Outside, the icy wind blew 60 and took down large well-established business signage. Somewhere nearby, my electrician was backing into my Tacoma with his work van. Doh!
Friday, December 28, 2012
3 Crow
Started the Endeavour brick job at the new 3 Crow Restaurant, owned by Josh, the current proprieter of 40 Paper in Camden. We are using original bricks from an old wall that was removed during the renovation to build a new brick facade along the northern wall, and maybe a pillar or two. The first step basically consisted of me hand-washing and removing excess mortar from 800 bricks...
While Damon hung the Hardi-Backer...
Nice to be working in Rockland again with Tom Potter and Donny. Potter's jobsites really are some of the most well-organized and pleasureable sites I get to be a part of. Good guys, all of them.
Outside, the icy wind blew 60 and took down large well-established business signage. Somewhere nearby, my electrician was backing into my Tacoma with his work van. Doh!
Outside, the icy wind blew 60 and took down large well-established business signage. Somewhere nearby, my electrician was backing into my Tacoma with his work van. Doh!
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Nearly Natick
Well, I haven't posted in awhile and it feels good to be sitting at the home computer again. Damon and I have been working down in Natick, Massachusetts for the last two weeks. Natick, most famous for its unusually large Mall.
The enormous and unnavigable...
yet architecturally sound, with its art installations and modernist curves...
Natick Mall.
Not so, the Red Roof Inn, where we have chosen to stay. The roof is not red and the traffic outside the room is relentless...
The staff is freindly enough, but you don't really ever see them after you check in. The rooms are relatively clean, if not sparse and tend toward being on the insanely hot side. We turned the heat completely off at night and it still felt like it was 80 degrees or more. I suspect there might be a fiery chasm beneath the building that heats the place with geothermal gases and possibly punishes the souls of the wicked.
The job itself is just a few miles from the motel and sits on a little pond/lake near the Wayland town line.
The job is Kurt Snyder's of Stonescapes and we are all grateful for the work. I mean, no one really wants to drive to Natick and stay away from their family for a week at a time, but it's work in the winter and anything is better than being unemployed.
The stonework is a round-rock veneer with 3/8 joints and there seems to be alot of it. Stone veneer on the house was completed by the previous masons and so we are trying to match that work, which is often difficult. Eveyone's styles vary and all masons follow different rules as to what is stylistically acceptable.
My work around the pipes...
Damon's work around the corner...
Kurt and Nate working on the stairs...
The twelve-inch short wall...
Nate, Mike Fitz, Damon and I picking rock...
And of course, no stay out of town is complete without a visit to the local hot-spots, which on this particular night was the Samba Steak and Sushi House in Framingham. The hibachi chef put on a marvelous culinary show and the food was excellent. Kurt was also nice enough to cover the entire bill, which is saying something when drinking masons are involved.
Grateful for the work, but glad to be home.
The enormous and unnavigable...
Not so, the Red Roof Inn, where we have chosen to stay. The roof is not red and the traffic outside the room is relentless...
The staff is freindly enough, but you don't really ever see them after you check in. The rooms are relatively clean, if not sparse and tend toward being on the insanely hot side. We turned the heat completely off at night and it still felt like it was 80 degrees or more. I suspect there might be a fiery chasm beneath the building that heats the place with geothermal gases and possibly punishes the souls of the wicked.
The job itself is just a few miles from the motel and sits on a little pond/lake near the Wayland town line.
The job is Kurt Snyder's of Stonescapes and we are all grateful for the work. I mean, no one really wants to drive to Natick and stay away from their family for a week at a time, but it's work in the winter and anything is better than being unemployed.
The stonework is a round-rock veneer with 3/8 joints and there seems to be alot of it. Stone veneer on the house was completed by the previous masons and so we are trying to match that work, which is often difficult. Eveyone's styles vary and all masons follow different rules as to what is stylistically acceptable.
And of course, no stay out of town is complete without a visit to the local hot-spots, which on this particular night was the Samba Steak and Sushi House in Framingham. The hibachi chef put on a marvelous culinary show and the food was excellent. Kurt was also nice enough to cover the entire bill, which is saying something when drinking masons are involved.
Grateful for the work, but glad to be home.
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