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This walk-in shower was for a 100 year old man! Never met anyone that old.
We lucked out with the floor. When I removed caste iron tub,we found out the main floor was 4 inches thick and were able to easily make it curb less.
Glass was tough on me on this one. Never did a glass to glass hinge and was off on total width by a half inch , cost me another panel and a weeks time
 

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srwcontracting said:
This walk-in shower was for a 100 year old man! Never met anyone that old.
We lucked out with the floor. When I removed caste iron tub,we found out the main floor was 4 inches thick and were able to easily make it curb less.
Glass was tough on me on this one. Never did a glass to glass hinge and was off on total width by a half inch , cost me another panel and a weeks time
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Nice job!
 
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srwcontracting said:
This walk-in shower was for a 100 year old man! Never met anyone that old.
We lucked out with the floor. When I removed caste iron tub,we found out the main floor was 4 inches thick and were able to easily make it curb less.
Glass was tough on me on this one. Never did a glass to glass hinge and was off on total width by a half inch , cost me another panel and a weeks time
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How come glass costs you? I get my glass guy do all the measurements and that is it. He has a computer program that gives all the numbers and he takes all the measurements with laser.
Only once they placed the holes for hinges at the wrong spot, they did the door one more, but did not cost me a penny.
 
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astor said:
How come glass costs you? I get my glass guy do all the measurements and that is it. He has a computer program that gives all the numbers and he takes all the measurements with laser.
Only once they placed the holes for hinges at the wrong spot, they did the door one more, but did not cost me a penny.
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Cause I measure, order and install the glass myself. I order from a local small glass shop. Overall this year I've made good money doing it.....but sometimes it's not worth it.
I leaned a door on its corner a few months back and the thing exploded on me. It doesn't take much pressure to shatter these things
 
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Just working on a few concepts for this little house in Fullerton CA. It is in the historic district, so trying to keep within the very ill defined guidelines they have set.

It is interesting designing in this city.
The house originally had a rather sub-standard raised foundation were-in the TOP of the undersized, over-spanned floor joists were at grade level.
It was rotting from the bottom up and the HO wanted to put in a poured slab foundation. So I designed an other raised foundation, lifted the house and it is now about 21" above grade.
The new footings for this little 980 sq. ft. single story house are 18" wide and 24" deep BELOW the rat-slab. The rat-slab is at 24" below floor joists.
With all kinds of #4 rebar. It is ridiculous how over prescriptive this is but the BD in Fullerton is totally wacked -out.

Andy.
 

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Tile looks great.....sweet border.

One question....for everybody.

I never like to extend my backsplash past the face of the wall cabs. I feel like it looks unbalanced. So i usually convince my clients to stop on the back wall. Also, I think it is mainly an aesthetic location (side wall) so I feel comfortable convincing them.

What is your take?
 
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BlueRidgeGreen said:
Tile looks great.....sweet border.

One question....for everybody.

I never like to extend my backsplash past the face of the wall cabs. I feel like it looks unbalanced. So i usually convince my clients to stop on the back wall. Also, I think it is mainly an aesthetic location (side wall) so I feel comfortable convincing them.

What is your take?
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I don't like the way a countertop looks just butting into drywall if there is no backsplash. I extend them out.
 
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Here are a couple projects I have been on recently. I think the shower turned out pretty nice.
 

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