Dam, work has been so slow
 

I'm doing things I haven't done in a while, customer ended up with a burnt spot when the seaming iron over heated and melted some of the backing, when I had his carpet replaced.

I told him I'll come back and do it myself, even out of practice, I figured I'll do a better job and replaced a 2 x 3 foot piece of his now 4 month old carpet as it didn't show up till some traffic was on it.

Didn't do to bad

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You can still see some of their seam to the left, but besides it's a newer piece of carpet my seams disappeared


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that smooth carpet like that is the toughest to do seams on aint it Herb

Berber is the worst for most, I don't even try berber as I had to many who do it all the time, complain about it, so I leave it to them.

looks good

To me that looks good. I didn’t see where it was till I looked at it a third time.
I’m more into polished concrete or real tong and grove hard wood floors.

Hell, right now I'm doin anything to make a buck. So many guys even doin odd jobs now that they are hard to come by. The one I'm workin on right now is movin 30 ton of rock with buckets and a shovel. No room to even get a wheelbarrow into where it's goin so it's 2 buckets at a time. Got probably 2 ton left before I'm finished. Funny she called several guys and nobody else wanted the job.

Home repair market is flooded with guys lookin for work, farmers didn't even hire out much this year because the rains kept things movin so slow they could keep up on their own, I can't even find any haulin jobs cause the horse and livestock market died.

Did you say 30 tons using buckets? How long dose it take you to move a ton? How far are you moving it?

That's the trouble here, to many wanting the odd jobs as all the big jobs are gone, like that ain't enough I got to compete with the people I buy my materials from as homo depot and Lowe's think they got to make money off every thing going on.

I use to get work from my suppliers and they would spread it around between their customers, but thank God homo depot and Lowe's send out the cheapest they can get so I gotten a few customers back and they said never again, they were here 6 times and never got the job right.

I been praying hard for all us working types as so many of us are in a bad way or heading that way.

I weighed one a these buckets the other day and give or take a few pounds it was about 65 pounds and I carry two a these at a time. Ya it ain't no fun. I'm spreading it 2 feet wide along a fenceline that is 152 feet long and the rock pile is about centered on that as close as I could could get the guy to dump. The yard is full of dog kennels along the fenclines that restrict gettin behind them and that's the problem. The owner is tired of weedeatin back there and wanted it rocked.

Hmm I see and it sounds like fun.

I'm missing the total remodels we did, we did this one 2 years ago for my brother and only had two months to get it done as his house was sold and they had to be out.

I did all the plumbing and tub set and tile in both bathrooms

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My brother and I did the master shower as it was going to be his, we moved the drain build the floor curb, we ran the shower out of the ceiling after buying a polished down rod to stop spash and still give him room to step out and get soaped up.

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We put in double sinks with bowls on top of the counter, one of the nieces showed my sister n law what not having over flows means, flooded the whole room, but they look cool.

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We left the guess bath, just ripped it all out and put in new every thing

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Dam I miss work

I'm down to about 30hrs a week, but now I'm being thrown into a pseudo-management position, with no extra pay. Unfortunately, while I now have the time, I rarely have the money to check things off my ever-growing list.
I need to go drive 400miles in an untested vehicle next weekend to empty my storage unit. I bought this thing with a major transmission leak that was evindenced everywhere, now it's not leaking and has me wondering when it'll restart.