The Home Improvements Thread (2)

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Smokey mcpot said:
Don’t see much in terms of doors. Everything is aluminum these days.

I did however see a door that I’d like to try and make sometime. I’ll post a link if I can find it
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Yeah... Aluminium is all the rage really... Do wish we could get American type of stuff, some of their windows and doors are epic. Aluminium outside and wood inside as an example.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Yeah... Aluminium is all the rage really... Do wish we could get American type of stuff, some of their windows and doors are epic. Aluminium outside and wood inside as an example.
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Aluminium for interior doors? Haven't seen that before - wonder if there's anything locally.
Wouldn't mind something which has the door and window manufactured together - I've come to realise that 90% of contractors can't hang a door neatly.

Last company I got to hang 2 interior doors walked away after I had them replace the doors for the second time and then stuffed that up too...
 
SAguy said:
Aluminium for interior doors? Haven't seen that before - wonder if there's anything locally.
Wouldn't mind something which has the door and window manufactured together - I've come to realise that 90% of contractors can't hang a door neatly.

Last company I got to hang 2 interior doors walked away after I had them replace the doors for the second time and then stuffed that up too...
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Why not just hang it yourself..? It's not the hardest thing in the world..
 
WAslayer said:
Why not just hang it yourself..? It's not the hardest thing in the world..
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I eventually did, but initially didn't have a circular saw and chisels to do the job. When they repayed me for their screw ups I went out and got more tools
 
SAguy said:
I eventually did, but initially didn't have a circular saw and chisels to do the job. When they repayed me for their screw ups I went out and got more tools
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Fancy, hanging doors with a circular saw.. had to shave 3 - 4 cm off my front door with hand plane when I hung it..
 
SAguy said:
As a married man you need to grab at every opportunity/excuse to buy new tools.

I got a makita router to build a slide out spice rack :ROFL:
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For my garage shelving project, the wife wanted storage there, I HAD to get a sliding compound mitre saw and a circular saw with a 1.6m track to make sure I cut the shelves straight..

New house now, so time for a new front door.. I am going to NEED an electric planer to hang this one, cause I "busted" the hand one shaving all the wood off the previous place new door..
 
WAslayer said:
For my garage shelving project, the wife wanted storage there, I HAD to get a sliding compound mitre saw and a circular saw with a 1.6m track to make sure I cut the shelves straight..

New house now, so time for a new front door.. I am going to NEED an electric planer to hang this one, cause I "busted" the hand one shaving all the wood off the previous place new door..
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I can confirm that you definitely need those items, feel free to print this response as proof.
 
WAslayer said:
For my garage shelving project, the wife wanted storage there, I HAD to get a sliding compound mitre saw and a circular saw with a 1.6m track to make sure I cut the shelves straight..

New house now, so time for a new front door.. I am going to NEED an electric planer to hang this one, cause I "busted" the hand one shaving all the wood off the previous place new door..
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I'm looking for an excuse for a table saw somewhere along the line... need to line up a few projects for that one.
 
SAguy said:
I'm looking for an excuse for a table saw somewhere along the line... need to line up a few projects for that one.
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A table saw would be great and I was considering it for the garage shelving, I just couldn't justify the price of a decent table saw though, starting from 10k+..

Settled on the circular saw and track.. not nearly as convenient but, man can I cut straight now..
 
ToxicBunny said:
Boils down to taste.... All my doors are solid meranti frames with full glass panes(heavily frosted and such for the relevant ones) .. Has a modern look from some relatively standard stuff.

Oh and I'm also the guy who watches intently and will pipe in if things are being done wrong, but I pipe in with the foreman, not the workers. They are his responsibility to manage so I communicate issues at that level...
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Interested as something I want to do exactly as you, heavily frosted glass panes when I get to it. But my frames are those metal ones from 1980. Will I have to remove the frame?
 
SAguy said:
How would you feel about either being appointed (or having appointed over you) an independent foreman/project manager? Think it's a waste of money and another party to have problems with?
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This is a tricky one. I’ve worked with a project manager plenty of times for one of my biggest clients. He owns guest houses and I work in every one of them in terms of upgrades and maintenance. The project manager he appoints happens to be my neighbor and good friend almost 10 years and then just very recently we discovered our dads are actually cousins. Never had issues but you can also see how this could be based on our personal relationship.

