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Project JK516. One of our best yet!!

Great progress on this baby! Sheet rock will be done this week. 475 sheets total

Guys attacking ceiling on master bedroom
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Walls in master bedroom
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Walls in master bedroom
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First of five heated tile bath floors and tile showers
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First of five heated tile bath floors and tile showers
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First of five heated tile bath floors and tile showers
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Bill taping and spackling
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2024 Christmas party fun. Kole and Jeremy
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2024 Christmas party fun. Kole and Jeremy
And Shane
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Guys sheet rocking
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Dinos birthday! Happy 17
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Typical construction site! No paper plates so we had cake off of cedar shakes!
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Typical construction site! No paper plates so we had cake off of cedar shakes!
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Matt installing composite deck boards to the front porch
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Guys spray foaming the master bedroom suite
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So much going on here on this project.
Here's the Guys putting a beam in
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Jeremy Mike and Matt framing up a stair landing
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Jeremy and Matt being good boys
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Best client ever! Made a huge mountain of ribs for a friday lunch!
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Putting beam backers up for great room
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Putting beam backers up for great room
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Evans sanding drywall taping
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Spray foam
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Guys spray foaming
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Guys spray foaming
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Sheet rocking great room ceiling
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Sheet rocking great room ceiling
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Another great lunch from our client! Chili on a chilly November day, perfect!
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Music room ready to be painted
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Music room ready to be painted
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D and Jeremy cutting sheet rock for window returns
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Spray foaming
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Spray foam being applied by The Insulation Man. They are the absolute best
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Front of home soffits and fascias done
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Front of home soffits and fascias done
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Jeremy and Perrin installing soffits and fascias
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Mike on the corner
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Matt installing siding
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Siding selection is absolutely perfect
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Siding selection is absolutely perfect
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Mike and Matt wrestling a 16 foot corner in place
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Vinnie on the cut table
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Jeremy and Perrin installing soffits and fascias
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Huge new MARVIN window in the rear of the addition above the garage.
We installed the very best of Marvin windows for this entire project.
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Huge new MARVIN window in the rear of the addition above the garage.
We installed the very best of Marvin windows for this entire project.
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Huge new MARVIN window in the rear of the addition above the garage.
We installed the very best of Marvin windows for this entire project.
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Perrin and Kole install a header
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Kole framing up a bedroom closet
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Been a super busy week. We got the remainder of the new roof system installed, sheathed and shingled. Also tore out the former roof system and exposed the new great room that originally was the living room, dining room and kitchen.
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Old truss system is almost out
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Old truss system is almost out
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New Marvin windows are installed
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New Marvin windows are installed
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Perrin and Matt tape in a window in the master bath
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Roof system up and all sheathed. Ready for the roofers!
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Vinny cutting studs
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Jeremy cutting for the guys on roof
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Mike building dormer between existing main house and master bedroom addition
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Matt and Perrin sheathing roof
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Mike and Matt installing roof sheathing
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Well, the roof system is finally done. By far the most complex system we have tackled yet.
Here's Kole holding the very last truss section to be installed.
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Mikes 35th birthday
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Jeremy and Kole boxing in chimney
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Mike and Matt bracing one off
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Hoisting one up!
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Hoisting one up!
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Dad and kid. Kole is now 21.
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12 foot walls
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Perrin and Matt graduated from high school. Congrats to two great guys!
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Frank, newest member of the team.
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Sub flooring going down for the master bedroom addition
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Dad and kid hanging fascia
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Fascia going up
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Trusses for the main house are two piece. Here’s Kole putting together the pieces.
Each piece gets glue and two pieces of 3/4 inch plywood at the connection point
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Trusses for the main house are two piece. Here’s Kole putting together the pieces. Each piece gets glue and two pieces of 3/4 inch plywood at the connection point
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Fascia going up and ZIP roof sheathing going down
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ZIP roof sheathing going down
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Columns and beams up and mounting plates getting installed
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Setting the first truss against the addition above the garage addition
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Big dogs
Heavy and awkward
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Mike carefully guides Jeremy in with the first beam
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Columns up and two 10x10 beams get set on top
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Columns up and two 10x10 beams get set on top
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Sizing the first of five 10x10 rough cut columns for the front entryway

These weigh about 300 a piece
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Sizing the first of five 10x10 rough cut columns for the front entryway

