Chicken salad out of chicken sh!t.
Fabricated a few battens, replaced the window sills, made new 'staples" for the hasp.
Used 15 tubes of Big Stretch to seal all the gaps between the battens and boards and a lot of the wide cracks in the old lumber.

 

Poured my brother's floor Tuesday and finished up a step Wednesday. Napping and eating Thursday, lol.

 

 

Looks like the door scene from Monsters Inc.... where do they go to?...

 

You're building shopping carts now?

 

We have stock units ready to ship! Please allow 2-3 weeks lead time for custom shopping carts.

 

That job site is just a little to clean for you Reggi boy. Gonna have to reserve you a spot @ the fancy eatin table


jk.

Mike

 

Give it time lol.

 

Installed aluminum railing on this today forgot to take pics.

 

Good enough for the boilers to sit on, but I don't see much of a future for me as a professional mud slinger.

 

Earlier this week. Client was under contract to sell this house when a leak occured after some snow.

Chimney chase cover had three patches attached to the underside and sealant was failing. The sealant funnelled the precipitation onto the patch.

Temporary sealed with what I had with me.

Came back a couple days later and filled it in.

Nowhere left for standing water to collect.

12 month warranty. Told buyer and seller it needs a new cover.

 

My son removing grout in a 40 sqft +/- shower. Wall and floor. Removing grout is miserable work.

 

Multitool with a diamond grout remover blade. Hopefully that's what he was using.

 

We done a couple of these and we now use a grinder for most of the job and follow behind with the multitool and diamond blade. At $40 a blade (Diablo) doing the entire job with them would bankrupt me.

 

That's because you are buying name brand blades. Although not diamond blades I've gone to the dark side and buy my multitool blades for about a buck a pc. Are they as good as name brand. Nope. But they are 10 to 13 times cheaper and last about 1/2 the time. So you use $2 in blades instead of $12 each.

I'd try something like this to see if it'll work good enough. It likely will.

 

Did you look at the video for that blade? A minute and 30 seconds to do 3"... yikes...

 

I tried a 60 pack of cheap blades from amazon. Wasn’t bad. Diamond grout blade from H.F. Not bad for seldom use.
grinder is great though if practical. I once cut a pretty clean line breaking tile with just a hammer and home made scratch awl. Not ideal but worked great. Generally get the 3 pack of dremel carbide blades for the zip-zip. Lasts long enough for the price.

 

My first collonade.

 

Looking forward to seeing the After pic of that...

 

I need to drill 40 3/8" holes for railing post plates. The bolts have to go thru and connect to a plate on the bottom of the deck. 4 per post. The depth is 9.5".

So they have to be precise. What do you guys think of this?

 

I'm sure it'll work OK. But perfect 90º. Not sure.

 

The deck is plywood going to be a waterproof material on top. So I can fasten the guide to the plywood.

 

Does it have 9" of travel? Or do you need to swap out bits?

 

It has an 8" throw. But I can drill with more than one size bit I think.

 

 

Nice

 

Can you mark it out and drill from the top and bottom, meet in the middle?

If you can only drill from the top, I would want something beefier.

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@Calidecks you can rent a magnetic drill and get a hunk of 3/8” or 1/2” steel, large enough to clamp down real good, with the center bored out about a 2 or 3 inch diameter. Then you can see your marks on the deck.

Cumbersome but solid.

Don’t rent a 15year old clapped out drill. You’ll have to figure out how much travel you need up and down on the drill.

 

These framers suck. Look at the backing they left me.

 

Okay I just put my foot down. They are going to make the Framers back it out exactly as per plan. A double 2x8 is going to be a lot easier than all that mess they left me.

 

One day'r. Not my framing by the way.

 

Was able to use skill alone to drill them now that the backing wasn't near as thick.

 

Nice job. Sometimes we get into our own heads and over-think things sometimes. I tend to try to reinvent the wheel around 3am.

 

The framing on those decks is putrid!