Tin cost

Tin cost

This summer I added a 50x90 to my shop. The sheet metal cost 13k, $5 a lineal foot. The trim was $7500. Now normally sheet metal is around $3 per ft, but they charged more to match the pattern of my shop tin. Apparently its harder to find. Im very much taken back by the cost of the trim. $7500 seems very high to me. My contract also has about 20 pieces of trim he never used. He over ordered. What are your thoughts?

u/Mrvette1 — 5 days ago

White Horse Scotch. Made of composite, dates around 1940. Would be nice to find the right bottle.

u/Mrvette1 — 2 months ago

Kind of poorly displayed, I hope to build something better over winter. Mini bottles along with barrel glasses and odd and ends.

u/Mrvette1 — 2 months ago

Not only do i collect backbar statues, but i also repair them. In this case I've molded from original teeth the upper set for this tiger which are often missing.

u/Mrvette1 — 2 months ago

I love beer cans that come with a story. Like this one.

Someone was lucky to find about 50 of these in a garbage bag in a garage that was being cleared out. The bag ripped open dumping all the cans to the floor before being thrown in the dumpster. Clearly the beer gods at work. Here is one of those cans.

u/Mrvette1 — 3 months ago

Wisconsin picnic bottles. Take your lady on a picnic at the beach and share (maybe) one big bottle of beer.

u/Mrvette1 — 3 months ago
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Van Merritt backbar chalk statue, 1950 Burlington Wisconsin

One of my favorite pieces.

u/Mrvette1 — 3 months ago
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Late 30s early 40s Lucky Lager (westcoast) backbar statue. Made of chalk.

u/Mrvette1 — 3 months ago

Caiman isn't eating.

First to start this, I've had this caiman for 29 years so I'm not a newbie. Got her when she was 11" long, now she's about 65". Her diet is mostly chicken legs with a little fish in the summer months. Water temp has been in the low 80s

About 6 months ago I noticed she wasn't eating the same amount as normal, it was winter here and sometimes that would happen, but wasn't a thing that happened over the last few years. I'd always feed her about once every two weeks and slowly she ate less and less to a point where she nolonger eats. Which has been 2 months now.

I changed her water, purchased new heaters, and today tried to fed her fresh fish. She seems hungry, she goes for it, bites it, then immediately throws it out of her mouth. Like it hurts her to have food in her mouth. She has lost a great deal of weight, she was very thick and heavy normally.

Over 29 years we had little issues with her not eating for awhile, the season or temperature change (heater problem) was normally the cause and easy to cure. This is something different. I'm not sure what my next move is. So here I am asking the reddit world. Thanks for any advice.

u/Mrvette1 — 3 months ago