These weigh about 300 a piece
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Mike and Jeremy setting a girder truss
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Foundation getting backfilled with stone
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Our two boys graduated last Friday! Congrats to Matt and Perrin
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Trusses for main house are huge. This is going to make a stunning vaulted ceiling
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Trusses are two pieces due to the size. Here Kole is assembling one with glue and two pieces of 3/4 inch plywood
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Pit vipers for Mr Matt
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Master bedroom suite slab poured and getting finished
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Mike on one side.
Jeremy on the other.
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Pouring the master bedroom suite basement floor
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Pouring the master bedroom suite basement floor
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Got the big boy toys out
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Half way home
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Mike and Jeremy setting a double girder truss
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Guys sheathing addition above garage. Note the large window openings framed up
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Stark Truss showed up with our buddy Dave driving. This guy is the best driver in the world!!
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Dave dropped them exactly where we wanted them
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Perrin and Kole hauling the trusses into position
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The addition above the garage has 5 different truss designTs. hey all have to be sorted out.
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The addition above the garage has 5 different truss designs! They all have to be sorted out.
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Number 1 is up!
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Got 5 up before the lighting started then we got off the scaffolding!!
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Got 5 up before the lighting started then we got off the scaffolding!!
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Mike Kole and Jeremy removing the chimney framing in preparation of the addition above garage
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Floor system for kitchen expansion
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Framing the floor system for the expansion of the kitchen and dining area.
Jeremy is trapped.
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Mike and Jeremy
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Mike setting up target for laser
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Mike and Floyd backfilling rear expansion after putting an under drain in
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Vinny, Mike, Kole and Perrin setting rim boards
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Mike and Jeremy ripping pressure treated lumber deck joists. Unfortunately sizes range from 11&1/4 to 11&3/4. Very inconsistent and must be ripped to a uniform size.
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Front expansion all backfilled. Mike establishing grade for new deck frame system
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Stripping shingles off above garage in preparation for removing trusses and building addition above garage
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First load of web trusses for Master suite arrive
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First load of web trusses for Master suite arrive
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Poured the walls for the Master Suite & front and back expansions.
Concrete pumpers have changed our world!
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Pouring rear expansion frost wall.
Concrete pumpers have changed our world!
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Pumping master suite walls
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Dusty strapping on the vibrator
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Danny setting anchor bolts while his partner finishes the top of wall ahead of him
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A beautiful sight!
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Well we have made tremendous progress so far. The house is 90% gutted, walls for the additions get poured tomorrow, most of the wiring has been stripped out as well as the heating system.
She’s almost wide open
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Jeremy and Vinny reframing window openings for new windows
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Front frost wall forms all in
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Wide open!
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Kole and Jeremy ripping plywood
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Happy Birthday to Vinny! Our work horse. Always the first on on site every single day
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Mike and Jerm removing a very stubborn brick chimney.
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Our two newest projects- Perrin and Matt.
Great kids. Great workers!
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Guys gutting interior
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Master bedroom suite basement footers all poured
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Master bedroom suite basement footers all poured
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Walls for front and rear expansion and forms for master bedroom suite get unloaded
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Jeremy and Vinny reframing existing home for new window sizes
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Lots of forms to install
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Gutting existing living room ceiling
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Walls all formed up ready to pour

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Walls all formed up ready to pour
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Front expansion wall all formed up ready to pour
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Excavation for the master bedroom suite
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Excavation for the master bedroom suite
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Tri State unloading forms
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Dusty operating the boom on the form truck
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Setting footer forms
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Setting footer forms
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Mike Lasher excavates front of the home while Mike and Vinny remove siding
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Setting footer forms in the front
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Footer forms set to allow rear of the home to be bumped out 6 feet
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Pumping concrete into footer forms
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Pumping concrete into footer forms
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Mike digs footer drain out to the road side ditch
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Freight Train Lane visited today
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Lane gets hands-on training from Mike
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Perrin gets his turn on the cut and snap saw. Cutting access into existing basement from new basement beneath the Master Suite
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The Before pictures of this project. Look closely because you will not recognize this place once we are done!
Living Room
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living Room
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Kitchen
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Guest bath
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bath
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Master bath
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Third bath
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Den
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Den
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All the siding soffits and fascia is being removed
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Behind Jeremy Lasher Construction is digging the foundation for the master bedroom suite
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Mike Lasher brings in the clients trash cans. Full service for sure!!
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Mike D and Mike Lasher
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Floyd and Danny Collins in the hole establishing grade
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mr. Lasher
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Temporary access road being built.
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Mats to protect the edge of the driveway being put in place
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Lasher Construction for all of your site work needs.
The very best there is
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Mike & Jeremy meeting with architect and rep from truss manufacturer to work out the details of new truss / roof system.
This is going to be a blast!!
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Thunderbuilt started a Two-Addition build on this house. One will be a Great Room the other a Media Room.
Excavation starts Thursday. Concrete on Friday.

