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Staying In Touch
In this day of instant gratification, it is helpful to your business growth if you stay in touch with your former clients. I understand you finished the project and you had a good repour with the client. You may have gotten a few referrals from them, but now it’s a few months down the road…
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More Reasons for Vacations
You are mortal, your company is not, and the time may come when you are unable to come to work, then others will need to take over the supervision of your company. A vacation will show you how your company preforms without you at the helm. It may also indicate who is working for…
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The Importance of a Vacation
The vacation is a chance for the employee to unplug from the work load and focus on their families or self-care. Time away from their daily grind is important because knowing that the company care about their well-being increases productivity in many cases, it also enhances collaboration as well as their effectiveness. It has…
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Starting LP Siding
As with many things if you skimp on your preparation the finish product will proclaim it. Before I begin nailing the siding I have marked the locations of every stud and plumbing pipe location so as I know where I can and cannot nail. I also have taken the laser out and marked a line…
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Making A Simple Tool to Push Pipes Under Obstacles (Such as Driveways and Sidewalks)
To begin you’ll need the following materials. 1 ¾” steel tee 1 1”3/4 “steel nipple 3 short sections of ¾ steel pipe 1 ¾ plug (screw on) 1 ¾ pipe to hose fitting adapter that spins freely 1 ¾” valve (I use Ball valves here) Teflon tape or pipe dope I like one of these…
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When PVC or ABS Penetrates Concrete
Despite the rebar, anchor bolts and Hold Down anchors and the mesh we add to our pours today I still do not allow any pipe to penetrate the concrete unprotected. Sometimes it is as simple as wrapping the pipe with a Styrofoam wrapping. It may be running a copper or plastic pipe through a steel…
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Siding Preparation
Before I hang my siding, I go and locate ever place where I might be able to penetrate the plumbing or any other item I could damage with the nails and I place a metal plate over them if the run vertical. I also give them double lines, one on each side and write no…
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Setting of Exterior Doors
As mentioned before there is an order to be followed when setting doors, but setting exterior door require or permit an additional step. When ever I set the exterior door, I still use the laser to establish the heads level throughout the unit. This is done in the same manor as the interior doors were…
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Taking The Needed Time
When I was young an uncle had just retired after 34&1/2 years in the army. He served from WWII through Viet Nam. He was Airborne, and had made the 5 major jumps of WWII. To say the man was regimented would be an understatement. But to deny his guidance and influence on my life…
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Paining Doors
After I’ve installed the pre-hung door throughout the unit I go and mark the door and the jams. Once this has been accomplished, I remove all the pins and take the doors to have their bottoms and tops painted. Few people if any look at the tops and bottoms of doors so I use…
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