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originalpmac

Mountain climber

Timbers of Fennario

Nov 1, 2017 - 08:23am PT

c wilmot

climber

Nov 9, 2017 - 04:37pm PT

Knife blank from Finland.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Nov 9, 2017 - 05:30pm PT

Nice shivs! :-)

Who likes making domes?
TMI?

originalpmac

Mountain climber

Timbers of Fennario

Nov 18, 2017 - 09:54am PT

Wilmot, cool. Did you make the blade? I am buyinh a forge tomorrow. Goimg to make knives.

c wilmot

climber

Dec 3, 2017 - 01:15pm PT

Originalpmac- I just handle knives. I buy the blade blanks from Finland.

Contractor

Boulder climber

Dec 3, 2017 - 06:17pm PT

Standard scenario- my said client's said "I saw this on the internet"and of course they expect zero entry to be in the budget. Here's my attempt at zero entry.

Contractor

Boulder climber

Dec 3, 2017 - 06:49pm PT

La Cantina sliding doors with three quarter inch bottom track recessed into the tile and wood flooring.

The rollers on the doors are huge and allow them to run 1/8” above the finish floor- Such a pain in the ass!

They can be configured to have no header as well.

Contractor

Boulder climber

Dec 3, 2017 - 06:56pm PT

Anyone out there that wants to use classic ceramic tile- Try B&W out if Riversia http://www.bwtile.com/

Great colors, detail pieces and prices.

This is a bath in a home I built using their products.

Contractor

Boulder climber

Dec 3, 2017 - 06:57pm PT

Everyone wants a curbless shower as well and also a major pain in the ass.

Contractor

Boulder climber

Dec 3, 2017 - 07:42pm PT

It has a generous covered patio otherwise it's a not an option. The main house is raised over a basement so the patio had to be backfilled, compacted and capped with concrete

Contractor

Boulder climber

Dec 3, 2017 - 08:52pm PT

To your point, with a covered patio it would have been possible to just joist interior and exterior out at the same plane.

As it is, it's tile over concrete at the patio and wood floors over joist on the interior making for quite a bit of work at the transition.

steveA

Trad climber

Wolfeboro, NH

Dec 4, 2017 - 07:05am PT

Some here might remember where I posted many photo's of building my house here in New Hampshire: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1197468&msg=2312552#msg2312552

I recently disassembled the large crane I built, which I used over the years to raise the beams up onto a custom built trailer, in order to work on them, and later, to put them in place on the house frame.

I took a few close up photo's of the crane parts. The 200:1 gear box, powered by a 1HP electric motor, turned a 2" stainless steel shaft, which drove a drum of steel cable. I made all the wood patterns for the heavy duty bearing housings which were cast in 421 Manganese Bronze, and later machined for the bearings. There was a huge amount of welding involved as well.
The 25 ton hydraulic piston raised the main boom up and down, which can be seen in the thread I posted. I regret the fact that I will probably never use this crane again, but perhaps I will sell it for penny's on the dollar to someone who can use it.

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Dec 4, 2017 - 09:07am PT

Classic, they've been building that exact house in NH for 300 years. I had one in Francestown for awhile that was built in the early 1700's.

skywalker1

Trad climber

Dec 12, 2017 - 04:51pm PT

Hey I recognize that style house. So we just had a new roof put on our house which meant we also had to take down this trellis thing that was falling apart anyway so I built this railing.

It was a bit of a challenge because the slab slopes down from left to right but tried my best.

So I just made the cap level and moved on. Huge drop off over to the left.
Then continued...

I still have some railing work moving down. Just wanted to "kinda kid proof" that drop to the left. Like this thread.

Now a beer! Cheers!
S...

climber

away from the ground

Dec 17, 2017 - 10:44am PT

An old climbing partner bought a place in the Mapleton hill historic district of Boulder. The historical society imposed enough restrictions on the renovation to make it a challenge to get anything just right. Not sure why they want you to preserve single pane windows and crumbling brick walls in an area where a 4K square foot house sells for 3 - 4 million.
Boulder Bra!!!

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Dec 17, 2017 - 10:50am PT

Nice work! I’m guessing those cabs weren’t site built. 😉

Funny how ya gotta put in at least double panes any orher time. And please tell me how horrible do Marvin double-hungs look? I put them in my 1927 Cali bungalow when I redid the kitchen and from five feet away they look exactly the same as the original pieces of sh!t.