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"mike patterson" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"If you're trying to spray from something and you. I put up your spring will slide off the wall. That sounds like the voice of experience out. Whatever the architect's who found out the hard way too quickly improvised. I think they went out. Got chickenwire pushed it up against the wall so the continuous spraying seeking to give it some to hang onto so it just falls right off of it isn't interesting doesn't cold so it slides down gets clumpy. I guess i wasn't there for but i've heard about it. You're gonna be on the cutting edge building you know that's not gonna work right. Yeah agreed. I don't know if that was helpful. But so in this period of time they were trying all kinds of plaster things in an effort to get housing. Construction ramped up and like all these systems were tried. And the other thing you see is in. This period is button board which is kind of gypsum products. Like ragas talking about has got a bunch of holes in it and it's meant to key in the plaster the plaster actually oozes through it. And it makes these little round patterns on the backside which is why people call it button board but I've seen like the stuff that looks like Sell tax kind of this brown. Fibrous material used behind plaster in homes of this vintage and the subsequent decade. And i don't know i wouldn't worry about it. It's fine. I'm sure unless it's the best us and then then worry about it if it's not falling off the wall and thinking that one of the options you're talking about is probably the way to go. What are we talking about. Cheer the compound stick to. I wonder if a bonding agent you know like a private. That's sort of like a bonding. Like ceelo it and make it except you can wait and go well. I'm gonna appeal to our listeners. As i often do for help with this you know. How do you get rough plaster. That's bad finish but otherwise sound. What do you do with it. I think that's a good question and so money. So many of us folks with older homes is. This is something we have to deal with. I can tell you Georgia your walls need some help and the is really really really something more cannot help match that so that was bad. I don't know it seemed like someone had a the shining Inspiration maybe you guys have anything to add before we close today. Just want a quick thing as as usual. We're chipping away and new project guides and we will have a siding and exterior trim. One live possibly by the time. People here this episode. What's wrong siding exterior trim. That's cool and you continue to roll these things out. What's after siding and exterior trim deny design. One i'm gonna be got moving onto plumbing and then interior trim we've got a whole list. Go and i would remind listeners that you get access to all of this fantastic archived and curated content with a all extra subscription to find humbling dot com. Do you have anything dimension. Colin only in that. I rented a twenty pound demo hammer when i was removing tile. That was fun thing. We've talked about on hammers on the podcast before and i've borrowed yours. You know the that long. I got one similar to that. But i have the. I have a knockoff version. It's not cutting. And i was like i really need something. Went to home depot. That twenty pound hammer wasn't hazing. So can i guess that you were trying to break up the mud bed and your bathroom. Is that what you're doing. Yeah i since sept- tiles to plywood with no uncoupling membrane so uncoupling. It was very difficult clearly. Job hearing the tile worked. I also on put a layer of three plywood on over the old sub floor and i screwed like every three or four inches. So what a nightmare undoing. The work i was finding of finally asthma cooling up top floor incredible. You know that that's the one of the things. When i was a working in remodeling that some of the companies i worked for people. I worked for like you know. We love using these screws to hold everything together but whoever has to take the thing apart is gonna hate us. It was rents. And you can't just undo the screws because then the screw heads are all full of thin set right. You can't even find him. Yeah good to know. So what would you tell folks to do. Didn't want this hassle. I still think it's great. Great to you screw is gonna be cursing. Yeah i mean. There's a lot of things redo where when it comes to remodeling. It's going to be difficult. You know anytime out a floor. You're now the floor on some floor right so let me just come up with better tools for demolition right. Like says Skill demon blades. That dabbagh makes for cutting through any anything that has metal in it. And i'll say cut get above those joyce from your crawlspace and Just cut those cruise right. Clean off the joyce i can tell you. That's the old daemon product line. And they make recent blades that are carbide tipped and they make circular saw blades of different sizes. Those things are fantastic. Well real murdoch. Like i can't admit just i've never knew about them before. They were just amazing. It's funny company. Sent the company sent me recently. Carbide tip metal cutting recent bleed and a hundred other bimetal ordinary blades and they claim that they are equivalent. And when you when you first see the price of these things you choke right because you know who wants to pay thirty bucks for recip- saw blade right but oh my god they just work so good and lasts forever and they cut things that recent blades are not really good at cutting cast iron and stainless steel. And just absolutely. You gave me one of those and it's it's been on my saws just hasn't come us. It's they're always words. I look at it. I'm like this isn't gonna talk anything. That's fine and i get why those things are so expensive. I seen the manufactured and the way they're made so like recip- saw blades like come on a roll of like steal. The i like put two notches on the on the road steal the coiled steel and then like they feed this like saw this recip- blank into a welder. In each one of those car by teeth has to be welded on the blade individually and then the sides are ground to make sharp but a compared to the ordinary production process for a recip- ladies are way harder to make. And that's why they're so expensive but god they were okay. I wanna make an appeal to our listeners. For suggestions for gas i've gotten some great feedback from Folks who listen to the show They really enjoyed mike. Patterson's conversation with me and some other of the crusty builders especially we love to hear from so if you have any suggestions for those kind of folks who have been in the industry for a long time and have lessons for the rest of us. I would love to know about them and be eternally grateful for your help with that and other tradespeople to like. We haven't had an electric attrition on the show we've only had one plumber We've had we've had voltage people but only two. So like i would love to have the whole industry represented regularly and I think that would make for a really interesting show. Do you guys have suggestions someone. I should talk to you when you put me on the spot. Come out come up with the list all right well so it's great when you mentioned by name because then they feel obligated to do and so if you think.
