Beth n Rod

Very sharp! Great work. :) Beth

I take it you sell things online? Beth

John always has nice toys! :) Beth

I know in Maryland we have to have a license. Doesn't matter that we are not building. It matters that we are "improving" the property. Beth

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This was another helpful poll I think... Beth :cup:

This was a good poll. :) Beth

Heck, if you can't hear the clack of each pump as it's made, your out of my range! Rod!~

Nobody messes with me and my Crossman air rifle. If I can get it up to 10 pumps before I am shot...Watch out! I am a dead eye with this thing. Rod!~

John, G'day mate! I knew a guy who lived in Melborne (a friend, actually he was from Christ Church in New Zealand) who told me that told me things are a bit inflated over there price wise and that exchange rates for US currencies are outrageous. Does this account for the higher insurance prices that you posted or am I misinformed? Rod!~

Most mix at the site and don't readily have a PC to do the calculations with. Thanks for posting the calculator. The science involved in mixology happens to be an on-site assessment depending upon what is needed for that particular job. Where your calculator will come in handy though is for those who want to make up formulas and determine operating costs according to what they will use in order to analyze their pricing they can offer to their customers. Rod!~

Here are some links to maintenance decks with WTW in them. http://forums.thegrimescene.com/showthread.php?t=4316 http://forums.thegrimescene.com/showthread.php?t=4576 Rod!~

Very well written review Rick. Rod!~

Looks like your coming along quite well Roger. Your website is shaping up too. Nice Job on all fronts! Rod!~

Again, conditioning. God has nothing to do with the system, man in his own fallacy does. Don't kid yourself. Jesus did not come to this world to introduce us to this kind of life but to let us know how we should conduct ourselves. Money and technology had nothing to do with it. College and education had nothing to do with it. He wanted us to remain as children. Pure, innocent and full of love. God has given us a test. The test is life full of it's sensations and they are addictive. The test is to experience them but to develop the discipline to beat the addiction and learn to live without them. Instead, we have learned to foster them into our children and make ourselves dependant upon them. We as of this point; fail. Pessimism may not be a very popular vein of thought but in my opinion, it is better than ignorance of the reality that we are heading for. What good is college if the system collapses? What good is a mortgage if you can't pay for it because the economy is in a disastrous state because of the systems failure? Ignorance is not bliss. This is why the country and the world we are dragging with us is spiraling into self destruction. I make the following statement to no one in particular but as ambiguously towards humanity in it's actions: "It takes a great deal of ignorance to see destruction coming and do nothing about it as if it does not exist." Rod!~

Invest in your company and buy a pail. Wood Tux has held up better than the majority of products out there for us. Beth

Hands down, Wood Tux! See the photos on our site...Celeste gave you the link. Beth

I had a sling shot growing up. Don't know what ever happened to it. Never was accurate with it. Beth

I was conducting a training with a new employee the other day and his questions brought about a dilemma that I have had for years with many manufacturers of stains and sealants. His question was: If this product is going to change color and be so difficult to remove why do people use it? I answered him by telling him that from all the labels I have read, there is no mention of anything more than the initial preparation for application on them. Due in part to the unforeseeable use and abuse the product will go through in the interim, the manufacturers seem to not want any responsibility beyond the first application and that in my opinion is why I don't use products other than what we do now. Technical Data Sheets are fine but they don't encompass the real world aspects of what a deck can go through in just a years time not to mention the neglect of several years because of claims for durability without the maintenance needs being made clear on the initial label. The label having only so much room is readily understood but the availability of T.D.S.'s at the point of sale is non-existent. The other amazing part is that there is no mention in the majority of products on what to use to remove the old product with. And...there are some on whose recommendations are made that do not work either. What have you found a lack of??? Rod!~

Nathan, I sent you a PM. Been doing wood homes for years.... Call me. Beth

I think the mildewcide can only be added just before application otherwise it changes the composition of the soy. Rod!~

We have some on-hand but have not had the opportunity to use it yet but I have read and heard a bit about it from Tom at ACR products and it sounds promising in your case. Rod!~

