John T

I understand what you guys are saying above. All my options are open. I had a good run with the stains I used all these years. The VOC's killed them here which is why I went to NJ today to see some different options. I always hated staining. The more I hated it the more I made. All I ever wanted to do was Powerwash. Now that I no longer stain anything I still can't stand it when something comes out where there was problems that we didn't cause. I order most of my stuff online. I get my Gutter cleaning chemicals that I mix together from one Distributor, I get part of my house soap(I make the rest) from another distributor, I get all my strippers from my local Distributor I've been dealing with for 17 yrs and I build my own Powerwashers from Parts I get from numerous Distributors... Shane has already contacted me about the BGA's stain and on top of that I met one guy today who makes his own stain and showed a few of us his product and on the way down there I talked to another Expert in this field who also comes to this bb who also makes his own Mixes. On top of that I had an artist Here in Rick Petry to talk shop with today about stains.. The Consensus is either I get out of the staining business(Every year I say this and we get to many calls to turn down this type of work) or start ordering my stains online. There's Four different stain companies that seem to have very good products and in no specific order they are BGA,DPR,Ready Seal and Armstrong Clarke. The last thing I want to do is make my own mixes when it comes to stain so that's out. I'd love to get the paint stores that I deal with here sell one of the above products because this paint store has a very large Contractor base. It's great to have options:joyous:

2nd house we completed yesterday. The very last picture the stain is still drying on the right side of the house. This was the Wolmans Natural which has plenty of oil in it which I like but it wasnt easy for my guys to work with and I didn't like the lack of "Richness" missing from the stain that I always got from the Cabots or yesteryear... Quick note last year we had such problems with the Cabots Timber oils stains not drying and becoming tacky that one of my customers demanded her money back. It took 3 weeks for her stain to dry on her mahagony Deck... The product was sent to Valspar and guess what?? They paid out to her to get the stain stripped off and restained again on there dime due to product failure. She elected to take there money and then she wanted me to come back in a year to re-do it with Cabots again... I went to bat for her to fight for her money back from Valspar since I sent in the stain because I just new it had problems... but thats as far as I went when she got a full reinbursement of cash.. Not dealing with cleaning up there mess.

Just want to wish you a happy B-day before I go syannara. Cya on the other side and when I get that boat for next yr you Rod and your family are always welcome to stay as my inlaws put it...at camp Tornabene's :)

The last 2 days here was fun again. Kind of like old times. I'll pop in from time to time and maybe add a little input or ask a question or two but besides that I'm cutting my net time way down to grab what I like to do most back which is real time connecting with people. It's good to see everything here is back on track so leaving on a good note is a positive thing. I may still respond a little more on some newer bulletin boards to help them get off the ground a little bit higher.But my time there is limited soon as well. 2 days then gone..let's see of I can stay out of trouble:hopelessness:

Lololol funny stuff up there.. Yea Sunday 2019 I'm thru here.. The Internet patch says it's guaranteed to help me in no more then 7 yrs...lol it's nice to have a few laughs here... After this past week I took a long hard look what I'm doing here...and this is what I came up with.. What am I doing here?? I look around and so many of the guys I use to connect with are gone. I just got a message from Mike Hughes linked in who moderated more of these boards at the same time then anyone I knew and he's pretty much left here years ago. Then of course he got out of the business. Where is Jeff L.? How about Ken Fenner? Everett Abrams,Rob Huffman,Jack Kramer, Matt Johnson,Gary Shell and many others from the past who use to post alot..... Most of the guys above "Have left the building" and are doing better then they ever have in this business.. My business is by far having it's best year to date. We hired our 3rd guy and thats over the limit of what I want and we can't slow down. The other day it was 100 degrees here and my Guys worked 16hrs and the next day 14 hrs. This is all because of Kathy making every call from morning to night and also from her cell phone when not in the office.. She's the reason why where staying tremendously busy... Me besides this Ruth thing and keeping the people I have involved posted with updates and taking text from Carol Alt who's now in Italy who has read her folder and is pleading with me on what she can do and others doing the same...that to me is the real dealings. Also dealing with my brother in law and planning next years big Charity event that he does and I may switch it all up to do something large with the Powerwashers that is things I get great satisfaction doing.... But besides that and because I have alot of free time in my hands because I don't go to my guys jobs and on residential I don't pick up the money and most commercial unless it's large I don't go(except parking garages which I always go to) I am playing on the bb's and there are so many other things I should be doing... Writing is on the wall. I signed off last night here for the first time in years.. Sunday night like Tony ************** did awhile back I'm shutting some bb's down as far as my participation is concerned. There to big and there doing real well and they dont need guys like myself hanging around because there working like a fine tuned instrument on there own. Will I come back like Tony did and Jeff L. Did for awhile?? I can't say.. If I do I'll beg for Beth to ban me..lol like I did to Scott Stone back on ***.. He finally banned me because I bugged the crap out of him to do it...but of course they put me back on there..lol Seriously it's been fun.. But now it's time to first go to some new start ups and then onto my second boat next year. The first one sat in my back yard and never went out yrs ago because all my free time was mostly Powerwashing and then onto the net. The boat which was in great shape only ran in my back yard with water running thru the engine to keep it working correctly... It never went out once in 2 yrs then I got rid of it.. This time next year I'll be on a boat with stories to tell and share and hopefully some of you come to visit and your all invited if your in town.... That's the life I want back and not to be sitting with people and hanging with my Droid phone and I-pad to see whats the latest on these large bulletin boards.. It's to much for me to keep doing that.. And who's been after me the most to get off these main sites-- my wife Kathy.. So blame her not me for getting off of here..lol. But then again she has always been smarter then me so now it's time to listen to family. Besides look how long this post is already..and a half hour to type it on my I-pad... That should tell u something if anyone is still reading this..lol I need to get off... My thumbs hurt. Whatever happened to John T.?? That guy?.. He hurt his Thumbs:boxing:

Since there is I believe only 2 super mods here with myself and Scott Stone being the other one, I've been trying like heck to step away from that forever. There was a time I moderated almost every board on the net simultaneously and donated to a few as well. Some of those boards did not make it such as The PWNA bb, Guttersource and maybe another one or two others. The ones I did moderate at the same time were TGS,***,Guttersource(until it folded) then the ***** bb. A few of those I was offered the admin spot but only one I took a co admin slot which was the ***** board. They were all fun but different which is why I didn't mind doing multiple ones at anytime. There comes a time for all good things to end and like in law enforcement it was hard for me to leave any of them because I always do things that I enjoy including my military and Law enforcement careers which totaled 29 years. I'll never stop working because I enjoy staying busy but my time even though I retired from one job is getting less and less available because on the outside I'm getting more and more involved. I am debating on running for a board slot again in one of the orgs I belong to(glutten for punishment) because I always enjoyed staying involved and I find myself to be a rare breed where no matter how hot it gets in the kitchen I don't leave. I look for ways to make it better.. TGS was the hardest bulletin board for me to hang up and it's the very last I moderated. Like Scott Stone and a few others I was here from the very beginning. The other thing that made it so hard is that I have a tremendous amount of respect for Both Beth and Rod. Beth in particular. We served together in the PWNA and we worked together on some things. Amongst the men and females in this industry I hold her at the top as one of the people I always respected the most. So as soon as she comes back from being out of town she has promised to remove my mod status. Some of you guys here should pm or email her and Rod to see if they can use another Super Mod to work with Scott Stone to help keep this bb runing smoothly. As for Scott Stone he is easy to work with. Generally he stays away from the more political post where I would dive right in. The political post use to be fun for me because of the challenges they brought up. Somehow along the way because old timers eventually leave and the new blood would come in I started to get jaded by it all. That just meant my time was up for moderating and the way I do things I always give 110% and because of the political end of moderating I started to run out of time during my waking hours overloading on to many different things. So today I stay very focused on my business and some jobs within the industry I volunteered for. I do want to apologize to some who I may have offended because I am passionate and I drive very hard. Last night I worked outside of my business at least 10 hrs bringing in more Powerwashers to help me hammer home a few things and to help keep this industry related to some of the things I do and non of that is negative. So as usual I have a long post but I can't thank Beth and Rod enough from giving me the opportunity to be a part of TGS during there growing stages to where they are now which is at the top of the bulletin board world. The respect TGS has earned by the thousands that come here is well deserved because of the admin and mods that help out here. TGS runs like a Lamborghini where it drives like a rocket and feels like it has endless power. It has been fun and thanks for the ride here. John T.