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"mike patterson" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
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"mike patterson" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"Time off you about something you know you can get smacked in tops but if you go in with a low level of humility and just asking. They're they're very generous absolutely so can you tell me about your own house. Do you have any newer. Lingering problems that you're ignoring or talent anyone about in the family channel on harra. I've done much. House bathrooms Hall asked that they can can use remodel right now. Oddly enough when facing years. I really nice decker back my house. Ten years ago now pressure treated wood is not doing very well. I think it was that sort of period figured out the right formulas for when they took the arseny out and started putting new. Stop in. and so it's not gonna weathering very well with your pricing treated lumber these days. I'm just absolutely unwilling to yank attacking. You're thinking of like putting that resto william stuff on there like people do more right now. I players have a next year over a spot. Y deckchair like what's this chair. So so i thank. You didn't remember fresh You know we can all think about you all decade in region. What vintages your house and what. What style is it. Can you describe it. Yeah my house late. Seventies owned by winchester crews. It's god aluminum siding normalize shooting Has got three inch. Roof sheeting to center. was no clips. It's got our eleven than i mean for all that. It's it's delightful house in some kind of county wells on one side. We're on the other i. We're very happy there within there twenty years and as it lives very well. It's not divest. Whoever tend to like do a deep energy retrofit or some other crazy thing it the affect everybody wants you know flashy bathroom. Thank thank gear less than be flight. But they don't care. I resistance is just do i mean like do you care. Questioned the payback you know. Is that something that you would think as cold. Well i think. I i don't care that much about it. I've had this discussion with other people like people like then. Bogey example. regaining colbert is. They're all in their all. And but i think that work on doing a lot of my work is on eighty year old houses ninety year old houses or we're doing traditional one. I'm not control nothing but it doesn't matter because the rest of the house is in our.
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"mike patterson" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"I got remodeled. Ladies his enemies aunts discovered that. I really like houses and inside what little experience i had from from. Mister preservation work Some of that came back to the arcade and then all scheduling stop filer and doing condos at the zone. All all served approach needs to remodel issue so we just hung out a shingle. How did you get your clients on the early days. i mean. that's a hard thing for a new contractor. You take on jobs. You probably shouldn't you take on clients that anyone you can get right so I i went to work for uncle. Remodeler and were written about six years honestly copier and during the time brown worked was improved chair in ended up going to work for somebody else but During that time from late nineteen ninety-two business. Nine six we were doing side work every mcgruther so he knew someone in your basement Her in i knew somebody that needed those things out pretty much every weekend and after work every day we often side were which was good experience in knowledge stopping and getting jobs and satisfying clients. Right growing your client days nam and saving money to nice and then the gotten i was working for and he did work for architects Do i got to as knee carpenter to be the ones that'd be talking.
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"mike patterson" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"Of the things that i've worked really well for me. Things get along. Well not only do i mean group of course which are available but But i let them big money. I wanted to make rate so no. I want my job ready when they show up in the one all male south to don questions to be answered so they don't have to have their spin. Your wheels and dan appreciate that they can just come in and gets to get on get announced the expert listener. You have them like help. You bid projects i mean. Do you give such a plans and ask them you know. What is this gonna cost. I'm sure you do think it was up. So drywall guy. For just like you know what you're going for a special discount but now my plumber plans or gaza everybody else. I'll get price from them and now they're bringing it on reasonable thing. You just change your stuff. How should contractors be pre clients in. How should potential clients vet their contractor You mentioned that you have a great relationship with an architect. That seems like a good way. Are there other ways that you would say are good now. I would say Crime merely and this is like arguing knowledgeable years but trust your gut. One in the first meeting was close attention to how they treat in charter. Is your cop all you know. There's there's lack of respect between people in a couple of being socking you better for you so I don't typically do you know. Funds verification requests and stuff like that nature people up an issue once might career Muchly people just trusting. Your is now wrong. They really really really a lot. So sometimes you know. Sometimes they hide the accurate contract when you can you tell me about well..
