New stair case for the corner...

[Pathfinder]

Snakes, M'lette? Path, you and I have gotten cross wise to each other a few times over politics, but I still think you are a decent guy and someone I would like to drink a beer with. Comparing M'lette to snakes and hamsters? Path who? Never heard of the guy, but he went that-a-way!  
FQ13 who says you are on your own man. Important safety tip, stop digging.

Once a progressive, er, faux libertarian, . . . .

I was simply itemizing a few of my favorite things to slide down the slide.

M'ette, come on, fess up, you know that is the first thing you thought about when you saw the staircase with a slide, right?

[PegLeg45]

I figured we could put a basket under it to catch empties.........but I like Pathfinder's idea better.



Just keep the Purple Rifle away from M'ette while she's playing on the slide.......she'd be to prone to taking pot-shots at us on the back-spin..........


 

[Tyler Durden]

That spiral staircase is absolutely amazing.   

That outside skirtboard where each tread attaches to, I'm guessing, had to be bent around some form and glued together in plies.

And then, I'm guessing, that the "skirt board" is mortised to accept the ends of the treads. 

And then to glue up that gutter/slide thing.  WOW!

Impressive!

Back over on the Fine Homebuilding forum years ago, there used to be a guy by the name of Stan Foster from the Champaign/Urbana, (Univ. of IL) area who would post up pictures of his staircase work.  Man, that was always educational and fun to look at his work and his shop.

[TAB]

Knowing a guy that builds spiarl stair cases.  they are built full size at the shop, then installed whole or in peices.  either way they are asymbled 100% in the shop at some point.    They use ply wood or resaw board in to very thin to bend them into shape.  It is a real art.

[Tyler Durden]

Oh, yeah, Stan said he would hire like 5 guys for min wage for a day, as he would load up his mostly finished stair cases on a flatbed trailer, drive to the house, have the same 5 guys carry it off the trailer and set  it into place at the house.

[Sponsor]

[TAB]

I've actually built 2nd/3rd story addions  to fit vintage sprail stair cases.  Its really one of those items, that you better have every thing planed out, even down to the floor used, and build into the the plan.  Or, wait till everything is built then order it.

i've never had a prefab part not fit that was built as contracted, I've had several where the supplier/builder built them to large or too small.  They always accuse you of measuring something incorrectly,  Then I remind them, you were the one that measured the opening.  That or you make them come out and measure thier work, then show then them the contract.

 


You would be amazed at how hard it is to use a tape measure, and how few professionals know how to use it correctly.


I kid you not, it take a guy about 2 years to know hwo to use a tape measure and a pencil

[Badgersmilk]

Hmmmm, it's looking like even M'lette's stopped wasting her time...   

[crusader rabbit]

You would be amazed at how hard it is to use a tape measure, and how few professionals know how to use it correctly.

Sort of like, "No matter how many times I cut it, it's still too short."

[TAB]

You would be amazed at how hard it is to use a tape measure, and how few professionals know how to use it correctly.

Sort of like, "No matter how many times I cut it, it's still too short."

you know they actually do have a tool called a board strecher.( no joke)  they are about the size of a bus and are used in conjunction with steam and hydrolic presure to straiten beams.

[Tyler Durden]

I remember being up in the attic, in between the trusses of a new build one miserable St. Louis summer, oh, about the year 2000 or 2001.  We had to put blocking in above the "partition walls" to act as backing for drywall to attach to.  I think it was a code thing where the drywall between the garage and the rest of the structure had go all the way up to the underside of the roof sheathing.

I had an "apprentice" down below on the ground floor cutting for me.  I was trying to communicate with him to turn his speed square to say like a "five pitch".

All I got from him were looks like this:      

So I climbed down once to show him.

Then I climbed back up there in that hot attic.  "Okay, I need a tubb-a-four fifty six and a quarter inches, square to long point."

His reply was, "Uhh...how many tick marks is the first quarter?"

Me:   

So for the better of that hot day, I just had him hand boards up to me, and I marked him out.  Then I would hand them back down and he would cut them for me.  He would hand them back up, and I would nail them on.

Sad.

Really.

Sad.