The OP didnt go through...

Small remodel, took out the bearing walls in the kitchen and put in a large engineered I-beam with footings. New kitchen, new floors, modified framing for elevator, barn wood accents and paint. Created bar room upstairs



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I've never seen baseboard like that in this area. Different strokes...

 

The base is alder, we milled when we built the cabinets

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Fireplace Resurface

 

Nice skull leo

 

nice thread

Looking forward to learning more

and seeing what you folks are doing, lots of great info

 

Nothing too crazy, just trying to make my sanding/ spray area in my basement a little more fixed. I had been using plastic taped and clipped, but it would move/ fall down.

Still going to just plastic the walls, but at least it feels like a more definitive room now

-Rich

 

Well the deed is done. Got the sign mounted. Used a 42" length of 3/4" black pipe, a 3/4" mounting flange and a end cap. Painted it all black, 3 coats to protect it. Mounted the flange to the 4x6 post using two 1/4" x 3" Spax Star Lags.

 

It's on the bottom and so small:confused1:

 

I was back at the conservatory job the last couple of days.

Put up a header and pulled out the wall if the pass through.

 

I was back at the conservatory job the last couple of days.



Put up a header and pulled out the wall if the pass through.

T. You gotta get the Cali quiet air compressor. I have that dewalt total beast will last forever but I cant stand the noise.

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That yard is wild. Where are you, Scotland?

 

Englewood

 

anyone else having problems uploading photos?

 

I dont know your approach but I take cell phone pic's then email them to myself to archive. When I do that I get an opportunity to resize the image from phone to email. small medium large (as is). Dropping it down to medium allows me to attach them here. Otherwise its too big

Im sure theres an easier way I dont know but that what I do

 

I use a Mac. The way I post pictures;

Go to Photos, select pictures

File-Export--it will show the number of photos selected

Select quality and size---I use high and large

Click Export

If you haven't created a fold yet--click New Folder, my folder for this forum is CT

Click Export.

Once the photos are exported I;

Click Go Advanced

Manage attachments

Choose file

I choose the photo I want

Click choose

Add a couple of more if need be

Click upload

I find I can attach as many as 5, you need to upload the first three to do the other 2.

I've aslso found if the OS has auto updated, I need to restart the Mac to get the attachment funtion to work on CT.

Tom

 

Tapatalk has been easy to work with via phone pic origin uploads, size options as well. Galaxy Note phone.

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I've been really busy, but I'm still around. Working on this raw water treatment plant for Canfor. Not many photos being taken recently, but that sloped concrete form was quite a fun one for me. I'm going for a crane basket ride in the next week or so, I'll grab an up to date picture of the whole spread then.

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That's some cool concrete work


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I can't even guess what you would need to charge for something like that. That's a ton of work. Looks good.

 

Thanks guys. I've been mostly on the "smaller" parts of the build, concrete free forming and suspended slabs. The big stuff is all aluma beam gang panels ranging up to 30' tall.

Project is around $27-30m if I recall correctly. Easily paid off from the roughly $7m in savings per year from bleach during the spring runoff.

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Showed up to a Habitat for Humanity job we were hired to set the trusses on and roof. Volunteers had already installed the garage trusses, then realized the garage foundation had been set one row of blocks too short, so all the trusses had to come off so we could throw some knee walls on top of the garage to bring the fascia all in line with the rest of the house.

So we beefed up the lumber tying them altogether, wrapped a couple straps around them, and lifted the entire roof off the garage. Set it down next to the garage, threw on the walls, and went about setting the roof structure back on. Skytrack hit a big rut in the yard that was covered over by snow, took a hard bounce, and the whole damn thing fell apart.

Pulled the huge mess apart. Only one truss was damaged. Had to mend it according to the engineer's specs.

Lesson learned? One at a time, or a lot more beefy lumber. All of us were standing WELL clear of the garage so no real harm long run, except we looked like morons for about an hour.

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Skytrack hit a big rut in the yard that was covered over by snow, took a hard bounce, and the whole damn thing fell apart.

Pulled the huge mess apart. Only one truss was damaged. Had to mend it according to the engineer's specs.

Lesson learned? One at a time, or a lot more beefy lumber. All of us were standing WELL clear of the garage so no real harm long run, except we looked like morons for about an hour.

:laughing: Habitat House ... no good deed goes unpunished :jester:


Glad no one was hurt and not critiquing the hows and whys of what y'all did. Gotta get after it and give it a whirl to get it done with what you got...

Good use for lifting spreaders? Might have distributed the forces-stresses from the bounce more evenly. Possibly not pulling hard on the center racking/stressing everything enough to fall apart, during the bounce.

 

That is going to be a pain of a hinge point. Glad no one was hurt.

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Should've just reframed the two bearing walls and packed up the gable, imo.


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Made a small countertop for myself. I have a 19" cabinet to the left of my stove that needed a countertop refresh. All of them in my kitchen are MDF with clear coats. I did it as an experiment and they last about 3 years before water penetration. The one by the stove gets hot oil penetration. So if the finish gets damaged I can just refinish the wood top.

Made from soft maple. I cut 1 1/2" strips and glued them up so the countertop is 1 1/2" thick. Coated it with a 2K poly.

 

Nice!

MDF,. How did you come to that? And how do you like it?

I've seen a few companies that make slabs for tops with compressed paper. Never seen one in real life though and just wonder how that would last.

 

It's cheap. Make a kitchens worth of countertops for about 100 bux and another 100 for finish and a days work, mostly waiting for finish to dry.

I'll see if I go farther. I only have an 8' sink countertop and a 47" x 59" peninsula. That'd be a big chunk of maple.

 

And the tiny countertop is installed.

 

Rough day, glad you could forge ahead and get it done.

(looks good, hope the wife likes if when she gets back from her Bernie rally:laughing

Tom

 

I wanna hear about how laborious the scribing was.

And the sanding, can't forget the sanding.

 

No scribing and the sanding wasn't that bad. 80 grit and 120 grit. :whistling

 

I have it switched from your house.

 

I just turned it off!

 

Stop it.

 

Dammit, Leo! You installed it upside down.

 

I'll just turn my house upside down.

Around here----non-switched-ground down----switched-ground up.

Tom