Stay in Texas

Stay in Texas

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Most construction workers now seem to carry cell phones (at least the leads) and then spend a fair amount of time on the phone. Here is Mark on the scaffold putting up dry wall around a new vent (and all the way up for fire protextion), when he got a phone call. I tried to catch him as he talked, but he was too quick for me and posed. He does great poses though.
As Mark would measure and install pieces, Mike would cut them and hand them up (along withxs tools and whatever else was needed).
One of my jobs was getting all the loose concrete, sand, and dust out of a section of cement floor that had buckled up and then needed to be broken up with a jack hammer to pour new cement. The far section has been filled by the tile people (as they needed to put tiles down). The next section I have cleaned out with a claw hammer (using the claws) and then the shop vacuum. The nearest section is still waiting to be cleaned out.
Here is Joey, Charlie's brother. Joey also works for M.D.I. and does carpentry work (as does Charlie, but Charlie is mostly the job supervisor). Here is Joey mixing cement to fill the rest of the buckled floor area (that section will be covered with vinyl). He did a very nice job. It will be a shame to cover it with vinyl.
Charlie, L.A., and I spent about a day installing two swinging doors. There were instructions on how to install the hardware, but it was far from clear. The instructions mostly just hinted at what you needed to do and left it to us to figure out what really had to be done. With the three of us thinking about it we were able to finally get them up, but it was definitely a challenging puzzle.
Another challenge we faced was cutting down (or cutting a little off the bottom) of existing double doors into the metting area. Those doors are large and have a solid core. That makes it easier to cut them down (no fear of cutting off too much), but also makes them much too heavy for one person to lift.