Trusses up and fascias on
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Suns out guns out!! Guys got the dining room addition roof sheathed shingles Thursday.
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Making hay while the sun shines.
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Beams look great
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We had tons of activity today. We had electrician, plumber, gutter guys, concrete team, and of course carpenters all going at it hard.

Tri-State builders pouring concrete pad out back today
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Mike, Jeremy, and Vinny putting up beams in great room
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Tri-State builders pouring concrete pad out back today
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Mike, Jeremy, and Vinny putting up beams in great room
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Superior Gutter team installing seamless gutters
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Superior Gutter team installing seamless gutters
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Craig wiring in wafer lights in media room
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Spray Foam insulation going in the Media Room
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Spray Foam insulation going in the Media Room
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Perrin and Matt putting up the nickel gap around the fireplace place. Note the 5x6 solid oak mantle in place for final measurements to get cut to length
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Nickel gap going up on the fireplace frame
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Siding all done
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Decking done waiting for arrival of railing system
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Decking done waiting for arrival of railing system
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Jeremy, Matt, & Vinny installing composite decking
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Jeremy, Matt, & Vinny installing composite decking
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Siding on Media Room going up
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Jeremy just completed building the raised seating platform. The Media Room has raised platform seating additional outlets for plugging in the viewing chairs, specialty lighting and speaker system.
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Mike cutting through from existing dining room into new Media Room.
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All up and braced off
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Vinny on the saw
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Guys sheathing the exterior
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Vinny, Matt and Perrin get ready to hoist one up
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Vinny, Matt and Perrin get ready to hoist one up
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Hauling the trusses inside
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Yes it’s pouring and the guys are plowing through it
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Side addition progress is great. Walls framed trusses going up!
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Side addition progress is great. Walls framed trusses going up!
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Guys framing up the gas fireplace. This will be covered in nickel gap planking and painted. It will have a 8x8 rough cut mantle
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Jeremy hauling in a sheet of sub flooring to be glued and nailed down
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Yep it’s pouring! Thank God for battery operated tools!
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Matt
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The Boss and Matt in the back stripping the existing wall off getting ready to cut through into the house
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Perrin and Mike putting it up with the Boss looking on
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Guys had to brave a horrible rainy day to get the floor system and sub floor down to keep the water out of the new basement
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Guys had to brave a horrible rainy day to get the floor system and sub floor down to keep the water out of the new basement
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We have the best roofing crew!
Pernich & Shelp
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Big Matt sheathing the roof
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Rear addition spray foamed. Time for sheet rock
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Rear addition spray foamed. Time for sheet rock
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the rear addition
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Gutter and footing drains are in place
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Guys are going to town on this two additions project. Foundation for side addition goes in while the guys are finishing up the rear addition
Here, the walls are formed up and poured.
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Vinny end of the day pick up
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Vinny and Jeremy siding
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Siding is a perfect match. Nice tie-in.
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Siding is a perfect match. Nice tie-in.
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The Big Guy sheathing the roof
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This project has been aided by the nice warm weather
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Had computer issues so we haven’t posted in a while.
Guys are kicking it!
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Framing up rear addition
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They are up
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Vinny getting ready to send the next one up
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Our wise guy Perrin waiting for next truss
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Perrin setting trusses
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Vinny saddles up
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Tying in connector room to Great Room
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Started framing first of two additions to this home.
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This Great Room has 12-foot tall walls!
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Guys squaring up first wall before we stand it up
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Guys squaring up first wall before we stand it up
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Mike, laying out doorway.
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Vinnie
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Every day is an adventure with this guy on the crew
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Here comes the backfill.
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Ready for backfill.
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All insulated and ready for backfill.
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All stripped and ready for insulation and backfill.
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Walls all formed up for the Great Room addition.
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Guys stripping forms
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Dusty strips forms and hauls them out
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You never know what a day holds for you in this business! Company dropped off our rent a jon at the wrong address. They couldn’t relocate it for 5 days so we strapped it and dragged it up the road to the job site.
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You never know what a day holds for you in this business! Company dropped off our rent-a-john at the wrong address. They couldn’t relocate it for 5 days so we strapped it and dragged it up the road to the job site.
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You never know what a day holds for you in this business! Company dropped off our rent-a-john at the wrong address. They couldn’t relocate it for 5 days so we strapped it and dragged it up the road to the job site.
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Guys poured the footers today
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Guys poured the footers today

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Guys poured the footers today
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Footers all in set wall forms tomorrow and pour walls on Thursday
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Trusses!
Off they come
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Media Room addition will be where you see the excavator
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Trusses arrived today
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Danny and Mike layout the Great room addition
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Mike and Vinny remove page fence so we can get equipment and materials back to the site of the addition.
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Mike and Vinny remove deck stairs to make room for excavation.
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We started what will be a great project today. Two additions being built on this house. One will be a Great Room the other a Media Room. Excavation starts Thursday. Concrete on Friday!
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A Tale of Two Jobs! Let's see which Materials come in first!
We'll make sure both jobs are finished before the snow flies!

