I just dropped by because of some Sears news they sent me and saw you guys chatting. Just read all your posts. Hope it works out good for everyone. This has been a great group.

That’s not an Antique… I had one of those! Oops

The best thing I ever found was an aluminum wire tie that is normally used for top poles and strutts of chain link fences. The nails and screws rust and messs up the flow unless you have a stainless steel screw lying around and if you do $… you aren’t worried about the cost of a tube of caulk. The wire nuts get knocked off and it is always at…[Read more]

I had a laborer that could ‘read my mind’. He knew everything I needed before I did. It didn’t take long for us to be friends. How long do you think it was before I helped him join the apprentice program and start building his career? The guy was sharp.
We should give it all we have … or go home!

Soooooo, you are only using 12 teeth at a time? 1/2 the cutting presence?

You just convinced me ….to never try that!

Awww man, I was hoping it was the wiener Mobile! (Oscar – Meyer)

This is a model home. The Sales office is in the garage. The doors will be shifted later after the subdivision sells out. It’s a regular thing around here but doesn’t make as interesting a story.

In a similar situation I removed the nails and replaced them with countersunk screws then plugged the holes with wood dowels, glued in place. It sturdied the piece and kept it authentic

Looks like an old milking bench, looks great. I have don projects like this. Why not start by pressure washing it. I use to take old furniture to a cheap car was to clean it first..

I think we must be neighbors…..I picked 5 out of a roof two years ago.
People just like to celebrate …..(with guns) I guess
Personally, I don’t celebrate by wasting a good bullet.

I did home Design and Remodeling for 45 years. Now I work with companies as a consultant to help them succeed. We got our work through decorators (5) first, then word of mouth. We spent a thousand on each yard sign and started doing a talk radio show on Saturdays. Then we produced our own magazine and had 11k subscribers. We wrote articles for a…[Read more]

I used one as a glue bottle it came with three different tips to inject glue in a drilled hole.

I looked at the cost of the time I spent meeting with potential clients and then rushing to get a idea of what the cost will be so I could schedule and see them again and I just said, “No more!”
I am going to charge everyone of them and they are going to pay me upfront for my time. Because the quote is worth nothing to me, it only has value to…[Read more]

I will plan on making it. It was good last year.

Wow, thats a long story…… and you are really in need of someone to talk to.
Let me see if I heard you correctly-
You don’t like your job,
Everyone else is incompetent,
Your boss doesn’t appreciate your efforts…

It sounds like you could be working just about anywhere that we have all worked before.

Consider this- if you aren’t happy it…[Read more]

When I decided to charge for “estimates” my new client thought it should be free. I explained that it would take a lot of time to get all the costs together and I would need to meet with them again to ask more questions. She didn’t like that idea and refused to pay me for that service.
I was charging $400.00
I saw her at church recently we stopped…[Read more]

The easiest way to be PAID for pricing a job……….. is to sell Design with the Pricing.

Smaller jobs can be tough to sell this system to but they don’t require as much time so we don’t charge for doing work that is only 1 to 3 trades. We can measure those in 15 minutes and price it so we can write the contract in another 30 min.
Also we don’t go after that work because you can’t make as much for the effort required. That being said…[Read more]