elevator cabs

[tileprof]

just about every job we do has elevator cabs some tile some stone every spec. seems to be different.lets hear some ideas?....the last one was metal lathe nailed to ply sub coated with thinset allowed to dry then thinseted to.

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[John Bridge]

I don't do elevators. I do escalators, though. Gotta be quick!

[Bud Cline]

Doesn't the tile just keep sliding off the steps at the top and bottom??? Oh OK, you must use quickquickquick-set, huh?

[flatfloor]

He only does the sides, another contractor, Speedy Gonzalez does the steps.

[Bud Cline]

That's just plain stupid, hell the real money would be in the steps you know.

[flatfloor]

You know that, I know that, Speedy knows that, but try to tell that to John.

[John Bridge]

Er, uh, I got into this thread as sort of a gag. Now you're telling me there's really money in it? Just tell me how to get the stone to stay on top of the steps without having to shut down the escalator.

Come on, I'll cut you guys in on my new mountain scam. Something about Cat's Hills in a place called Upstate.

[Bud Cline]

Well.........first you've got to have some really thin stone, I mean really thin...........

[John Bridge]

C'mon, Jim. I'll up the ante. I'll make your web site link "live" in your signature.

I think Bud's just puttin' me on.

[chip]

You 1st cut a whole bunch of real thin strips of tile.

You use some of Jim's special formula "ESLC" (Escalator Self Leveling Cement) and then set the strips very quickly as each step comes by.

The "INDUSTRY" recomends a fast set cement for this application.

Now who has recomendations for "Grouting"? I can't seem to find a suggested method in any of manuals.

I sure hope that none of those other "sales types" are lurking around here. I think my company could make alot of money on "Escalator Grout". Maybe I could even get a Percentage!!!

Any one know how many Escalators there out there?

Art (I got another great idea) Phenis

[John Bridge]

Hey Art,

Maybe we can work in some medium bed mortar or something. Maybe some cork, eh? Give me some ideas, man.

[flatfloor]

John, we will be happy to share all the formulas and procedures with you, however the Board of Directors (Bud, Art and Mr. Ponzi)tell me we are 90% sure it works, but we do need some interim financing for the Beta testing. This opens a golden opportunity for the members of your site and any visitors to the advice section. Shall I post an "investors wanted" over there?

And stop picking on my Mountains, upstate consists of anything North of NYC.

[Bud Cline]

http://www.pikespeakcam.com/images/submitted/Micki_Vogt1_s.jpg

Now I ask you folks, is this a Cat's Hill?


http://store3.yimg.com/I/catskills_1648_29280


....and is this a mountain?

[Edited by Bud Cline on 08-10-2001 at 09:00 PM]

[John Bridge]

C'mon. Don't tell me that's in the Cat's Hills. You must have gone out West for that one.

And what's that little postage stamp underneath for?

[John Bridge]

Okay, Jim. I don't mind fleecing the members of the board or anybody else, for that matter, but I have a question. Can this Ponzi guy be trusted?

[cx]

Oh, no problem with Mr. Ponzi, John, I know that dude. Early part of the past century he started something called the Social Security System, sold it to the Federal Government, and they been happy with it ever since.

Where you gonna get a better recommendation than that?

[Bud Cline]

John the postage stamp IS the Cat's Hills, the other little snowy protrusion is Long's Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado.

[John Bridge]

Okay Kelly, so Ponzi comes highly recommended. We'll use him on the next scam.

Bud,

But I can't see any cat's hills. Maybe it's already too late to save them. Nothing to save.

By the way, Mt. Houston is nearly half gone. I mean one entire end of it has been loaded onto trucks and hauled away. God, it's sad.

[Bud Cline]

Maybe they are trucking it to New York State.

[John Bridge]

lol

Maybe they're taking it to Lon Gisland.

[cx]

Maybe you're on to something, John.

Remember when them Lon Gislanders was having to haul their garbage barges all around the world looking for someplace to dump it?

Maybe they put it in a big pile and are hauling Mt. Houston up there to cover it up and make Mt. Lon Gisland.

Wouldn't that make you feel better, knowing it was gonna be a mountain again?

[John Bridge]

Notice that Jim Buckley (flatfloor) is unusually silent?

[Bud Cline]

Has anybody noticed that tileprof made one legitimate post about elevators and this entire thread has avalanched into absolutely nothing from that point forward.

Sorry tileprof I guess we don't do elevators.





Shall we end this madness?

[cx]

If you must, Bud, but first a serious Q: What are "elevator cabs" anyway?

[flatfloor]

I will have plenty to say when I have a computer again, my C drive is shot, 6 months old. I'm on another computer in someone's office. Be back ASAP.

[John Bridge]

Your "C drive" is everything, mon ami. That is your system.