Work Experience
Drywall
- 25 years+ experience
- Know how to tape and finish for smooth wall or texture
- Patches
- Lath and plaster patches
- Round walls, coves, domes
- Skim old plaster walls
- Anything to do with taping and texture
- Taped: residential, commercial, as well as tenant improvement
- Some metal stud framing such as partition walls in schools and office buildings and concrete tilt ups
- Drywall tools: own a set of automatic taping tools, stilts, ladders, air compressor and hopper
Carpentry
Labor
- Dug ditches
- Packed lumber
- Anything to get the job done
- Willing to do the dirty jobs
Concrete
- Set forms for: new homes, side walks, and for post and beams
- Architectural pours at state parks, and fish hatcheries
- Set forms for towers and steel buildings
- Mono pours
- Broom finish and hard trowel
Carpenter
- Framed homes and additions from start to finish
- Many kitchens, bathrooms, and decks
- Experienced with "moment framing" (red iron)
- Installed windows
- Built stairs
- Trimmed out houses including: built cabinets and installed, fireplace mantles, and newel posts
- Installed siding
- Installed residential and commercial doors, including: metal frames, the hardware, closures, and kick plates
- Built an outside playground for local school
- Built a group kitchen and bath house for a state park
- Erected a 168' tower and built the radio building out of metal studs, metal siding, and roofing
- Tenant improvement on a pharmacy from start to finish including counter tops as well as all the finish work
- Helped to build a steel building on a pier on a government base
- Roofing
- Carpenter Tools: Cabinets shop planner, joiner, shop saw, edge sander, boring machine, shaper, drill press, Compound miter saw, nail guns framing and finish, air compressors, battery tools, skill saws portable table saw, hand tools, and transit
Painting
Exterior
- Painted out sides of homes
- Sprayed and brush and rolled
- Painted: stucco, LP, Hardy plank, cedar,
- Ran a pressure washer
Interior
- Spayed oil, latex and alcohol base primers and paint
- Sprayed: water base, lacquers, catalyst varnish's, polyurethane and oil base finishes
- Done: repaints, bonding, sanding, and caulking
- Done staining and finish on my cabinets, stair wells, and trim
- Tools: Two airless paint guns, cup guns, masking equipment, roller handles and poles, trays, and brushes
Tile and Flooring
- Experienced with mud-set shower pans
- Set tile in shower pans and walls
- Floor tile and back splash's
- Cut slabs for a fire place surround and polished the edges
- Worked with various types of tile and stone
- Installed vinyl flooring
- Installed VCT tiles
- Rubber base
- Laminate flooring
- Pre-Finished hardwood
- Tools: I have a wet saw, trowels, floats, mason diamonds drill bits, rotor hammer, laminate router, hardwood flooring nail gun
Other trades
- Insulation,
- Roofing: EDPM, metal, fiberglass. 3-Tab .
- Some minor wiring and plumbing
- A lot of everything
- Managed 36 unit apartment
