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Wood Restoration Photo Contest

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Extreme Solutions, Inc. is holding a wood restoration photo contest for our customers. Whether you use our products every day or have only tried them once, you are welcome to participate. The contest is being hosted right here on TheGrimeScene.com!

To enter, simply post any wood restoration picture showing the use (or results) of any product in the Extreme Solutions, Inc. wood restoration suite found at www.esproducts.net Include a brief description of what your photo shows. Once posted you are in the game!

Each photo will be assigned points based on a predetermined scale. Each photo will earn up to 80 points. The reaction your photo brings from viewers plays a big part in it's ranking. Photos will also earn points for creativity, composition, image quality and product representation among other things.

Each Photo will also be assigned to a category. After the entry deadline, the top 3 photos from each category will be posted in a Grime Scene Poll for final judging by your fellow contractors who use this site. You don't have to use our products to vote or share your opinion so even if you are not entered in the contest let us know which is your favorite photo!

The categories include

Best Deck Picture

Best Wood Home Picture

Best Series

The winner of each category will receive a $500.00 credit in our online store at http://www.esproducts.net/

In addition three photos will be selected from the entire field for a wildcard category. This can include one of the pictures from the other categories or any other wood restoration picture that is submitted. The top 3 wildcard photos will also be posted on The Grime Scene for final judging by your fellow contractors who use this site.

The winner of the wildcard category will receive a full years supply of restoration chemicals including HD-80, EFC-38 and Citralic Brightener/Neutralizer. That is over a $1,000.00 value!

If you have any other questions about the Extreme solutions, Inc. Photo Contest, feel free to post them below, or call 1-866-536-7393 for official rules and regulations. If you have trouble posting or prefer to remain anonymous you can e-mail the picture to imrcc1@aol.com and I will post it for you. The deadline for entry is December 20, 2006.

Best of Luck!

Russell Cissell

http://www.esproducts.net/

imrcc1@aol.com

1-866-536-7393

The fine print

ESI is collecting pictures for educational and marketing purposes. The goal of this contest is to add to the ESI image archive and all entries will be considered for that purpose. If your entry is selected for use either in ESI's educational or promotional programs you will be asked to issue a release for such use. All participants in the ESI Photo Contest reserve the right to deny permission to reproduce their image for such purposes. Permission is not required to participate in this contest.

ESI will select and post the three finalist in each category by January 1, 2007. The final contractor vote will be open from January, 1 2007 through March 1, 2007. Each $500.00 first prize credit can be applied to any product in our online store. The credit can also be used toward shipping. The credit will be issues immediately following the end of the voting period on March 1, 2007.

The Grand Prize winner of the Wildcard category will receive free restoration chemicals for the entire 2007 season. This includes HD-80, EFC-38 and Citralic Brightener/Neutralizer. This product is for the winners use only and is not to be sold or otherwise assigned to a third party. Product will be delivered monthly on demand based on scedualed/antisipated work.

You may enter as often as you like and may have multiple photos in the final judging. Photos do not have to be recent. As long as they show the use/results of any ESI wood restoration product they qualify. If you would like to enter a photograph that is not in a digital format you may do so by mailing the photo to: Photo Contest Care of Extreme Solutions, Inc. 955 LeFaivre Street Portage Des Sioux, MO 63373. We will scan and post the photo on your behalf. If you would like your original photo returned, please include a self addresses return envelope.

You may enter the contest anonymously if you choose, however in order to be selected for the final three you must grant permission for your name to be announced if you are chosen as the winner of any category including the Wildcard category.

Point System

Complexity of job - 10 Points

Product Representation - 10 Points

Image Quality - 10 Points

Overall Composure - 10 Points

Creativity of Shot - 10 Points

Description - 10 Points

Viewer Reaction - 20 Points

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I don't much want to see this one again for atleast another year;) Finished up yesterday. Tad over 1,600sqft, 5 light days, 2 of us on this particular job.

Stripped failing Messmer'sUV that was builder-applied when home was completed in April of this year. HD80 at 2oz/gal, Citralic to neutralize. This one got WoodRich, a light 'buff' with the Osbourne, then a top coat of WoodTux. Looks absolutely chuh....chuh....cherry! I'm anticipating this wet on dry application to rock the casbah.

Here are a few pics.

/neil

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Neil, I missed this when ou first posted. CAn I say WOW...

Great work, we need to get together for a visit soon.

I don't much want to see this one again for atleast another year;) Finished up yesterday. Tad over 1,600sqft, 5 light days, 2 of us on this particular job.

