Barndo on our Summit Springs Custom. Friday they deliver the 26 ft floor trusses for the apartment. Start welding cantilevered deck supports and gussets next week. Picked up the decking and put in storage. Everything but the bidet is here now - I am holding two weeks on house framing package. I am eating. Another on this one trying not to over do the materials escalation charge but I think framing materials will be down another 10k on this house in two weeks.

The labor on this is killing me. One of these days I gotta bounce from truck ass to paper and just sub it all out lol, in this case my welder is shoet men and dropped this labor to erect slightly but not as much as I'd like and I threw 2 of our guys on it with him, probably coating me about 4-500 a day more than anticipated

Going to be a cool pad

 

Looks good Alllan, I sure what goes on top of it will be magnificent.

Tom

 

supply shortages means my sheathing doesn't match

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Turn lemons into lemonade... Just work it out so it spells your company initials and then you can say it was planned that way while getting some free billboard advertising...

Get a free article written about how your company is dealing with material shortages to boot...

 

Might as well throw an orange on that wall too.

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Replacing a bunch of windows in a church and installing vinyl siding in between. I'm about Tapcon'd out.

I'd almost rather be sanding.

 

Sure makes it nice having a lift doesn't.

 

All waterproofed up. Pan inspection on Monday

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Rich,

Do you need to have water in the pan for the inspection?

I assun=me what looks like "puffs" in the Kerdi is just the picture, nice clean install.

Tom

 

Thank you. Took a little longer than I planned, but oh well.

Yup on the water, I'll fill it tomorrow and let it sit for the weekend.

Not sure what happened with the photo, got weird when I uploaded it at a reduced size

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Those windows in the shower are tempered glass I hope……

Tom

 

Of course. One on the left is obscured glass picture window, single hung for the back of the house

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Installed another one this week... not as pretty... but whatever...

 

Very nice work, bwiab!


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Slab poured yesterday. Hay placed and watered to slow hydration and hopefully minimize surface cracking. Concrete will be polished as the final floor.

 

You're not done with that house yet----slacker

Tom

 

The rain the last 2-3 months has been unbelievable. We can usually do piers, set forms, makeup and pour a medium size slab in 3 weeks easy. I ran into a glitch on this slab Wednesday, city inspector turned us down because we removed concrete on the front porch, architect wants gravel instead. We did have the grade beams in. Meaning we had to resubmit plans to the City, reschedule concrete, at least a 1-2 week delay. I made the decision to go ahead and pour even with a rejection, and deal with City next week. Engineer had signed off on the job, I actually told the field inspector what I was doing. I will have to work thru this next week but I was not going to cancel the pour.

 

Me - get in there and wrap a chain around them big rocks

Rookies - why do we have to get in the water?

Me - because you have no skills. This is you value - get in the drink 😆

Big ass boulders.. I'll post some pics

 

Me - get in there and wrap a chain around them big rocks

Rookies - why do we have to get in the water?

Me - because you have no skills. This is you value - get in the drink 😆

Big ass boulders.. I'll post some pics
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That looks like so much fun!

If I hadn't been hacking wood for so long I would love to get on equipment like that. I think about buying **** like that just because the inner kid in you gets so excited.

 

What you have there John is called a scooper scoop according my son when he was 5. When you lift the rocks it becomes a lifter lift. Enjoy.

 

My brother (partner) and our super had a slab pour at 4 am on a smaller 3300 sqft slab for a custom on Lake Buchanan, went well from what I hear. The manager of the concrete company called me at 630 and apologized for trying to stick our slab man with 2 extra trucks - I said I don't know what your talking about. He said his dispatcher made a mistake and was arguing with the slab man and my brother took the phone and said thats my mud and my account, I called for 10 trucks - they sent 12, if 12 trucks show on a bill that'll be last concrete we buy from you and hung up. He said that sounded like me so that's why he called me 😆🤣

I did just have an issue with them trying to stick us with rerouted trucks from a canceled pour and stacking trucks instead of sending in intervals, but usually have excellent service

He brought breakfast tacos and coffee put they said lol

 

Going. To start setting up steel post and steel beam for the deck this Monday. Am so tired of this hillside though.

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I have interesting thing recently done. First there is floor with potato step in mid of it.

I used my legendary furring strips not to level than to make step disappear.

This is how it look after all done.

Same house tricky casing.

 

This is from another project

 

Looks out of place. Will it be painted? That would tie it together better.

 

^^^ Of course. There is a couple other things that look rustic around. It will be sanded and painted. However will still have rustic look. Wood is from some old pallet.

 

Kinda figured it would be painted. I think it'll look good especially if you have other rustic things in the house. Just looked off next to modern painted cabinets.

 

Rustic wainscoting is to right. Will do another picture with it in. This rustic thing is still not clear to me. For example when you do joints of wood you do not want it perfect joints than rather of little. Many bars here in Mn go with rustic look. And I personally like it a lot but just not clear how to make it. Here is cowboy jack's

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Cowboy Jack' has around 7 locations in mpls area.

 

I’m sorry someone made you make that.


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Yep, I have a hard time not making near perfect joints

 

It's almost a disease.... I see lines, lines, everywhere...