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Looks like some type of moth.

I have used the Rustoleum Epoxy shield kit for a couple of customers and it works very well and looks great. The only downside is that it only comes in 2 colors, Grey and Tan. Once the floor is painted cars should stay off for 7 days to let it cure. It will handle light foot traffic after 24 hours. I was looking to try another brand that offers more colors, but they are usually much more expensive and most people flip out about $70/gal/bay for the epoxy shield paint. I'd hate to hear what they say when you tell them the paint will cost $100+ per/gal for just a one car garage. If it's a 3 car (common in my area) $$$$. Most people don't want to spend big bucks on their garage unless they have show cars or just have lots of extra $$$ laying around.

Ken, In that case you would have to charge sales tax for materials. NJ ALWAYS wants their share!!! MORE MORE MORE GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE.

NJ does require sales tax to be charged for labor. Materials is no sales tax cause the tax is already paid for when bought from the store.

I would say to use oxalic acid, or try ESI's Citralic mixed a bit on the strong side. This should get rid of the rust stains. Pure oxalic acid might lighten the old boards a bit more. HTH, Doug

Very nice door! Sounds like the salesman was trying to screw you. At least he gave you a good price. Are you going to have the door stained or painted? If you do decide to stain, Therma tru sells a stain kit for their doors. Doug

Someone may have a better and easier method, but what I have done is disconnect the hose from the pump. Then put the end into the stain can, hold the trigger on the gun while lifting the hose to allow the stain to drain back into the can. Doug

People SUCK!!!! :D

The phone # is on the website. From what I was told the online ordering isn't up and running yet. HTH, Doug

Does it turn darker or lighter? Or does the color just "mellow out" a bit? They are having a party next saturday June 3rd. Hopefully people at the party will be impressed with the job and I'll get a ton of work from it. :D:lgmoneyey Not that I need more work right now since I'm booked into August, but I won't turn work down. I have to start working on Saturdays soon. Need to make the $$$ now to get me thru the slow winter season. Doug

Thanks Celeste! I tried to make sure I didn't over/under apply the stain. I was a bit nervous when I first started but once I got going and figured things out it went fairly smooth. The customer said that she wanted the deck to be a little darker then when the deck was wet just after I washed it. So I tinted the wood tux with a bit of black and red till I got the color right. Doug

And a few more pics.

Here is a deck I stained today. This was my first time spraying and using WTW. I Love WTW and my Decker sprayer. Started spraying at 10:00am and finished by 1:30pm. I know some of you seasoned pros would have done it quicker, but I think I did pretty good for my first time spraying. :D

Very nice!!!

Got this in an e-mail this morning. Enjoy, Doug If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious! When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death! And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But.... Now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. When we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves! There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter. With an actual pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and messed it all up! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options. We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy Sony PlayStation videogames, either, with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat in front of you and you couldn't see you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing you had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards! We didn't have microwaves; if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove imagine that! If we wanted popcorn we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot forever. That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled, you guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! Damn! I feel old!!!!!