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repaired some flooring. it was strips missing once the walls had been removed.
Had to run an old blade through about 5 million nails. That well and truly finished one off. <G>
The odd thing was the boards i was given had borer in them. The existing flooring has borer already, but to my mind i should at least be puting in clean timber, regardless of the state of the rest of it.
Is this just me being fussy?
Wood Hoon
Sat behind a desk all day and, well, I won't get into it.
Can't wait to either get home early enough to finish the soffits on my shop or I can't wait for the weekend - whatever comes first.
5:00 AM Finished rough in and did pressure test on commercial building
7:30 AM Backfilled geo-thermal ground loop
10:00 AM finished installation of 600' of 2" watermain
4:30 PM hooked up 70' of 6" storm drain
6:00 PM went home
nuttin.....
then worked up a bid for possible partnership gig.....40 x 40 addition......
then helped finish clean off the porch and pull weeds.....
then the mechanic finally called...at 6pm..... to say the van's brake job was finally done....so we went and picked up the work van and spent $650!
Guess I've lost more in a day. Jeff "That's like hypnotizing chickens........."
assembled ICFs for a new spec house
Miami
Today started last evening at 6:30. The phone rang while I was gluing up some undeground PVC electrical conduits. A 15 year old girl with Momma as copilot plowed into the storefont with their 2 day old Beamer. Please secure and clean-up. So Mary and I worked and hauled off broken glass by the 5 gallon bucket.
Today I met the glazer, the property manager and store manager. I rebuilt the storefont with t1-11 and 2X4s. The doors and glass will take a couple of weeks. carpet, signage, emergency service call, temporary storefont, locksmithing, etc. A good job.
joe d
Edited 6/5/2002 1:29:52 AM ET by joe d
Drove around in the truck till noon, then laid out some walls.
Framed a deck
Can't I go 1 day without spilling my coffee?
7AM - Phone calls re building permit and materials deliveries
8 - 10:30 - Insulation on 8x16 addition, strappin on ceiling
11-3 PM - Layout for walls to convert over garage storage into master bedroom and recieve delivery of framing materials for same
3-3:30 - Find building inspector to OK job
4-5 Office work, phone calls
5-6 Visit client from out of town to discuss future work and collect a check for past work.
6-6:30 dinner
6:30 login here
Excellence is its own reward!
Supervised three grunts doing painting while my skilled labor and I got the stringers positioned for a 102-foot stairway down a 42-degree sand slope for beach access. Off to the welder later this week to have some helical anchors fab'd to secure the thing in place.
David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
That's one long stringer!
Today I put my first coat of oil finish on a cherry staircase I built.
I had thought it was pretty long at 22', but now I see it is very small.
I was wondering how big a helicopopter those helianchors will hold down.Excellence is its own reward!
Worked in attic spaces attaching wind bracing. Was cooler than lasterday - only 92 degrees. Highly recommended when you want to lose weight.The GlassMasterworks - If it scratches, I etch it!
Coffee drips down the front of a white t-shirt. The hazards of drinking and driving.
I arose early to run my dog team at daybreak. My next dream house at Lake Tahoe is moving along. The temp power pole will be connected tommorrow. I have already excavated the foundation by hand. I brought a bunch of my power tools and a large Knaack box to hold them to the job site. I separated some of my woodworking tools from my framing tools to make room. I moved some rocks,cordwood and stumps around with the wheelbarrow. A palm nailer came today (Senco) to help me build the forms.
Now I am going to get on my Mt bike and go hammer down a few hairy miles.
Redesigned a 7000 sf floor of a new medical building to eliminate unnecessary hallways and other wasted space and turn it into rentable space. Also to meet code requirements overlooked on the preliminary plans sent to me.
Rigged a big myrtle tree to pull over tomorrow. Boat access only, on a steep bank, about 3' trunk. Other half of the tree, (two trunks, one root system), blew over last winter). If it goes over on its own, it'll take out about 50 feet of a wooden ramp and part of the boathouse. It was too breezy to fall today by the time I climbed down...I'll get it first thing in the morning with a helper to run a winch. I'm definitely getting too old for this and I prefer not to do tree work, but the customer is a good one and blah blah blah....
Not much:
a little tv
a few phone calls
did a simple plan review for upcoming basement job
ate pain pills
Knee surgery last week
Began design on a staff and holder for a cross cut from a steel beam from the North tower of the World Trade Center.T. Jeffery Clarke
Quidvis Recte Factum Quamvis Humile Praeclarum
Jeff, Where does one acquire such a chunk of history? And, would you value it more than a piece of the Berlin Wall?
