MudDuck

Why is it that the Log Home resto forum is "private" to members only while the "Wood and Deck" forum and the "Residential washing" forums are not? We have just as much interest in keeping confidential info within our industry as private as the Log forum don't we? I just realized this while browsing before I signed in and was surprised. I mean any Joe Smuckatelli can come on and get info from these forums that need to be protected just as much as the Loggers. This concern anyone else?

I normally just have shorts on....:zip2::sonic:

I thought you were going to say you had to knock of early because you hit someones dog.....EEEwwww....I thought you were actually posting a pic there for a moment....lol

Best thing about being a redneck Hillbilly in NC is you leave'em up all year,,,,

Hey Beth can you check his IP addy,,,flag it... and see if it matches any others and please share with us...Thanks....

Hey Beth can you check his IP address and see if it matches with any other screen names here and share with Ron M?

Thanks so much I've enjoyed but still trying to figure out why your still here. You came here supposedly to get our opinion of your sight to prove your point concerning your debate with another disputing it,,which by the way your argument was shot down handedly..I don't mind if you stick around to learn something but I think your sticking around to learn at this point to set up another phishing trolling sight. I don't recall anything you've said concerning being in or wanting to get into the PW business. Just conveniently backed your position up to your just a sight developer or something to that effect after you opened a dialog. Those tactics might work on lawn care sights with 16 year olds and hacks but were grown ups here and can see through it.

MMI lets not forget he doesn't know anything about what he's talking about and claiming now it's someone else's "work" and digressed to he's just a web sight developer....he shouldn't be putting anything up and theres no point to this thread any longer.. He came from a lawn care to a Tree Care sight to here and *** and PTI and.????? HIs post are verbatum from one sight to another...I think he's just phishing for traffic jumping from one industry to another marketing "his" web skills trying to get biz from us to develop web sights for small buisnesses,,,Geez...Beth you guys should really look at this,,I think it's just back door marketing spam..

Yea I didn't get that one either,,,LOL...What is this guy peddeling...Is he spamming us? Online forum for TREE CARE professionals? What the heII!

Lil bit of over spray there on some of them tree's in the back ground huh....LOL...Or is that a multi seasonal job?..Sweet job though for sure...

Rod maybe I'm missing it but you wash (precarb or just blow it off?) strip / neutralize / sand / then precarb and neutralize wash again? I have always just stripped / neutralize / sand n blow off dust w/ leaf blower / seal...Your precarbing and neutralizing a second time?

I too am going to be a principle AC user. I've done a few decks with it and have no complaints either whatsoever. Access to Jake Clark about anything has never failed and he has always called me back. I wasn't going to say anything but since ShineBright brought up how dedicated Jake was to us by coming to see him I would like to share kudo's to Jake for coming to see me as well, last Wed after the ACR event. I should be so far off his radar he shouldn't even know who I am yet he drove up from Charlotte where he was spending T day with some family before going back to Ca Friday. We spent the day driving around looking at some of my area and talking. I found him to be very knowledgeable and approachable and had a great time. I tried to get him to carry a good o'l southern PTYP 2x4 back on the plane with him but he informed me he already has some there in testing..LOL I am so glad to have found what appears to be a high end product and to know theres a man behind it who cares about us and what we do not just pushing a product. Thats a combination I can get behind 100 percent. I'm going to do a couple more RS just to have some local environmental comparisons of the two but I don't think you can beat AC right now.

Or better yet take it all down,,,,,LOL

When I'm standing in front of someone expecting a check after the jobs done I expect a check and would never let them off the hook by letting them say "I'll think about it",,,Oh no mam I'm here to pick up the check now. Thats what I'm here for. Been there done that,,Did a job over a weekend while the HO was away and was supposed to call me Monday to come and get a check,,after three days of no call no answer on their ph I went to the home (Thurs) and had a lady want to just pay me half of a 1000.00 balance and for me to "talk to her husband" I told her I'm not leaving without a check in hand paid in full and if her husband had anything to do with it she needed to get him there or on the phone right now! I made it clear the job was done exactly to their specfications..They wanted only two of their three decks done and after all was done the one deck looked like crap against the two I did and she thought I should do the third one for free because it looked so bad..This after I pleaded during the bid to let me do it too but NOOOOO she only wanted those two done and made sure I knew it was "just those two, not that one or any of the furniture"....This was a retired school teacher from Fl... In your case I'd show up to her office and ask her in front of everyone if her professional reputation is only worth 125.00 to her because for that exact amount your opinion of her will be sealed as a liar and a cheat...Explain as I'm sure she knows your in business TOO dealing with some of the same people around town she does and know what a business reputation means and what it's worth...You can't let people do you that way. Especially people who work in jobs that require them to have license like Realtors and attorneys...ethics are VERY big in those jobs. You might not get your money but they'll wished later they had just paid you...I bet her broker would make her pay up Johnny Quick after you showed up calling her out. She's going to slam you anyway under the pretense you cheated her somehow so I'd dam Skippy make sure I got my money. I wouldn't pay her 125.00 to have the opinion I was a cheat..She's screwing you out of both the money and the reputation...That damage is done you might as well go after the money..After that situation last year I'm going with the policy requiring 1/3rd down...the 2nd 1/3rd after strip / prep...then final payment AT job completion.

