Here’s a link to some photo’s of our current project. It’s been quite a challenge. http://homepage.mac.com/quicksilver6/quicksilver/PhotoAlbum3.html
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10th street? Isn't that near one of those circles? The one I'm thinking of has a statue of a guy on a horse. There is a church there, we put a Bell atlantic-nynex cellular transmitter in the steeple. I damaged my hearing on that job, we were working right under the chimes, which went off every 15 minutes.
Anyhow, nice work.
Most of those circles seem to have guys on horses. Closest Circle is Logan.
13th and P I think. Thanks. I read one of your replies yesterday about resin paper. Man I laughed out loud. The phonetics were perfect.
Edited 6/20/2005 8:00 pm ET by quicksilver
what does that mean when you say the walls are kanted 10 degrees
It means that the partition walls are skewed 10-degrees ( I used 3/17 for the layout) from the perimeter walls.
Nice project. Who is the guy in the picture labeled Same day on terrace?
I swear he is my older brother's twin. Even blew up picture to check.
His name is Pat from Windber Pa. near my hometown Portage Pa. We've been working together almost 20 years. We're starting insulation tomorrow in the back. Without any glass, Spent all day today drying in. Glazers are 3 weeks behind at this point, and I can't wait any longer. We have an Oct 1 target. the market is supposed to be hottest then. My original schedule had us hanging rock June 8. We start sheet rock Wed. Puts us only two weeks behind. And for this project I'm proud of that. Although you can probably see the crane in the pic's. That's from a Clark Const. project right behind us. Watchin' them will put ya in yer place. I've got to hand it to them. They sure can get it done. But on the same note they sure seem to take the beauty out of it. Like turning art into science.
Edited 6/20/2005 8:53 pm ET by quicksilver
Nice!
Some have hard hats, some don't, Guess you don't know OSHA as well as we do!
Do you need me to drop by & be the Enforcer?
I hear you and thought someone might say something. I actually didn't post a couple of pic's (roof pic's harnesses no lanyard) because of that, but in order to be violated for no hard hat you have to be in danger from overhead No ones in violation for not wearing a hard hat in those pictures. But believe me I hear you, as soon as they walk out of the building or under someone working above instant violation. I preach it, wear hard hat and safety glasses at all times too. Can't expect them to if I' not willing.
Edited 6/20/2005 8:41 pm ET by quicksilver
Sorry I was wrong again. There is a photo in there with a hard hat violation.
And Ya we have seen and been fined twice on this job - both times fall protection. This prompted me to call a safety consultant suggested by them, I did that and he's been around a couple of times to point things out but way less picky than the actual inspectors. He says while I'm working with him I won't be fined. He points thing out comes back wo weeks later to check then m and point more things out and so on. A lot these guys cut there teeth on suburban residential. They were them exiting and entering but don't want to wear them while working in a non threatened situation and believe it or not they're prety good about it. I'm so used to wearing mine i don't even notice it half the time. Thanks for the input. I'll post more as the job progresses. There's a couple interesting staircases, and a couple of built ins, That'll be site built.
You have security issues on a job like that?
Security? As in people stealing?
Yeah, security of materials overnight, tools.
Or maybe people crawling around the site at night, getting hurt. Vandalism maybe?
We have a big storage unit (steel box) with some super European lock. I see them on tractor trailers sometimes. I've had the thing down there for three years without a break in. Not even a noticeable attempt on the night lock, like a sawscar or a mark from bolt cutters. I've seen people fiddle with it at night when I was out walking - on our last job it was outside the fence. We use a quality Master lock as a day lock. Only three people have night lock keys, almost everybody has a day lock key. We use a fence rented from long fence, and I'm sure people get in. We tend it regularly and only one time have had a problem at night with a break in to some gang boxes. The Knack style has a piano hinge spot welded along the back. The thieves knock the hinge off with hammer and chisel I guess. This allows the box to open about four or five inches and they were able to get into three and slide a couple of small cases out. I've never, believe it or not, had materials come up missing - the neighborhood is really pretty good and they would have to get the mats up over the fence. And the police presence here is definitely in he honest man's favor. Sounds hard to believe but the district has become a really great place to live in the last 5 years. We use so many tools that occasionally a helper forgets to put one away and it has come up missing. Also in the day one time I saw a guy (about 2 years ago) pissing by the dumpster right next to the box. I told him it would be all right if he used the john. He was actually putting his bolt cutters in his pants. He came back a few minutes later and got us for about a grand in tools. We used to use small master lock in the day time. BOLD MOVE. 15 construction workers within 50 feet. But on the whole considering . . . it could be a whole lot worse Like in pleasant Georgetown where the real estate is unbelievably high. We got hit for about 4500 early this year took everything but my Festool stuff. Strange world. Even a raggedy 10'' Ryobi chop saw, a burned up tiger saw, but left the Festool . . Strange world
Those 'kanted' walls must be catching on...we call them swoops. They're curved.
The 2 dormers in the "not-so-fun" thread have kanted/swooped walls....although hard to see with my so-so picture taking.Nice job, BTW.
Framer T These walls have a straight 10-degree skew. Got the rock delivery today in the rain. Moron DW guy to cheap to use a boom truck hired a bunch of day laborers off the street. Humped 450 sheets into the building and the guy didn't pay. They came to me, non English speaking of course, but he was gone. I'll get them paid tomorrow but this guy got on my sh*t list early. I worked with him before but never got a chance to see this side of him. Could have walked less than a block and pulled 300 out of an ATM. Boom truck is 2.50 a sheet stocked. These kids made him some money today. I thought they deserved better. A good way of voiding any future favors from me.
I'd backcharge him whatever you pay those laborers. Guys like that give all of us a bad reputation.
Don't worry he'll pay the green and then some.