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KevinW -
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 8:37pm
Hey all, How's business? Frustrating here in LA (lower Alabama)  OUCH! I feel your pain.
KevinW -
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 11:39am
OUCH! I feel your pain. My first rail was my biggest to date, and paid biggest to date also ( it covered the bill for the birth of my son and then some). I made a template cuz I've never trusted myself with that kind of stuff and low and behold... while measuring I pulled one measurement from the noseing of the 1st tred to the back of the last tred. When my numbers didn't match up it blew my mind. Because the template was there I finally found what it was that I had done. Without it I'd have done something wrong, no doubt. Since then I've all ways used em. Take heart, too busy is my favorite problem to have. KevinW  January always sucks !
Will Jones -
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 4:01pm
It's that time of year again, and this time the economy's shot to pieces as well! Not much going on.  How well I know, Kevin.One
Rich Waugh -
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 7:09pm
How well I know, Will. One thing this little debacle has driven firmly into what I laughingly call my mind (or what's left of it, anyway), is that on ALL future railing jobs, should I lose what is left of my failing faculties, I will absolutely, positively make a template before I do anything else. No more trusting measurements and plotting points, period. A template is such a simple device - if it fits, the work will fit. I has learnt my lesson, as Pappy used to say! I hope things come together for you soon, amigo. Rich  work load
mwolfe -
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 10:48pm
Mike wolfe I have been lucky and have had a steady flow of small jobs.. As a quick question how do you include photos in some of these threads.... Mike, There's an "add image"
Rich Waugh -
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 10:58am
Mike, There's an "add image" icon at the bottom of the text entry box or you can click on "enable rich text" and that panel has a camera icon that allows you to upload images to the server and then insert them in posts. It takes a couple tries to winkle out the intricacies, but I know you'll get it. Keep the picture file size to under 200K or it won't upload well, if at all and gobbles up the server space. I usually try to about 100-120K. Good luck with that massive
KevinW -
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 11:51am
Good luck with that massive job Will. Hope you get it AND its akin to that leafy looking outside job with the critters hideing out in it. Pannels inbetween stone columns as I recall. That was a very cool one. WHat kind of finish was on that one? KevinW |
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Well, for me it's been
Well, for me it's been really frustrating lately. Too many things going wrong, too busy, money not good enough, etc. I could whine for days on end, but nobody wants to hear that!
I went out Monday to install a railing job and the damned thing didn't fit! I still haven't figured out where I went wrong on the measurements and neither could a contractor friend of mine. We made a wood template (should have done that in the first place) so I can re-do it to fit properly. That's just one of a number of issues here in Paradise.
You're not alone, Kevin.