I vote for the 2x4 upside the customers head option as defined in post #21...lol I bet the contractors already seen that tape and consulted his attorney and plans on doing nothing about it...Just cashing progress payments and letting time run out then demand final payment or default. He can't literally be trying to fix that or else the tape would already be down...Months???...I bet he's got some little "Kicker" in his contract just for this kind of idiot or else he wouldn't still be in the process of doing anything,,, it would just be a go to court deal. Did I understand it's the HO thats "not moving in" indicating their past closing...I bet he's suckering this guy passed some sort of deadline and have to accept the house and or default and lose his deposit. I mean you know this builder can't be trying to still make this guy happy. Thats just not going to happen. My moneys on the contractor having something up his sleeve.

Thats it,,,Ta Daaaaa!!! I love it..first rattle out of the box she throws in the red tip...LOL... :rotfl: :zip2: :stupid: That video is just wrong on so many different levels...:lol:

\ I'd send him a certified letter return receipt explaining your position and that how many times you've tried to discuss the matter and his refusal to answer any of them resulting in the lien and if he still refuses to pay you and all cost you'll have no other recourse than to file a complaint with the state bar...They will jump his azz for sure...ethicts are the biggest thing they monitor,,write them a letter explaining the situation and that you now believe he never had any intentions to pay and committed fraud...They will call him on the carpet I guarantee you...

LOL..Ron you couldn't close that one?????...LOL:lol:

He didn't want a "quote" he just hosed you to get some figures to put together about how much money they were "saving" the company by putting them in. To make himself look good in his oporations VP eyes...Bet that convo started with,,, "Yea I did some RESEARCH and heres how much money YOUR IDEA is saving the company..:lglolly: As soon as you said "he saw my truck and wanted a quote"....I knew what was about to happen..LOL...Man never had any intentions on hiring you do to anything...I hate those bastards that waist your time like that....I would have written a letter to the ops VP myself and told him what the guy did and said and asked him point blank were they really looking to get someone to do it for "a clean start"...And attached a $429.32 invoice for the time spent in good faith figuring up the quote he ASKED FOR and apparently had no intentions of acepting anyway...

Len what are they charging you for the permit to wash something? Yea nothing changes a local govt administers mind like being able to "sell a permit" for it...LOL..I guess he thinks he can go over to the lake and sqeeze the permit over a bridge and put some water back in...

Shine Bright just know it's an acrylic if your the one having to go back to fix it....I've got a Deck Scapes thats failed in 14 months....From what I've seen and research done and thread I started on SW Deckscapes here I've got a bad taste and won't ever touch it...I'd also research Trex and the like,,,it doesn't have a good reputation here and won't hold up to it's claims, (contrary to company's sales pitch mold will grow on anything) People buy it paying ridiculas price for it under the pretense it's maintenance free, which it's not, and have stopped using it. Hey it's snowing again,,,let it snow let it snow let it snowwwww!!!

I agree keep prices the same as they are now..If your hauling water then charge what you would have to do it anyway or maybe even less...Use the opportunity to "show" the HO (or his wife anyway) how good it can look (w/ pro chems and work) as opposed to what was being done in the past w/ HD stuff...I would bring up the water ban so they know it's harder on me because I have to go to tim buck too to haul water,,ya da ya da,,,to create empathy for our biz (everyone likes to crack on govt. regulation) and make my price more tangible but let them know you haven't gone up...YET...and let the next or last greedy bidder get YOU the job....LOL

Oh I see....:dunno:Thats why when I go to PP at the bar I'm always stumbling around and miss the toilet :headspin:....It's the vapors in the wood...Yea...thats it...:cheers: See I knew I wasn't that drunk.....

1 fern? How to get around that is tell them in the bid that as an option you can move the furn and plants but charge 75.00 per hr to do it....They'll have them moved when you get there LOL...But yea it's good to network with landscapers so they can shoot you dirty house jobs if they see one and you can return the favor plus replace any plants on the cheap...A land scaper might throw a free fern in just for the lead and an excuse to knock on the door and try to get biz...Plus makes you look good that you send pro's over to fix any issues,,,,,When they tell that story they'll say "Man I figured that guy would have just gone to HD and got a cheap fern to get me off his back but he sent over a land scaper to fix it!! WOW"...A story worth repeating and promoting your professionalizim while doing it...