Monthly Archives: February 2015

CUSTOM CHAIR CARVING REVIEW

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I received in the mail a package of wood carvings today. This is the best kind of mail! These carvings are submittals for the crown of a designed chair going into a historically sensitive remodel. This chair is modeled after a Victorian  – Eastlake movement – antique. I have written a previous blog on a …

TILE SPECIFICATION – LESSONS LEARNED

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Today we finally made resolution to a tile problem we have been trying to resolve for months. The back story: We have been working on a large plaza renovation which includes a couple large landscape fountains. Our scope of work is to remove the failing stone pavers in the plaza and replace the tile in …

FIRE RATINGS FOR DOORS – A LIFE SAFETY ITEM

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If you read my posting called Redlining you would know that I have been working on a small TI  lobby remodel. Just as we were about to issue the set of drawings for bidding, we were asked to replace all the main doors down two side exit corridors through the building.  This wasn’t apart of our original …