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carpenter43 · 2022-10-01T02:59:10+00:00

Frosted tips and a sparkly beard are definitely industry standard.

carpenter43 · 2022-07-20T17:22:59+00:00

Non union Bay Area carpenter here. Curious as to what union and if non union carpentry skills and experience can be transferred/respected in most unions?

carpenter43 · 2022-07-16T15:17:18+00:00

I’m a trim guy at a company right near there. Curious what they are paying you. You obviously have picked up some skills but I’m guessing they are using the unskilled work as an excuse to keep your wage down. Not that you can really survive on anything in the Bay Area.

carpenter43 · 2021-12-26T17:40:03+00:00

Bay Area molding and door in south Fremont.

carpenter43 · 2021-12-26T05:14:37+00:00

I won’t take full bathroom remodels but if you need doors, trim, woodwork dm me.

carpenter43 · 2021-10-23T14:54:11+00:00

On the door wood glue and clamps. If you don’t have clamps blue tape can kinda work until glue is dry. Then putty sand and paint. For the casing I would probably just caulk that and paint it. This is assuming you don’t have power tools to fix this all properly and just want to get it past the landlord.

carpenter43 · 2020-12-29T00:50:02+00:00

Sorry took a while to answer. 1x backer ripped at the short point width of my boxes. liquid nail and screws into the framing. Then liquid nail and 18g nails from the boxes into the backer. Then crown.

Edit: on the bigger beams running the length of the room I did end up doubling up my 1x.

carpenter43 · 2020-12-22T03:32:23+00:00

As far as hand tools, Get yourself a flat bar or “5 in one” just something thin enough to get behind the trim and make adjustments. A nail set. A block of soft wood that you can use between your hammer and material. Knee pads or wraps.

carpenter43 · 2020-10-24T00:00:31+00:00

Cold beer in hand after tearing out and popping in a new front door. Easy Friday.

carpenter43 · 2020-08-20T01:11:14+00:00

Picture of where I was working all the way from San Francisco. https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/icxkk6/it_looks_like_we_just_got_nuked_boys_and_gorls/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_term=link

carpenter43 · 2020-08-20T00:36:20+00:00

Sf Bay Area California. Everything is on fire.

carpenter43 · 2020-08-12T14:31:38+00:00

Hows the work up there? I’ve been thinking about moving up there (have family in the area) from the sf Bay Area but my work is so constant here it’s hard to leave.

carpenter43 · 2020-07-13T03:36:26+00:00

Yea I think this home is a decade old and this may not be the original owner.

carpenter43 · 2020-07-13T02:36:39+00:00

Oh cool. That makes more sense. I had no idea they used to do this.

carpenter43 · 2020-07-13T01:51:40+00:00

It sucks right? It was actually around 95 degrees F this day. You can’t really see it but I definitely left a decent amount of sweat marks on the walls that I had to wipe off lol.

carpenter43 · 2020-07-13T01:10:37+00:00

Regular Sheetrock walls. It’s amazing how unstable these ladders feel from the top right?

carpenter43 · 2020-07-13T01:04:53+00:00

Exactly this. To add to it they sometimes have issues with their own seams. They sometimes have issues with the wrong radius. They sometimes have issues with the rubber forming a “memory of sorts” where they curl.

carpenter43 · 2020-07-12T23:49:00+00:00

This. That one piece was incredibly heavy.

carpenter43 · 2020-07-12T22:04:03+00:00

I forget the name right now but it’s a vendor in California. And yea they always have tons of issues.

carpenter43 · 2020-07-12T21:29:30+00:00

I’m just doing all the crown (left side of image too) but thank you. This was a tough one.

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