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"mike patterson" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"Welcomes the fine home building. Pro-talk podcast a regular discussion with building industry professionals. This is senior editor. Patrick mccomb today on joined by remodeler. Fine homebuilding contributor. J elsie live presenter and russian motorcycle rider mike patterson. We're going to have to talk more about that later right man. It's really nice to have you on the show. We've known each other for years going back to jail. See live in 'oughts. Yeah what's it's great to have you. Thanks for doing this. can you. please tell me what you do Your remodeler gaithersburg maryland. For a long time. Can you talk about your business. Food clients are. What kind of projects did that kind of stuff. So we are our small shopowners myself from the office so And i had gone. It'll show we do much work to do. I was eating nine. You presented work. You do is spur for architects architect. Really work as one outlay Smart work is designed not And so i worked with her any for twenty years A lot of words you get. I worked holdouts belts for almost two years ago. What made you put your tolls down. Was it physically or was it some other reason about I'm sixty seven now. We'll be twenty seven shortly so wearing belsen at long just takes toll on you. Back of neck out and But also just sort of the point where. I was kind of limited in what i could do. I had had some is in years prior to the crash at work yourself always using yes
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PRO TALK With Remodeler Mike Patterson
"Welcomes the fine home building. Pro-talk podcast a regular discussion with building industry professionals. This is senior editor. Patrick mccomb today on joined by remodeler. Fine homebuilding contributor. J elsie live presenter and russian motorcycle rider mike patterson. We're going to have to talk more about that later right man. It's really nice to have you on the show. We've known each other for years going back to jail. See live in 'oughts. Yeah what's it's great to have you. Thanks for doing this. can you. please tell me what you do Your remodeler gaithersburg maryland. For a long time. Can you talk about your business. Food clients are. What kind of projects did that kind of stuff. So we are our small shopowners myself from the office so And i had gone. It'll show we do much work to do. I was eating nine. You presented work. You do is spur for architects architect. Really work as one outlay Smart work is designed not And so i worked with her any for twenty years A lot of words you get. I worked holdouts belts for almost two years ago. What made you put your tolls down. Was it physically or was it some other reason about I'm sixty seven now. We'll be twenty seven shortly so wearing belsen at long just takes toll on you. Back of neck out and But also just sort of the point where. I was kind of limited in what i could do. I had had some is in years prior to the crash at work yourself always using yes
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"mike patterson" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"That's really beautiful. And i look at it and literally like thirty seconds later. I forgot i ever saw it. There's just all the time he of course. Yeah yeah i mean like countless. I'm always like oh you know what i need to remember to show this to a friend and like three days later. I won't even remember what the thing was. Just be something was going to show you. But i can't remember what lee and it was something on some social media platform somewhere and so like might not always my attention span shorter but my memory is worse. Because there's just so much to look at it and of course it's not a negative thing but like there's so much that looks very similar that that it's very difficult to also sometimes differentiate like from this person nop this organization or whatever and i think it's also it's sort of inherently kind of strange space because many of my communities in in the in the social media spheres is facebook and instagram. Many of them are artists. And i'm interested in seeing news about their work and snapshots you know as well and so on but we're also is a space where that's mixed in with all your other connections images of all kinds of other things in all kinds of other experiences so it's just a it's a kind of inherently odd space of just the kind of various forms of content that coexisted in this environment will then the algorithm is also feeding you that loop of like. Hey you liked this. Here's a more of it so you end up more of what you already like. And so it's this self self-serving loop that you end up seeing pretty much same thing over and over because the outward thinks that's what you like which quite oftentimes if you use it right is what you like so that works right circling back to the topic. He brought up before one about so as i said. Your series of works are reasonably disparate. Like so like you have like a series about this and then a series in a completely different location and as you said before there's sort of a common thread between the sort of all says it was made by you. It's of your morals ethics your ethos your favorite kind of thing but but the question is how do you choose the topic so that you know when you go from what you've especially like when you finish series let's say so that you just published a book a couple of years ago so like when you're done and it's that big and you've completed that how do you go okay and the next thing is going to be this way. Yes that's that's a good question. I'll start saying what. I finished about a work at the end of my time in new york city that mike patterson series a series of street portrait site worked on in the years following the economic crisis in that..