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    Default My best contractor sent me a text

    Wow, was so cool. Tomorrow I'm starting a giant project for a contractor who has grown from doing flips to renovating warehouses into restaurants and now doing a brand new luxury apartment building with skyline views in every apartment.
    So he sent me a text with an image of an article in Columbus Monthly about a project he did last year and low and behold, I was among the subjects in the article and how I had done the floors with white oak planks. We devised a sweet color using gray and the darker browns. Ebony helps to pull the grain out. Gray keeps it from being too dark, and the Jacobean gives it the perfect brown while counteracting the blackness of the ebony. Result: Looks like barn boards in a 200 year old Vermont barn
    2 parts ebony
    3 parts classic gray
    1 part jacobean

    I looked for the article but it's only in print for now.

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    Downtown is really growing huh? Great to see yourself written up

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    Congratulations. You take pride in your Work, and it shows.

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    The project went well. Had some learning curve issues with the floating subfloor. It's the first time I've seen anything like it. 1 foot by 4 foot strips of plywood staggered and 1/4 in gaps between seams. I have to create a straight floor on these moving strips of wood. LOL It was fun. The plywood boards aren't even flat so it was a chore to even use a chalk line to make a reference line. Plus, the plywood moves and suddenly the line isn't straight anymore. Hahaha I went back this evening and started the next unit up so my help isn't standing around watching me shed tears.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Congratulations. You take pride in your Work, and it shows.
    Thanks, Jack. It's true, I do feel compelled to do excellent work. When I was an employee, it was a more pure and noble quest for perfection. Now, it's just because I don't to go back and fix anything. LOL so jaded

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    Quote Originally Posted by tinfoil View Post
    Thanks, Jack. It's true, I do feel compelled to do excellent work. When I was an employee, it was a more pure and noble quest for perfection. Now, it's just because I don't to go back and fix anything. LOL so jaded
    Agreed. Easier to do it right the first time, rather than go back and do it right the second time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Downtown is really growing huh? Great to see yourself written up
    Yea it started around the Arena district (The old State Penn) and the Franklin Park area and spread to the Victorian village which you would hardly recognize from 10 to 15 years ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tinfoil View Post
    Thanks, Jack. It's true, I do feel compelled to do excellent work. When I was an employee, it was a more pure and noble quest for perfection. Now, it's just because I don't to go back and fix anything. LOL so jaded
    Congrats man. I hope it pays big dividends.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Yea it started around the Arena district (The old State Penn) and the Franklin Park area and spread to the Victorian village which you would hardly recognize from 10 to 15 years ago.
    Yeah, the project in the article was located at 4th street and 4th ave. The entire strip of 4th street has already been mostly transformed. And every block away from 4th seems to have caught up also. Columbus is really on fire with real estate and people investing in improvements. I've heard Marion Village is expected to boom but I don't see why the Arena District trend won't keep traveling up and running the dregs out in the Indianola area. Clintonville is already kind of a ritzy area but I keep getting calls for the the old shitboxes that line the old brick roads just off North Broadway. They are all some substandard homes with flooring over framing and no subfloors. LOL 1930s budget homes were built so cheap while the rich man houses in the 30s are legendary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Yea it started around the Arena district (The old State Penn) and the Franklin Park area and spread to the Victorian village which you would hardly recognize from 10 to 15 years ago.
    Did you see this WSJ article from November?



    New Residents Are Spending Big in Columbus

    The Ohio capital is the fastest-growing Midwestern city, pushing up real-estate prices and spurring major transformations of traditional neighborhoods and historic properties


    https://www.wsj.com/articles/good-bu...us-11573145397

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    Quote Originally Posted by tinfoil View Post
    The project went well. Had some learning curve issues with the floating subfloor. It's the first time I've seen anything like it. 1 foot by 4 foot strips of plywood staggered and 1/4 in gaps between seams. I have to create a straight floor on these moving strips of wood. LOL It was fun. The plywood boards aren't even flat so it was a chore to even use a chalk line to make a reference line. Plus, the plywood moves and suddenly the line isn't straight anymore. Hahaha I went back this evening and started the next unit up so my help isn't standing around watching me shed tears.
    Did you switch to a laser? As long as you could anchor in an undisturbed spot, it would remain true.

    I've not seen this floating subfloor system yet. It certainly wouldn't work for tile.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tinfoil View Post
    Wow, was so cool. Tomorrow I'm starting a giant project for a contractor who has grown from doing flips to renovating warehouses into restaurants and now doing a brand new luxury apartment building with skyline views in every apartment.
    So he sent me a text with an image of an article in Columbus Monthly about a project he did last year and low and behold, I was among the subjects in the article and how I had done the floors with white oak planks. We devised a sweet color using gray and the darker browns. Ebony helps to pull the grain out. Gray keeps it from being too dark, and the Jacobean gives it the perfect brown while counteracting the blackness of the ebony. Result: Looks like barn boards in a 200 year old Vermont barn
    2 parts ebony
    3 parts classic gray
    1 part jacobean

    I looked for the article but it's only in print for now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Did you see this WSJ article from November?



    New Residents Are Spending Big in Columbus

    The Ohio capital is the fastest-growing Midwestern city, pushing up real-estate prices and spurring major transformations of traditional neighborhoods and historic properties


    https://www.wsj.com/articles/good-bu...us-11573145397
    No I had not. Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Did you see this WSJ article from November?



    New Residents Are Spending Big in Columbus

    The Ohio capital is the fastest-growing Midwestern city, pushing up real-estate prices and spurring major transformations of traditional neighborhoods and historic properties


    https://www.wsj.com/articles/good-bu...us-11573145397
    Argghhh can’t read it. Not a subscriber. Give me the Cliff notes version.

    I know my condo’s property assessment went up considerably in the last two years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Did you see this WSJ article from November?



    New Residents Are Spending Big in Columbus

    The Ohio capital is the fastest-growing Midwestern city, pushing up real-estate prices and spurring major transformations of traditional neighborhoods and historic properties


    https://www.wsj.com/articles/good-bu...us-11573145397
    I knew it wasn't my imagination. Thanks for that link!

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