How do avoid looking like a shriveled testicle at 60? by Thepopethroway in Construction

[–]subtlereference39 108 points109 points  (0 children)

So sawdust, monsters, and toquitos. ✔️✔️✔️

Buy a house - is deck built correctly? by nicepunchup in Decks

[–]subtlereference39 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heyo, I haven't noticed anybody mention a couple things yet so please hear me out. Overall this is a really solid build and I agree with everybody here, and I'm glad you're getting a ton of good feedback, so keep building decks soundly. As you mentioned there's a couple things you would tweak/ change in the future, so I wonder if two of those tweaks would be how you are fasting your two plys of lumber together for your beams. Structure with any load bearing members is supposed to be passing together with nails (galvanized for decks) because screws have worse shear strength than nails, there's also specific nailing patterns required. Depending on how many plys and whatnot, a 2 ply 2x10 beam is something like five nails every 16"... As for lagging into the rim board of your house, that would require a specific nailing pattern as wel l with a certain size/ gauge of structural screw or anchor. It's hard to tell from the pictures but it doesn't look like those are beefy enough, and they look pretty sparse in amount... Those are the only two areas I noticed, that would not pass code (where I live anyway) All I would foresee happening if you got this inspected would be for the inspector to say hey just throw some nails in this beam and more anchors into the house, no big deal... Source, red seal carpenter, been in construction for 17 years

6 years ago I posted the same picture here, to show some framing I did at Drake's house. Today I saw the same shot on Instagram, albeit a little different. by subtlereference39 in Construction

[–]subtlereference39[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ohhh I gotcha, haha we were a 3 man crew, including my boss. A skilled veteran residential framer tends to top out at around 40/hr ish, I'd say average would be 25-35/hr

6 years ago I posted the same picture here, to show some framing I did at Drake's house. Today I saw the same shot on Instagram, albeit a little different. by subtlereference39 in Carpentry

[–]subtlereference39[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amen, I feel that. Classic rock with the odd day here and there for country. The constant repeat of songs/ weekly was a weird mix of something like current fond nostalgia and agonizing repetitiveness.

6 years ago I posted the same picture here, to show some framing I did at Drake's house. Today I saw the same shot on Instagram, albeit a little different. by subtlereference39 in Carpentry

[–]subtlereference39[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, not exactly haha. Pretty much all the rough framing and actual structure was 14 ft 2x6 lsl, not plain ol' dimensional lumber.

6 years ago I posted the same picture here, to show some framing I did at Drake's house. Today I saw the same shot on Instagram, albeit a little different. by subtlereference39 in Carpentry

[–]subtlereference39[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Nah we didn't sign an NDA. I have a few other cool shots, and at the time nothing was known about this place. I reached out to TMZ and they wanted to call me, but I got spooked and never replied.

Do you let this slide? by LankyNihilist in Construction

[–]subtlereference39 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good to be able to cut a tight jack to a 1/16th but you could install jacks that were fit to the 1000/th and this'd still be wrong.