Sunday, November 09, 2008

Stairs & Sheetrock


The staircase starts to take shape as the sheetrock goes up around it.







There was obviously something going on with all these vices and green plastic around some sort of wood here. After talking to the trim carpenters the next day (I like to meet all the guys at the house and take pictures of them working... :-), I found out that it was the handrail for the curve on the bridge here.

See, there are the trim carpenters working on the stair railings. :-) They were very friendly and told me to come on in - since it was my house, after all... Well, kind of...









Oh, my goodness, this looks so cool! I LOVE the wrought iron railing!








Oh, and here's a neat detail on the brick that wasn't finished in the previous pictures. Those brickers did a really good job, even though they did leave soda cans inside the walls... well, at least they were SODA! Not sure about the trim guys, though. I don't think SODA is their drink of choice...

2 comments:

Grandpa said...

Some masons are really gifted craftsmen. I enjoyed watching the men lay the rock work on our house.

Anonymous said...

Our GC's guys were prohibited from drinking after working. Other subs seemed to go through a few cases a day.

Other "masons" just read a book and hope the bricks are true and the rocks hold back the dirt :)
,,,,alan