Another new build!

Started a new job (CN225) while we wait on material for our other new job! Stay tuned for updates!

Sean and Jeremy installing fascia and end cap
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Sean and Jeremy installing fascia and end cap
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Sean, Matt & Mike
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Our team
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Perrin ripping a sheet of roofing
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Metal roofing going on
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Metal roofing going on
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Sean, Vinny and Perrin ripping boards.
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Mike bracing up end truss
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Setting last truss.
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Three days start to finish. Pretty cool looking building
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Three days start to finish. Pretty cool looking building
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Mike installing connector plates
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Vinny and Jeremy building the last truss.
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Mike building a truss using a 10 inch circular saw. This baby is a monster but works great on timber framing. We borrowed it from a fellow builder we work with.
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Lane built his first house!!
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Freight Train Lane paid us a visit today! He’s a busy little man.
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and it is UP!
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All hands on deck for this baby!
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Great day! We got all but one truss set today. The first one was a 700 pound monster, rough cut, 3x6 ft. truss that took us a while to get positioned. After that it was smooth sailing.
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Started a new project today while we wait for trusses on the EJ770 job.
Here's Matt and Perrin, our newest team members, hauling rough cut 6x6 posts
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Jeremy setting the post base plates
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Perrin measuring the beam length
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Matt on the other end
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Posts set and it’s only 9:15
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First double 2 x 10 beam going up. A third layer will be added once they are in place.
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Set of posts in with the structural Simpson plates in place
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Mike and Jeremy attaching plates
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3x6 angle braces going in
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3x6 angle braces going in
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Mike installing 8 inch Simpson timber locks into the angle braces
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Nice looking rough-cut structure
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Trusses tomorrow
Metal roofing on Thursday
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Autumn Build

Thunderbuilt started a new building project we'll call EJ770.
Our client wants additions on both ends of the home.
Stay tuned we are racing the weather and material shortages.

How many 3 inch screws are in a 25 pound box. Poor Jeremy is finding out after he slipped going down the bank and dumped a new box of them!!
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Pressure treated lumber is so heavy
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Guys framing up the beams for the wrap around deck
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Jeremy and Vinny settled no anchor plates for deck columns
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End wall and both side walls up
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End wall and both side walls up
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Mike and Jeremy framing up a side wall
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Working on getting the new dining room dried in so owner can take over and finish it as a DYI

Here's Vinny on the cut table today
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Had two visitors today! Emma and Frieght Train Lane and they brought donuts
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Shawn catching one end and Mike on the other
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Jeremy swings in endwall truss
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Matt, Perrin and Jeremy
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Trusses are all up
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Getting ready to swing it into place
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Sloppy and chilly but got all the trusses, overbuilds and fascias up.
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Sloppy and chilly but got all the trusses, overbuilds and fascias up.
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Great progress!
Sean and Mike taping seams on sub flooring
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Rear bedroom wall built, sheathed and ready to stand up
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Taping seams
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Mike rolling tape out
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Guys standing up front wall
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Guys standing up front wall
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Vinny and Jeremy cutting wall sheathing. This type of sheathing has a layer of one inch dense foam attached to it.

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Vinny and Jeremy building wall
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Coming along quite nicely.
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Teamwork
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Perfect!
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and it is out!
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It's coming!
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It's not budging.
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Jeremy on the cut and break saw. 7 hours later and he’s almost got it!!
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Guys getting wall ready to drop the chunk of concrete foundation wall out
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Guys finishing sub flooring
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Tri State team preparing floor for radiant heat in the slab
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Great three days. Deck with sun flooring all down and passage from new to existing basement cut through.
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Mike running sub flooring on floor joists
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Jeremy and Mike cutting passage way into existing basement from new foundation. Sloppy messy work
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Jeremy and Mike installing rim board
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Jeremy and Mike installing rim board
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knee walls going up
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Mike attaching a ledger board
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Vinny and Jeremy build second knee wall
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Good progress today on this project.
Mike and Jeremy haul in a kneel wall.
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Good progress today on this project.
Mike and Jeremy haul in a kneel wall.
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Foundations first
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New (fun!) job! Code name DJ406

Started a new project. All of our projects aren’t huge but they are all fun!
We will strip off an old deck, beef up the framing and build a 12 x 18, 3-season room for a great couple.

