What project are you working on right now?

The Office Business
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  1. I am training my wife to fully take over all aspects of the office operation.

  2. I’m putting everything in a complete operations manual for future office employees.

  3. Painting our new digs

  4. making a screen repair table

  5. a million others.

What projects are you working on in your business?

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What color are you painting your new digs? And what’s a dig?

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Steve’s showing his age - don’t worry about it :smiley:
We call it a “gaff” & the young 'uns look at me strangely :wink:

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Getting my shop set up.
Also making a screen repair table.

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In addition to constantly finding new clients, and keeping the current ones happy, I bought a vinyl plotter/cutter. I just lettered the truck, and have a few signs to make for some clients whose signs are failing.

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  1. Putting together my soft washing unit.

  2. Raising the funds for new section ladders.

Tony & Steve,

Can you share your ideas for a screen repair table?

After watching Tims video on screen repair, I want to build one down the road.

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I salvaged a small laminated table top (approx 3x5) and will attach it to one area of wall in my shop. Above it will be a roll of screening on a wooden dowel (probably 1" diameter). I need to pick Tim’s brain on the hold down frame on his table to complete the set up.

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Do you mean one of these? CRL Screen Jig Sets

Tim’s looks like the one I use too, The aluminum jig.

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Nice! Thanks Seth

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Thanks for the link Seth. Do you have any pics of your set up?

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Hey Josh,

What kind of soft washing unit are you buidling?

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“Putting together” is a better term. I bought my tips, tip holder and gun from Pressure Tek Friday. I’m waiting to put it together and try it out.

Are you using 12% bleach/simple cherry for your cleaning solution?

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I laughed so hard I think I hurt myself!!! :smiley:

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packing getting ready to move
planning out my week for estimates
soothing my teething 5 month old son
labeling 35,000 postcards
redesigning my website
going over my new tshirts design
getting things ready for 2 new guys to start on the 5th of october

god im exhausted…

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  1. Getting my feet wet with direct mail, and fliering neighborhoods like crazy.
  2. Attempting to break into the pw’ing scene.
  3. Looking into good, cheap, easy to use website builders.
  4. Attempting to find a decent plow truck for the snow season.
  5. Searching CL for a 32’ ladder.
  6. Creating a nice storefront/commercial presentation.
  7. Looking for work everywhere.
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I’m in the same boat - I don’t have any specific plans yet. That’s the first phase of the project.

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  1. Setting up SUV for WFP.
  2. Looking for pressure washing jobs.
  3. Gearing up to go fulltime and give up the hourly job in retail.
  4. Trying to stay sane with millions of other things that are going through my head.

Running your own business is not for the faint of heart.:eek:

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training a replacment for me. I will be hanging up the squeegee after the new year. tieing up loose ends around the shop and getting the office staff and myself ready for my departure.

If you are handy you can make the screen jigs yourself. For the clips I got some metal and bent it with the bench vice. the table I have has a 1/2x2 inch steel around two sides of the table. The metal frame is secured to the table with screws and between the table and metal I have washers to allow the clips/jigs to slide under the metal. I have the table covered in outdoor carpet and hinged to the wall so I can fold it up and store when not in use. Hope this helps. they are pretty easy to build and even easier to dismantle when your local screen shop tells you that they will fix screens for you for free cause you refer so many people to them.

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1-Working on a marketing campaign for next year, so far have only 2 fliers.
2-Devolping a system for how I want to run an employee out in the field (work orders and write up system)

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Working on our final 3 direct mail campaigns of the year

Analyzing / critiquing winter budget

Dealing with prospective buyers for our commercial accounts

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Building a new window cleaning related TV network website

Constructing an affiliate program

Building our new online store