Hey Rick-- I truly had one of the best jobs in the country.. But with family disputes rising because of the economy downturn and everything else a Police officer deals with it's best that I left. Everyday an officer who approaches a car for a traffic infraction or deals with a family dispute there lives are on the line. Those two are the biggest reasons why cops are killed in the line of duty...because there doing the job there paid to do. I know there's problems with the pensions systems and know people in a downturn economy complain what an officer makes and I get it...but when times were good people weren't telling there kids to be cops. They wanted them on average to do anything else but that and everyone thinks the world of there kids and just to be limited with salary caps as a cop always and forever will be, most didn't want there kids to be restricted in there talents or putting there lives on the line to get involves because they have to....with a family dispute...or write that ticket. Unless you are actually a cop who will eventually deal with loves one because you can't bring the ladies child back from Sids(I had to tell the mother outside of the emergency room when her child was officially pronounced dead) have to deal with numerous times a parent arriving at a scene where there teenager is dead at the scene and a blanket is covering her or him to keep the publics prying eyes away.... And on and on.. The money that's paid these guys for the emotional wear and tear they have to deal with.. Will never seemed to be worth it. They obviously have to be capped in salary like they always are but you can't put a price on the emotional scars that are left with you until u leave this planet. The flip side is when you bring someone back by doing CPR, protect a child from a deranged parent, pull people out of fires or plane crashes and in the worst case(I never was here) the world trade center after it was hit and also after it crumbles... Is about as rewarding as it gets but the cop has to be tough enough when the shizz hits the fan or they will slowly mentally began to collapse a little everyday.... That's why I defend cops because I know first hand what they go thru because I did what they do.... My heart goes out to your friend Kevin Ambrose and his family because no matter how people look at cops... They are really your last line of defense to the true evil that's out there because there in the streets with it. Thanks bro.

All the above and use the search button here and search and search some more. Quick note water volume in the 5-8gpm range is money in your pocket when doing residential work and most definitely have a buffer tank at least 100gal to help with your water flow to your Powerwasher because alot of homes at least in my area your lucky if you get 5gpm coming from a residential home and if they have water on in there house you will get less. Good luck

That's one of the drawbacks with staining and especially if they were to pick an odd color or they want a solid stain or in your case a semi transparent. We stained a house years ago where the lady picked out a snot green color and the house came out nice but she cried because she hated the color she picked.. And she waited for us to get done when she dropped this bomb... I kept telling her and showing her before and after pics and saying the house looked so much better then the black mildew/mold cedar look her house had and the color will grow on her to where she likes it. Her response was we did a nice job but she really hates the color and then she paid the full amount owed. If you think the customer is worth it then try to find a fair solution because you can't be paying for people's mistakes or you will be out of business in no time. Good luck.

What if you give permission for someone to copy something off your site wouldn't that be hurtful to you also? According to this below it would only seem logical to not even let your site be copied even with permission? So being a nice guy here can bite you in the butt, can that be true?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- STOLEN CONTENT HURTS YOUR RANKINGS Stealing copy from other sites is not only ethically wrong and often illegal; it is also not doing you any favours in the search engine arena. Search engines like Google try to rank websites as usefully as possible. In order to provide the highest quality results to their users, they try to eliminate spam sites and non germane sites from their results page. If a Google-bot crawls your page and goes, “Hmm… this copy appears verbatim on 221 other pages,” it’s going to rank your site much lower than someone else’s site that has unique copy on it.

Ditto

Give it up Chris.. I'm moving my post into the private area and out of public view. Pulling completely away from the nonsense and the drama.

Moved my response here out of public view. Getting away from negative wasted time battles.

Sorry Rick-- this post really went off track..I hope whatever you asked originally got answered somewhere.

Then bring what you have forward in the back room because whatever your personal problems Scott you have with Jim it does not give Tony ************** or anyone else the right here on this bulletin board to attack him in your defense or Rons or whoever it maybe. What Tony is doing here is wrong...and you know it. You got a beef with Jim then fix your problems.. Tony is continuosly saying he is going to chase Jim until the end of time and we have once again Doug ********** pressing like buttons to fuel Tony's anger.. You know where this is heading and its not fair to let guys pile on Jim because your pissed at him. That may work on a different bb but untill the admin says otherwise its not going to work here. It's not fair to take your personal problems with Jim and let others pile on. And since where on this subject call your friend Ron and ask him the bizaar accusations he called me on yesterday. So go back to the other bb and keep those fires lit that Ron loves.. Over here I'm going to put them out.... and that is a promise.

You should give up Chris because your beating around the Bush.. What's in question here is someone just taking people's blogs, pictures, pages or whatever without there permission and now they find out about it and want it stopped. It's as simple as simple as that. What your saying has nothing to do what's going on. And in case you missed it there is someone we all know that has taken site material without permission and some people are not happy about it.. Do you understand now??

Ok.. Your ten times different in person.. And since that's your request I'll oblige. I took all the negative out of my life because I fought enough good fights that most were worth fighting for. You guys can fight with all you want and if you get banned in the process you'll only have yourselves to blame.

