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    Good luck to both of you, these BBS's are a great learning tool, enjoy

    Water Cannon in Orlando has some of the best prices on everything for PWing 4GPM 3500PSI belt drives are around $1200-$1300, if you can afford it get the belt drive it last longer. I have 2 Lowes machines still working them but I also have the Waterconnon belt drive 4gpm and I like it better

    Goodluck

    JL

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    Hey 2 of my machines I used for 4 years are from Lowes, they did the job & still do, but I have to admit the hot water & more GPM are real nice

    15K you should be able to do less money than that and still get a great set up,

    Check out leasing the equipment with a $1.00 buy out at end of lease.

    Check out Sunbrite, & Steve Rowlett can give you some good info and all these guys & ladies on the board Im sure will explain chems to you, pick a chem and ask a question

    Congrats on your first year mine was in 2000 and I made 6K

    Good luck to you

    JL

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    I very rarely do residential gutters, just cant get any money for them alone, if they want house wash, roof or driveway then I'll do gutters as add on

    Commercial or condo gutter cleaning Im making a killing 1/4ly or biannual. I charge by how long it takes, we blow out and hand clean if needed and we fish all downspouts to check for clogs. These are $$$ makers

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    The whirl-away and the whisperwash classic look very similar, but that's where the similarity ends!

    I LOVE my WW big guy. MUCH better than the Steel Eagle. I'd gladly pay more for a big guy, even if they were discounting the SE.

    Mike the Big Guy is a great piece of equipment isnt it, Ive had mine close to 2 years and not a single problem and a solid machine. I went with the WW Classic , because of the Big Guy, I figured if thats well built so would be the Classic

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    The market is going to get flooded with mid price ($500-800k) houses and since supply and demand is still king, the larger house market is going to have some nice deals.

    I am on the decks of some of these multi million dollar properties and the ones that have newer owners have next to nothing in the way of furniture. Most people live beyond their means and pay the price for it. There is a huge difference between being 'income' rich and being 'balance sheet' rich. I lived and learned that one unfortunately.

    Jeff, I love that design. I wish you the best with it.

    Its sad when a mid price house is considered $500-$800K thats just crazy, Mine is coming in at $360+K. Which we can afford, just 5 years ago that would of been around 60K-90K less around here in Myrtle Beach, but like I said the prices here are nothing like up north.

    One thing I never want to be is "house poor"

    The design we like also , thank you. Its all going to work out great, Im very happy with builder, happy with whats going into house, not everything top dollar extras , but things we need and want, There are other things, Id like to add but will add later as I can afford them, For example, the original plan called for 2 foot brick border around the entire house, but with the in law addition to the plan it was an extra 6K plus so I wrote that out of plan. Instead of that brick I can plant some shrubs andd you'll never know the difference. Theres some Oak railings at the over look areas that I changed to half walls and saved thousands, oak railing and stairs will have to wait and can be done later.

    If all goes well I'll be taking some work in progress pics

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    Congrats and good luck. We built our house the first part of this year. The next one I build however will have 6" studs on all outer walls to accomodate more insulation. Some other things you may want to either contract or specify is airflow to your rooms. We've noticed that it is common practice here to allow as much as a 20 degree temperature difference in rooms in houses with central air conditioning. See if you can talk to the contractor for that and work something out to get balanced air flow into your rooms. Learn from our mistakes......

    I will be talking to builder more about airflow, we are having 3 HVAC units one for 1st floor, 1 for second and 1 for in law. Plus 2 80 gallon hot water heaters for main house and 1 50 gallon for in law. I want to make sure I have plenty of heat, air and hot water, which I lack in my present house, these heat pumps never produce what I like, so Im making sure I have enough, that was the 1st thing I talked to builder about

    As for builder he is highly rated and well known for excellent work and follow up if there is a problem

    Thanks everyone for some great advice

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    "This is the basic plan for my new house, if the bank says OK. We aare addin a little more sq ft to living rm & kitchen, about a foot wider on the master bedroom and a little longer , the sitting area will be walled off for my office. The bonus room instead of 2 skinny window dormers its going to be one wide dormer"

    Jeff, make sure you talk to your builder about this. Making "small" changes can cost a lot of money because the changes you make on the 1st floor must be duplicated on the second floor to protect the structural integrity of the hous

    Wish you luck in all the decisions you have to make about the house, ie colors, carpet, tile, bathroom fixtures, lighting, etc. But what a great investment in the area your are in. The house will be worth more the day you move in than what you are going to pay for it!!!

    Smokey51

    Thanks for the advice Smokey, but all the changes we have gone over with builder already and have been added into his price. Decisions, Decisions there willbe alot of them, it ought to be real interesting and I hope more fun than not, We are looking forward to it, I can tell you Ive worked on this plan for some time

    Thanks JL

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    I asked a friend who works for a bank how people can pay these prices for homes. He told me that 70% of the mortgages his bank processes are interest only loans. Those people are going to be in trouble if the housing bubble breaks!

    Patrick

    Thats horrible 70% I bet many will end up losing it all. I'm doing construction perm 30 year fixed, as of yesterday its 6.65%. banks shouldnt even offer Intrest only loans, because they know people are going to fail

    I did a intrest only on my lot for 18 months, because it was short term and i was either going to build or sell it if I couldnt afford to build

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    I know its crazy everywhere now, I dont know how most people afford homes now. the one I want to build is about 30K more than I thought it would be. But if I wait a few years, like I was going to it will be how much to build?

