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Originally Posted by stumpfield Rob, That's a very nice looking staircase. Your builder did an excellent job on the joineries. May be he knows that you are a machinist.... Is the rain affecting your progress there? We have a some heavy rain up here and my road is looking terrible now. |
Tom,
LOL ... yeah, he is aware I am a mold maker. During the many meetings before contracting him, he said the worst customer he ever had was a tool and die maker with a big grin on his face, so I just rolled my eyes.
I assured him I would TRY to keep my mouth shut. But I think you're right, in that he has made an extra effort to do a really good job. He knows I take photos and analyze them...them post them for you guys to rip it apart.
We have had very little rain at our place. I know last year you got a lot more than we did too. Can you maintain your roads with your bulldozer? Do you have good gutters
cut on the sides to divert as much run-off as possible? When you get through with that bulldozer, I'd be interested in buying it from you.
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Originally Posted by machmeter62 ROB: I totally agree going with the lighter stains initally; you can always go darker at a later date, if you find it too light, but trying to lighten it may be tough? Can you sample the choice of your stains, maybe on a given area inside your barn with enough exposure that gives you self satisfaction? It has been my experience from a chart, or small areas of color, can be deceiving? I have also learned different lighting, affects colors too! You have probably tried all of the above anyway? |
machmeter,
Thanks for assuring us of that. We are going to go with an Autumn Aspen stain which is light but has a tiny hint of red in it. The contractor stained a section on a spare log for us with several stains. We got to see what it really looked like vs the colors in the brochure. That helped us to make our minds up, along with the input from you and the others.