Excellence is its own reward!
In the closing days at the 'site' a few crosses were cut from the last remaining pieces of steel in memory of special deeds relating to the rescue efforts at Ground Zero. This one had to do with several thousand candy bars and notes delivered to rescue workers. It is a 'sacred' object and will find itself in a sacred place.
Here is an example of one
T. Jeffery Clarke
Quidvis Recte Factum Quamvis Humile Praeclarum
Edited 6/5/2002 9:48:47 PM ET by Jeff Clarke
AS IT SHOULD!Excellence is its own reward!
yesterday, Cut a hole in a wall behind a kitchen cab (got to break in my rotozip heheheheh) to access a leaking pipe turned out it was a vent line and the waste water was backed up and the drain line was clogged so I had to snake out the pipe and flush it out until the clogg went away. Plained down a small panel after glue up dryed for end panel on upper cab that is exposed above and next to fridge. Today caulked the black splash to counter top joint. Tomorrow continue making doors cut panel to hide hole cut in the back of kitchen cab to access drain/vent line and screw on to make it removable incase of any further problems in the area. Friday take truck in for serviceing and grout counter top. Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"
I take it you are up on the Bluff Dave. Truly overlooking Cook Inlet from about 2-4 hundred feet above sea level?
Jeff Clarke, I built an oak cross for an Orthodox church. I made a stone base for it and mortised the cross into the stone. In an Orthox church they like to pull the cross out at Easter and carry it in a procession. That's a great job you've got with that cross. Hope you get blessed with your work.
joe d
thank youT. Jeffery Clarke
Quidvis Recte Factum Quamvis Humile Praeclarum
same ol ####, different dayno turn left unstoned
Me? I didn't do anything today 'cept for play around with this new gizmo and finally figured out how to get back in this place. What a freakin' rocket man, along with a new cable connection. Bye, bye AOL..I'll never, ever miss you! Here's a pic of some of the work I did earlier this week.
http://bal.ifloor.com/files/60/lauzoneng%20014.jpg
And Jim, I didn't step in the glue..hehe.
The final appearance.....Watch out BIG file.
http://bal.ifloor.com/files/60/lauzoneng%20020.jpg
"And Jim, I didn't step in the glue..hehe."
I was foaming the seams ands edges of foam boards in a ceiling today. I guess a little dripped down on me when I wasn't looking. (No Frenchy, it didn't get in my hair) It managed to land in my rear nail bag where my Stanley 25' was setting nestled in. It got a good start at congealing and gluing everything together before I decided I needed my tape and rammed my paw down into the mess....
Luckily, I had some carberator cleaner in the truck...Excellence is its own reward!
"And Jim, I didn't step in the glue..hehe."
I was foaming the seams ands edges of foam boards in a ceiling today. I guess a little dripped down on me when I wasn't looking. (No Frenchy, it didn't get in my hair) It managed to land in my rear nail bag where my Stanley 25' was setting nestled in. It got a good start at congealing and gluing everything together before I decided I needed my tape and rammed my paw down into the mess....
Luckily, I had some carberator cleaner in the truck...Excellence is its own reward!
While the electricians wired 22 recessed lights and put in new circuits, my job was to put in blocking for drywall lid in basement living area. Homeowner's wife called from Germany and insisted upon sound insul. in ceiling area where I had already (by owner's decree) installed 14 non-IC rated recessed fixtures. Owner didn't want to replace the fixtures, so I told him I would have to leave 3" clearance. Got the OK on that...........Wife had asked for 'sound proofing', so I told homeowner: "Make sure your wife knows that there is no such thing as 'soundproofing'."
made more simle pine shelving. I'm so happy I could just...
ho hum...more simple pine shelving. I always knew one day I'd make it to the big leagues.
Drove up and bid a sub job for my old buddy Joe.....measured/bid/compared numbers for about 1/2 hr......then hung out and joked around with my old working buddies for another 1 1/2hr! Was real helpful and made as many comments and tips as possible as they tried to finish for the day. Does that count as work? Jeff "That's like hypnotizing chickens........."
Jeff sounds like you got it rough ya better slow down a bit :). I just glued up some scraps and planed them down to use as a veneer for my kitchen cabs and grouted the counter top/back splash. now I got to fool with the adj on my planer Im getting some snipe. ill post it over on the tools section herre and at FWW Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"
Ron,
be sure to stop and pick up a snipe hunting license. I hear that the fish and wildlife division is cracking down hard on snipe poachers this year.
Excellence is its own reward!
