Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days

[FairfaxStu]

That's nowhere near enough beer for the amount of drywall you've got in that house, I would estimate 8-9 six-packs worth from the pictures. Of course the standard unit of measure is Bud tall-boys, so you have to apply a conversion factor for bottles of Heineken.

Mo and Quicksand:
Well said. I am still laughing so hard that I can barely type. Quicksand, what is your formula?
-Stu

 

[jinman]

I think the day the guys did Pete's fascia, he should have looked for some Everclear and grape juice bottles in his dumpster. Those boyz had to be drinkin' some stiff Purple Jesus to put up fascia like that.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Mo and Quicksand:
Well said. I am still laughing so hard that I can barely type. Quicksand, what is your formula?
-Stu

Based purely on observation: one tall-boy for breakfast, one for the drive to the jobsite, and one every two hours after that. Figure on two finished sheets per hour. However, if you're smoking meth you can skip every other beer, just like the way you can skip every other screw if you're using drywall adhesive but you need to derate to 1.5 finished sheets per hour.

 

[J F]

Real 'rockers put the empties in the wall framing as they go. The Heinie was just a bait-and-switch.

 

[pacerron]

Real 'rockers put the empties in the wall framing as they go. The Heinie was just a bait-and-switch.

Maybe that's why they say, "No English" when he tried to talk to them about the covered over rack in the wall...

 

[J F]

:laughing:

 

[pacerron]

Jay,
I have been wondering how the T & G knotty pine is going to look on the ceiling in a room that is essentially 9 feet wide by 25 feet long.
It will be a key highlight of the interior. I imagine the plan is to run it lengthwise with the room which is going to mean a lot of butt joints and grain matching to get it right.
With 2 sliding doors and the other windows on the back wall the deck with the boards running from the house out to the rail will be visible at the same time as the ceiling from most locations.

Have you ever done a situation like this and run the ceiling boards from the peak down to the wall instead of horizontal?
I don't know if you could make a quick render showing it that way for comparison.

I'm not really sure I would even trust this contractors crew to install such a key element to the interior. Perhaps you should call Peter
and discuss having that part taken out of the job and you making a contract with him to fly up there and do the installation.

 

[J F]

That might be just a tad expensive. I've never run any t&g like that, Ron, would be interesting to see. I don't know if I'm going to go into the rigmorale of drawing it though. :laughing:

I did some long lengths with semi-random butt-joints 10-12 years ago, and it came out really nice. This stuff was really thin, maybe 3/8", don't remember having any problems with the butt joints, sure we used some adhesive on the backing. Can't find any pics, we'll have to use our mind's eye.

 

[mjncad]

I have never seen drywall guys who drink Heineken. Wow. Bud - OK. But Heineken? They have expensive tastes.

MoKelly

I was going to say the economy must be improving for them to drink blond Heinies.

 

[J F]

I hadn't thought about it from that angle. :laughing:

Wonder if their vans had new shag?