Jeff

Thanks Mike!!!!!!!!!!

Neil way to go!!! Very nice and it sounds like your enjoying it. Your posting some great pictures. Continued great succss to you! Jeff

Go look at them, were they bad when you did them. Are they vinyl screen or metal???????? Ive seen metal where I've left marks on them, they were old and sort of dry rotting.

Patio! I'll be calling you all

This is part of the inlaw section for my Mother, its the kitchen andthe living room is attached. Its one large open room about 18X25 The 2nd pic is the bonus room, which is the kids toy room.

House is coming along we have paint on the walls, light fixtures are mostly up and tile will be going in soon, about anther 70 days and it should be complete. Things are going better, they gave me a lady to talk to and bypass the Constuction super who was ordering all kinds of things wrong. They have torn off a majority of the aluminum trim and soffit a couple times until they finnally brought in a new crew to do it right. Its OK as long as they fix the mistakes that all I care about I go out there every day we are so excited the place is looking really great and we are so happy with the plan we picked & designed, its cool Couple more sets of shutters are need and concrete & brick steps and the exterior of the house will be completed. We like the interior color , it really doesnt show up well in the pictures its called bone, its a nice beige color. The 3rd pic is the 2nd floor overlook, thats where the kids will probably be bungee jumping into the living room

I posted in another thread that my lack of knowledge & skills, such as computer skills, organizational, office skills etc are holding my company back. I know I've posted before about my lack of skills and some have replied, with helpful hints & ideas and have offered to talk to me. The problem is nothing has changed or improved at all for me when it comes to the above lack of skills. I was going to have one of my workers help with this, but no time to dedicate my worker to this. I know JL pressure Washing could be really big company and possibly corner the market for certain kinds of PWing in this area, BUT! My Office work, everything is so crude and non existent. It really is a mess and it amazes me I haven't screwed something up. I hate holding my self, my business back so much. I mean I have to re-do things, have list all over hell I don't even really have a computer address book and so much more, it would be embarrassing to show anyone My question is is there any kind of service, person or company I could call and possibly hire to come in and organize, set up things, etc. I dont want and can't afford 10's of thousands of dollars to hire this type of person and I really dont need at this time a fulltime employee to this kind of work. I'm willing to pay whats needed, just hope to keep it within thousands not 10's of thousands.Im thinking getting someone for several weeks and jut start chipping away at what needs to be done to get me in the real world. I'll never be able to do it alone or be able to learn all of it, so I need help Any suggestions who or what kind of service i need JL

Gladyou got the money!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats how it is with my wife. She doesnt show the drive I have for this biz, she's supportive but she doesn't step up so I leave it like that. She a great wife, mother etc but just not a biz partner and I'm pretty sure I like it like that. JL

Is this going to be like that man hating channel TLC, If Farrah Fawcett and all those other has been actresses show up and start blaming us for everything, I'm out of here LOL only kidding! JL

Do what I do , tell the guys what to do and go do other things in the AC of the truck or office. I rather pay a little more in payroll than be dieing out there. They are a lot younger than me. I worked spraying about 30 out of the fifty hours my guys worked. I'm glad I got the work and the guys want the money. I have a couple good guys JL

We finished the 43 buildings this week and the temps have been hot for a couple weeks and worse this week. My guys have been working 8-10 hour days. We just get less work done but we have to keep working to keep on schedule for August. They take many cool down & drink breaks. My weekend work we are postponing so they can have a couple days off. We are starting at 6am and on the job by 7am. Yesterday I had a builder call and said he forgot to call and he needed a 4000 sq ft stucco home , driveway & garage done, they had a walkthru today. We were on a job then went to that job it was almost a 13 hour day. He's a cool guy and told me charge him for the mistake I added $200 to the bill and he was OK with it It is brutally hot out there today, I think the worst yet. Tomorrow I have 2 roofs, only one may get done Be safe everyone this is killer weather JL

I prefer commercial, bigger and better jobs if your in the right area. less running around doing estimates and more money. I now after doing both kinds of work find residential a pain, but I don't get the rates you do up north JL