Vinny and Kole taping in ZIP sheathing
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Vinny and Kole taping in ZIP sheathing
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Vinny and Kole taping in ZIP sheathing
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All trusses in and dormer trusses cut in and installed
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All trusses in and dormer trusses cut in and installed
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All trusses in and dormer trusses cut in and installed
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Perfect ridge alignment
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Perfect ridge alignment.
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Installed trusses and got it all sheathed, taped and pretty dried in. Roofers showed up two days later and got it shingled so we are dry!!
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Jeremy and Kole (father son combo) ripping boards
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Classic construction worker cutting pizza he brought in with his utility knife. All good and great pizza.
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We insulated the floor by installing cleats, pieces of OSB and spray foaming the edges. Then we add two layers of solid foam insulation.
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Guys installing sub flooring
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Connor rolling the taped seams
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Guys building walls
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Our new lad, Connor.
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Jeremy and Kole build triple 2x8 headers
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Walls going up!
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Vinny and Mike installing one of the headers
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Header number two
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Good days work
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10 windows! This will be a fantastic room!
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KD1100- Phase Two!
We started back at this home to totally make over the kitchen & dining room! The dining room wall has been removed to make way for a huge kitchen with a fabulous island, coffee/wet bar and new dining area!

All in all a great day!!
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Craig heats up a couple of the wafer lights
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Coffee bar going in
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Dan installing one of two pantry units
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So Canada has a bonfire and we get this???
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Mike, Jeremy and Vinny installing support for crown molding that will have tape lighting installed behind it.
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Coffee bar cabinets installed
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Squeezed in a happy Birthday for my brother Vinny. Big 63 and still getting it done!!
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Dan, Kole and El from Belknap Kitchen Center go over cabinet layout plans
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Two truck loads of cabinets arrived today
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Two truck loads of cabinets arrived today
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Finished the sheet rock today. Now we wait till it’s all taped and spackled then cabinetry gets set in place.
Here's Mike putting board up.
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Finished the sheet rock today. Now we wait till it’s all taped and spackled then cabinetry gets set in place.
Here's Jeremy finishing rock on the passage way between kitchen and dining area.
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Guys installing 3/4 inch Tongue and Groove sub flooring.
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Guys installing 3/4 inch Tongue and Groove sub flooring.
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Guys installing 3/4 inch Tongue and Groove sub flooring.
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Guys installing 3/4 inch Tongue and Groove sub flooring.
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Mike and Vinny putting in one of the new windows
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New windows going in
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Vinny and Jeremy putting up sheathing
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Here's Jeremy framing up for new double hung windows
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Framed up one wall of former sun porch and removed 1 slider and two fixed windows and replaced them with four double hung windows
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Guys framing up what once was a sun room to make it into the dining room
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New window going in!
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Old bay window being removed by Mike and Jeremy
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New beam in and temp supports out
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The guys positioning the beams
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First of three LVL beams going in
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First of three LVL beams going in
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Jeremy framing up new wall
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Craig taking out old wiring
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Jeremy cutting into former laundry center to make more room for coffee bar
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Temp support walls in place so we can reframe the wall separating the kitchen and former bedroom. This wall will house a coffee/ wet bar, linen closet and a door way to the new home office.
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Started back at this home to totally make over the kitchen
Here's Vinny, finishing the demo
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Started back at this home to totally make over the kitchen
Here's Mike laying out the wall that will house the linen closet, entrance to home office, & coffee/wet bar area
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Started back at this home to totally make over the kitchen
Here, the Dining room wall has been removed to make way for a huge kitchen with a fabulous island, coffee/wet bar and new dining area.
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Thunderbuilt recently broke ground on a new project. The code name for this one is KD1100. Large addition with master BR, laundry room, mud room, walk-in closet, master bath and two-car garage and full basement. Have to first move tons of soil and prep site for the foundation. This is going to be tons of fun for some great people!!

