On the Job

Category Archives: On the Job

Pro-Oriented topics usually generated either from the Job Site or regarding the Business of Home Improvement.

For Pros Only :: You Can Do It, We Can Help || My Home Depot – Intro FIRST for Pro

I remember lumberyard employees being short tempered and having little capacity to suffer, those they saw as fools lightly and I believe this hostile environment set the stage for the rise of...

by Barry Morgan

BMoxies 1st Ever Photo Week – Day 4 (Ummm Could You Do Me a Quick Favor, Move This Hot Tub … And Errrr. No, That’s Not a Sheer Cliff There)

Lancaster County Timber Frames, Inc. was raising a frame in the mountains of Taos, NM. Everyone in town thought we were rather odd in that we were hiking material up a 8,000...

by Amy Good

Contractor’s Notebook: Shoddy Roof Work, A Crawlspace Pose & Compression Stress (A Fiction)

Three short posts for pros. Other People's Poor Jobs (aka OPPJs) & Working - Shoddy Roof Work Leads to Major Damage + Notes and stories from Inside a Crawlspace.

by Barry Morgan

The Fancy Painters are Here! :: What to Know about Faux Finishing & Decorative Painting

When asked What do you do? and I invariably answer I'm a faux finisher, I sometimes get a quizzical look. I may follow up with I'm an artist...a decorative painter but I...

by Regina Garay

Don’t Cry over Spalted Wood || TanOak: a Woodworker’s Dream

Spalted is the term for the coloration that happens when fungi set up housekeeping in dying wood. The large discolored areas are one type of spalting: pigmentation or sapstain. Those lacey black...

by Kit Tosello