You must have a tough skin Jon. When I see this type of question I look at it from what our children are being forced to endure and it is getting to the point that they won't have a decent future with the current state of things. News or not, It is still happening! Crime for example in our nations capitol is #1 in the nation!!! What should that be telling us? That our economy isn't good? No, that the system is failing! People may find other excuses to reason it out and support a way for them to feel better about it but it is only a conditioned response we are executing to keep the system in place. An anti-virus program if you will. Go ahead, make fun of it everyone. We are running the defense program every time we do and we are running it now. Try not to run it instead. In another larger scope: Wars for petroleum, wars for religion, wars for land, money, power etc...not to mention here in the states where our elected officials deceive the populace for their own agenda's. Many expose's have been conducted showing our highest officials saying one thing in news conferences and doing another behind the scenes and I don't buy their unconstitutional excuses either. That is in jeopardy as well. The constitution will be overthrown in the name of fighting terrorism and national security. Bank on it!!! It is already happening. Remember the presidents un-authorized wire taps? The patriot act? Fear is being used against us to take away our freedoms. Who is the "real" terrorist? The one from afar or the one in our front yard? Answer=both Yeah, we have gotten to the point that we are so numb that it takes catastrophe to get our attention. I hold onto hope with a commercial by a company who's ad shows people doing "the right things" in its content, despite the fact that they are selling something the message is still there. The principal of the thing is that this used to be a great country and now it is being run into the ground. The world has changed since I was a child and those changes came about because of what our leaders have been doing and what the populace as a whole has not been doing...being responsible towards the constitution, the government and the people it has elected to uphold it since. Who voted for the little oil tycoon who paid for his own campaign just to send a message? Sorry, they didn't have a "None of the above" option!!! Yes, our leaders put people like Saddam into power, now they took his away. Remember the Falklands, the Grenadines, Panama, etc... Who is next? Afghanistan? Korea?, Iran? Jerusalem? Which other country has oil exploration rights yet to be claimed? The oil will run out just like the blood in your body will run out if you let it. There is only a finite amount and those in power are looking for it and every way to secure it. Iraq was the beginning. We turn a blind eye to the fact that our country is responsible for the state of things and go about our little lives in pursuit of the holy dollar and technology is our religion. Think not? Ask yourself this: Why do you protect your electronic gadgets so much then? Why do they mean so much to you? Why is there pain associated with their loss? What would you do without your TV, Cable, Satellite, Internet, Cell phone, Video games, Ipod, Gps, and the list goes on. Where does God figure in this??? About an hour a week on Sundays, and what does anyone do with the other 111 waking hours of their weeks days? We create machines to make our lives easier yet they complicate it even more when they break down because of our dependancy on them. Regarding the news and TV: We are numb!!! What used to be outrageous, sinful and unfit for children's eyes is now in children's shows and cartoons. Oh, yeah, the rating system is just to make sure a parent is there to 'watch it with them'! Kids are the biggest audience for cop shows where running from the law is the only theme. Ever notice that with the exception of 'extreme makeover home edition' there are no shows or programs that focus entirely on the positive? Even this one has the tangent of tragedy in it in order to make it capture the attention of those who feed off of others misfortune. We have been conditioned to be this way. What difference does it make to vote either way? These people are in it for themselves and don't listen to the people but polls and the delegates sway their interests for private means. Wake up everybody. Sitting around complaining doesn't do a thing, and trying to get anywhere in the bureaucracy red tape is a nightmare to unfold. Voting anymore is done largely via repetition of impression by those who see a name on a sign so many times as they go to work each day and decide which party they are going to vote for in that way. Not by what they know about the candidate because they are too busy in their own lives to be able to really responsibly devote themselves to a significantly important function in this nation. It is merely a formality at this point and our leaders know it. For them it is a numbers game and how many people can they convince they will do something of current interest once in office. Oh, the excuses are formulating here...conditioning once again. I try to look at things in the simplest of terms of what they are and have looked into many things for the good in them but mostly to find them supported by the bad. Others may not have a problem with the state of things but it is very disturbing to me to think of what our future will be like if all these things that one may think are not so bad continue. If we all don't do anything about them, they will perpetuate and before long it will be affecting each of our lives directly and we won't be able to ignore it any longer because we will have no choice but to deal with it on some level. We have been conditioned to be the audience, all the worlds a stage, it is time to become part of the cast. Let's make Positive things happen for our children's future by what we do today. We all know that we don't really have the time with all the demands placed on our lives to educate ourselves on the issues, the candidates, the ever changing bureaucracy rules and laws...but!!!....... If you do nothing, then you have no right to complain when it happens to you. Rod!~

Personally, I think mildewcide should already be in the product. But then, that's just me. Beth

Brush and an extension pole. Most cleaners work well to clean algae but you need a caustic cleaner to help get the oxidation off. The brush helps to remove it once the chemical has done it's job of loosening it from the substrate. Apply a house wax after wards to help limit the re-occurence of oxidation. Green tinted, some whites, light blues and yellows are the most common colors to oxidize due to a pigment called titanium dioxide used in the coloring system. It has little resistance to UV exposure and coincidentally is a catalyst in the oxidation process. Rod!~