Did two drive thru remodels.Gutted a bathroom and opened a wallforan ATM started the second remodel Friday night with a trip to the ER for stitches. Pulled over a tube that got hung then when it broke free it popped me in the head, driving the frame of my safety glasses into my eyebrow. Add eight stitches and a good shiner to the list. Here’s a picture of the first of two trailers full of garbage we hauled back. The bottom of this one is full of brick and block from the wall we had to open for the ATM we put through the wall. put in something like eighty five hours,the last 30 straight through after getting the stitches.
Meet me in the tavern for a beer.
Who Dares Wins.
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Nice pictures..............
Oh that's right, there aren't any!!!
Edited 5/22/2004 11:01 pm ET by Doug@es
OOPSWho Dares Wins.
Brother lemme buy ya a beer you definately earned it this week
Darkworksite4:
El americano pasado hacia fuera ase la bandera
Thanks Ronno. I'll leave the tip, I got a buck fifty floating around I can't remember what it's for.Who Dares Wins.
Gunner,
Probably a stupid question, but it won't be my first...
When you open up a wall of a bank to add an ATM....do you have to bang the whole job out in a marathon effort? For security I mean? Or do they guard the joint? I'm assuming a couple sheets of plywood and a tarp or two doesn't cut it in yer profession!
EDIT: Oh yeah....sorry to hear about the stitches and shiner. Anyone ask you "what's the other guy look like?" yet? Get's old real quick.
Edited 5/22/2004 11:15 pm ET by dieselpig
Sometimes you can get away with a sheet of plywood for a night. We like to do it in one day and trim it the next. That usualy makes for a very long day the first then an easy day the next. The reality is there's nothing worth much once you lock the vault. And it's got sensors out the ying yang. I tripped a sound detector last night pulling m.c. cable across the top of it.
Edited to add: The shiner turned out to be a pretty good little motivator. Everyone assumed I would go home after I got stitched up. I actualy didn't feel to bad except for a headache, I figured I'd go back and at least finish my part. The guys thought it was cool that I didn't leave em hanging although they all admitted they wouldn't have thought to come back. I told em like it was. I didn't want my B.S. to ruin their weekend by adding more time to our job. One thing lead to another and next thing I knew I had the electric done and felt better so I stayed and we all finished together. And we were also done by the time they opened this morning. I kind of hoped Steve from monster house would show up with some Makita tools for us but no such luck.
Who Dares Wins.
Edited 5/22/2004 11:45 pm ET by Gunner
give us a pic of that shiner?
and yeah right... a pipe did it.....sure...
real story starts out like this...
So gunner get's home and says to his wife....
and ends with
BAM!
Was that in Berea?
Gimme back my trailer, or the other eye gets it! {G}
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Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations.
Corbin. Is there a National city in Berea?
I can't believe you don't see those trailers more. If I had any kind of business that used a trailer alot I would have one.Who Dares Wins.
"give us a pic of that shiner?"
Yea right, not untill photo shop is removed from every smart azzes computer. The wife has already made a joke out of maiking them a matching set.Who Dares Wins.
Hey, I do ATM's too. I get $500 start to finish if I can do it in a day. If I come back a 2nd day to finish up add on $50 per hour. What do you get?
Most of them are change outs and are almost always bigger. I meet the riggers at the site and measure the new unit before they take it off the truck. Then I get real busy resizing the opening while they remove the old one. Most of the time I have the opening ready for them by the time they are ready to set it in place. They put the machine where I want it and leave. I spend the rest of the day framing around the machine,gofer materials, drywall, 3 coats of durabond 20, prime, paint & trim. Or if its to the weather do whats neccesary to the siding. Maybe fabricate a surround (lexan, laminate, MDO).
It makes for one helluva busy day! I do maybe one or two a month. Thats all I can stand.
I get my salary. My boss charges anywhere from five hundred to five thousand depending on what's involved. If we have to rework the opening or like this last one put one where there never has been one then it's a lot more. This last one we had to demo a bathroom and then cut a hole in the outer wall. since the curb was eleven inches wide and specs say it should be six we had a brick layer come in and brick up the bump out. We also had to install alarm and electric, and trim up the inside. Two guys two and a half long days. Then when the tubing guys showed up we helped them with the tube remodel until two thirty in the morning. Then back up at six and back at it.
With this new triple incription deal that has to be implemented by 2005 (I think) Our ATM business has really been crazy. National City bank has 1500 to swap out system wide. ( We only get Ky. a little Indiana and a little Ohio.) A lot of the older ones can be upgraded but they have opted to just buy new ones (at twenty five grand a pop)Who Dares Wins.
hey .. I think ya just answered my Q as to why the last two Nat City's I went to had brandy new big touch screen machines ....
even the one I been bitching about for years was replaced.
JeffBuck Construction, llc Pittsburgh,PA
Artistry in Carpentry
Yep everyone gets a new one.Who Dares Wins.
Even Me?????
Darkworksite4:
El americano pasado hacia fuera ase la bandera
You've got to move to the right coast and join National city bank.Who Dares Wins.
nah life dont exist east of the rockies
Darkworksite4:
El americano pasado hacia fuera ase la bandera
Depends on how far NORTH east of 'em you're talkin' about....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
What do they do with the old ones? I wouldn't mind having one in the game room of my dreams - pool table, dart board, pinball machine, ATM so you can pay up.
Most of them we ship back to the manufacture for refurb. The ones that cant be refurbished are either scrapped or the top is taken off of them and we reuse or resell the safes. They have some pretty decent safes on the bottom.
About two months ago we filled a fourty yard dumpster full of old junk ones that weren't worth the trouble. They wound up in the dump.Who Dares Wins.
The ones I take out go to the scrap yard. Most of them still work but they're old technology. If you want one your welcome to it. they weigh a ton.