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I really dont have too much fear of them at this time. My whole point of keeping this going is to waste their time. When i do cut it(which might be soon) i will do it cordially and not tell them off. Ill tell them something along the lines of bank verified funds before cashing or i will cut it off before the check will be sent

This is the latest response... Notice the slang vergage " if you are down with me".... Thanks for writting me back.How are you doing today?Hope fine....I would like to ask you few question again before proceeding with this transaction....Will you be able to wire the excess funds same day and immediately you receive the payment to mytraveling agent for my flight ticket to return back to state?I am very Glad to hear back from you with your information.And if you are down with me about the payment so i need your help as soon as you recieve the check payment kindly deduct your service money out of it okay and help me to send back the diferences funds to the traveling agent for my returnning ticket back to state chrismas okay.Pls if you are okay with me i will happy to read from you soon, so that my boss can issue the check to you this week,hope to haer from you soon.Thanks and god bless you. Regards, deborah

yep. I keep trying to play around with these guys and make them think that im biting. Inn some later emails to them i keep insisting on a adress so i could see the property or at least pics but they seem to not care about my price. In one of them i said how will you know your check will cover my expenses and have enough for their travels and sick mother. Got a response on instructions on cashing the check. Whatever.

I did my first deck strip yesterday. It is 400 sf no rails. Customer wants old stuff(Thompsons) removed and reapply semitransparent Cabots. My question is how much is needed to strip away. My first application of my mix took off all the stain that was on the surface but the wood still had pigment of the stain in the wood. I kept reapplying and letting dwell for 20-25minutes and it would lighten it every time. I had to repeat this process 7 times until I was unable to see pigment any more and then I brightened with citric. Do you woodies strip to bare wood or just take off top layer if not applying a clear? And usually how many applications of stripper do you normally need to do.

Thanks all. I will probably have to do alot of sanding on this one but I will get it done. For some reason I thought that shipping was going to be thru the roof for the strippers that you guys use but I checked it out and it was not to bad. I have another deck to do in a week and a half and I will order some hd-80 and try that and see what the difference is.

sorry not liters, ounces.

Out of wich picture are you able to see the fuzzies, Might help me know what to look for in the future. I am embarassed to say how crude and un scientific my measuring for the mix was but here it is, I gota learn somewhere. I used a 35liter container filled it to the top with dry sodium hydroxide and another 35 liter container filled with dry sodium percarbonate. Poured both into a 2gallon pump up sprayer and filled rest with water. Applied using the pump up. I would love to find stripper chems already premixed like you guys use but am having trouble finding it in my area.

In terms of the paint removal on the siding I did a paint prep on the customers house the day before to remove all loose paint so where it was removed by the stripper on the bottom it is ok by the customer, he is going to repaint the whole house in the next week or so. I used a sodium percarb/sodium hydroxide mix to do the stripping. I might of made my mix too weak but was afraid of getting too much fuzzies. I will try making mix stronger on next deck. Great point on not washing in between. I did wash in between each strip application. Like I mentioned before first application took off all top coat stuff like butter. On the lower half of the deck which is a recent addition, after first strip the wood had a dark reddish tint to it. The upper half which had a couple of coats on it, it had a dark coffee color to the wood after top coat was removed. It almost looked burnt. After every application it would just lighten a little bit at a time until I got it to the color you see now.

There is still a couple spots that have shadows and am willing to go back and reapply stripper if need be but thought I get your opinions first. Customer knows that this is my first deck and I priced it accordingly for allowing me to train on his deck. Here is the last few pics. First two are before last one after. If you guys/gals think it is ok I will stain this saturday or sunday depending on weather.

Here is some more. first pic before, 2nd and 3rd after

AAAAAHHHHHHH thats better, I was going thru TGS withdrawals all day.

I think it is anoying when I am talking to someone in person and someone else starts squacking on the nextel without an alert first. " yoohoo are you there?" I had one of my friends do this once when I was with a customer. He thought I was ignoring him so he started singing and cursing and doing everything he can to try to get my attention. During the whole time I was trying to shut him off and apologizing to the customer.

I agree it is tough to jugle the job and biz at the same time. I do all my quotes/bids and small clean jobs after job hours and schedule the bigger jobs for the weekends and during the days off that I can get using vacation and sick days. On the other hand it is comforting to know that there is a paycheck coming up this winter season when it will get slower. I havent had a day off in three months but it is very exciting seeing where this business is going. I am booked up until middle of august. I have increased my prices three times since march but jobs are still being booked.

Thank you sir. You saved me the mess and maybe my eyebrows. I was planning on testing this mix in small quantity at home.

On the other end of the scale can you beef up your house/roof wash mix of sodium hypochlorite by adding sodium percarb powder to it. My thoughts on this is because you need a stronger mix than what I get right now for roofs while using an x-jet.

With me its, I always think I should have watered the plants more. I water them before, during and after my house/roof wash but am always thinking about it as i leave and wondering if the plants are going to be ok. I have never gotten a call back from a customer saying that their plants are dying and I have also driven past homes that had alot of plants around the house that I have washed previously and haven't had a plant die yet, but I still worry after every job for about a couple of weeks afterwards.

The experience I have had is the customer is more willing to go with add on services/ upselling if they are able to charge. Maybe its their mentallity that they can finance that bigger lump sum rather than pay it all at once.

hmmmm

Damn, I shouldn't have looked. I wont even make it to 48.

Very Good Stuff Thank Ken

Just bought a used Landa hot water unit and am trying to work out the bugs before putting it in service. I am trying to downstream but am getting soap draw even with a 15degree tip. I have been having to go to the machine and turn off the soap valve that it has on the machine. my wand is the type that has two triggers, one for high pressure and one more forward on the wand for soap. On the the business end of the wand it has duall tubes, one for high pressure and one for the soap tip that does not come off. Any help would be greatly apreciated. I hope it all makes sense what i have written above.

Up in Seattle the best i have been able to come by is 4.50 a gallon. It is cheaper for me to just buy off the shelf 6% and xjet the desired percentage that is needed to clean a house properly. I have been wanting to switch to downstreaming but am not able to do so until i can find something cheaper. Maybe somebody in my area has a suggestion where to go.

Dropped out of High School but later got my GED. Went to community college for almost two years preping to become a cop. Went in the military , United States Marine Corps for 4 years. After getting out had a change of heart for being a cop. Worked for my dad for one year as a salesman. Went to work for a hardwood lumber wholsaler and have been working with them for six years. I am currently the warehouse, production supervisor for the Seattle Branch. Started pwing last year but moved to janitorial/ interior cleaning for the winter. Will see in spring if I will do both or go back to solely pwing.

Poor little puppy dog.

This thread is kinda funny. Scroll back to post #126 and the estimating sheets are downloadable from there. Post #'s are displayed on the top right corner of each post.