The porch project, update
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Topic: The porch project, update
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: The porch project, update
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 7:02am
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Well the 'contractor' finally cut and installed the stairs, landing and deck..... Notable 'features'... deck(porch) is 5 by 7 feet. He used 2 sheets of indoor plywood. Didn't bother to use my 5 by 9 sheet,outdoor 1" with PVC coating on both sides. BTW it slopes towards the house. BTW one outside stringer is 'floating', ie NOT screwed to beam,it's a foot away from it !.. stairs.picture this...from concrete walkway..2 steps up to landing, 2 steps up to porch, 1 step to doorway. According to my tapemeasure... 7 1/2, 7 5/8, 8, 7 5/8, 8, 7 1/2. Now I ain't a high price professional contractor BUT did build my basement stairs AND next door shop stairs, both same steps-landing-steps configuration and BOTH of them have the 'rises' ALL the same so I must have done something wrong twice ???? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 7:05am
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*sigh* There, I did it for you. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 8:03am
Jay.... you pay them PROFESSIONAL prices and YOU get that PROFESSIONAL RESULTS !! 
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 1:41pm
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the guy was a pro-fessional... imagine if he were an anti-fessional. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 4:24pm
Perhaps he should visit the con-fessional.
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FloydKS wrote:Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 5:17pm
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yeah, I always figured a professional was a guy you PAID to make mistakes..... good thing I've got 6 great neighbours to visit. had 7 , but Gino, who'd turned 101 last month , passed away. He wa sthe last veteran of WWII that I knew. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 5:59pm
| Don't take no Genieass to understand a Carpenter Square and setting Step Stringers. |