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Thread: Favorite Stair Job / Project of "06"

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    Favorite Stair Job / Project of "06"

    Well 2 week ago I was getting it together and going over paper work to get my taxes done. Yea I know last minute, but when you owe, might as well pay up at the last minute. And reminded of my favorite job of 2006.
    What made it a favorite-
    1-A lot of what I do is subing, where someone else designs and I put their ideas together, of course that calls for spliting the coins. Now and then I get my own contracts and get to be the designer/ salesman / craftsman, and keep all the profit $$.
    2-The project was less then 2 miles from my home, very , very rare. The homeowner saw me doing his neighbors stair remodel and had me come look at his.
    3-He and his wife were really great people, he was retired and had an after retirement business at home. He had a second, small office in the garage, so we would BS all day as I was working. I also took over 1/3 of his garage to store stock and store my TS , saw horses, and bench ( saved a lot of loading in my trailer ).
    4-Not only did they give all freedom in design, but One "really" good part was ( I work on draws ), all I had to do was mention money and he wipped out the check book and said how much Roger.

    The first 2 shot are the " before" pics, standard contractor "tunnel stairs and wall rail" with carpet.

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    I just love those types of customers.


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    As I started to do the demo. I notice a 42" knee wall on the wall side and made a suggestion to change this over to a balcony w/ railing, they loved the idea and I made a quick quote and got a " do it". One design consideration was that the owner wanted to keep a wall rail, plus what you don't pick up in the pics is that their walls have one of those Faux ( sponged like )wall finishes the would be almost imposible to match up for any patching, so I designed so as to cover up any demo work, to elem. any patching.
    pic 1 is the bottom with the 2 lower winders I incorporated , I might mention the bottom starter step took a 30" x 72" glue-up to cut the tread and keep the grain running right. I Had to make a custom starter step, but I usually prefer to make my own, rather than buy one.
    2-is the going up view
    3-is the bottom newel
    4-side view w/ balcony to his main office
    5-is a side upper shot

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    I felt the balcony worked out good with the stair and the homeowner loved it.
    pic6-is the balcony
    7-is the upper stair wrap which had to be padded out on the door side to meet ctr. of rail , I also wrapped the balcony ends to match ,also it covers any demo.
    8-close-up of the upper wall wrap, and trim , which I made to match the tread nosing profile.
    9-is the wall rail as it transitions past the balcony. I had decided on a wall board to cover up where the orig. wall rail was mounted, so no patch-up

    I might add I am now at their request working up a cost on redoing a built-in small emterment ctr. in his balcony office

    Roger
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    Beautiful job Roger. I bet it will bring in a lot more work to you!
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    That's really nice Roger! Red Oak I presume?
    How many hours did that project take you to design, build, install and finish?

    Kris

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    Looks great Roger!!


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    Wow Roger.
    Changing the world one board at a time .
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    Ho-o-o-o-o-o-o-ld on just a minute there, Roger!!! Different house between the "before" and "after", right???? Wow!!! What a magnificent difference! I can see where you'll be getting a lot of referrals from that! Great job!!!!
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    Nice job Roger.

    Richard

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    Great looking stairs

    I think "WOW" says it all............

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    Thanks all for the comments.

    Kristian---yes all Red Oak--design time didn't take long, about 1 1/2 hrs. with client, showing rail, newel,and baluster selections and my recommendations, along with a not firm SWAG on price. I can pretty much picture in my mind what I want to do. then about 3 hrs. or so to make some measurements and a rough sketch, to figure out the parts and pieces. price them out and est. time, profit, and a allowance for the unknown, and little time to write up the bid and contract, and collect a deposit. Install - didn't figure it out in hours, in weeks ( I work alone ). I don't do the finishing ( to time consuming ), client wanted to do, so I just left him a bouch of scrap for samples and advised him on what would give him a good finished product. He did a good job on the finish, rail and balusters smooth as a babys butt, I think he spent 2 or 3 months doing it.

    Roger

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    That's awesome work, nice job! It looks great!

    Corey

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    Roger

    That is a great piece of work, I bet your work increased the value of that house signficantly.

    Nice that you didn't have to do the finishing!

    Jay

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    Amazing, really changed that house. What do your clients think about you bringing all your teddy bears to a job site? Oh well, if you do work like that I don't think they will mind the bears.

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