    Example of houses, My parents old house 15 minutes outside of Boston Ma they sold in 98 for the highest on the street at the time for 160K in 2000 iy resold for 269k, in 2002 it went for 301K now nothing on the street is going for less than 360K - 425K Thats crazy. My parents bought it for 16K in 1961 and they were worried how they were going to pay for it

    Down here in Myrtle Beach its nowhere near that but getting there. We have all the retiries from upnorth coming here. They sell up north for 500K to a million and buy a house the same size or bigger for 200K - 400K and use the rest of the $$$ for retirement

    My house here I bought for $138K 3+ years ago, its going to sell for $180K - 200K. Like I said the lot I bought for 60K I could sell easy for 40+K ore and probably 50K plus

    They have some luxury ocean front condos last year preconstruction they were selling for 369K, the day construction ended they were reselling for 600K-800K and now a couple fpr over 1million.

    Im telling you its great if you own a home, but for the 1st time home buyer just trying to get by, it must be scary

    I am looking forward to having this built, it will be a pretty home, I have a guy I do alot of work for going to do the flooring and he's going to save me a few grand and the tile will be upgraded to what I want and he gives me all flooring at cost. It will be plenty of room in back & front yard for my boy , plus the wifey & I are working on having another baby. I like that I'll have my own office instead of using one of the bedrooms. The bonus room will be great for a kids play room. I dont think I'll have problem with bank. We are putting down some good $$$. My mom with the sale of her home will be buying here side 900sq ft for cash money & I owe less than 97K on my house so I'll put at least 50K down and taxes & insurance is still fairly low and my biz is going & growing real well. I just worry if I ever got hurt and couldnt work, but other than that, Im good to go and want to build today. plus the school district is real good too.

    Tropical good luck with your house! sell it and come to Myrtle Beach, you can be the pressure washing Prince of Myrtle Beach, Im going to take the King position in the next few years:lgbow:

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    This is the basic plan for my new house, if the bank says OK. We aare addin a little more sq ft to living rm & kitchen, about a foot wider on the master bedroom and a little longer , the sitting area will be walled off for my office. The bonus room instead of 2 skinny window dormers its going to be one wide dormer

    adding to the back left side of house 900sq ft full in law suite, for my Mother. I have the lot 2/3 acre on cul de sac. Working with a great builder and hope to sign before the new year to have him start building early 2006. Abit pricey, but i guess a lot less than up north. Everything is going up in price around here . In my new neighborhood the lots sold for 60K all are reselling now for over 100K, 10 months later, I wish I bought a few. OH well

    About 3250 sq ft plus garage. Going to have to PW alot of driveways to pay for this, lol

    Wish me luck! We're getting excited

    JL

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    This is an interesting idea. For tall buildings, you could just pull the unit up from the top of the building or if there were pulleys at the top you could pull it up from on the ground. How would you keep it going straight up? It could be like a water broom but with 4 wheels and wider. Is this what you are talking about or am I off on a tangent? If this were possible, you would not need manlifts but you would have the problem with windows. Great idea.

    Christopher, your right, it would be something just like a water broom. Im also thinking the lift itself be remote. I was hoping to try to figure stuff out this winter but just to darn busy with life

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    I just got new 7x16 enclosed, Homesteader Hercules, really well built, painted the plywood with epoxy. Can store alot of stuff, Im having some metel racks and hangers made for it. Im lucky in SC you dont have to register them, no plate either so that saves $$$. Nw I just need a bigger truck I have 2001 4x4 1500 Ram, it pulls it real well, but I know I need something bigger

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    Going to school in the 60's & 70's on Vetrans Day we always had a great ceremony either in the Gym or in our large courtyard. Usually with a few military men and always taps played in the distance. The Taps always gave me a chill even when I was real young and still does to this day. You know I look back and it was always a great day. I got to thank about 5 Vets today and my chlorine guy, reminded me, yesterday was the anniversary of The Marine Corps , he's about 65 years old and still wears the crew cut.

    In this day and time we need to teach and remind the/our children of history. History happens everyday. I think of those in Iraq and wonder how bad it is and I thank them, they like the vets of the past give so much and get little, we can at least give them a thank you and a hand shake

    Thanks to all that served

    JL

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    I am really particularly picky that my flyers do not offend. Today I got a call from someone who as soon as I said hello spouted out: "We got your flyer on our mailbox today. I just wanted to let you know that we will NEVER use your services [click]"

    Guys get post cards or mailers and mail them to people, yes its more expensive, But you wont **** anyone off and its a little more professional looking. About 4-5 years ago when I 1st started I did about 700 fliers in a week I got 2 calls. I sent out about 300 envelopes with flier & biz card and I got dozens of calls. Sometimes mailing work great sometimes not so great, but if I get a neighborhood with a good response I'll send to those areas several times. I had one person call and he showed me 3 mailers & 2 postcards of mine, one was over 3 years old. People will call or save them, I believe flier or card on mailbox they just crumple up & toss. I know I do

    just my $.37

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