I thought he was confessing to the fact that not all the grain ran through. It looks good from Denver (and I'm guessing it looks pretty damn good up close). No reason to dig any deeper. Keep the secret.

 

Does it have to do with the handles?


Mike.
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It's a secret...

 

Little cedar soffit I put in before Christmas. Finished after dark so I couldn't get any photos til I came back to quote some drywall work inside.

Brick and fascia were on when I started, made it a real pita. Came out ok though.

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This looks really nice. [emoji122]


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Another fence. Another 15 degree day. I ordered materials for this one on December 1st, when it was in the forties here still. Took almost eight weeks to come in, so now we're out here freezing our asses off and using charcoal to melt some ground here and there

 

Damn! How deep do you have to go? Using concrete additives, insulation? I use the hell out of stock tank heaters for water, among other tricks in the cold......

 

best part about a 2nd floor kitchen... demo'ing the old ****ty cabinets...

 

Guys installing cabinets and trimming our Ranch custom, finishing up then they have to go straight back into the shop for another house cabinet and trim package for our Oatmeal ranch project.

That vanity is live edge pecan, with a floating steel shelf like the one in the powder bath at our office. We cut down the pecan for our first major project, an addition and remodel we won 4 awards for in 2012. My dad had it milled up and we left in the racks. This client is third to order one of the vanities and we have done some floating shelves with it, have a ton left. I would like to make a table top for my dining room with some it at some point

Alder beams

 

Second (main) level floor trusses going in on our Inks Lake custom home, third story should be going up next week.

 

Guys started framing the Lake Buchanan house today.

I calculated the foundation- I charged my normal rate (the high normal for the area) but when we started digging it was even softer than I figured so we went 42" on the perimeter footings instead of 30" and drilled 7 big hard points with cages..... a lot more concrete. Steel and concrete price increases plus the extra concrete brought it in to be all of what I figured, before I mark it up with a builder fee. Could of just subbed it 😆

 

This is a bigger kitchen in the state housing project.. I've been putting together a lot of cabinets lately.. The counter tops are white quarts. We had some heavy rain the other day.

 

Alot of my designers have me cover/wrap the pipes with the cabinet materials, but I always thought it looks best to match the wall.

 

Yeah I agree...this will be white like the walls.

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Fix for a previous hack job by the plumber...

 

Very nice, you get to do all the fancy stuff.

 

Church fire damage repair.

Yesterday and today.

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I'm not sure how to say this without being an ass so I'll just say it.

Meta, that is snow, not fire my man...

 

Darn holy candles.

 

That was the damn roofers fault...[emoji51][emoji15][emoji3064][emoji51]

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So some more questions about working in snow like that. Does it melt when you're working because of body heat and the various heat coming off electrical or battery tools? Does the snow get trapped behind plywood and such and then just have to melt off after the wood is fastened?

And finally, do you ever get used to it? It looks like it'd be hard to work because you have so many layers of clothing on and probably can't feel your fingers after a bit. The plywood and such seems like it would be frozen and prone to cracking as well. I really have to go up north some time and experience those working conditions just to answer all the questions about it. My parents lived up north in the 60's but they didn't work outside, only my grandpa did and he's dead so I can't really ask him questions about it. He did say that it was worse working in the jungles in WWII then working in the snow. He hated working in the heat and humidity if he wasn't on the water (owned a marina here).

It'd be an interesting test to take someone from the south and plug them up somewhere way up north where it's cold, cold and see how bad it is for them. I'm sure you guys would get a chuckle. Then take someone from up north and have them work way far south, like Miami or the Keys in August.

Daydreaming is not conducive for getting work done...

 

So some more questions about working in snow like that. Does it melt when you're working because of body heat and the various heat coming off electrical or battery tools? Does the snow get trapped behind plywood and such and then just have to melt off after the wood is fastened?

And finally, do you ever get used to it? It looks like it'd be hard to work because you have so many layers of clothing on and probably can't feel your fingers after a bit. The plywood and such seems like it would be frozen and prone to cracking as well. I really have to go up north some time and experience those working conditions just to answer all the questions about it. My parents lived up north in the 60's but they didn't work outside, only my grandpa did and he's dead so I can't really ask him questions about it. He did say that it was worse working in the jungles in WWII then working in the snow. He hated working in the heat and humidity if he wasn't on the water (owned a marina here).

It'd be an interesting test to take someone from the south and plug them up somewhere way up north where it's cold, cold and see how bad it is for them. I'm sure you guys would get a chuckle. Then take someone from up north and have them work way far south, like Miami or the Keys in August.

Daydreaming is not conducive for getting work done...

Southerners [emoji2357][emoji23]

Snow gets everywhere, like sand but cold. It freezes material together, fingers and toes, nails in your bags... It blows throughout a building, but it will melt when you get it tight and put heat in for the drywallers. We just have to leave it warm longer to get it as dry, kind of like rainy climates. It'll only melt off the fastest carpenters, those speed demons of framing efficiency that move so fast they are a fiery blur.

I would die framing down south. I get heat exhaustion fairly easily, and I start puking when I'm working at any kind of good pace. Where I grew up, winters usually stayed around -35°C, dropping in January to around -50°C. Before the windchill factor mind you. BC ain't so bad, it's been -10 most of the winter and I've been down to a tshirt several times.

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Plywood was just leaning there. Any precipitation that wants to freeze, covers all building materials, site and equipment. Costs increase.

The plus side is we get new tools when they get lost in snow, or fasteners disappear, drill bits, etc.

To add to the complexity, this steel siding has three horizontal rows being directly fastened to red iron...with self tapping screws. They love to sheer and leave a nice hole in the siding. The upper row is directly under the eave drip cap, that needs to be lifted while someone slowly sets a screw. Sweet!

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It sucks. You deal with it. You have to keep the area clean. No, your stuff doesn't melt the snow. If it's out in the cold why would it melt the snow. Sure a small bit melts because of various heating but for the most part it's there til global warming melts it.

 

Is snow cold?

 

Yes, I even know that one.

 

I wasn't sure.

 

Didn't you check and see what the science says about it?

 

Crystalized di-hydrogen monoxide is very dangerous.

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Progress pictures of the net zero farm house, finished all framing, most backframing, and the majority of the decking that isn't duradeck. Plumbers got the majority of their rough in done, and are working on getting radiant tubing in the joist spaces for the main floor. Should be getting the ERV installed soon, windows and doors in another 7-10 days.

I included a picture of the kitchen sink window again, I just like that 45° return into the window, takes some clunk out of the double wall thickness.

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It's like trying to trim a house with a rototiller as a chopsaw, while wearing a straight jacket.

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Pulling trusses off the truck, can't get up the hill to drop location or lift bed properly.

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I don't think he'd last that long.

 

Flip flops not advised!

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Nothing would surprise me.