Installing the 18″x18″ 1.5 cm Crema Marfil, about 20lbs each.
Cutting outside, went out for a cut & came back to this….
Installing the 18″x18″ 1.5 cm Crema Marfil, about 20lbs each.
Cutting outside, went out for a cut & came back to this….
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Ouch!!
Take a break , make the call to the tub repair guy. have a beer.
There is always tomorrow.
Along with the hole, I am short 2 tile (due to the breakage) to finish the job, got a funny feeling were going to have a hard time gettig another box of the stuff.
can ya get design change...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Got a few 8" x 18" cutoffs left, might use them on the bottom coures. Being the stuff is 1.5 cm thick makes it hard to get a simple replacement.
Got to get the shower base fixed 1st. so we hope we can find a good fiberglass repair kit in town this week!
By the way it's snowing here right now!
that had to suck..
never really quit snowing over on this end....
about 2" last thursday...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Think will just yank the Pan & install a replacement. Think i might have a 34"x42" in the shed. Bet by the time I patch & Dic# around with broken one & you know it will never look new , think I can do the replacement in 3-4 hrs. Just hope I can get the replacement tile, otherwise the bottom course will not match the rest.
Punched out @ 4:30 then stopped by the Res, slow real slow. Think the water is TOO COLD. Got one small one, catch & release. Still snow everwhere, think it's still 30days out, unless we get some real warm days.
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isn't that some kind of beautiful....
city slickers just haven't any idea... oh well... their loss.. our gain...
snow let up late morning and returned about dark....
tried the place I was telling ya about Saturday but it's still flooded or too quick... the quick is heavily silted...
my bones say we'll get clobbered one more time...
we keep telling them some time in July.... like late July...
believe it or not I feel for ya on the pan....
been thru that one before....
you have the plan on the pan I think....
make the bottom course something radical different if ya can't match...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I think replacement is the right idea, doggon it anyway.
track down the custom ProLite stuff for a try.
just used a bunch for the first time.
not sure I prefer the Mapie anymore ... this stuff mixes up nice and creamy and has that great "tack" the UltraLite offers ... for less than half the cost per bag.
after I used the Ultra for the first time a coupla years ago I swore I'd never do any overhead work without it ... now ... will be comfy with either the Ultra or ProLite.
have even started thinking walls aren't to be don't without it either.
less slippage is batter all the way around.
I do think the Mapie has a little more stick a little faster.
the flip side of that is the custom brand stuff has more "working time" to go back and adjust.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
how's this for today???
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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
you need to clean that lens, there's spots all over it...
I'm on it....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
man thats some boolshid right there, it june already fer crysakes
G8 is getting hit too....
we be waiting on late July so we can get started on the prep for the start of winter in August...
I find Global Warming a bit difficult to acknowledge....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I find Global Warming a bit difficult to acknowledge....
You musta missed the memo.....
They call it climate change now!
By the way nice dog! That looks like Gore reincarnated! call him Al......
“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.” Reagan....
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. -Truman Capote
dog must of ate it....
thanks on the hair manufacturing facility...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
where in the heck is that?
upper elevations of the Rockies...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
that explains it, i followed my grandfather on hikes in the sierra as a kid and we saw snow on the ground in june.
i remember going on family camping trips, my grandfather was quite the outdoorsman. he was raised in the sequoias and my ancestors had been in those mountains as early as any white men.
there was a thread in breaktime a while back about the waitress whose house burned down, and how she rebuilt it. she had published articles in mother earth mag about it, thats my aunt, my grandfathers daughter.
now that is way cool....
you wouldn't happen to have a link to that reconstruction???
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Man I feel for you . I once waited for a a very expensive antique stain glass window to be encased in thermo pane glass. Install went great once it finally showed up. At least it went great until I set the last of the hand nailed finish nails in the exterior trim.
Set the last finish nail head just below the surface of the trim and watched a piece of the stain glass window crack and break right in front of my eyes. The nail had hit a framing nail in the stud, turned 90 deg. and penetrated the side of the thermo-pane until my last tap to set it was just enough to push the tip into the stained glass.
Sometimes shid just happens.
Think positive: there will be one half case of tile left for from some old job the supplier had before.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
I gotten to the age that you know Something is always going to happen!
Were going to cut out early today & do some fishing on the way home if the sky clears up!
Then Monday will look for a fiberglass repair kit.
Thanks for the words of encouragement!
Hope the kids of the house were not within ear shot.
Ouch!
wow.
well that'd suck.
but for the next time ...
I really like Custom's ProLite
or Mapei's UltraLite.
lotsa initial "stick and grab"
btw ... what were ya using ... just so I know what to avoid.
(hope it weren't one of those two ... 'cause then I'm screwed too)
any chance they'd believe it's a custom grab handle?
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Using the Custom building products "Versabond". Home Depot product. I also prefer the Mapei but we were out of White thin set & the Depot was on the way to the job.
Had both overhead garage doors open, along with the garage service door, remember hearing the firedoor slam pretty hard a few seconds before we went back & spoted the damage.