Bill trying to stay ahead of us. We have Supply chain issues getting the brand of stain we use.
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Bill touching up nail holes
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Mike trimming out half moon window
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Mike trimming out half moon window
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Jeremy and Mike cutting trim
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Lots of trim going up!
Here's Mike installing base trim
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Lots of stuff happening as we begin to close this project out.
Doors and trim getting stained and polyed
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Mike cutting siding
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Vinny cutting LP window trim
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Jeremy trimming out rear windows
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Completing siding
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Laundry room cabinets
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Dan cutting cabinet filler strips
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Vinny and Jeremy tweaking doors
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This a funny Meme of Bill fighting a 100 foot compressor hose
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Mike nailing up the first sheet on the rear
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Beautiful day for siding. Closing in on the rear of the addition
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Nice hot asphalt on a chilly fall morning
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Paved walkway on side of garage
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Nice hot asphalt on a chilly fall morning
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Driveway got the base coat of asphalt today.
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rip rap retaining slope
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rip rap retaining slope
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rip rap retaining slope
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Land scape fabric going down before the rip rap retaining slope
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Hydro-seeding the back yard.
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Land scape fabric going down before the rip rap retaining slope
On the left, the guys are installing soffit and fascia.
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Guys doing soffits and fascia
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Landscape fabric and drain piping in place, rip rap goes down tomorrow
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Retaining slope all graded off
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All sheet rock is up and 80 percent taped off
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Cutting in for retaining wall
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Mike up there doing soffits
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Site work crew showing up to cut in retaining wall

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Mike, installing the half-moon window
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Mike using template for half moon window

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Guys installing last 3 windows
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Guys installing last 3 windows

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Site work crew showing up to cut in retaining wall
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Super busy at KD1100! Plumbers, electricians, tapers, HVAC guys, garage door installers, and site work crew all at once, all working around each other, all going very smooth.
Garage door guys, electrician, taper and our guys all in this shot
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Baker Garage Doors installing doors
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Baker Garage Doors installing doors
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Jeremy and Andrew cutting rock for garage
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Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday
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Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday
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Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday
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Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday
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Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday
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The Big Guy
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Bill, putting up corner bead
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Mike, screwing off sheets
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The Big Guy
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Boys are at it, sheet rocking like crazy!
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Vinny, Jeremy and Mike sheet rocking the interior of the separation wall so the foam insulation can be sprayed in tomorrow
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Stairs in now framing up the separation wall
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Vinny and Jeremy framing up the mud room entryway
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Stringers going in
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Jeremy and Vinny framing up the ceiling in the mud room and laundry area
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Had to hustle today. Had to frame out the entryway from garage to the mud room and stairs leading to the attic.
Here's Mike cutting stair stringers.
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Mud room and stair case platform all spray foamed
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Scott running wires in garage
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Progress is great on this project. Plumbing and electrical is all roughed in. Addition is 80% spray foamed, should be done tomorrow.
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Mike and Vinny building last wall and stairway platform for mud room and stairs to attic.
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Progress is great on this project. Plumbing and electrical is all roughed in. Addition is 80% spray foamed, should be done tomorrow.

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Thunderbuilt has a variety of tasks going on today. Here's Vinny installing a bathroom window.
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Had a great day framed out entire basement in preparation of wiring, plumbing and spray foam insulation.
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Thunderbuilt has a variety of tasks going on today.
Here's Scott wiring the garage.
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Mike framing up a knee wall
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Vinny on the saw
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Mike and Andrew framing up utility room.
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All framed up
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Scott our electrician running wire and boxes
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Andrew framing bath partitions
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The “Kid” routing out openings
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First window going in
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Guys running house wrap
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What happened to the carpenters that drank old, cold black coffee?
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Window openings framed in the gable end of bonus room
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Huge extra space in this set of trusses
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Mike and Jeremy pulling sheets of sun flooring into the bonus room trusses
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Mike and Jeremy pulling sheets of sun flooring into the bonus room trusses

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Peranich & Shelp Construction, Inc. are our roofing sub contractor partners. They are with out a doubt the best roofing contractor bar none. Arrived on site after noon today as they had to finish a job they started on Saturday. This is a large roof with two valleys and lots of end wall flashing. They will be done by 9:30 tomorrow and the work is perfect!
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Peranich & Shelp Construction, Inc. are our roofing sub contractor partners. They are with out a doubt the best roofing contractor bar none. Arrived on site after noon today as they had to finish a job they started on Saturday. This is a large roof with two valleys and lots of end wall flashing. They will be done by 9:30 tomorrow and the work is perfect!
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Peranich & Shelp Construction, Inc. are our roofing sub contractor partners. They are with out a doubt the best roofing contractor bar none. Arrived on site after noon today as they had to finish a job they started on Saturday. This is a large roof with two valleys and lots of end wall flashing. They will be done by 9:30 tomorrow and the work is perfect!
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Peranich & Shelp Construction, Inc. are our roofing sub contractor partners. They are with out a doubt the best roofing contractor bar none. Arrived on site after noon today as they had to finish a job they started on Saturday. This is a large roof with two valleys and lots of end wall flashing. They will be done by 9:30 tomorrow and the work is perfect!
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Peranich & Shelp Construction, Inc. are our roofing sub contractor partners. They are with out a doubt the best roofing contractor bar none. Arrived on site after noon today as they had to finish a job they started on Saturday. This is a large roof with two valleys and lots of end wall flashing. They will be done by 9:30 tomorrow and the work is perfect!
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Mike trimming truss bracing
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Jeremy and Vinny building over-builds
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Vinny on the cut table
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Andrew passing sheathing up to Mike

