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




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

 

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.