I did three gigs yesterday.
How have you guys accomplished this for 30 or more years.
I'd rather lay brick.

Lay brick? You kidding?

Even with all the hassle of breaking down and setting up for 3 gigs in a day, I CAN'T (or REFUSE TO ) believe that laying brick is better ....
t.

I used to point brick.

What I like about playing an arranger is, I don't have to do it on a scaffold.

Eddie

Eddie,

He needs telling that pointing bricks is much easier than laying them, don't know of anyone who suffers from backache gigging

I sometimes have 4 gigs. Now my shows only last 55 minutes long typically.

On Friday I did 4 gigs. I did a morning double at a nursing facility. One downstairs in health care at 9:30 a.m., one upstairs in rehab at 10:30 a.m.. The rehab show was only 45 minutes long.

Then I did a 2:00 show at a retirement home and a 7:00 program at another retirement home - more like 7:15 because I was caught in bad traffic.

I drove 145 miles that day. Then I came hope and patiently listened while my wife gave me grief about how I'm not staying emotionally connected with her. That's like two gigs in itself!

Beakybird

I spent a summer laying brick and stone when I was a young lad.

Used the money to purchase my first B3.

The upside of that summer was that I soon found out that there was not a fistfight nor wrestling match to be found that I could not win.

That came in handy the next summer, playing the B3 in those steel mill bars...


--Mac

My wife loves bricks, especially when I'm laying them. I installed a 160-foot brick sidewalk and a 22-foot X 44-foot brick patio at our home. I don't recall exactly how many bricks that amounted to but it was somewhere around 7,500. After that job was done, which took a couple months, I would have gladly carried someone's B3 on my back for the same time period if they would have done that brick job. I HATE BRICKS!

Gary

Not quite as bad as Gary's project, but I can relate. I tiled a 20x25 sunroom with Mexican tile and even though I had a knowledgeable buddy (sucker) helping me (he did the skill work, I mixed concrete and handed him tiles), it was amoung the worst experiences of my life. I swore off 'home projects' forever. I'm guessing that bricks are at least twice as bad.

chas

When I was a kid (about 14 - 15 yrs old) my father decided it would be a good idea to replace the 'dirt' in our side yard (couldn't get grass to grow there) with asphalt blocks the city of NY was selling ... I don't remember how many blocks there were, but it was a pretty good size yard, and the 'kicker' was that there were 31 steps to get from the street to the side yard ... we got all the guys in the neighborhood to form a 'chain gang' to pass the blocks from one guy to the next all the way up the stairs ...

PS .. I had to carry my accordion and amplifier up and down those stairs ...
Of course I have the calf muscles to show for it ...

t.

You'd better not become a star

The following weeks I am going to install a floating hardwood floor in my home.

Have not done this before, but I think it will be a breeze compared to the prep work.

I got an angle grinder to cut away the marble skirtings of the existing floor. You will not believe the dust it creates! It is like standing in front of an industrial fan and throwing flour in the air. That foggy. Now I have to fill the voids with quick setting mortar.

Give me a gig any time.

They make wet saws for that. With attached vacuum for spillover. Keeps the dust to a minimum, but you should still wear proper filter mask to avoid inhaling that stuff.

I learned a long time ago that if any job starts getting to be out of hand like that, I stop and research what it is that I'm doing wrong. The pros can tell me what particular tool they use, etc.

Anyway, damage done, project moving on, take your time and have fun with it, do a great job!


--Mac

If it doesn't have a remote control, I pretty much leave it alone. My wife started a project re-doing our kitchen. We, mostly she, have replaced the stove, microwave, dishwasher, counter tops and still re-doing cabinet doors. It's going on a year now. We generally start something, realize we need help, and call an expert to finish it.
I'm waiting right now for an insurance guy to come and assess damage from floods a couple of weeks ago. Looks like we'll get new carpet.
October set an all-time record for rain here, with around 30 inches, most of it in a week.
Boo, you could come down here and build a brick wall around the back of the house is case that ever happens again. We put out sandbags or it would have been much worse.
We were actually lucky as a lot of the nearby neighborhood was hit by tornadoes that week.
After a week of beautiful weather, we're having an extreme cold spell now. Temperatures won't get much about 60 today.
DonM

I know. but these things are designed to cut stone, marble etc and you have to move the material TO the cutter, not the other way round.

The problem was that the marble skirtings were attached to lowest side of the wall. They are like strips, about 2 feet wide at the the most, 2,5 inches high and less than an inch deep. About 1/3 of their depth is inside the wall. The wall is brick, and has a mortar coat comprised of a mixture of sand, cement and white marble powder, and painted on top.

So I cut about 1/8th of an inch above the skirting, to "break the bond with the mortar above, and then with judicious use of a hammer and scalpel, the skirtings come out easily, without damaging the wall above.

Our existing floor is called "mosaic" and is exactly like this photo from the web, only the stuff between the white stones is black, you can also see the marble skirtings on the side. You will see detailed photos when I finish.



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