I did just that Chris if you look in the beginning of this post.. A respectable person would ask for permission to take a blog or whatever.... Not a person who says "of it wasn't for me yada yada" and then takes as he pleases. For one don't do it and if you do and it pisses people off then stop doing it.. And I know your smart enough to know that.. He's pissing people off by taking there blogs and they don't want him to do it..so he comes out swinging with bullying tactics like of it wasn't for him garbage.. He's got enough of u guys kissing his azz..but sorry bro most see right thru it..and if your his friend you would tell him so instead of letting the drama get out of control-- but you won't.. Cause everybody is stupid except for Ron. And Ron if your reading this don't call me on fathers day with these wild accusations stories or call me anymore with negative untrue garbage..or any negative stuff. Call your drama buddies who love these conflicts.. Grow up man and stop the romper room stuff or go on "Jersey Shore" or whatever....

The only way to know for sure Tony is to call in an expert that's not a Powerwasher. I just gave this young kid permission to copy my Swabby page on my site.. Now it looks like one of the dumbest things I've done. You better talk to Ron. He's also accusing people now from stealing off of the ***** site.. It just never ends with him. His newest accusation is someone here is steeling links and he has an attorney ready to roll on doing something about this.. He also brought up mirroring and drove everyone nuts on the ***** awhile back.. That story was a crock.. Tell Ron to take a chill pill and stop it already.. He's obviously catching flack once again because he did something without permission. That's what all of this looks like. He took blogs and put them on his site..word for word.. The least he can do is ask for permission like any other respectable person would or should.. I'm getting sick in trying to put out his fires.. Your his friend. Try for once and tell him to just knock it off and do something positive without pissing so many people off... For better or worse he took people's blogs without there permission. That is what seems to be the problem and some of those people may no longer want to be linked to him... That's my point about Perez Hilton. He's the gay guy who likes to attack anyone and everyone in "Hollywierd" he also jumped all over a couple of years ago the new Mrs. USA that said a marriage should be between a man and a woman. The girl was allowed to speak her opinion..and he goes berserk.... That's for Chris who didn't know who Perez Hilton was... Back to Ron.. He needs to stop pissing people off. Every garbage thing in the last 12 yrs that showed it's face Ron is at the core of it... He's wearing his friends out who do not follow him blindly like 2-3 others do who will probably all end up in this post.. Tell Ron to just stop it and stay positive or he's going to go right down the ****zer where no one cares about him anymore.. The truth hearts and this is it for me to try to reach out to him to stay positive.. Thru you Tony. You maybe his last true hope to succeed where others have failed.. Or bust. Good luck--your going to need it and I really mean that.

We need a SEO professional to respond here.. I was under the Impression that if someone takes your blog or info off your site there really doing you a favor because you originated it.. But from what I read that may not be true.. Does anyone know if a Charly Caldwell or someone along those lines responds to these bulletin boards? Time to get the info from the pro's who do this stuff for a living. We may know a ton about Powerwashing because we do it for a living but on this me personally I would like to hear if from the pro's who do SEO work for a living.. Something doesn't sound right.

Today my guys are working on another Condo complex using Fresh Wash mixture from www.powerwash.com with excellent results. If all goes well we will be using strictly EBC for another Condo complex job. because of Enviro concerns. This Condo job will take my guys the whole week. There's a couple of hundred apartments in here so the steady work is good. While they were cleaning and there's no reason now for me to be there I went off to honor a Kid who I never met who is a Ruth fan to the utmost. He won't read any type of book except anything Babe Ruth. He has some collection of Ruth stuff.. He gets it all. I also called Linda today when I stopped by this kids house where they talked for awhile.. This boy is sending Linda his poster he made about Ruth.. this is a sweet story. I could drive home a story with this kid alone....he is special. Also these other pics are for Carol Alt and her husband Alexia Yashin the ex highest paid NHL player at over A $100,000,000+ contract. There one of the few who have this folder I sent out. They like everyone else who knows the whole story want to help... It will happen. Also the PWNA has been great in dealing with my craziness and the committee has been excellent. On top of this I am contemplating a huge give back that would involve all orgs. to participate if they wish to do so.. I'm closing in on that one soon.. Still weighing everything out on that one.. Anyway enjoy the pictures. This is so special when the whole story finally comes out...and it will.

In 17 yrs now doing this business there's 2 types of Powerwashing we have never done that stand out because there one of the most successful types of Powerwashing. Hoods and Fleets. Some of the biggest companies around are Hood Cleaners and Fleets. I never had the interest to do them but sometimes I think about and how smart those guys were to get into that type of work. So what types of work have you never done?

Lol.. they don't pay me enough money to clean my own house so its on the bottom of the freebie list:nightmare:

My question would be why not on the other residential stuff? Its all easy money. How about a wood house--Good money in that and great for marketing if you can get the house and deck-----Just sayin

I never heard of this grounding. Something to think about for sure--thanks.