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Does anyone have experience with cedar shake restoration? The few I have done, I used TWP products or Wolman F&P suggested by my suppliers. I have a customer that wants a color basically darker than clear but not as dark as F&P Natural, not to gold or honey?I told them I would check into it. The...

Hey Everyone, I am curious what kind, if any,of warranty do you give your customers? And where do you draw the line as far as weathering or customer abuse, neglect? Thanks for your responses! Jerry

Hey Decksource, I have felt your pain many times! Most times I have trouble with payment is when I bid things a little low(trying to be nice) or to people who have tons of money and like to wait it out! I since have started to get a down payment of 30 to 50% when I come to wash the deck with...

Hey Everyone! I am having the best July ever!(and year) I have doubled my sales in every month so far. The new teephone book came out and I am recieving 3-4 calls a day, and getting about 50% of them. I to work by myself and am getting a little overwhelmed, but hey, when the sun shines you...

Hey John, I am thinking of doing just the opposite of what you are planning to do! I have had some good luck with Wolmans and recently more bad luck with it. I follow Wolmans directions to the letter and only apply in the right conditions and I still find Wolmans Toners and F&P not to hold up...

Hello everybody! I just have a quick question. I have a customer that wants a semi-transparent deck stain that matches her house( kind of a light tan) and I have a brochure from Cuprinol that has one premixed that is close to the color she wants. Do alot of you use or have used Cuprinol...

I use Wolman stripper mixed 1 to 1 if there is quite a bit of it still on there. I have only had to use it full strength a few times on some really thick stuff. I have removed it with the Wolman rejuvinater when there wasn't much left on. Otherwise the products that Jim uses is very good also...

I dilute 1 to 1 all the time. With Thompsons water seal or CWF you can remove it with the Wolman rejuvinater. I feel that full strength stripper is almost to much of a good thing if the existing sealer is in poor shape. Good luck! Have a good one! Jerry ------------------

Hello everyone, Had a customer ask me if I had ever used X-100 from American Building Products. She had used some on her front steps and liked it. It had a nice color to it. Have any of you used it? I never had heard of the stuff before, is it any good? Thanks for your responses! ------------------

Hey Cliff, Average time? About 4-5 hours for a typical 12 x 12 deck or so (washed and stained), but as you stated ,there is alot of variables! Just remember, if you think that a job will go real easy, it probably won't. Don't get frustrated and schedule your jobs with enough time in between so...

Hey guys! It's great to see some faces to those names! Talking about yellow page ads, I had one but the cost was very expensive for the amount of calls I got from it,and I pay for it year round ,but can only use it 6 months out of the year. So I flood the local papers and shoppers with decent...

Hey everyone! We have two minature schnauzers, one is a year old, the other is three years old, and a cat, real interesting here some days! They gotta make you laugh sometimes.... ------------------

Hello Everyone! I hope everybody is having a great summer so far!(whats left of it) My question is, has anyone ever washed a cedar shake roof on a A-frame house? I got the job, now I have to figure out how to get up there to wash and stain effectively. There is a deck and landscaping on one side...

I also like the TWP, and have used it on about 5 decks so far, I will be using that and Ready Seal from now on. The cedat tone is a great color. Jerry Dakotawash Deck & Siding Restoration

Myself, I would stay far away from CWF and Flood, I have stripped more CWF off of decks than any other stain, a person is lucky if it lasts a year! If Ready Seal is not shipable to Canada, the I would find something available at a good paint supplier to provide you with a product that will last...

I used it yesterday on a deck that had Wolman Extreme on it. I was not impresed at all! I finally got it to work somewhat by applying it at about 40 sq. ft. a gallon! I still had to scrub the dickens out of it and washed it with 1600 psi at about 2 inches off of the deck. I was on the phone with...

Tim, I use the 3M handi-mask plastic. I comes in different widths. It is made to use for masking windows for painting, but it works well for masking the side of the house for the deck. The roll dispencer is kinda spendy, but if you are doing this alone, it sure speeds things up. The are...

I agree with Mike on the cleaning,but for the Extreme, it sounds a little light on the price. I normally charge $1.30 a sq. up to 1000 sq. for extreme. For this size that you are talking about I would charge $1.00 a sq. One thing to remember is that the Extreme is going to be very slippery on...

Do any of you out there have a Deckare franchise as one of your competitors? A guy here just started one. He bid a job that I got and his bid was alot lower than mine. He paid $25,000 for the franchise,and then leased a new van. The company claims to use Wolman, but he told the customer that he...

Good for you Dan! I had the same thing a couple of weeks ago. You give them a fair price, then they he-ho around, and after they call around and figure out that you were the best choice then they want you to do the next day! My attitude is hey, either they want it done right or they want it done...