drywall to level 4 finish and added texture, but i haven't plastered a plaster on lath wall
Mar 24, 23 9:03 am ·
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Non Sequitur
peasant... I have a repeat client who demands level 5. I continuously have to apologize to the GCs... It's not my choice, yes I know it's unnecessary but that's what they want.
Mar 24, 23 9:11 am ·
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curtkram
i have no problem with level 5, but i also have no problem letting contractors do some of the work.
Real plaster, no, but I have had skim coat plaster with a smooth finish done on projects and I love it. A current project for clients from California is getting a plaster knock-down finish with bullnose corner bead, which is throwing the local talent for a loop since smooth drywall and crisp corners are the norm here in northern New England. Plaster is more common in southern New England.
I often spec a level 5 drywall finish on my coastal homes, at least for the rooms facing the water, because the reflected light is brutal about showing textural differences in the drywall. But for most project, level 4 is fine.
I have personally hung and taped a lot of drywall, maybe 1/4 acre or so. I think of it as sculpting the appearance of a flat surface. I don't really enjoy it but I've done enough of it that I can turn my brain off and just follow the motions and it's kind of therapeutic, at least until the sanding stage. I'll do an extra coat or two just to avoid sanding.
my undergrad school had a full welding and metal fab shop inside the arch school wood shop. Very few arch students even bothered with it but I asked and was taught how to use the welder and brake-form machines. Fantastic skill, even at super-amateur level but it made for some nice accents to my studio models. It got to a point were I would duck into the shop in shorts & tshirt... grab some steel, slap on the mask and glove and weld away before running back to class covered in dust and smelling awesome!
I have done a little bit of plastering work (plaster restoration) for lath & plaster but am in no way an expert of the craft. You have to do it as a living to get good at it like anything else. I have done wood framing, woodworking, various restoration crafts including glass cutting and reglazing windows, repairing double-hung windows (yes, the real McCoy), sash chords and sash weights, column restoration, and so forth, dry stack stone masonry, and other stuff. I don't do the crafts trade as my vocation, I learned it in order to better understand the crafts & trades involved. While my vocation is designing buildings and designing restoration project and related work. It's important and good to understand the trades and crafts. While I have not done so much welding myself, it will probably be something I'll pick up into the assortment of trades and crafts I have varying degrees of experience with as well as some forms of metal fabrication. I also have some tools that I can use and work with for wood and metal like my fret saw (not talking guitar fret work) but architectural fretwork. It's the difference in blades I use. Some blades are for wood and some for soft metals and some for harder metal material.
I poured concrete one summer in high school & decided I wanted to click a mouse instead of work construction. Which I later learned was the whole point of my dad making me do it.
Edit: Thinking back, I did little actual pouring. It was more of a carry heavy mix bags from here to there occupation.
kjpn - I'm being serious. Jawk suffers from some type of mental illness. Several users here have seen his other social media posts and it's very disturbing. Ask Non Sequitur about what type of pics Jawk likes to send to people. It's even more disturbing than his posts.
Mar 27, 23 10:19 am ·
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Non Sequitur
Please don't ask me to expand on Jawk's ... habits. I'd like to avoid browsing his twitter if possible.
excavating, rebar prepping, forming(although it was all bigfoots), mixing, pouring, with embeds for paralam beams. framing, insulation, drywall, mudding, sanding, painting. also some minor plumbing and electrical, tile setting, siding, windows, landscaping, fence. Now I live in a condo and it's boring.
my ? to architects:
Have you ever plastered a wall?
yes.
Have you ever done anything quantifiable real?
drywall to level 4 finish and added texture, but i haven't plastered a plaster on lath wall
peasant... I have a repeat client who demands level 5. I continuously have to apologize to the GCs... It's not my choice, yes I know it's unnecessary but that's what they want.
i have no problem with level 5, but i also have no problem letting contractors do some of the work.
Real plaster, no, but I have had skim coat plaster with a smooth finish done on projects and I love it. A current project for clients from California is getting a plaster knock-down finish with bullnose corner bead, which is throwing the local talent for a loop since smooth drywall and crisp corners are the norm here in northern New England. Plaster is more common in southern New England.
