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HecticArt
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Shocking!
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
So here's some irony - real irony, not that bogus Alanis Morrisette stuff; a nor'easter/windstorm knocked out power to much of the region. And so the power line they just connected to our house has been dead since Monday. This means that the builders still need to use a generator.
Many streets were impassable because of downed trees, and combined with the power outages, the delivery got pushed out until yesterday. It basically worked as described above; getting each 2,500 lb pallet off the truck ramp and onto the trailer ramp was challenging. We overlapped them, but there was still a step between the two. We needed a few guys pushing while the Fedex guy used the pallet jack.
The Fedex truck driver was awesome, a really nice guy, super helpful, and he even drove my (loaned) truck, because we needed to back the trailer down the driveway, and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out which way to drive the truck, to get the trailer pointed in the right direction. It wasn't merely steering input; you had to get the entire truck/trailer combo into the right position, just to enable the trailer to go where you wanted it.
I ended up driving my nephew's old F250 turbo diesel for 2 days, including the Monday commute home from work, where I had to snake the truck between downed trees and power lines. But when it counted, the truck did the job.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
More tile, or more story?
If you're talking about tile, I don't think you can grasp how much tile is on each pallet. Here's a close-up of one sliver of a pallet, where the cardboard got torn off.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
"1,600 sq ft of porcelain tile, weighing nearly 7,000 lbs, is not a lot of tile" - Hectic.
Duly noted.
Duly noted.
HecticArt
Administrator
It is a lot if I have to unload it.
But if someone else does, well..................
I'm just teasing you a bit. We only do projects at my house one room at a time, so materials either fit in the back of my car, or in a buddies pickup truck.
Doing commercial work, I'm used to seeing much bigger shipments laying around, so I'm kind of numb to the delivery process. There's nothing on a site one afternoon, then the next morning a flatbed has already dropped off a full load and moved on. I rarely move materials on job sites, because of the liability issues.
But if someone else does, well..................
I'm just teasing you a bit. We only do projects at my house one room at a time, so materials either fit in the back of my car, or in a buddies pickup truck.
Doing commercial work, I'm used to seeing much bigger shipments laying around, so I'm kind of numb to the delivery process. There's nothing on a site one afternoon, then the next morning a flatbed has already dropped off a full load and moved on. I rarely move materials on job sites, because of the liability issues.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
A lot of interior work has been done; the upstairs framing is mostly done. But it's hard to capture it in pictures - it just looks like a bunch of wood studs. The center fireplace framing and chimney is a little easier to grasp.
semipenguin
Cheeseburger Connoisseur
I’ve been meaning to ask you. Have you been a passenger in a Home Depot picking truck, in New York City, any time in the past week?
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I actually did feel a little weird, seeing that the guy used a Home Depot rental, because I had researched both Home Depot and U-Haul rentals. Plus, you have to show the guy at the counter your driver's license. And I got the damage insurance - wonder if the terrorist guy did that?
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
The house is now lime green, because of the yellow wrap they put over the black felt. They also installed the windows in the basement, and they're doing nice work with the eaves of the roof.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
My 83 year-old father-in-law - who seems to be losing his superior wit by the minute - thought that the black felt paper was the siding color. Hopefully, he won't assume the lime green is the siding color.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Say goodbye to the green, the siding's going on
The main siding is vertical shiplap. Real shiplap, not the stuff Chip and Joanna call shiplap on HGTV that's not shiplap. And you can see they started the white cedar shingle that's going on the bump-out window as an accent.