You know ALL you folks are GREAT and all are giving me great advice. I really mean it you all are great THANK YOU! I wish I was like many of you, who know how to do this stuff and who multi tasking this kind of stuff is just second nature, but Im not. I handle a lot just not the easy way. I know I could keep up the filing part if I had someone to help me set up a system and probably handle the quickbooks also if someone could get it set up. As far as going to classes that probably will never happen, I'm just not a good student and dont like class room settings I'm proud of the fact that I'm at this point in my business, even with all my down falls business wise I have a really good business and profitable. I just know if I get it together better I could have a great biz So I'm making a plan and I'm going to try to keep it simple, one or two steps at a time. My wife for now isnt an option until I can get her to quit her fulltime job, which probably wont b for another year or two , because her job covers our health insurance plus she has the kids which she is great with and takes care of most of the kid stuff. My plan 1) Get a good file cabinet - not a cheap one like I have that falls apart and pisses me off 2) Go to my accountant and get our personal check books, accounts, bills etc. in order. My personal stuff is just as bad as biz. I dont balance anything. I just throw money where its needed, Thank God I have money always coming in. My accountant offered to help. Last tax time I told him how screwy my personal & business book keeping is so bad ( he knew of course). He told me I make plenty and I just need a simple system. So I'll be calling the accountant today and get an appointment. 3) Find someone to help set up my Quickbooks and teach me some basics on saving material on my computer and backing it up- call a college teacher or look in the paper - with in next week 4) Get help setting up all my paper work into fiiles. Find/hire someone to help me. Also someone who can stay on top of this all a couple days a week after we have a system. Now if I can get this done in the next few weeks or even have it all done in a month or two, its a start. I know my limits and what I will and wont do, so I know I need help and I just have to stop complaining about not knowing how to do this stuff and pay the money to get help. Ive done pretty well with my biz with the little knowledge I have and the hard work Ive done to grow it this far. I know it can be real big with the proper system & help Once again THANK YOU ALL. Thank God for TGS, you all motivate me and just is great to have a place to vent some of my short comings & problems Jeff:lgbounces

Keth, Thanks I'll try tht on the quickbooks and a teacher. But then I'd have to clean my desk.lol I know Quickbooks once its set up would be a great help. Jeff

I hate to be a whiny baby, but I'm trying to a search and I realize I really don't know how to properly search anything on the net. I can't find anything on this except CPA's etc. If I had a magic wand I'd get rid of all computers in the entire world so everybody had to do everything on paper like me ARRRRGGGGGG Just pissing & moaning, I'll find something Some its just stress, the builders have been a constant battle, which I'm finally winning, the heat, the pregnant wife. Man 2006 is a hell of a year. It really is a great year, just so darn much to stay on top of. I can't complain I am staying on top of it ( Just barely some days) I got everything I ever wanted which is a great family & health I'm glad I have this place to vent sometimes and get great info. Thanks all Back to my search. Hey I think I used a new finger to type with, thats 5 or 6 finger typing now yay LOL JL Life is good

Business Management Company? Maybe this is what I'm looking for, I'll look it up tonight to see if theres some here for small business

Thats funny, my wife used to ***** about me spending time in the office too. I had to put her in her place after hearing it to many times. She is supportive & great about it now, but little actual help! Diapers are coming with the new baby coming, I'll be spending more time in the office. I hate changing diapers.

Guys thanks. if it was not for my large day planner I'd already be out of biz. My day planner and a couple small note books are my bible. I run my whole biz out of the day planner and I do write everything down. A great deal of my problem is, as I've said before I'm a computer idiot. I type with 3 to 5 fingers and data entry just doesnt get done. Quickbooks had it now for at least 1 year and never used it. Don't know how to use it, tried several times got frustrated and quit, hell i couldn't even get registered to use for a while. I don't file anything now I stopped over a year ago for some reason, not that my files were any good or complete , but I never got back to doing it. I get a foot or 2 of paper work on my desk, I throw it in a tote just so i don't lose it, but I never see it again unless I'm looking for something. I have a fax bin that is about 3 feet deep and that just the past 8 months or so. Barry, end of year reciepts YUP big box I guess I'll just have to hire someone to get my filing started and then keep up with it. As for the computer, I'm lost and always will be pretty much, my brain starts to hurt thinking about it and the lack of knowledge. I'm not a good student never was and I really don't think I can learn it. This is the same story I wrote a year ago, just have to find time to hire a parttimer to get the ball rolling. I misplaced my Dayplanner once and couldnt find it for hours, I was in a panic. I found it thank God. It has every tele# in the world, schedules for annual, quartely biannual cleanings. My Dayplanner if people I know don't see me with it, they ask where is it. My wife & other will say when i go somewhere don't forget your dayplanner or where is it. Its like the nuclear suit case the President carries with him, lose it and it could be the end of the world:lgsad: I just am so frustrated, my time is wasted sometimes by the way I do things and I just dont have time to waste these day. I was just wondering if theres a service for fools like me. I'm laughing reading this over, same old story for JL:lgbonk:

a 13 orifice. Larger orifice on your size will actually have less distance. I use a 9 on my 3 gpm & 13 on 4gpm machines

The same spring is in the M5 also. like Don its to hold the orifice in place, help it stay seated

8 am it was 89 degrees without a speck of a breeze, soaking wet with sweat in 2 minutes. It slows things down that for sure. I tell my guys to keep the water in them even if they have to take a break every half hour. I bought them little coolers so they have them near them so they aren't always walking back to the truck. Got to love the summer in the south. Be careful everyone it can catch up to you quick JL

Did you get paid ? Let us knopw how it was handled or are you taking her to court

Maybe it will work in Missouri but not down south. Hw much more $$$ is it compared to "regular" vinyl siding. Sounds like BS to me