@Bayernmensch#6240 is the air in your house a problem? If so maybe one of the hyperallegenic one but usually that's for people with abnormal allergies.

I have em too but not bad enough I need to filter the air

@Deleted User You're the man. Did owning more than 1 property turn you into a jack of all trades?

Haha no I got my start doing trim carpentry on small scale remodels working for a good contractor

Did it for years then got a (((media))) job which looked better to banks

Made some smart purchases that cash flowed very well early on

Oh nice, what is that you do now? If I can support a brother I will.

How much do finish carpenters make? I get that it's based upon location. As a crate technician in LA I make $20/hr...

Carpenters are the one of lowest paid trades unfortunately. But if you're the contractor you have no limit. Or you could get on with a big company and do well.
Like the electricians said the end goal is to become the contractor.

Yeah I thinking of getting my contractors license

I got mine but hardly use it.

@RevStench Now I'm a director for a yuuuge media company. Total fuckin pox all day long

Poz*

Trim carpenters/artisans can make decent money but yeah they don't make as much as elec, plumbers, etc unless your doing work like @RevStench

Your type of restorations are priceeeey .....

For sure, but it's either me or you can call this guy

Hahaha no joke

That's plywood holding the sash together haha

@Pendragon#1229 If you can run small jobs as a contractor and hire subs and do all the carpentry yourself you can make more than just running trim but it's more headaches. I did that for a few years

@Pendragon#1229 You in LA? I built sets for a few years too a looong time ago. That pays decent

Oh cool @Deleted User I bet that was a lot of fun and headache. Got any set you can brag about?

It's a shame carpenters get stiffed on moneybecause there are so many neat things to do.

@RevStench It was NY in the 90s sonit was fun. The only noteworthy set was probably upright citizens brigade on comedy central

No way, I love UCB. Little Donnie is my favorite

I was just a helper basically. And I put together a ton of flats and stages. Then moved back down here and started working with that contractor

Haha little donny

I helped build the inner sanctum set

Their headquarters

Carpentry is one of the most underrated and underused professions

That's really cool man, what neat place to get a start in building.
It's a shame that carpentry has become what it is. I've seen articles over in the Netherlands where they are building multi story buildings with wooden frames again. That's really cool.

Morgan cars still use a wooden frame, that would be a dream job.

Wow that's nuts

@RevStench https://youtu.be/ErGQ0rXkn74

That's pretty cool. I wish there was a market for homes like this. I could do this type of work for pleasure.

This guy has making shakes down to a science. I've pretty much memorized his technique, it's good information.
https://youtu.be/UZA1J8RHltY

@RevStench You ever seen the Dick Pernake doc?

Think it was on PBS years ago but it's on YouTube. Ex navy pilot moved to the Alaskan wilderness and built everything by hand. Amazing he filmed all of it on 16mm

No I haven't, I'll look it up.
People show me video's like that house all the time, I appreciate it. But most of the these people say they do things the old ways then I watch and I only see where they skipped the old hard ways for modern things. Like that house they used rebar. No one used rebar for foundations. They also ran the trees through a saw.

Hand hewed logs,

Floor joist for this place built in the 1850s

My family house in New York had hand hewn logs. It was one of the first houses in the area. I used to daydream about what it was like to walk to the middle of nowhere all alone, chop down a few trees, and start building yourself a new life.

I do that same day dreaming almost everyday. Or what it was like when a new town was being built. I go to a lot of small towns, ones with one 4 way stop being the town center. Life was harder but in my opinion better in the good ol'days.

@Joseph McCarthy - NJ Just watched that video. Gods. White people are fucking awesome.

@Deleted User for sure, WE are the builders of cities.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

There's several parts to this. It'll put you to sleep but it's pretty amazing what this guy did. Killed all his own food but cabin and smoke house by hand

I hope it's related but has anyone made fasces for decoration?

http://www.legionxxiv.org/fasces%20page/

Like this

No sir, you make one and show us haha. For real though

There's some really cool buildings being made out of wood again.
http://archive.is/H1TSQ

http://archive.is/73Vxu

Supposedly LVLs and CLTs can be stronger that concrete and rebar in earthquake prone areas

Lvl is some good stuff, I used to use it for building pole barns, I've loads of barns for some of the big horse farms in KY. LVL is so heavy though, kicks my little ass.

http://archive.is/bjfqq

So much cool stuff happening with timber.

https://www.gearbest.com/other-tools/pp_216958.html?wid=3

@Deleted User haha thanks for posting that. I'm fixing a door and can usually find a way to get out stripped screws. Totally forgot about these

@RevStench You on the real estate server?

@Deleted User yes sir

Cool

Working on a folding metal basics for today. I'm wrapping up a few jobs right now and don't have a lot of actual work, just breaking down scaffolding and doing some really minor finishing touches.

That last pic look sharp @RevStench !

Nice work

Thanks brother. I do my best.

I liked the spinal tap reference😄

haha I figure that these things are boring so it needed to be a little fun to read

These we're turned into leaded glass sometime in the 1850s, pretty sweet. Hamline Chapel, Lawrenceburg, IN

I restored one of these. I don't have any pictures of the sash I did. But it's the first one on the right when you go through the front door, if anyone is interested haha.

Sorry I haven't been active here. We don't really have anything fun right now, I'm busy but everything big wrapped up and we picked up a job restoring more than 40 sets of windows. So that is going to take some time. I've been breaking down windows and stripping paint for the last week.

@RevStench hey I got a decent drywall patch lesson/pics ready to go should I post here? A lot of people need to patch holes etc and it’s super easy but they don’t know how. Not carpentry but still helpful building skill

Drywall work is a pain!

It's dirty, too. I'm pretty happy I picked electrical, it's the easiest on your body.

Till you get lit up you mean

That stuff hurts

@Deleted User yeah bro, go ahead. I'll figure out how to move it into lessons after you finish.

Thanks. That's good stuff to know how to do.

Ok everybody. Patching some drywall with the “hot patch” method. This is only one way to do it but you don’t have to buy those kits and works just as good if you’ve got a scrap piece of drywall laying around:

That’s the hole we wanna patch. You’ll need these tools plus some drywall and mud

Measure the size of the hole. In this case it’s approx 3.5” the size of a coffe top

Outline around the size of the hole about an inch in every direction

Then cut out the bigger outline

Flip the piece over and draw your true patch size on The backside

Then cut out everything on that line. You can make straight cuts like so and fold then peel away the sheet rock leaving the paper

Then peel off the excess by going all the way around.

Should end up looking like this

Now use that piece to plug the hole but BEFORE YOU DO put fresh mud around the outside of the hole on the wall so the paper has something to stick to. (Don’t have photos of the mud) I

Make sure there is mud underneath the paper

Then you take a drywall knife and spread it out