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Last of the trusses up. Guys building over builds, sheathing walls and cutting in the dormer rafters. Going great!!
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Last of the trusses up. Guys building over builds, sheathing walls and cutting in the dormer rafters.
Going great!!
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Guys finished framing the garage and are working their way out the door with the trusses.
Mike in the lift today and Vinny and Jerm on the walls. Andrew working the ground.
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Guys finished framing the garage and are working their way out the door with the trusses.
Mike in the lift today and Vinny and Jerm on the walls. Andrew working the ground.
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Guys finished framing the garage and are working their way out the door with the trusses.
Mike in the lift today and Vinny and Jerm on the walls. Andrew working the ground.
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Guys finished framing the garage and are working their way out the door with the trusses.
Mike in the lift today and Vinny and Jerm on the walls. Andrew working the ground.
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Guys finished framing the garage and are working their way out the door with the trusses.
Mike in the lift today and Vinny and Jerm on the walls. Andrew working the ground.
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Can you see it now?
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Headers for garage doors being built and installed
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We had a curious visitor today;
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Mike attaching ridge beam on his end
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Rafter going in
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Mike plotting the addition attachment point. This portion will be hand cut rafters tied into the engineered trusses
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UP she goes!
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The guys framing up one of the garage walls
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Jeremy swinging in the 18’ LVL that will serve as our ridge beam
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Swung more trusses, framed some walls, put up wall sheathing- lots of action today
Here's Mike and Andrew guiding a walk through truss so the big guy can swing it into position
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As far as we can go till we frame up garage walls. Concrete was poured Friday so we frame tomorrow
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Slab from above
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Andrew
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Mr Freight Train Lane stopped by today to eat some up side down pizza
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Brothers Danny and Dusty running dual power trowels
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Dusty Collins on the whirly bird

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Vaulted ceiling in master BR
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Mike and Andrew hauling a scissor truss into place
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The Big Guy, waiting for another truss.
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Andrew, the newest member of the team was on the saw table all week did a good job!!
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Great day! great week!
Swung a bunch of trusses, Tri-State got the garage slab poured.
All good!!
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Why? Why? WHY?
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The view from above
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The view from above
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Framing progress
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Framing going great! A bit ahead of where I thought we would be. Garage slab didn’t get poured today as it got pushed off till Friday
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Wonderful view!
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The Big Guy
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Running between rain drops. Manage to get 3/4 of the day in before it was a rain out. Good progress. Should be setting trusses early next week!!
Guys layout back wall
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Going up!
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Jerm on the level & Vinny ready with the turnbuckle
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Back Wall is UP!
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Oh to be young again. Andrew carting a sheet of 3/4 Advantek over head
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Misty morning
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Guys backfilling so we can pour garage slab
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Addition deck walls on Monday
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Productive week
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For Dave Vroman
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Mike prepping existing house to accept addition floor system
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Jeremy attaching one of dozens of joist hangers
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The boys taking a coffee break
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Our newest Andrew has been on the saw table all week and doing well!!
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Mike and Nate discussing how to reroute existing hvac vents and sensors
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Vinny applying sub floor adhesive. Most arm pits get lots of it on them!!
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Sub floor was going well till the rains. Get it done tomorrow as we are setting walls on Monday
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Sub floor was going well till the rains. Get it done tomorrow as we are setting walls on Monday
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More joist hangers
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More joist hangers
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Perfect!
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French door and two double hung window openings framed in for a walk out basement
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Layering of the main beam
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Triple LVL beam in place
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Vinny and Jeremy installing floor joists with our newest guy Andrew on the saw table
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Boys had a great day of framing. This baby will be in the air in no time!
First layer of a 3 layer 30 foot main beam is in.
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Basement concrete floor poured today.
Tomorrow we frame the addition deck. This is going to go fast!
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Basement concrete floor poured today.
Tomorrow we frame the addition deck. This is going to go fast!
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Started framing walls today!!
Very toasty and humid but it’s not snowing.
Our main man Ricky drops first of many loads of framing lumber
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Vinny and our newest employee Andrew frame step walls
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Andrew is a recent graduate from SV. He completed the BOCES Carpentry program and we welcome him aboard!!
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First step wall going in
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First step wall going in
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First step wall going in
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Mike and Jeremy layout anchor bolt pattern so the bottom plate can be drilled to receive the wall
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Mike and Jeremy layout anchor bolt pattern so the bottom plate can be drilled to receive the wall
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First step wall going in
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This is what I get when I tell the guys
"Send me pics."
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This is what I get when I tell the guys
"Send me pics."
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We cut the existing basement foundation wall to create a passage from new basement to the existing basement. Horrible messy job. Saw weighs a ton and is hard to control. Guys did a great job!!

