430gal., L-shaped display

[Ratpack]

Very nice. I love these type of projects, although I would have to get a divorce to start one. Can't wait to see how this comes out.

 

[kidney514]

And don't forget that she would leave with the tank...... LOL

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks! Heck, my lovely bride is the one who insisted that we get a big ol' tank. Unfortunately, she wouldn't go for a 4' wide x 12' long one, though.

 

[bchbum189]

any tank is a battle won in my book. I fought long for a 10' but alas no deal haha Ill take what i can get

 

[bstoner]

Very nice build, I would love to do an L shaped tank. I am taking notes.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks, y'all.

Sorry for no update in a while. I've been sick and work's been a bit much. I just finished the first set of corrections for a book Tuesday and I think it's going to press ... tomorrow? Plus, I have to typeset two other books for Monday and I have to do the corrections for three paperback editions for Monday as well. Sigh. Plus, the Avs vs. Wings starts tomorrow and my daughter starts a 5 day weekend Friday.

Anyway, I've been taking pictures but I've only just uploaded a bunch.

http://65.102.221.68/remodel.html

Work's been continuing on the porch and, otherwise, the crew has continued boxing the eaves (one of the more thankless jobs, IMO, as it doesn't look like much until you consider all of the tiny cuts and impossible angles involved). The crew's idea of "rough" carpentry almost makes me laugh. The joints are straight. The gaps are even all the way up the eaves. I honestly see no real reason for molding as there are no real sins to hide.

The HVAC people are working their way through the house, as are the electricians, and the poor plumber. I'm not sure how he's keeping all of the manifolds straight for the radiant heat along with all the rest of the plumbing, but he keeps moving.

They are starting to work out the logistics of getting the drilling rig out for the geothermal.

Rough inspections should be coming up in a couple of weeks, after which comes the mason and the insulation and drywall guys.

We can only go for a partial rough inspection as the tank's been delayed (grr) and won't be roughed-in in time to inspect it. I think it's now 1.5-2.5 weeks out. Sorry. I know you're all waiting for pictures. (Me, too!)

 

[bchbum189]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12399216#post12399216 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by "Umm, fish?"
Plus, the Avs vs. Wings starts tomorrow

I hope all of what you just said is planned around this! Seeing as your from Colorado, I wont ask which side your going for.







































WINGS!

 

[paulthomas]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12399216#post12399216 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by "Umm, fish?"
I just finished the first set of corrections for a book Tuesday and I think it's going to press ... tomorrow? Plus, I have to typeset two other books for Monday and I have to do the corrections for three paperback editions for Monday as well.

I hope you like to read?

Nice progress BTW, which is more than I can say.

Paul

 

["Umm fish?"]

Hey I (Go Avs) don't want (Go Avs) this to (Go Avs) turn into (Go Avs) a trash-talk (Go Avs) thread. Hey the Wings had a great season. What happened at the end? I'm actually serious, though that could be taken as trash. I wasn't paying enough attention and couldn't figure out why they had the big lull. Injuries?

Thanks, Paul! But, I'm typesetting--I don't have to read them. That's the editor's job. If I start reading it just slows me down. I spend all my time trying to get the overall impression of the pages instead of getting lost in the details.

 

[bchbum189]

haha i know, just wanted to poke fun, back to topic, i cant remember if you gave a eta on completion of all construction?

 

["Umm fish?"]

My daughter claims that we're having a Halloween party in there, which I guess we could do, even if it's just a big, empty, scary construction zone. Maybe that would be better: "Get your candy and a liability waiver here."

I hope to be back in by the end of December. The project manager thought that was a great date and has latched on to it. He's very experienced at this sort of thing and at what to say to homeowners to keep them happy, so I'm also assuming that's a very pessimistic date, as if everything goes wrong from here on out. If it were my job, I'd certainly be giving pessimistic deadlines this far out. They originally said 8-9 months on a mid-January start date and I still think we're pretty close to schedule.

 

[paulthomas]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12400275#post12400275 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by "Umm, fish?"
Thanks, Paul! But, I'm typesetting--I don't have to read them. That's the editor's job. If I start reading it just slows me down. I spend all my time trying to get the overall impression of the pages instead of getting lost in the details.

Right, I was teasing. That sounds like a ton of work still. Has the process of typesetting changed over the years? I'm not knocking it, but it sounds like tedious work.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, it's all on computers now. I don't have to type the whole book like the old-timers used to have to do. I can import Word files into the page layout software. I wrote a bunch of software ~10 years ago to run on the Word files before I import them to the page layout that saves me a ton of time on the tedious stuff. So, what's left is like a giant puzzle and I love that part of it. Manually entering corrections is pretty awful, but you get awful parts of any job. Plus, I do like the design part of the job, too.

I love the fact that I get to stay at home, I don't have to go to meetings (until the remodel started ), and because I don't go to meetings and don't have a commute I can usually get most of my work done in time to hang with my kiddo after school. Not a bad life.

Also, I get a cool connection to my past: My grandfather was a typesetter for the Government Printing Office back in the Depression. _Those_ were the bad old days when you could always tell a typesetter because they'd always lost at least one eye to hot lead squirting into them. Yuck.

 

[paulthomas]

That's great. Very few people like their jobs, let alone have that rich of a heritage with it.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Yeah, it's good too be me. Thanks, Too Fly!

I just finished setting one of the books and the other is half-prepped, so I should be good for Monday. Woohoo!

Site meeting today and it seemed like there were a thousand people in there working. The roofers are there, the window installers, the HVAC people, the electricians, the door makers, and the regular crew are all framing some of the downstairs interior walls. 8)

Had a short meeting with the electrician and backup generator people. The electrician is going to make sure one panel contains heating/air conditioning, the refrigerators, all of the aquarium pump outlets, and minimal lighting throughout the house just to keep the place habitable in case of emergency. I think we'll probably wind up with a 20,000KW unit.

 

[savethereef]

looks great so far man your team is pretty good to make so much progress in such little time. keep up the good work

 

[bchbum189]

still very very jealous of the rate at which all of them are working. Im gonna send some plane tickets out, you feel free to throw some of them on a plane out here to work on my house

 

["Umm fish?"]

You betcha. They'll be available in ... oh ... about 6 months.

Bummer about the Avs game, though....

Thanks, savethereef!

 

["Umm fish?"]

The roofers were in today. Sigh. Pretty much the first bad experience and only just one of the employees. The building crew bails out at half a day on Fridays if they've gotten enough work done that week. I assume that's one of the ways they keep good employees. But as soon as the crew left, this one guy on the roofing crew was screaming and yelling, "If the construction guys aren't here then I don't see why I have to work." "We should leave the nails out here so the construction guys step on them." Racial slurs. Smoking in the house. (The builders designate the house as a no-smoking zone not just for health reasons, but also because there's a ton of sawdust around and kerosene for heating oil, etc.) And that employee sure as heck didn't do any more work the rest of the afternoon. Of course, another couple of guys were doing their jobs and probably angry at this guy.

Anyway, in good news, the construction supervisor emailed this morning and this sentence jumped out at me:

As all stands as of now we expect to complete the project sometime in late Sept excluding landscaping which will be underway at this time.

Woohoo! So maybe I can get the guys to you a little sooner, bchbum!

 

[SSpiro]

Tagging along. Coooool thread.