I used Versabond on my kitchen floor and the next day i could pick up every tile with my finger tips. I scraped it all off and relaid it using the Mapei equivalent with zero problems.
Ah, but we all don't have fingertips of steel.
I would go with the mapei as well.
Before the box stores came in with Versabond (HD) and Mapei (Lowe's), my choice in retail was pretty much the Quikcrete brand. I had a similar disaster with that, but the 'mortar' just crumbled. It didn't even have to be scraped off, just swept up. (I didn't need the fake fingernails for that, just my French-maid costume. ;^P )
I went to a masonry supply at that point to explain my woes and came away with something called "Spec-Mix" that worked fine,too, but i haven't seen it for sale elsewhere.
Edited 6/9/2008 12:29 pm by splintergroupie
Wow, that sux!
Any way to tile to the pan then maybe get some matching coping to put around the edge of the pan to cover the hole and or patch?
“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.”
Reagan....
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
-Truman Capote
Bummer. I would've been blind with rage.
What are you tiling over? It looks like textured drywall.
Little bit of texture got on the backer board, we use Hot mud in the wet areas, along with primer & paint. We make sure we scrape off anything the lose before we start.
i remember reading in a book on running your business by a plumber about he was working installing a sink on one of a kind granite countertop and something happened setting the sink, countertop broke.
he told the customer and turned in the insurance report, countertop had to be completely replaced, but the insurance paid for it, and his coming back later to finish setting the sink was also rebilled to the insurance co, bottom line is even though he had an accident, because he had insurance he just worked as he normally would have, and got paid like he normally would have for every hour, actually making more money from the job as the repairs added hours.
we all know this is a terrible accident and that you didn't do it on purpose to get more hours and make more money, but if you have insurance that is just what happened.
also as i tell my kids when something bad happens you are lucky, you get a chance to show everybody what a (enter proper adjective here) good, tough, smart, loyal, upstanding, etc etc. person you are!
if you can somehow manage in the rebuilding/repair to upgrade and make the finished project better than it originally would have been you can really shine here.
"because he had insurance he just worked as he normally would have, and got paid like he normally would have for every hour, actually making more money from the job as the repairs added hours."Good thing he made more money on that job because he is going to need it to pay the higher premiums. And then some.
i think that the insurance might go up a little, and if it became routine to "have accidents" it might even get cancelled, but i doubt this happens much(G8 having accidents), and if you can't use the insurance you pay for why have it? can't you include the higher cost of premiums? (if its an extra $200 a year add that to the cost of this repair?)
is it just for when something really bad happens and then you go out of business after insurance picks up the tab and raises your rates so much you are bankrupt?
if thats the case why get insurance? you are bankrupt and out of business anyway.
it would probably be a good idea to ask some questions and run some numbers (don't ask your insurance agent he may be bound by law to turn it in) and find out for sure what will happen first.
if i am mistaken about the scenario i described i would be glad to learn about it. please G8 let us know if you use insurance how it turns out, might be educational for us all.
this might be a better question for JLC, but how about a how to on dealing with an insurance claim, so that those of us who work on other peoples homes know what we need, what to do, and how much it will cost.
i have never used insurance myself, even though i had to have it to do business. $10,000 per year in cali IIRC. yet another reason to leave california.
I would think there would be a 1000 dollar deductible.
But thats not much in plumber money;]
Ooohphffff....
Yeeep...
Last week, while putting in a 900$ casement window, I carried it up from the garage, where it's been in it's packaging for a month after rec.
I got up to the opening, and noticed a little 'glue' near one corner...
It was a scratch. Wasn't wearing my 'glass cutter' gloves that day so I'm fairly certain it came that way...
Told I had 5 days withing recpt. to make a claim...
We'll see...
Please tell me this didn't happen today (Sunday) or yesterday. Don't you know about the weekend curse? It happens to me every time. Whenever I try to work on a weekend (or holiday, etc..) anything that can go wrong does go wrong, and that's pretty much everything.
Don't work weekends and these sort of things won't happen.
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Durn it.
it was the hurring to get out and go fishing....
WTB he said more than that...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
and I had nothing to do with it...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
doggonnonnitt
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~ Voltaire
Seeing last week Colorado's legislature passed and signed a law that will open all public accommodations, including public bathrooms, to anyone who wants to use them it's no wonder G8 slammed the door too hard on the way out and won't admit it.
That law means men may use a women's restroom, and women may enter men's rooms. It was said the rationale for the Senate Bill 200 is that transgenders should be able to use the restroom they feel most comfortable using.
That's how it happened and now the truth is known.
be no wonder IMERC lives up in the mountains to get away from all that stuff.
Edited 6/9/2008 2:01 pm ET by rez
The Gov of this state is a Real Work of Art!, Could.nt fine his A$$ with both hands if there was a candle sticking out of it! But hey were to busy during the week climbing stairs in the Gen-X for sale units to be talking Smack Pol-I-Ticks !
Looking foward to the Obama-Nation in 09 (NOT!!)
Mean while back on the Urban Farm climbing the 56 risers to Fame & Fortune (all 14 units worth)......
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Edited 6/10/2008 9:23 pm by G80104