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Got the final piece of ductwork in. Its just a little 3 foot return, but took quite some time to make since there is a 12" offset. I'm terrible with ductwork, so I had our shop guy help me make the offset. It has a telescoping flange that fits in the wall for fire rating. Lights are in and yesterday I started cleaning.
Just got done painting a garage for the son of the realtor who has fed me a lot of work. Gave them a smoking deal and had my heart stolen by the two kids, 5 and 8. Omg so precious they melted my calloused heart.
They only wanted the walls done but I upsold them doing the doors and baseboards to which made it a lot easier and helped take the sting out of the discount I gave to them. I definitely underestimated how long it would take to cut in with the texture. But ended up cutting down a roller cover to make it square and then using a piece of cardboard against the ceiling in rolling against that and work perfect.
So after you put down your piece of tape 1/8 inch away from the baseboard all you need is the thinnest layer of caulking. Just enough to seal up against the edge of the tape really. I use the clear caulk and after wiping it looks like there was nothing there.
They only wanted the walls done but I upsold them doing the doors and baseboards to which made it a lot easier and helped take the sting out of the discount I gave to them. I definitely underestimated how long it would take to cut in with the texture. But ended up cutting down a roller cover to make it square and then using a piece of cardboard against the ceiling in rolling against that and work perfect.
So after you put down your piece of tape 1/8 inch away from the baseboard all you need is the thinnest layer of caulking. Just enough to seal up against the edge of the tape really. I use the clear caulk and after wiping it looks like there was nothing there.
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Went to a new place today. Car dealership's service center that saves all its oil and heats the building with it. They get so much oil they have snowmelt just about everywhere. We did a place just like this a few years back. Same setup. I went out there for a leaking air eliminator, but all their controls and pumps were all sorts of screwed up. Got them all straightened out. Pretty insane system. I estimated they had about 22,000 feet of infloor tubing.
Been going to allot of new customers who are sick of other mechanical company's not being able to fix there crap. All the old timers are retiring and nobody can take their place.
Been going to allot of new customers who are sick of other mechanical company's not being able to fix there crap. All the old timers are retiring and nobody can take their place.
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A little hard to display my work.
I’ve been taking ancient programs written in FORTRAN, C, COBOL and putting them in Docker containers so they can run in the cloud.
These millennial hot shot programmers don’t want touch these 25 to 30 year old programs. Heck! The last time I programmed in these languages was probably when these programs were written. Today’s program was older than my son who is now a cyber security administrator for a well known B2B site.
Nothing like updating code written for 16 and 32 bit operating systems to run in modern 64 bit architectures. Young guys claim it will take weeks, I knock out two to three programs a day and that includes replacing deprecated functions and subroutines. Then I have to teach these arrogant kids how to run the containers in kubernetes in the cloud.
Not sure why we have these young guys around except to write programs that I will eventually have to remediate in 10 years from now.
I’ve been taking ancient programs written in FORTRAN, C, COBOL and putting them in Docker containers so they can run in the cloud.
These millennial hot shot programmers don’t want touch these 25 to 30 year old programs. Heck! The last time I programmed in these languages was probably when these programs were written. Today’s program was older than my son who is now a cyber security administrator for a well known B2B site.
Nothing like updating code written for 16 and 32 bit operating systems to run in modern 64 bit architectures. Young guys claim it will take weeks, I knock out two to three programs a day and that includes replacing deprecated functions and subroutines. Then I have to teach these arrogant kids how to run the containers in kubernetes in the cloud.
Not sure why we have these young guys around except to write programs that I will eventually have to remediate in 10 years from now.
....anyone can take old programs on punch cards and make them into paper air planes so they can go into the clouds........ :).........or do you tie the end of a reel to reel on a helium balloon and launch it .........but in all seriousness they need to get "old" guys to do these updates/revisions while they can
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