This past weekend, our condo at Rocketts Landing was featured in the 2010 Richmond Loft Tour. I had a lot of work to do in order to get my place ready for the tour and almost made it... I was running behind schedule making a loft for Mason out of some old heart pine beams which were salvaged from one of the old buildings at Rocketts. I had dreams of getting this done before the tour and needed some last minute help. This is where Todd comes in. I call him around 4pm on Friday and ask if he wants to lend a hand. He asks what time and I tell him to come over the my buddy's millwork shop at 11pm for the late shift (Gepetto Millworks) - Matt Wiley from the team owns it. He responds by asking if he can come around 8:30, if that would help more. Of course it would, I was way behind schedule but still holding out hope. I also inform him that it would be extremely helful if he could throw some scaffolding on his truck becuase it would hlep with constructing the loft. So Todd shows up and we promptly ask if he has ever used a skilsaw, which he says "sure I have". I am pretty sure he was not expecting this.
There are not many people who will step in and rock the 16" skilsaw! He was ripping boards like a pro. We did not get the loft up, I pulled the plug around 1:30am to focus on my interior doors. Todd stayed all night and the doors made their way into the loft around 5:30am at which point I installed all seven of the doors in an hour! I am telling this story because it is friends like him that make up our team. He did not hesitate to lend a hand at the last minute and work all night until 6am the next morning. I do not think the doors would have been complete without his help. He has already said there is no way he is not going to be there to set it up! Here are the completed doors made from reclaimed heart pine with a single polycarbonate lite and stainless steel hardware.
THANKS TODD, YOU ROCKED IT OUT BRO!!!
I even got compliments on my 30 minute - I am tired of my bikes leaning over - bike rack.
...Jason
