes were all over the place

 

Regular undermount sinks can have their own issues... recently installed a solid surface top in a laundryroom with a customer provided brand new in box undermount SS sink that she wanted flush-edged... after the third template for the sink hole something was off because the cardboard template that comes with it measured correct, the left to right and front to back all measured out the way they were supposed to, but yet it was off... turns out one corners fold made it out of square by almost 3/8"... you could not see it in the least (and didn't affect the end product so she didn't have to get a new one) but figuring it out was interesting...

 

in old houses it was pretty typical to see 8 1/2 9 inch risers

 

Current framing project in Avery County. 5600SF, client opted for ZIP R9 panels. 7/16" ZIP Sheathing adhered to 1.5" foam. Took a little more time for layout and adding more meat in the corners. Zero thermal bridging though.

 

A smaller house and guest house on a Llano ranch, about 5309 sq ft under roof between both and a 4k sq ft metal barn about to go up

 

Tree branch put a hole in this roof and damaged a couple random shingles Friday night.

Shingles removed, wood replaced, patched in, cleaned up, and paid in 2 hours.

Probably going to get the whole roof out of it.

Nice to know that I still got it.

 

This job has been sitting in my shop for about 45 days. Been driving me crazy the space it took up. Finally on Wed last week I was able to get it out of the shop and into the house. We went back on Thurs to start the install. Got 3 lowers installed and the last one scribed in and fitted but not screwed to the wall.

Took off to see the grandchildren on Fri through the weekend.

On Monday we installed that last cabinet and then put the tops on the cabinets. Continued on and put the upper on the cabinet in the center of the room. Then onto the PITA cabinet, the upper next to the window. This is the cabinet I had to do elevation drawings to figure out how to make sure the moldings lined up perfectly. The floor next to the wall went from zero on the right of the cabinet to -.875" on the left. Then from the wall to the front of the cabinet on the right side it dropped about .75". And then on the left front of the cabinet it was -1.4375" from the back right. Thank goodness for a laser level. My measurements and build was spot on.

Got the fitting done on Monday and then attached the counter to the top and pushed it into place and locked it in. We had taken the right hand window casing off so the cabinet would slip in. With the bead fitted in we cut and replaced the casing, put the moldings underneath the overhang of the counters and applied the crown.

The GCs crew will be putting a baseboard on the cabinets which will hide the opening on the bottom of the cabinets along with the apron of the windows.

Corner cabinet with the head molding match

Center Cabinet

Lower cabs

The room. The small lower isn't visible.

 

The connection to the floor with the cabinets look weird?

 

Baseboard still has to go on.

 

He didn't understand the baseboard wraps the cabinet. He thought the front was a decorative opening.

 

It’s a sweeper’s delight hidey hole.

 

Roach cave.

 

And bigger! 🐭🐭🐭

 

I actually had to block off some holes in the floor by the clients request so mice didn't come to nest there. Probably a good idea.

 

After talking with Leo now, I understand that wraps all the way around and he just didn’t want a large board at the bottom messing with the paint👍

 

Tile done today

 

The wife happy?

 

That is umm interesting. Not my cup of tea but the work looks on point.

 

Not minr either but I got my stain grade in the rest of the house. Lol

For a cheery person she likes dark stuff, the paints Iron Ore.

 

That hurts my astigmatism.

 

What's the door to the left of the sink?

 

Panel.

 

Works OK, I didn't use any A teamers including me setting cabinets (my brother says sending a framer to do interior work is like sending a plow horse to the Derby) 😆

What can I say I enjoy big scope work

Was very happy with the tile setter, one of my hands, 21, trim carpenter is what he wants but he's good at tile it looks like. Only his 4th install all for my stuff 😆

 

Depends on the framer.

I often say that every finish guy thinks they are a great framer, but in my 40 years working, I haven't seen a trim guy have a clue about custom framing.