Here's the big guy, Jeremy, on the saw
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We cut the existing basement foundation wall to create a passage from new basement to the existing basement. Horrible messy job. Saw weighs a ton and is hard to control. Guys did a great job!!

Here's Mike on the cut and snap saw
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We cut the existing basement foundation wall to create a passage from new basement to the existing basement. Horrible messy job. Saw weighs a ton and is hard to control. Guys did a great job!!

Mike finishing up the cut
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These guys make it look so easy!!
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These guys make it look so easy!!
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Pumper in place waiting for the concrete truck to feed it
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Pumper in place waiting for the concrete truck to feed it
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Our boys from Tri-State Concrete poured the walls today. Sunshine and blue skies!!
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Pretty complex footer system. All poured awaiting wall forms and rebar
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Pretty complex footer system. All poured awaiting wall forms and rebar
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Wall forms going in
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Wall forms almost all in
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Wall forms almost all in
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Forms in all braced and straight. Concrete pumper set for 7:30 am
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Thunderbuilt Construction Group started a new project today! This one's code name is E222.
We're building an addition to a pretty unique house. It will allow us to get a full set of stairs installed serving the second floor. We will renovate the bathroom to accommodate a full size tub and shower, and a washer & dryer.
Kitchen will be remodeled and a dining area will be created.

Plumbers plumbing up new sink
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Mike and the guys prepping shower area for shower surround
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Mike and the guys prepping shower area for shower surround
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New tub is in ready to be hooked to drain countertop and cabinets all in
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New tub is in ready to be hooked to drain countertop and cabinets all in
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Big Jon cutting heat ducts
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Mike cutting countertop for new sink
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Had to open up floor to run new drains
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Nate our plumber running new drain lines
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Yep the plumbers are here. Tub and shower set and kitchen sink all staged for install
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Vinny cutting trim stock
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Our new guy, Connor.
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Always smiling Vinnie
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Mike and Vinny and Kole closing up the old loft access. Client used to access her BR by way of this ladder. We built a full set of stairs in the addition.
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Lots of action, roofers, Pernich and Shelp arrived and shingled the roof and installed endwall flashing
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T111 siding going up
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Looks like it's always been there.
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Roof's on!
She's dried in!
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Kole on the saw
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Vinny and Kole on cut table
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Always get one of these when I ask for pics😁
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Lots of windows
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Lots of windows
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We are totally revamping the kitchen layout. Here Vinny Mike and kole are laying out where the appliances will go and what type of cabinets we will need
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Very unique structure
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Guys installing roof sheathing
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Very unique structure
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Gonna be cute
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Mike installing fascia boards
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Didn’t have the lift on the job so we did it the old way. We hoisted them up to the second story then up into place. Here Mike and Jeremy haul one up from Vinny down below.
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Truss day!
First truss and plumbed in.
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Jeremy nailing up rim board
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Vinny and Mike running top plates
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11:25AM!
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9:30AM!
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9:30AM!
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8:45AM!
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Jeremy studying prints.
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Mike and Jeremy, framing up first wall.
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Vinny and Jeremy ripping plywood for headers
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8:15AM!
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We started framing this baby today!
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Joe V shooting grade for footers
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Matt, digging footers
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Matt digging footers
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Matty Clark swinging some rebar into the site
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Thunderbuilt started a new project in October.
It’s called BN11. The project is a great addition to an existing home.

Jeremy buttoning up gable end and Mike trimming off corners
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Mike and Jeremy cutting and installing siding
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Worked on finishing up the siding on this addition today. Very nice vinyl board & batten style. Looks great!
Here's Mike tying in the corner where addition meets existing home
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No way to get the concrete to the back yard so the Tri State crew is having it pumped up and over.
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Excavation for the Footer and frost walls started today.
We needed to get it in the ground before the frost hits.
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Excavation for the Footer and frost walls started today.
We needed to get it in the ground before the frost hits.
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Many, Many more photo galleries to come!

From a sweet back porch to a stunning breakfast nook and extra bath.

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Start with a level floor
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09-11-2020
We took a minute today to silently remember all who fell that dreadful day and those who rushed toward the hell while others fought for their lives to escape.
We won’t forget.
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