Fixing water damage on the old Dodge (pics)
I got started on my summer project the last couple days. I found this thing on Craig's list for $100 and drove it home. It's a 78 Dodge Monaco 23' with a 440. Here's what it looked like when I brought...
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Sorry to hear about the lack of work.
Most of my work (drafting) has been very widespread (ie North America and England) but the last couple years it has been going downhill and I am doing only a little now. There is still some building going on here but it is either box stores (and they use same drawings across the country) or developers that want you to draw 6 or 7 houses and they will build cooky cutter developments and they only want to pay you for a couple of them.... sucks big time. My big problem is that because I am self employed (have been for going on 14 years) that up here I am not eligible for unemployment even though I still have to pay into it..
I am hoping that things pick up for everyone and hope you can get back to work.
To help on the roof you could nail on temp 1x34 strips which would help. I started doing that after I slid off a roof. I was adding onto our house about 20 years ago and I wanted to get up on it and get it shingled but it had rained earlier and I lost my footing. Roof was steep enough that I slid off and fell about 14 or 15', luckily for me I had some new piles of top soil so I did not land on packed dirt or worst. In the end I had a slight sprain of one ankle which kept me off the thing for a couple days.
Most of my work (drafting) has been very widespread (ie North America and England) but the last couple years it has been going downhill and I am doing only a little now. There is still some building going on here but it is either box stores (and they use same drawings across the country) or developers that want you to draw 6 or 7 houses and they will build cooky cutter developments and they only want to pay you for a couple of them.... sucks big time. My big problem is that because I am self employed (have been for going on 14 years) that up here I am not eligible for unemployment even though I still have to pay into it..
I am hoping that things pick up for everyone and hope you can get back to work.
To help on the roof you could nail on temp 1x34 strips which would help. I started doing that after I slid off a roof. I was adding onto our house about 20 years ago and I wanted to get up on it and get it shingled but it had rained earlier and I lost my footing. Roof was steep enough that I slid off and fell about 14 or 15', luckily for me I had some new piles of top soil so I did not land on packed dirt or worst. In the end I had a slight sprain of one ankle which kept me off the thing for a couple days.