ROFLOL I knew that was coming but I didnt know from where...:) Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"
pine tree pine tree pine tree pine tree
more pine shelving. but I needed a bunch of 8 ft 1x10s so I decided to buy at the new lowes that just opened. needed exactly 8 ft. out of 20 eight footers, two were 96 1/16 and four were 8 ft. The rest were short. One was 3/16 inch short of 8 ft. I guess I shouda bought my tape and checked. Now where was that thread about lowes and home depot....
Like Ron says, Buy it from those places and you'll take it in the 'shorts'.
LOL
I feel good about yesterday. On monday a good customer called, wanting to convert an over garage storage into a bedroom for hired help. Said that if we're going to do this joib, it needs to be done in two weeks. Normally, It would take me a week to do all the backup framing and reframing needed to prep this area for the electrician to move forward. I rounded up a helper for some OT rates plus bonus money on Saturady and we went in and made a lot of sawdust and sweat (no blood) and it's ready for electricians monday, insulation wednesday and sheetrockrs standing by...
customer said, "Long as I don't look at the bill, I figure I should be able to get anything that I want."
Ka-Ching!
Excellence is its own reward!
Just got the 3rd coat of paint on the inside wall of my "Martha Stewart/Fung shuei/Somewhat-carried-too-far" chicken house so my wife can get the "wallies" and the curtains up, 'cause the chicks are here and growing fast and I need to get them moved in there and out of the garage.
gotta watch those chicken houses. A while back I was working with a crew in new england that was redoing an old hen house for a lady that wanted a place for her mower on one side and a sitting/reading place on the other. We had a powerwasher to clean the wood on the inside. Now this is no lie. I volunteered to man the washer and that 50 year old chickenpoop would not come off the walls. I mean sell that stuff as paint. I started tearing up the wood so I had to quit and we just primered over it. I ought to mail Benjamin Moore.
Beautiful day here today. Finished install of custom sized storm door in a new entry installed earlier. Installed customers dock system, all at a gorgeus lakefront cottage.
Life is good!
Dana
Salmon Falls Housewrights
My wife and I have several parrots...great pets...but I've often remarked about the construction potential of that green poop. I power wash their cages fairly often to augment the daily hand cleaning and I have to get a 15 degree nozzle right down on the stuff sometimes and even then, it takes awhile.
Can you imagine doing a house in "Green-poopon?" Stucco and Driv-it would be toast!
I'll soon be tearing out the "chicken shed" extension to a small barn in the back yard of the house we bought recently, so maybe I'll have an update to the chicken story.
Today was easy. Went to church to hear my daughter sing and to torment a friend with a discussion of Marxism and Christianity. Fixed some broken furniture. Took a nap. Came to my office tonight to check in with some FHB authors and to generally get ready for the week. But checking in on Breaktime and watching John Carroll and Gery Katz's on-line videos is time well stolen.
Good luck this week.
David
what's the address of the patent office again?:)
Finished long line of pine shelving. Have graduated to 4x8 adjustable melemine display shelves. hey, it's a paying job.
Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
Finished and hung cab doors and installed tilt out yestrday today making drawers and some more doors Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"
I spent the day cutting and fitting trim in a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. Worked by myself with the country music station cranked on the radio. Did not spend one millisecond wishing I was parked at a desk staring at a computer (whereas in my past life, when I WAS parked at a desk staring at a computer, I often wished I was somewhere on my feet and not my a**, driving a power tool or a hammer...)
Pulled wire for, and made terminations in,new refrigerated case work on a grocery store remodeling job.The service meat case("Can I have a pound of sirloin and two strip steaks?") was the worst case of factory wiring I've seen in a long while.The steam mister control circuit was a dead short through a time clock and thermostat.Even the flourescent light ballasts were pre-wired incorrectly.And there's a half dozen more to go in the new deli.Glad my job is just to make it work and not estimating labor or getting suppliers to cough up money for extras.
Wrote a few pages of a proposal, talked on a telecon for an hour, talked in meetings for an hour, actually came home to nail up a 13" by 9" by 9" padded plywood box to ship a 1 kW fuel cell mockup to VA for a conference next week. (takes longer at work to do just the paperwork to get a cardboard box packed than to DIY a box in 3/4 ply at home).
Helped wife take masking tape of room she repainted. Later, looked around to see if any vodka was left but no luck.
Que??? :)
Edgebanded the drawers...need more edge banding...tomorrow buy more edge banding and make some more drawers
Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"
Edited 6/25/2002 11:16:29 PM ET by Ron Teti
Melemine. Ripping, cutting all these little pieces. Iron on edging. Nailing metal strips. Plexiglass and trim pieces. Screwing together. Recharge the batteries. Miscount a piece and have to set up again and run for more. 13 hours then run home and continue packing and load the Ryder. Outta the house by end of month. Project got to be done. Run Run Run. Won't do this again.
Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
Edited 6/28/2002 6:26:09 AM ET by rez
We finisished installing a Braz. Cherry floor. Now it is ready for sanding and finishing. Today we install base in a guest bedroom, crown in a guest bath, and I have to mill some cap trim for the base in the master closet.TCW Specialists in Custom Remodeling.
Changed a "double partial" stair to a rt hand partial.
Back stair on a 13k sq ft house. Client wanted a desk at the common wall to the 5 car garage.{ cripes, all I have is a a 3/4 garage and I've got that filled with tools etc.....gotta work on that} So cut off open treads at short wall {this is an installed staircase that was built in the shop}....to the length of the housed treads, rout a new section of stringer, inst 5/8" spacer blocks{for sheetrock} glue and inst stringer, screw treads/risers, glue and inst wedges,frame rake wall, add 5/8 plywood gusset{w/screws+glue}, bondo seam and screws........CLEAN MY MESS! {rest of house looks like a twister hit} Roll up and get a call from a bud that the CASH MONEY from the curve rail and balc job we did last sat {LOVE SIDE JOBS!!!!!} was in----- WHOPEE!
Today was a GOOD DAY!!!!! GEO
My boys and I worked on my new chicken house. All built from scraps and recycled lumber. Definitely NOT Fine Homebuilding.
Bet the chickens wouldn't say that:)
Hurrah for recycled 100%, my compliments on a job well done, regardless of looks, etc.
Just finished replacing head gasket on 92 ply voyager, 8 hour job doing it the first time including WP, TB, all ignition, exhaust, etc.
I finally sold my 79 ford f100 to a guy I work with. It had an estimated 500,000+ miles on it. I had to get the head rebuilt, but there wasn't enough left to work on. All the valves, guides, springs, seats were bad, and there was a crack in the casting, so I got a junkyard one rebuilt fior it. I kept it going for years and years, and it was super reliable, and did not burn oil - even passed the E-check tests. I still hated to get rid of it, but I got a 97 Ranger with low miles but with a blown engine (from driving without coolant due to a burned heater hose), and swapped it out with a junkyard engine that had 4700 miles on it. I miss the size of the old F100 "Ranger", but not the play and slop and chatter and jerks and clunks and rattles and all that. It is a much more attractive truck and a lot easier to drive, but neither has power steering.
I'm always recycling, but I wish i could quit bringing home everything I find that is still good for something.
The chickens will be happy in their fair home. There were a few leftover 2x4's that I got at a store that used them to support flats of garden plants for a season, paid .25 each for them, the rest was free. The lumber is 100% recycled, but I cut the line at used nails and such. I bought a bunch of 50# boxes of nails from a lumberyard that was closing for $3.00 each, so nails are no problem. But I splurged for 2 rolls of roll roofing at full price, which will be both the siding and the roofing, and a gallon of pretty green paint that was mistinted for $2.00.
I still have not got to tearing down the chicken house that's leaning crazily against a small barn in the back yard. But I did lay some clear poly on a floor last night and patch plaster to get it ready for paint. Did the second floor coat as the sun was coming up, and will do the third in about an hour. Have to run a dehumidifier because it's so muggy here in Connecticut this week.
re: your truck repairs, I'm lucky to get my lawn more running, but have often wished I could work on car and truck engines.
Finished shelving projects and left town. Returned to ungoing house renovation of years. So much to do I'm half tempted to get depressed, kick dirt and leave.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
"ungoing" - was that a typo, or NOT???T. Jeffery Clarke
Quidvis Recte Factum Quamvis Humile Praeclarum
I meant to say 'ongoing' but now that I think about it 'ungoing' would work too since it sure seems like I am going nowhere.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
Showed up at the job site this morning and the owner handed me a set of plans for a Screech Owl nesting box and said "build this first."
He had 2 owlets that had fallen from a nest in a rotten tree and the raptor center had nourished the babies over the weekend and gave instructions to get them back to Mom (Mrs. Owl or Ms. Owl or whatever).
So I built the box, mounted in an alder tree and placed the 2 owlets inside. Hopefully, their little clicks and whoots will bring mom flying in with food tonight.
Then I went back to what I showed up to do.
Well the owl house certainly qualifies as fine homebuilding. I hope the family can reconvene.
Today I studied electricity. And bonded some water pipe to the breaker panel.
began construction of a much needed 12x16 shed on block pillars 2 foot off ground. I am so refined in fine homebuilding.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.