My recent "builds"

Thanks guys. I do a few tile jobs a year, normally a shower or 2 and a floor or 2. Mostly self taught like everything else I do. I normally really enjoy it, but between this and the last shower I did I'm starting not to like it as much lol. The diagonal was a pain in such a small space and the last shower was 30"x40". It was new construction (not by me lol) and only had one level wall and the floor was out by 1/2" from one side to the other. Here it is


Here's a couple more of some other jobs

Very nice man. I hate those little tiles. One of the first backsplashes I did had glass and ceramic squares mixed on sheets, not the mesh just paper. The bad part was the glass were like a 1/16 thinner than the ceramic. So I put em all up, came back after it was dry to peel the paper, and almost all the glass ones came off with the paper. I was so mad took me a few hours to put all them damn things back in. That marble shower ^^^ was a bit of a pain too, most people don't believe or understand when you tell em tiles aren't perfectly square, and that lady wanted no grout lines, which of course is impossible. I butted them all but I had pieces of paper all over as spacers to make up for tiles out of square.

I seem to do mostly showers. I was excited when I first found out about the schluter system, and then last year I found a local distributor had the kerdi-board and man it is nice. Its expensive, but it saves me a lot of time and head ache.

I haven't dealt with the plank tiles before. Closest I did was some 12x24 fake slate tile, it was nice and flat. It was a 500 square foot kitchen remodel we did took about 4 months. We tore up the whole floor and fixed all the framing before I was willing to lay those big boys.

Awk that has got to be the nicest panel I've ever seen, besides what I've done lol, but I don't do much new construction, and even less commercial. Was that new or a change? I can't tell you how many times I go to work in somebody's panel and its a mess! I thought about getting my license, either elec or general, but I like being a worker and I don't wanna do all the business end, mainly because I am not good at talking to people, hard to explain but its just how my brain works lol.

Here's whats on my agenda now

That's alright Harley cause you're really good at what you do!
I hear you on the fishing awk, sometimes its fun trying to figure out how to get a wire from point a-b without ripping walls, but mostly it is a pita. Personally I love just doin the remodel and handy man stuff. Many a times I go in and do a bunch of work just to make it look like it should have to start. Sometime soon we've got to fix a deck. Its a section, 12x12 with 9 support posts for a hot tub. It was an afterthought I guess and the builders built 2x4 boxes and poured the footers on top of the ground with 2'x2' rock columns on top of that and then the posts. Needless to say its shifted and dropped, they are lucky it hasn't fallen completely. I like figuring out how to fix things like that. We fixed a wood shed on the same property 2 weeks ago that had 2 rotten posts and was over 4 inches out of level one way (homeowner built). I didn't like the pt posts he had us put in but it is sturdy now. That's my buddy/big brother I've known for 20 years holding the level plumb, he's also doing the rock job with me

We found the locusts for the angle braces on the property. Sorry guys, but I like showing off and talking bout my work lol

Alright here's one more before bed lol. This was last year I think. A condo complex we work on had somebody come through many years ago and add a low pitch gable butted to the collar tie on tha back porches to cover the last 4 feet of deck so they could screen them in. They took the easy way out so this is what happened.

And this is in the repair process, me and one other guy did all the work.

We put in the angle braces under the deck too. The poa had an engineer look at it and he had us do it that way. He wanted braces notched into the posts 1", which was a major pita because the posts were all twisted. So I did what I normally do in a situation like that, grabbed the chain saw and eyeballed it lol. Turned out dam near perfect, shoulda got a close-up. Not sure where my finished pics are. This is the 3rd or 4th one of these we've done, all my other pics are on a back-up somewhere

Well it was a bad day for the rock guys lol. We haven't got much done since the last pics cause of weather, holidays and sickness, but here's where we were this morning

We were quite happy with how things were looking and going, but then the HO came in over the weekend and was not. He said he loved our work and craftsmanship, but didn't like the pattern. We don't have to tear it all down thankfully, but still have to backtrack some. He didn't quite understand that the pattern is adirect result of the size of the rock, so now we have to find some new. Problem is we had a hard time when looking and that's why we ended up with what we have. Nobody has crap around here in the winter. This is what he wants it to look like,

but it will never truly look like that because our columns are 6 inches bigger on width and 2 feet shorter. Honestly I like ours better Hopefully we'll find some rock and make him happy before it gets to damn cold to do it

So the rock job has been on hold, until today because of the cold weather. We got what we needed taken off and got going again and we were doing good and til a gust of wind took our tarp out and soaked us. We left the tarp on the columns and got out of there so I didn't get pics yet. Also did some locust handrails last week and I'll get some pics of them soon.

So my father-in-law has been outta town for a few weeks, before he left he gave me $500 to work on a project we had been talking about. He got a doublewide about 2 years ago, and he opted not to have them "finish" it, ie the trim, siding, etc, that they do after placing it, and I've been helping him here and there. So he had all the lumber sanded and stained for me and I put this "beam" together for him and installed the ceiling fan.

Its all 2x's except the 1x4s on the walls. I 45d all the corners to give it more of a beam look, but main it was a pita. The 2 halves were all outta wack with each other, but I got it to come out pretty good. Then I surprised him and sent him a pic of some tile that I've had in storage for years, and asked if he would like it in his kitchen. It was a major pita in a trailer. I had to go in the cabinets and level the counters cause they were all wack, and you can see in the pic the tile isn't center on the window. That bugs the crap out of me, but its centered on the sink, and on the right side my tile ended perfect at the counter edge so I went with it. I don't have the grout yet, so I haven't really taken pics of it, but you can see it under the new pot rack I built in this pic.

Another of the pot rack


He doesn't know anything about the pot rack yet, its gonna be a surprise. A contractor that lives down our road threw 2 sheets of that stainless grid into his yard for no reason, and I told him I wanted to make a pot rack out of it sometime. I also threw this up for him, it aint the greatest but it works