I often spec a level 5 drywall finish on my coastal homes, at least for the rooms facing the water, because the reflected light is brutal about showing textural differences in the drywall. But for most project, level 4 is fine.
I have personally hung and taped a lot of drywall, maybe 1/4 acre or so. I think of it as sculpting the appearance of a flat surface. I don't really enjoy it but I've done enough of it that I can turn my brain off and just follow the motions and it's kind of therapeutic, at least until the sanding stage. I'll do an extra coat or two just to avoid sanding.
Level 11, or it's shit. Amiright?
But ours go up to eleven.
I love that "turn it up to 11" has become so ingrained in our culture that a lot of people don't even know where it's from.
Yes - gypsum wall board with a level 4 finish.
I've also
What about you Jawk - what have you done?
Learning to weld has been on my to-do list for a few decades... did you teach yourself or take a class?
Learned while in college. I worked the scene shop at our theater. My welding is basic and ugly but it holds. :s
my undergrad school had a full welding and metal fab shop inside the arch school wood shop. Very few arch students even bothered with it but I asked and was taught how to use the welder and brake-form machines. Fantastic skill, even at super-amateur level but it made for some nice accents to my studio models. It got to a point were I would duck into the shop in shorts & tshirt... grab some steel, slap on the mask and glove and weld away before running back to class covered in dust and smelling awesome!
My local college has an actual welding degree program and my brother has been working on the degree program. We have some welding equipment and PPE.
I have done a little bit of plastering work (plaster restoration) for lath & plaster but am in no way an expert of the craft. You have to do it as a living to get good at it like anything else. I have done wood framing, woodworking, various restoration crafts including glass cutting and reglazing windows, repairing double-hung windows (yes, the real McCoy), sash chords and sash weights, column restoration, and so forth, dry stack stone masonry, and other stuff. I don't do the crafts trade as my vocation, I learned it in order to better understand the crafts & trades involved. While my vocation is designing buildings and designing restoration project and related work. It's important and good to understand the trades and crafts. While I have not done so much welding myself, it will probably be something I'll pick up into the assortment of trades and crafts I have varying degrees of experience with as well as some forms of metal fabrication. I also have some tools that I can use and work with for wood and metal like my fret saw (not talking guitar fret work) but architectural fretwork. It's the difference in blades I use. Some blades are for wood and some for soft metals and some for harder metal material.
I poured concrete one summer in high school & decided I wanted to click a mouse instead of work construction. Which I later learned was the whole point of my dad making me do it.
Edit: Thinking back, I did little actual pouring. It was more of a carry heavy mix bags from here to there occupation.
That's 50% of concrete work. 40% is forming, 10% is pouring the concrete. ;)
0% vibration? dont want to remove the forms!
Ha!
Somebody has to knock off the form ties, patch the holes and apply damp-proofing, and it's not the most expensive person on the crew.
Meh - that's all part of the 50% lifting heavy stuff portion of the work. ;)
why is this in Politics?
Because Jawk suffers from mental illness. Seriously.
kjpn - I'm being serious. Jawk suffers from some type of mental illness. Several users here have seen his other social media posts and it's very disturbing. Ask Non Sequitur about what type of pics Jawk likes to send to people. It's even more disturbing than his posts.
Please don't ask me to expand on Jawk's ... habits. I'd like to avoid browsing his twitter if possible.
You're the one that told me about Jawk and showed me his twitter . . . .
excavating, rebar prepping, forming(although it was all bigfoots), mixing, pouring, with embeds for paralam beams. framing, insulation, drywall, mudding, sanding, painting. also some minor plumbing and electrical, tile setting, siding, windows, landscaping, fence. Now I live in a condo and it's boring.
Yes actually. Long story, worked for a guy, drove his Porsche, moved hair dryers on stands... you wouldn't get it.
but has anyone pilaster-ed a wall?
https://cdn.branchcms.com/39ZRppKR8d-936/images/gallery/zDPP_0027-14.jpg. I made a secret panel in one of them for the owner to store his "cigars."
No. but did have a funny story involving woodpeckers and pilasters on a project where I was an architect.... Short version, Woodpeckers>EFIS
No, but I have gotten plastered a few times.
Yes! and I mixed plaster today for my kid who wanted to cast a plaster egg.
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