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Post A Picture Of Your Current Job (Part III)

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Post a picture of your current job.

Previous Threads.
Part I
Part II
 
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From strips to sized parts. All with labels, most double checked. Had a few stupid issues. Well me. I had 3 different cabinets named LO Hood upper and 2 cabinets named Island MW. Had to go through the parts to try to figure out who was what and belonged where. Oh... fun times. I thought I had gone through and renamed them all, but alas...

These are mostly sides of lower cabinets. To the right are mostly stretchers and adjustable shelves
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These are sides of uppers, decks, tops and partitions.
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This foundation contractor is getting better through osmosis. Hes good but slow as Christmas, his guys start at 9 and half the guys leave at 1 the other half 330. 2 guys leaning on shovels watching 2 others etc...

That all stopped last Thursday, my brother told him ill cut you a check and you can bounce and never do another foundation for me or you can show up with 4 dudes and work 9 hours a day. Lol

Hes been riding his ass like Zoro
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Caught up. TxElectrician is on schedule, plumbers are done, hvac next week.

Gerkin Rhino windows - pretty good value. Used a number of times on commercial buildings. Better value than Western

I have always taken pride in not being a change order artist, I consider a commercial projects with less than 4 change orders a success, residential less than 15. If I feel like it is going to be change order city or if it is very high and we will just go cost plus.

This one has had 1 so far, some added electrical which was doing at a very reasonable cost and not marked up. A few other things that needed to be done light blocking for new TV's they were not on the plans and some other things we just took care of

That is also the benefit of a quality design build firm. We just finished a house that had less than $16,000 in added costs, less then 3% of the cost of the build. We established a budget to begin with and I made a lot of notes before taking it to an architect supervised its design to fit that budget.

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Big top stretchers. I make mine 2 5/8"
 
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Finished here for a few weeks.

Working directly for the homeowner on this one, and he hasn't made up his mind on some of the interior walls, plus he added a couple windows last minute, so have to wait for those to come in.

A couple firsts on this one. First time I've used the zip sheathing, and first time I've ever set windows this tall.

The tallest ones are 4x12, not sure how much they weigh, but it's alot.

We stood them up on the inside, then one guy got out on the telehandler platform to steady the top, and 3 guys lifted the window into the opening.
They had the snap in nail fins, so we put those on after it was set in place.

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Continuing on the out of town home....
Did NOT get all the trusses placed, but we'll be sheathing Monday morning while I frame in the rest of the bearing beams for the remaining trusses.
Three of our truss bundles got dropped upside-down and we had to do a few work arounds to get everything up in to place.... Kind of a one step forward two steps back kind of thing.
I had really hoped that the crane would be able to pick and set each truss but we just didn't make enough time for that.


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So you gonna sit in your chair with a Mai Tai and point at rocks and supervise?
 
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Went out to a house we do a lot of work for today for a catch-up meeting with the homeowner's, who currently live out of state.

As soon as we get caught up with the work we have going on, I get to start installing this cedar siding on his lake cottage.

He had it all cut down and milled out of trees on his 200 acre ranch in Missouri, then hauled it up here to Michigan for us. They're planning to move permanently to the Michigan house within a year or so.

He opened up the garage and that cedar just smelled awesome. It's going to be a lot of fun to work with it and I'm already dreaming up projects around the house to do with all the scraps and cut offs.
 

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When Covid hit, we got booted out of this addition project we started last fall. Finally got back there this past week to do all the little finishing touch stuff.

The most satisfying was putting a couple of coats of poly on this walnut floor we installed over the winter. I ended up wrapping the beams with it too, as you can see, but didn't poly those yet.


EDIT: It is phucking confounding as hell why these pics get rotated during upload. Just tilt your head 90 degrees one way and this pic will make more sense.
 

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