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chilipeppermaniac said:
Man Mitch, I have done similar, but never had heard of that type red steel stuff. Certainly never had any fancy jack lifts like those either. We mostly got stuff up and used bottle jacks and 2x6 or 4x4 posts to jack up tight.

U r making me long for the days of my good old back /without pain or with manageable pain levels again.
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I can tell ya a little story about a locker room Glulam beam failure we did 2 years back.
It was in a hinge connector, and failed after the colum, the only way they noticed (the high school) locker room roof was leaking.
When I got the existing side up where it had to be to put the new beam in , the soffit in the locker room that was built many moons before the beam failure.
Had been lifted over 6”.
Plus we had to shore all the other connections because it was a panelized roof system.
We used 8x8’s to lift the girder with a large steel plate under the post ,,,, whew
 
Chili do you have a Simpson hardware book/ catalog ??
Most of the holdowns we always used are being phased out, no more bolts, all SDS Simpson hardware screws.
 
I know exactly what your going through Mark right down to the heartbeat and what was going thru you head at each stage, from the plumbing, electric, setting the tub and those freekin long tiles are harder to set than the smaller ones! Hope you buttered up the backs? hysterical.gif
If I were the home owner I would of asked you two things …. How much lower $ can you go before the quality of the work is affected? , and I'd want those floor and wall tiles at a 45 degree angle! jester.gif
Did anyone learn anything from the photo's folks? Do the back wall first since it hides the wall angles best! How are the finger splits treating ya? The friends from all the bands past still remind me and laugh about how I had to crazy glue my finger{s} splits together before I played a gig ... always in the winter ... cause when that E, B or G string goes into a finger split you actually see stars and pain like one never has before. The nerves of the fingers run down both sides of ya fingers and almost meet at the tip! Keep up the good work, Carry on …. DSCN1019.jpg
 
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I know exactly what your going through Mark right down to the heartbeat and what was going thru you head at each stage, from the plumbing, electric, setting the tub and those freekin long tiles are harder to set than the smaller ones! Hope you buttered up the backs? View attachment 38368
If I were the home owner I would of asked you two things …. How much lower $ can you go before the quality of the work is affected? , and I'd want those floor and wall tiles at a 45 degree angle! View attachment 38369
Did anyone learn anything from the photo's folks? Do the back wall first since it hides the wall angles best! How are the finger splits treating ya? The friends from all the bands past still remind me and laugh about how I had to crazy glue my finger{s} splits together before I played a gig ... always in the winter ... cause when that E, B or G string goes into a finger split you actually see stars and pain like one never has before. The nerves of the fingers run down both sides of ya fingers and almost meet at the tip! Keep up the good work, Carry on …. View attachment 38370
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Voxy, the irony of it all. I read how you opened your post and knew you knew ALMOST every thing. YOU included the finger splits,,,,,,,,,, but forgot the indecisive but picky and opinionated ( wife) customer factor. Having posted the pics here using my phone, I did not add a story line. But if you notice, part way through placing the mosaic accent stripe, the layout changed. I sent pics to the lady as I went on a lunch break in between buckets of thinset. One can see the wider 1 foot stripe for 3 sections of mosaic 1/2 way across the long wall. Then it shrinks down to 11 rows wide to it's finished state.


Upon returning, I get a call to ask if I didn't think the stripe was too wide? And did I think it would be best if she came home to see it up close and see other layouts of a wider tile and thinner stripe under the window. Needless to say, if you go back thru my pics, you can see the stripe got thinner as it finished in the corner by the plumbing wall. As for the 45 degree layout............. SHE also had her decision made up regarding the orientation of the floor, the stacked bond vertically of the tub, and soon to be laid down tiles on the wall in the room area. Just wait till you see the edge cap tiles she picked to finish off the edges of the wainscoting and vertical part above the tub.

Not that I have forgotten the finger splits,,,,,,,,,, I am struggling to type this without using my right index finger which has one of those splits right on the tip. Heck I have been lucky to have had 40-60 degree weather to work in on their carport, but it has been raining nearly every day.

Oh and to answer your other important question, YES every tile is back buttered smooth and then with notches and placed in the notched mud on the walls with notches all in same direction, no swirls, blobs, criss crossed directions.
 
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That indecisive and picky person was always a given with me and I would pester em to make sure the knew what they thought they wanted. Some people are like a stick in the mud while others were like a stick in cement! I usually, after learning the hard way, used to qualify them before the estimate. when guys called me to do one of their jobs I'd always say maybe. I need to do a psychological on them and ask you 20 questions, then I'll decide! If the dude who's job it is says, " Don't worry, I'll take care of you " I run for the hills cause more than 50% of the time I was right hysterical.gif. I did notice tarped nice oak floors to egress but I didn't see a vacuum. When a woman see's a contractor with a vacuum, rollin up the tarps, then using it at the end of the day you immediately get 15 more jobs in the neighborhood, and , can overhear the phone conversations, " He cleans up after himself w/a hoover " I laugh to myself cause their shocked! Then I would point out the box of HEPA filters that I switch out daily and I got em, hook, line and sinker. Mark I got 45 years of these stories, as you probably have too, that's why we had a riot at the Lakeland MOTM. I didn't feel like riding all the way from Clearwater to Lakeland's Fords Garage but when I realized that a forum member was going to be there from really far away I just didn't want toresistance if, pass up meeting another forum brother from afar! The foist time I met eSGSe and seen his Guinness Stout, that alone, he's cool, and funny, and, Hack, not leaving any guitar alone till he gets it just right to his likeing, he's cool too, so it was a win win with everybody seemingly bonded before we even met! And then trading guitars in the parking lot, although much too short was quite interesting and fun. And all that was because of TTR's and what lead to it's beginnings. Ya gotta love it resistance is futile ….. 0801052.gif
 
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