Yea... & I’m a Russian fighter pilot. But —— nice try

Mike

 

Lol, dude you are insane.

 

Insane enough not to be giving free consultation to every h/o that comes along. I guess if the only thing you know is demo that wouldn’t be so insane.
Mike

 

There it is, at last. Look down your nose at me because I do demo. I’ve seen it before, will see it again.

Some people are craftspeople Some people are business people.

Some people are just c unts.

 

I happen to be a certified structural welder, a licensed commercial driver, a mathematician, a retailer, a rifleman, and yes, I do demo. I can probably out earn you 3 to 1 in my market and I still find time to answer people’s questions instead just spewing dross all over the screen.

 

Happy 4th, and the freedom to bust each other's nads.

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I wanted to be a demolition contractor when I was younger. Watched and read a lot about the Loizeaux family. 👍

I wanted to get a wrecking ball and a big excavator.

Then reality set in and I realized I needed more than 1 job every two years. 🤣

Pretty small rural area I live in.

 

There's a whole lot to demo. Can require a ton of structural knowledge.


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Meeting of the kinds at a new build on Buchanan - made an offer to hire my foundation guys and his crew for a year - pretty solid offer everyone on his crew would be making more money, be on payroll, covered under comp etc... and he would make more money imo, checks every friday. I give it 60/40. If he says yes we are buying another skid steer and mini ex.

Got heavy rain as we were discussing lol

 

Inks Lake Custom is going along, masons started. Nearing spray foam stage inside. Holding on slab lath and stucco until after driveways and landscaping

Love their third story view

 

The meeting of the minds is one of my favorite parts of construction.

A good one leaves you feeling so good.

"It's going to work. This is going to be ok!"

 

This one started with " look hoss, you ARE the weak link in WCI, and you know what I do with weak links - I break them or they leave....

His concrete work is good, he worked for me when I was wearing bags and we did a lot of foundation work and framing and pipe driving together. He needs to be checked - often - but that is mostly because it's his money to pay for compacted and weeted fill being installed in 6" lifts. If it was mine who cares?

He's a terrible business man though. Can't be fixed. People can't change how they are put together - and for good trades that are bad at business, that's where I come in

 

Driveway turned out good 👍

Got her CO last week.... feels weird to not have landscaping in but she still hasn't picked it all.... it's her gardener and I hadn't ever been keen marking up or warranting landscaping, especially 6 figure packages. Easy 20 k plus but a lot of warranty. Anything she needs for him wl do, they swear it'll be good for the Parade of Homes in October.

This kind of client we are never through working for, she always has something going. After her architects remodel (the old house in Lampasas last year), her other personal home and relatives stuff - if she called and says her toilet handle jiggles or her gutters are full at her house in Houston and doesn't trust anyone ill be getting in 8 hrs on the road that day

Photos of the inside and boat dock soon, a pro instead of my busted ass pics. I'll post pics of the exterior and exterior lighting when landscapes in and we can punch outside 100%

 

What do you call that kind of finish? Never see anything like that up here.

 

Paver inlays, limestone borders, salt finish. Toss salt on concrete when it's curing

 

Looks like just a real good bullfloat, and then salt?

 

It was jitter bugged, power troweled (whirly bird) then salt. Then we had them grind it down a bit, made it pop.

 

What does salt do?

 

Makes pits in the concrete. I'll take a close up

 

Sweet look.

 

Garage floor got a bad ass epoxy finish we use a lot. I'll take pics of that too

 

Why would someone intentionally put pits in new concrete?

 

Exterior only, great for traction on pools, sidewalks etc... and just they don't wanna score and stained it adds flavor, doesn't show wear like basic burn finish with a light broom.

Cool finish.

 

Kinda like a faux travertine, but not. Like the look, for down there, lol.

Don't those pits collect dirt after a while?

 

Nope, they vacuum outdoors... don't you?!...

 

Removed an old leaking window and installed a new slider with wainscot and trim. Also solved an issue of the client wanting quicker access to a fire pit area.

