They forgot the pin through the hole so it will not pop out.

Yes, having both makes you look professional, if they are done right. I get contacts from people that find my website and use it to show what we do.

The Facebook page can be very good to update people on projects from day to day. I don’t update mine enough, but know a lot that do. It is good visibility. the more visibility in this business…[Read more]

Got the wall panels set on a house yesterday. Today is stairs, some sheeting and a porch beam to set the roof.

Cleaned up some brush last night and took in a few logs to be milled. More brush to clean up tonight if it does not snow to much they are predicting somewhere between 5 and 8 inches.

Way to early for snow. I am so far from being…[Read more]

theamcguy wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
yes, we have been able to stay busy. We have a couple houses stacked up behind this one in addition to a few remodels and a couple decks. the issue will be getting everything done before it gets to cold.

I can see that being a problem as the cold weather sets in early in MN.

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theamcguy wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
We got floor trusses set on another house. Today we will be installing bracing and hopefully get started sheeting.

Sounds like you are staying busy, which is good news. Always nice to get a project underway.

yes, we have been able to stay busy. We have a couple houses stacked up behind this one in…[Read more]

You would need to hire a materials testing lab to sample the concrete. If you tell me where you are located I can search a name for you.

There are many tests they can do:

The easiest and least costly is a Swiss Hammer, which will give a very general idea of the hardness and compressive strength of the concrete.

They could core drill a sample…[Read more]

I just went and looked at mine. I never realized it had a low mode, but when I figured out how to switch it into the low mode, the hum was there. It kind of sounds like the old emergency alert out he television, but not quite as loud.

I don’t think I will be using the light in the low mode unless absolutely necessary.

It is called a ranch profile and should be available at about any lumber yard or big box. That profile is fairly common. I don’t think I would mess with trying to make it as it is fairly inexpensive.

We got floor trusses set on another house. Today we will be installing bracing and hopefully get started sheeting.

It should get backfilled this weekend so we can set wall panels on Monday.

We set floor trusses on a new build yesterday, foundation wall bracing today and hopefully sheeting.

The homeowner will backfill this weekend and hopefully we can set wall panels on Monday.

In my opinion, a cold joint should not cause to much of a problem as long as the reinforcing is continuous through it and it is sealed properly. cold joints, which you created when they removed the sections of the walls. It is the chips that will be tough to blend in a patch that will stay in place permanently.

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RonW wrote:

Doobie wrote:
Question though, what is the purpose of having a 3 inch nail versus a 3 1/4 inch nail? Is it simply for proper holding strength when driving in at an angle, or is there something else I’m missing? Which ones do you guys prefer?

The 3 1/4 nail is a 12d size where the 3″ is a 10d. And a 3 1/2 is a 16d. Basically the lar…

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I have tow of the lights and have never noticed it, but I do not think I have used them in the low mode. I am not sure if I even knew they had a low mode. Now I will have to look at it and see.

JimDaddyO wrote:

theamcguy wrote:
Who knows why

Mills shut down due to the pandemic. Everyone and his brother doing home improvement jobs while they are laid off from the pandemic. Supply and demand.

this is the latest chart I can find on the drop in futures. Hopefully it keeps going

Boschmanbrian wrote:

ChadM wrote:
Had to replace the actuator motor in the washing machine this morning, it died last Thursday and couldn’t get the part until today. I picked up some insulation and a few sheets of drywall to start finishing my shop…I had planned on putting half inch plywood on the walls instead of drywall but with 1/2″ ply being…

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JimDaddyO wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
In the last few weeks the lumber futures prices have dropped from over 900$ / 1000 BF to around 600$ / 1000.

I just watched a video where the couple goes to buy OSB. It was just over $10/sheet at the beginning of summer, now it’s at $30/sheet.

We are seeing that here also. It was 8 or 9 bucks e…[Read more]

Doobie wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
I hope lumber prices work themselves out by spring. Where they are now is crazy. The conference call I was on last Friday indicated that they should somewhat normalize by spring.

I was told by my local supplier that it was maybe towards the end on September here.

Then again, I’m in Canada and a lot of i…

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Started cleaning up a property we bought a couple weeks ago. It is a 4 acre Wooded site that had 3 old buildings about 10 x 12 a triple garage and an old mobile home. The only thing worth saving is the garage. I got the garage cleaned out, all three sheds gone and the deck gone. Plus all the crap in them. I took two loads to the dump with my…[Read more]

GTokley wrote:

Doobie wrote:
Bit of an impulse buy today, but I kinda wanted something lighter than my near 20 year old Bostitch coil framing nailer.

Saw this on the clearance rack at HD this aft at roughly 30% off that the associate said was just put there today along with an unboxed floor model unit. They were the same price, so of course I…

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I recently bought a half dozen Carhart T’s They had a promotion going on for $12.50 a shirt. I have a lot of old T’s from vacations and the like, but I prefer a work shirt not to have a vacation logo on it. Those all get worn in the winter under sweatshirts.