What did you accomplish today?

.Pinworm.

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View attachment 3680205 View attachment 3680208 After weeks of airplane stripper, scraping, power washing and angle grinding...the exterior block is near done. Still needs a 3rd coat. Used Sherwin Williams Extreme Bond primer 1st. Couldn't remove the 77 yrs. of built up crusty white wash...pro painter said use the Extreme Bond 1st right over it...seems to have worked. Musket Brown gloss over top @ 79. a gallon. Paint prices blow! Looks nice though. People drove by all day blowing horns with thumbs up...
You do good work, boss.
 

UncleBuck

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was it an existing window or did you have to cut out the foundation for it
existing window. county changed codes for egress, which means i get to cut through the trimmer stud with a sawzall. not all of it, that would be too easy. just scalping a quarter inch off each trimmer to a set depth of 1 5/8 inches. then put in the new, slightly larger window and finish as normal.

an egress cutback is worth about $80 more and takes about an hour to do. so i guess you can say i make the big bucks.
 

ZaraBeth420

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existing window. county changed codes for egress, which means i get to cut through the trimmer stud with a sawzall. not all of it, that would be too easy. just scalping a quarter inch off each trimmer to a set depth of 1 5/8 inches. then put in the new, slightly larger window and finish as normal.

an egress cutback is worth about $80 more and takes about an hour to do. so i guess you can say i make the big bucks.
Sounds like manual labor that pays about 20 measly dollars per hour.
 

srh88

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Sounds like manual labor that pays about 20 measly dollars per hour.
itd be pretty funny if you knew what youre talking about. i do plumbing, and i make a lot more than 20 an hour... i only wish i made what a good carpenter makes. i do a job and make pennies compared to the carpenters who are finishing bathrooms/kitchens and whatever else has water running to it
 

ZaraBeth420

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itd be pretty funny if you knew what youre talking about. i do plumbing, and i make a lot more than 20 an hour... i only wish i made what a good carpenter makes. i do a job and make pennies compared to the carpenters who are finishing bathrooms/kitchens and whatever else has water running to it
Ask Buck what he makes. It was $22 per hours late last year. Probably not much more now.
 

ZaraBeth420

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In retirement maybe, yeah...active work days were way, way more...and overtime was time and a half...holidays double time and profit sharing at the end of the year...my 401k allows me to spend 100K on remodeling a house for my daughter. How YOU doing?
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