 

"This kind of client we are never through working for, she always has something going. After her architects remodel (the old house in Lampasas last year), her other personal home and relatives stuff - if she called and says her toilet handle jiggles or her gutters are full at her house in Houston and doesn't trust anyone ill be getting in 8 hrs on the road that day"

You sir have the type of client we all dream about. I had one on the commercial side, "just do it and send me the bill". He (had more money than I could ever imagine) knew I understood if I "screwed him" I would be screwing myself. A great mutual understanding and respect. He retired a few years ago and moved to a 12,000 sq ft mansion on St Thomas. Too far for me to travel.

 

I'm sorry for your loss...

 

Waiting on pro photos of this house. Bad ass kitchen. I didn't think I'd like it, and it's not our style but it is definitely a unique kitchen.

 

Waiting on pro photos of this house. Bad ass kitchen. I didn't think I'd like it, and it's not our style but it is definitely a unique kitchen.
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Work looks great.

That table though... I can't, I just can't... Did she have that built or buy it and ask for something to be built around it?

 

You know this gig isn't always sexy, and it's not always fun, sometimes it's terrible. But I still love it. In a twisted way, even the ****ed up parts.

Got my new site plan from the archy, trashed it as it was chit placement, spent this evening marking a boat dock, Tiki Bar building, and a 5600 sq ft house on a pretty tight channel lot. After marking I set a half ass batter board and strings and turned the house. Sat on the tool box in my truck and looked over the site, thought about site access, order of operations, well is 5 months out so that determines a lot with the septic etc....

Tweaked the house one more time.

Sat on a rock and watched the house grow out of the ground, picked which subs I'd use, made note to check so and so's schedule etc... Placed the framing package on the lot, broke in pieces, saw myself squaring the foundation, marking plates with the lead carpenter, one guy starting the cut list and one nailing cripples and headers ect... together while my assistant separated ABC stacks of 2x6 10s for walls etc...

Going to be a bad ass house. Going to enjoy running the build, it's been nice to knock some dust off and I'm down 11 lbs in 2 weeks getting out and about 😆

50 bucks says the owner checks off on my moving the house boat dock and tiki bar and thanks me for doing so and that my will enjoy dropping that change off that change off with triangulated measurements to each corner to the architect with a wink and a smirk and tell him to get that chit fixed ASAP. Lol

 

You know this gig isn't always sexy, and it's not always fun, sometimes it's terrible. But I still love it. In a twisted way, even the ****ed up parts.

Got my new site plan from the archy, trashed it as it was chit placement, spent this evening marking a boat dock, Tiki Bar building, and a 5600 sq ft house on a pretty tight channel lot. After marking I set a half ass batter board and strings and turned the house. Sat on the tool box in my truck and looked over the site, thought about site access, order of operations, well is 5 months out so that determines a lot with the septic etc....

Tweaked the house one more time.

Sat on a rock and watched the house grow out of the ground, picked which subs I'd use, made note to check so and so's schedule etc... Placed the framing package on the lot, broke in pieces, saw myself squaring the foundation, marking plates with the lead carpenter, one guy starting the cut list and one nailing cripples and headers ect... together while my assistant separated ABC stacks of 2x6 10s for walls etc...

Going to be a bad ass house. Going to enjoy running the build, it's been nice to knock some dust off and I'm down 11 lbs in 2 weeks getting out and about 😆

50 bucks says the owner checks off on my moving the house boat dock and tiki bar and thanks me for doing so and that my will enjoy dropping that change off that change off with triangulated measurements to each corner to the architect with a wink and a smirk and tell him to get that chit fixed ASAP. Lol
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Thank for sharing your process. I never would’ve guessed a builder these days would bother with something like that. I’m sure it’ll pay off.

Very cool lot btw.

 

I’m always amazed when this step isn’t taken on custom houses. Don’t forget to think about the sun path in summer and winter. One of the joys of the job is tweaking things that make a house better.


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I’m always amazed when this step isn’t taken on custom houses. Don’t forget to think about the sun path in summer and winter. One of the joys of the job is tweaking things that make a house better.


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I bet he used Google Earth. Lazy MF lol

 

A little eclectic.

 

Tge kitchen? Yeah, that's her style

 

I like the table but those legs are going to be hated in time.

I probably would have opted for something like this.

 

I like the table but those legs are going to be hated in time.

I probably would have opted for something like this.

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She was warned. I hate any kind of booth seating actually but certainly that kind. She is a decorator so…

Pretty sure that is just for show, every time I have been over there eating at that long table.