06 September 2008

Mold eradication




My bathroom had a mold infestation because the idiot I bought the house from did a horrible job on the finish plumbing. The shut off valve for the toilet was leaking and also the stop for the sink was put on loosely so whenever the water drained down the sink it would leak down the wall. I ripped out the black moldy base board. When my roommate left to Washington D C for the summer I ripped all that moldy crap completely out. I stripped the bathroom down to the studs. I ripped off the sub floor and exposed the joists. The joists were in decent shape but the whole floor was out of level. So I leveled the joists and replaced the sub floor. I replaced the toilet drain. I put in a brand new tub. I had to reconfigure the plumbing to accommodate the piece of crap vinyl shower that was in there before. Thank heavens for Shark Bite fittings. I put in a brand new 36 by 36 window in the bathroom so now the air can flow thru. I ripped down the old sagging crap 1/4 inch gypsum board ceiling and put in a tray cieling. Since the bathroom is so small having a higher ceiling makes it feel more roomy. I accidentally sliced thru an electrical wire with my sawzall so I had to run a new wire. I raised up the light in the bathroom. I had to re install the fart fan into the new ceiling. I secured the switch box to the wall better so the switches aren't falling out of the wall anymore. I ripped off the old crappy 2 foot wide door and replaced it with a door that is 4 inches wider. I put in cultured marble all the way around the tub. The shower head is now higher. I recessed 2 medicine cabinets in the wall. I made a little soap cove right next to the sink. I replaced the cartridge in the shower plumbing so now the faucet doesn't leak into the tub anymore. I made sure that hot water comes out of the hot water side now instead of the cold water side. I put the sink back in and this time made sure that the stop was tightened and wow it doesn't leak now. I put vinyl tiles down on the floor. I put plastic base board down and siliconed it in so water won't leak behind it. If you are tired from just reading this imagine that I did all this crap on weekends and after framing for at least 8 hours a day. My thanks to Chippy for financing this project for me. I spent all my money on wicked sick mean power tools so he came thru for me when I had to spend thousands of dollars on building materials. I can't complain about money because I saved heaps of it by doing all this myself. And it only took me about 5 weeks.





20 May 2008

Tray Ceiling small bedroom


This is a picture of a tray ceiling I framed in my house. The room I framed it in is a small bedroom. The ceiling was only 8 feet high. I raised it up another foot and a half. The room feels so much more spacious now. The sheet rock didn't turn out too bad for a framer did it?

18 May 2008

Garth's deck


Last November I started a deck for my uncle Garth. I finally got around to finishing it in May.

29 April 2008

Siding on Shed





I have been laid off from work for a while so in my free time I finally put vinyl siding and aluminum soffit and fascia on my shed that I framed last summer with Randy.


26 February 2008

Carpentry Projects Furniture

I made this dresser out of Birch with Pine drawers. The drawers are 3/4" dovetailed pine with 3/4" pine bottoms. This dresser is way overbuilt and very heavy. There is a lot of wood in this dresser. It was my first piece out of hardwood. I designed it also. I design all my pieces.




This is a picture of some shelves I did in the shed below which I also did. My friend had the floor framed for his shed but he wanted me to build the rest of it. I even gave him a little attic in the rafters in which he can store more things.








These are shelves I built in my friend's garage. They stick out 2 feet from the wall. The top shelf is 8 feet high. They occupy 16 feet of the garage wall. Now he can get things off the garage floor so he can park his cars inside his garage.





This is a cabinet I made for a lady. She is going to put it above her computer. I don't have the tools to make a raised panel door so I improvised. The doors are still solid wood but just joined together a little differently. Can you see from the picture below how I joined the pieces? No, you really can't. You have to look closely at the cabinet to see how I joined the pieces together. It is not just glue either. It is almost indistinguishable.














The same lady also wanted a ladder display type shelf. So I designed this for her. The face frames give it all its strength. I use face frame construction in all my shelves and dressers and cabinets.








These are tombstone night stands I did for my little brother. Now he and his future wife can rest in peace knowing that if a satellite falls out of orbit and lands on their apartment and smashes the roof in at least what they put in their tombstone night stands will be spared. These are heavy I could barely pick up the carcasses (cabinet body) on my lomo (back) without the drawers. Again I used face frame construction, solid wood construction except the back which is way thicker than it should be, and dovetailed drawers.









The top drawers will be nice to hold watches, keys, cell phones, coins or whatever you carry in your pockets. A lamp could sit nicely on top. The bottom drawers could hold hand guns or files or sleeping pills or even dumb bells. I don't know what the slides are rated for but the drawer boxes could hold them.














This little shelf here goes along with the two dressers you will see below. I designed it like this so it wouldn't tip over so easily. I believe little girl's play horsies now occupy the shelves.





















Here are the two matching dressers. You can really see the detail of the dovetailed drawers here.









































25 February 2008

Carpentry projects













Hello. My name is Jonathan. I am posting pictures of carpentry projects I have done. I work as a residential framer. I like to make furniture also. I'm new at this blogging thing so forgive the initial awkwardness.











I built this deck at my parents house a few Christmas ago. I harvested the logs from the forest and de barked them myself with a scraper. The deck is just 2 x 6 joists lagged into the logs. The decking is just 2 x 6 studs on top of the joists. My mom just stains it to keep the water from destroying it.













































This is me framing the roof on my tool house. I figured out how to cut the rafters the old school way.















These are cabinets I made inside of my tool house. They are nothing more than MDF. It is like a little kitchen inside. I love all the storage space. At the time of this photo I had not installed the drawers yet. They are in now. I only wish I had made more drawers. They are so convinent.



This is a picture of a house I did in Saratoga Springs. It is the first house I framed as foreman of a crew.



























This is a house in Draper. The porch roof looks retarded because it is bieng held up temporarily because as much as I begged and pleaded I couldn't get any of the morons above me to get the pourch cap poured so I couldn't put my columns in yet.

















This is a house i framed in Spanish Fork.