Work thread

Easy day today. 4 hours windshield time for a 3 yd. Concrete placement. Caught a colorful sunrise this morning. Happy Friday.

 

Take the good with the bad.

 

Thanks John.

Those cushions are life (and knee) savers. I carry that thing around like Linus (of the comic strip peanuts) with his blanket. I tried wearing knee pads years back as I did mostly roofing and they were like straight jackets for my knees. Those are nothing more than old chair cushions.

 

Half day yesterday with AM rain. Rafters attached at wall and fascia set. Did get three sheets of wood down. Always a satisfying experience when you can stand on something that wasn't there the day before.

 

Going to be a 4 season room?

 

Three. No heat or insulation. Just lights. He's an electrician.

 

Going to be a nice spot to sit and ponder.

 

Came in early to change a hose and charge the ac

 

Good day today. Closing it in. Plywood down. Worked on the end walls and set some underlayment before I finished up.

 

Nice job it’s really coming along

 

Ends done, trim done (it will be wrapped with aluminum) and underlayment completed. Light rain today, but I have demo work inside to do. Nice to have a roof over your head when its raining.

 

Interior work while it rained yesterday. Demoed old garage overhang to set some cripple studs for plywood. I'm not finishing the inside walls and ceiling. They are kinda undecided on what they want.
Ill finish that part today as its raining still. I hastily set the old gutter to lessen the splashing for now. It will get replaced.

 

Didn't take time to get pictures but this morning I had to charge the ac on a dump truck. Found the leak parts will be here in the morning. Then another driver asked me if I would adjust his brakes. I found a broken brake chamber rod on the lr, and a slack adjuster pin missing on the rf. This afternoon I was checking out the ac on this dozer and it needs a temp switch and a condenser fan.

 

Blocked in and plywooded. May try to do the roof tomorrow but not sure if it will dry out enough.

 

Great progress and nice work. Definitely a miserable day to be out there working construction. At least we'll be in a dry spell for a while after today.

 

Thank you.

Not used to getting actual work done when its wet out. I was under cover so got some time in. Ran to supply house for aluminum trim and used their brake. Rain days are usually for running around, errands etc.

 

buZZsaw BRAD Is the existing siding loose already so you can just slide the step flashing under when you get to shingling, or do you have to fight that battle yet? Looking good!

 

No shingles as its less than a 2/12 pitch. Two ply self adhering modified roofing. The siding is circa 1960's single 8" aluminum with a styrofoam backer insert. Hoping it isn't a b!tch to tuck 2-3" flap of membrane under it. Sparsely nailed when it was installed so I'm hoping (fingers crossed) it wont be. Old aluminum siding is next to impossible to relock if you take it apart. Why I left it in place. I am able to get vinyl corners and J channel color to match and i'll be repurposing the old siding I took off. I have that narrow strip on the left to reshingle.

 

I will let Buttermilk work on em’, drivin em’ is enough for me, I haven’t got the patience to be a wrench twister

Fortunately, the weather has changed quite a bit, this was back in Mid January, I “Brought some Work Home “ I don’t normally get to take the truck home, but with the conditions and routes I had then, it made sense, and the True Value account manager suggested it



I’m a “Flex Driver” for a national logistics company, True Value is one of our customers, starting to feel like I’m “Dedicated” to this account though. I have been on this account since the beginning of November, if not the longest time I’ve been on the same account, it will be soon. I expect to be on it for the foreseeable future, awhile back I was talking to the manager, and she said that she had four of us flex team drivers, and that I would be the last one she sent back when she got her roster filled out

That wasn’t an enjoyable experience getting the truck parked next to the house, I had to move three of my own trailers to make room, and worse, other than some empty pallets and totes, I was empty. Even with the outer four drivers chained up, I couldn’t get the traction to push the trailer back into the snowy driveway. I was getting embarrassed, an hour and a half to get it parked . These newer automatic transmissions use air pressure to shift, at least 100 psi, and I could only get a couple back and forths trying to rock it, then I would have to sit and wait for the air pressure to build up again , dayum, I MISS the manual transmissions, if I had been loaded, or dry pavement, it would have been a back and forth or two, and DONE, just like a teenager with his first Female “Companionship “, but nope, had to do it the hard way


Doug

 

So they are company trucks and of course the company buys automatic because most people don’t or can’t drive standard
But ether way your park job looks great