Stripped failing Messmer'sUV that was builder-applied when home was completed in April of this year. HD80 at 2oz/gal, Citralic to neutralize. This one got WoodRich, a light 'buff' with the Osbourne, then a top coat of WoodTux. Looks absolutely chuh....chuh....cherry! I'm anticipating this wet on dry application to rock the casbah.

Here are a few pics.

/neil

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Thanks Rich. Get on up here....I'm serious. I sent you an email after we talked last don't know if you got it or not. Give me some notice on a visit. I'm on a large job now for probably another week, then i've got a hog hunt in GA and a ski trip to Jackson.

Shoot me an email will ya.

/neil

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Happy holidays everyone! Man, have we been blessed with warmer than usual temps this December. Thank God with this project near completion. Had a report card meeting today with the homeowners and they are over ecstatic with the results so far, with our thoroughness in attending to all the details involved in a project this size, and now see firsthand the craft we all call wood restoration. The referral to the homeowners came from The Perfecto Trifecta...the architect, the builder, and the interior painter all pointing at me. I'm doing something right here.

History on the house: Timberpeg all cedar board and batten, 6 years old, Sikkens applied when built. Story goes down hill from here….enter painter. 2 years ago painter applied SW 100% acrylic Woodscapes over failing Sikkens with heavy mildew. Result after two years was multi colored, splotchy, and again heavily mildewed. Not only did this painter fail on the process and product choice for the siding, he applied a marine spar varnish to the gorgeous Douglas Fir exterior beams for which these Timberpeg homes are coveted. Cracked and peeled after one year. It gets worse…the painter convinced the homeowners to put a SOLID ACRYLIC on the deck and rail caps.

Scope of work included complete strip of all exterior wood, caulk/seal leaks, repair trim and carpenter bee holes, rot replacement as necessary, and stain. Rail caps were stripped, sanded and now looking just killer ready for stain. Options for the deck flooring will be addressed in the spring. We’ve used 20# of HD80, 1 gal of HangTime, and 20# of Citralic at a total cost per square foot of around 5.5 cents….thank you ESI. We had 3 entrance doors to replace 1x4 cedar trim and ~70ft of Alaskan white cedar 2x6 railcap rot replacement. One more day of masking and we’ll begin staining Friday. Maybe I can get a waiver from Russell and slide a few completed shots in next week. We’ll be applying a 50/50 blend of WoodTux and WoodRich. No surprises so far, job was bid correctly, and should prove to be a pivotal project for My Curb Appeal, Inc.

Sorry I don't have any stained shots yet. These photos are either before work was starterd or now stripped and dry...no in process shots. I do love this business.

/neil

ps...hey Jarrod, we'd be at the bank already if I had that 8gpm, right!

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Gee, after Neil's mansion, ours looks kinda puny! This house was pine sided, only 5 years old with a severe overapplication of something then bleached improperly. We stripped with HD-80, neutralized with Citralic and applied Wood Tux Wet. The neighbor across the street accused Roger of changing out the siding overnight during the drying stage!

The before shot is over in another thread..... http://forums.thegrimescene.com/showthread.php?t=4532&highlight=October+project

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This is a cedar sided house that Carolina ProWash & My Curb Appeal worked on together last summer. Old CWF was easily stripped with EFC-38, house was brightened with Citralic and stained with Wood Tux Wet :)

Celeste

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Yeah Neil, that last shot at the tip of the lake is the money maker. And maybe another slightly to the right. The back of that home is so impressive!! Almost as impressive as the work you guys did to it!! Gets my vote to win the contest, even without "afters".

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Out of respect for our hostess and others who've made the request, I am extending the deadline for entry until after the holidays. Feel free to post your entries through Jan 2, 2007. We will select the finalists and post them for voting the following Monday, January 8th.

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I now have a few after stain shots in this sequence. I'm biased, but I think it turned out pretty cool. Had a huge setback last week when my awesome fulltimer had a ladder slip out from under him and he completely destroyed his tib/fib and ankle. 2 surgeries and 6 days in the hospital now I'm not thinking workcomp rates are so expensive. He'll begin to walk under weight again in 3 months. That sucks big. Having a very tough time finding Alaskan white cedar for rail cap replacement so the deck rails and balcony rails/caps aren't yet completed. Decided with client that all caps will now come up and be replaced with WRC. Bustin' the power tools out in January....love it.

What I love more than anything right now is I'm leaving 8am for a bowhunt, fish, eat, drink, nothing to resemble work trip to Creighton Island, GA for a WEEK!

Here's to last post (or two) in 2006. Thank you all!

cheers,

/neil

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