On our current job this guy happened to be doing something else for the client and I was indirectly appointed as a project manager from quality control to paying wages (my client trusts me with his bank card Which has a 50k withdrawal limit per day). There were some issues with the window guys and I had to point out their flaws. The old experienced window guy refused to listen and I had to do something about it. Took it up with the owner and they’re no longer on site and I will be doing the windows now as well (which I initially declined due to timelines).

being the project manager was fine and all until I had to have these guys sent off site. I hate being the one to take away their income especially since I know the guy who was given this job. I suppose it would have been different if I did not know them at all.

these are my only experiences other than clients who think they’re project managers and eventually give over reigns when they can’t handle it anymore.
I think if the project manager is really independent and doesn’t know anyone on site it can benefit you as he should have your best interests at heart. However you do also get those guys who sleep on their bakkie all day and just want to see when the job is done without really knowing what went into the finished project and this can be a huge waste of money.
From a friend who works on bigger projects (malls, Cticc, standard bank building, FNB building etc) I have herd that there are some project managers who just play the boss and don’t implement any real planning like they’re supposed to. Situations where the floor guy, window guy and painter are all on the same place at the same time and cannot work properly. Project manager just chooses one to continue and sends the other 2 to different places... and they end up messing up the first guys work while doing their own.

tough choice To appoint. But personally I wouldn’t mind having one over me as long as he knows what he is doing, and wouldn’t mind being one but it would be site dependent. I won’t be able to oversee something I cannot do.
 
InternetLuddite said:
Interested as something I want to do exactly as you, heavily frosted glass panes when I get to it. But my frames are those metal ones from 1980. Will I have to remove the frame?
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You shouldn't have to remove the frames.... But of course if you want all wood then you would but if you are going to paint things then I don't see why you would need to...
 
Smokey mcpot said:
This is a tricky one. I’ve worked with a project manager plenty of times for one of my biggest clients. He owns guest houses and I work in every one of them in terms of upgrades and maintenance. The project manager he appoints happens to be my neighbor and good friend almost 10 years and then just very recently we discovered our dads are actually cousins. Never had issues but you can also see how this could be based on our personal relationship.

On our current job this guy happened to be doing something else for the client and I was indirectly appointed as a project manager from quality control to paying wages (my client trusts me with his bank card Which has a 50k withdrawal limit per day). There were some issues with the window guys and I had to point out their flaws. The old experienced window guy refused to listen and I had to do something about it. Took it up with the owner and they’re no longer on site and I will be doing the windows now as well (which I initially declined due to timelines).

being the project manager was fine and all until I had to have these guys sent off site. I hate being the one to take away their income especially since I know the guy who was given this job. I suppose it would have been different if I did not know them at all.

these are my only experiences other than clients who think they’re project managers and eventually give over reigns when they can’t handle it anymore.
I think if the project manager is really independent and doesn’t know anyone on site it can benefit you as he should have your best interests at heart. However you do also get those guys who sleep on their bakkie all day and just want to see when the job is done without really knowing what went into the finished project and this can be a huge waste of money.
From a friend who works on bigger projects (malls, Cticc, standard bank building, FNB building etc) I have herd that there are some project managers who just play the boss and don’t implement any real planning like they’re supposed to. Situations where the floor guy, window guy and painter are all on the same place at the same time and cannot work properly. Project manager just chooses one to continue and sends the other 2 to different places... and they end up messing up the first guys work while doing their own.

tough choice To appoint. But personally I wouldn’t mind having one over me as long as he knows what he is doing, and wouldn’t mind being one but it would be site dependent. I won’t be able to oversee something I cannot do.
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Are you a building contractor, what size projects do you take on? Location?
 
whats the best kind of fixings to use for barge boards and fascias? some sort of rust free roofing nail? or rather screws?

also whats your guys opinions on replacing wooden fascia boards (the wood behind the gutter) with nutec fascia type boards?
 
Steamy Tom said:
whats the best kind of fixings to use for barge boards and fascias? some sort of rust free roofing nail? or rather screws?

also whats your guys opinions on replacing wooden fascia boards (the wood behind the gutter) with nutec fascia type boards?
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Use those black chipboard screws with a drop of white silicone over. I would opt for nutec boards.
 
The_Mowgs said:
Use those black chipboard screws with a drop of white silicone over. I would opt for nutec boards.
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hmm i was worried those would rust out eventually. i do prefer the idea of screws though.

as for the nutec, i was just concerned it wouldnt fit the look or look odd. I will obviously also need to factor in that i will need to hit the rafter when i put in gutter brackets.
 
Steamy Tom said:
hmm i was worried those would rust out eventually. i do prefer the idea of screws though.

as for the nutec, i was just concerned it wouldnt fit the look or look odd. I will obviously also need to factor in that i will need to hit the rafter when i put in gutter brackets.
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I used those screws when I replaced all of my gutters and not one has shown signs of rust to date.
 
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