Work In The N.O.
There are four jobs going on concurrently that the bossman and I are working on. He's starting to trim a house in Lakeview while I prep a house for paint in Metairie and then we have the four-plex off of Clearview to punch out and the converted garage of our building contractor in River Ridge to finish up. In the evenings and on weekends I have the 1897 Victorian Dumaine house to exterior paint, the Rocheblave house to replace a moldy section of sheetrock in the return air vent and at least three rooms to repaint in the next six days and I did promise the Sculptor across the street that I would tape and float her small section of ceiling in the studio portion of her home. It's only about a two inch description of work though so it can't be all that hard. Sitting here right now doing nothing is sort of a guilty pleasure except that I don't feel guilty or for that matter all that pleased.
Yesterday like Cinderella on her knees scrubbing while the ugly step sisters are away having fun (except the shoe will never fit and my boss is not an ugly step sister) I scraped with a six foot section of trim molding the sawdust and bits of wood left by another carpenter crew so I could freely navigate the rolling scaffold, which is quite an expediting device when caulking, puttying and painting crown molding.
The builder (not the one we usually work for) came in while I did this and spying that pitiful picture of me on my knees, perhaps felt guilty and asked did I want him to clean up the place and I said if he could that would be nice, at least sweep everything to the middle of the rooms. He said he would because if I was starting to paint tomorrow all the dust would get in the paint and that would not be good. I did not say, Really? This guy has never seen my work so doesn't know that I can make his woodwork glass smooth even in a windstorm, but I like a clean work environment, so let's hope he cleaned up the place last night and moved all that unused trim molding out of the hallway.
Ok, that's it, off to the I-10.
I'm with you, a clean jobsite ranks right up there with clean underwear- a sign of good breeding and much more pleasurable to work in
Yeah, bastard didn't clean up though, guess I'll take my pushbroom tomorrow, which is probably what he's counting on.
and tell him he can put that broom where the sun don't shine
Actually he was pretty nice today, came in while I was re-rolling Master ceiling, said (referring to big pile of left over trim boards), is that in your way? I said, YES, and man, that dude jumped to it, moved that big pile of 16 footers out to the garage immediately, so we straight. And speaking of straight, I gave him some scary straight lines on the crown molding today, so straight it looks fake. He seemed very happy with the straightness of my antique white lines against (three different shades of) chocolate ceilings.
mmmmmm sounds delicious
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There are four jobs going on concurrently that the bossman and I are working on. He's starting to trim a house in Lakeview while I prep a house for paint in Metairie and then we have the four-plex off of Clearview to punch out and the converted garage of our building contractor in River Ridge to finish up. In the evenings and on weekends I have the 1897 Victorian Dumaine house to exterior paint, the Rocheblave house to replace a moldy section of sheetrock in the return air vent and at least three rooms to repaint in the next six days and I did promise the Sculptor across the street that I would tape and float her small section of ceiling in the studio portion of her home. It's only about a two inch description of work though so it can't be all that hard. Sitting here right now doing nothing is sort of a guilty pleasure except that I don't feel guilty or for that matter all that pleased.
Yesterday like Cinderella on her knees scrubbing while the ugly step sisters are away having fun (except the shoe will never fit and my boss is not an ugly step sister) I scraped with a six foot section of trim molding the sawdust and bits of wood left by another carpenter crew so I could freely navigate the rolling scaffold, which is quite an expediting device when caulking, puttying and painting crown molding.
The builder (not the one we usually work for) came in while I did this and spying that pitiful picture of me on my knees, perhaps felt guilty and asked did I want him to clean up the place and I said if he could that would be nice, at least sweep everything to the middle of the rooms. He said he would because if I was starting to paint tomorrow all the dust would get in the paint and that would not be good. I did not say, Really? This guy has never seen my work so doesn't know that I can make his woodwork glass smooth even in a windstorm, but I like a clean work environment, so let's hope he cleaned up the place last night and moved all that unused trim molding out of the hallway.
Ok, that's it, off to the I-10.
- jimlouis 5-10-2006 3:27 pm
I'm with you, a clean jobsite ranks right up there with clean underwear- a sign of good breeding and much more pleasurable to work in
- mb 5-11-2006 12:21 am [add a comment]
Yeah, bastard didn't clean up though, guess I'll take my pushbroom tomorrow, which is probably what he's counting on.
- jimlouis 5-11-2006 1:53 am [add a comment]
and tell him he can put that broom where the sun don't shine
- mb 5-11-2006 10:08 pm [add a comment]
Actually he was pretty nice today, came in while I was re-rolling Master ceiling, said (referring to big pile of left over trim boards), is that in your way? I said, YES, and man, that dude jumped to it, moved that big pile of 16 footers out to the garage immediately, so we straight. And speaking of straight, I gave him some scary straight lines on the crown molding today, so straight it looks fake. He seemed very happy with the straightness of my antique white lines against (three different shades of) chocolate ceilings.
- jimlouis 5-12-2006 12:59 am [add a comment]
mmmmmm sounds delicious
- mb 5-12-2006 1:50 am [add a comment]