put up drywall and plywood

all construction was declared essential here in NJ, now all non-essential construction must cease. but there’s like 199 exceptions so it hasnt affected my work

i live in NJ and our governor declared all non-essential jobs to stay home or work from home but thankfully he declared construction as “essential” along with manufacturing trucking etc. they have limited crew numbers to 20, but the job i’m at we only have like 7 on our crew anyway. this job is supposed to finish up in a few weeks anyway. then…[Read more]

those dewalt bit holders have been around forever and always come in kits i buy, but i rarely use them since i’m always just using a normal magnetic bit holder with small bits rather than those long bits those holders work with

assembled EFCO panels and set them with the crane

stripped footings and assembled and set EFCO forms

thankfully, the answer to this question changes often. most rectently, i’m doing a lot more concrete formwork and working with different systems

today was a rain day, so we got to the job at 7 and watched safety videos in the trailer til about 9 when the rain slowed up to a drizzle then worked til 12 when it started pouring again. then called it a day.

nothing crazy, just stopped at home depot on the way home from work tonight and grabbed a 3pack of of head lights and a small garden trowel since we’re digging 180 30″ deep by 10″ wide holes drilled in 6″ concrete slabs

cordless drywall router please

concrete formwork and scaffolding. spent half the day working outside in a t-shirt. ridiculous weather

vans are the way to go in this over-inflated truck market

merry christmas and happy new year to everyone. hopefully everyone is flush with work through the new year

brianpeters wrote:This showed up on the FedEx truck today, looking forward to adding them to my toolbelt!Not sure if I’ll use the straight ones much, I generally use red and green to do all my cutting.

do these differ a lot from the previous generation of milwaukee snips?

spent yesterday volunteering at a homeless warming station they’re building. place used to be an old butcher shop and was in very bad shape so they had to gut and replace everything. i was on taping duty all day

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:Construction is a hard sell when “Sorry no paid day off – We do not have any paid holidays, sick leave or vacation”. Is the response when asked if your birthday is a paid day off.

or insurance or benefits of any kind unless you’re union. hell, most non union contractors around here don’t even pay time and a half for OT.…[Read more]

built and stripped concrete forms

“Snap on owns Williams. Kobalt by Williams stopped being sold around 2002/2003 and Kobalt has since been made by Danaher.”

had to go around and patch all these butcher holes the electricians cut in walls to put their boxes in cause the GC won’t let them do cut ins

topfill all day. probably the same tomorrow