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Photos tagged Building

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  • Mom's dog really enjoyed helping work on the house.
  • Just installed my first dishwasher
  • Dishwasher install Saturday!
  • Kari wanted an obscenely large island bar. Our quartz installer said we needed additional support... These should do, ha.
  • Ceiling broox
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  • Buildin this handrail
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  • The first section always takes the longest.
  • Settin posts
  • Setting the first posts for the banister
  • Newel post hardware
  • Had a great time hanging out and working with this lady this weekend. Happy Mother's Day, mom!
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  • Picking up some oak
  • Buyin some oak for the handrail
  • I'm a can light installing MACHINE
  • Taking up more particle board subfloor
  • Time to start this building these handrails
  • I thought about engineering the pipe to be removable with springs, but I wound up scrapping that idea because it seemed like a disaster waiting to happen... You know, as soon as my friends found out they were removable.
  • Takin apart the new cabinets. Fixing a couple more cases of "that's not my job"
  • The Rio bar served (many of) us well
  • This has been a good book case
  • Ready for paint
  • The garage shop
  • Waste
  • Ready for counters
  • Hangin trim
  • Hangin trim
  • Hangin trim
  • New doors and casing goin up
  • Hangin them doors
  • It's been a while since I've worked on anything with this dude!
  • When your drywall dudes don't know what wires do, just start cutting em off, and half your living room loses power.
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  • Finally finished framing our shower
  • Got the new dining room floor raised n leveled.
  • New dining room subfloor going down. Breaking for the night. Breaking for beer.
  • Sleepers ranging from 7/8" to 1.5" thick to raise the old porch floor up to the same height as the rest of the house... and make it level.
  • Ripped a few boards today...
  • The faucet.
  • This has been my Friday night... almost got this damned floor transition figured out.
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  • Friday night party! Leveling our new dining room floor, which ranges from 1 5/8" - 2 1/8" lower than the rest of the house.
  • My desk while I wait for another drywall estimate...
  • This is gonna be a sweet shower.
  • A million thanks to Jeff and all his help on this project.
  • Construction hands
  • The hard can lights are in...
  • Could've gone without this happening, lol
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  • Plumbing that kitchen
  • Plumbin
  • "You'll just have to move the plumbing a few inches," our kitchen designers said
  • Test case
  • Plannin a 4-way
  • Moving and rewiring these took way longer than it should've. Blown in insulation is a pain in the ass.
  • Pullin n pluggin them 6" can lights
  • Let there be lights! Gettin this thing rewired with Jeff.
  • Tuesday night stuff
  • An open room
  • Wall's gone
  • Temp wall
  • Temp wall
  • This wall is about to go away
  • Opening up that porch
  • Piped up
  • Plumbing. Physics. Real engineering.
  • Runnin these new pipes
  • Expanding the master bathroom into the entryway a bit.
  • This bright ass pencil is the only tool that I can always find in this mess of a Jobsite... Thanks, Jay!
  • This room served as the demolition lumberyard during a lot of our remodel
  • Welp... that strapping certainly puts a bit of a damper on our latest kitchen design.
  • New bedroom entry! Finally building things!
  • Expanding the master bathroom into the entryway and angling the master bedroom door.
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  • One of these days we'll have a design!
  • Got these construction hands
  • New view
  • Fireplace: gone
  • Hittin it with a hammer
  • Sorta feels like I'm at the end of a level on contra...
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  • Floorin
  • ATTIC LYFE. WHUT
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  • Grandpa John frames in the old dining room doorway
  • Mom got me these boots for Christmas. They saved my toes a couple times today.
  • Jeff joined in on the fun
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