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Post by rhapsodyvf on Dec 7, 2006 10:07:04 GMT -5
Wow...that looks great! I bet He will be super impressed when the whole floor is done!
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Apr 9, 2006 14:15:14 GMT -5
It turned out great! I wish I had taken pictures of the before and after now. We did it all by hand because the area's to be done wern't that big, but it was still a first for me. I was really supprised by how well it came out.
Thank you everyone for the great advice of this board. I would have never been able to even think about doing something like this without it!
Kristina
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Nov 29, 2006 11:45:13 GMT -5
You know its funny....I used to have a friend once upon a time that never wanted her picture taken. I think that i have maybe one picture of her that is not her hand dunking away from the camera to stay off of film. Well anyway she is my now ex-friend/business partner and as i look back i realize that having no pictures of her is weird....it feels sometimes like she didn't even exist. I dont even have pictures to help to remember the good times so i am stuck remembering the end and all the bad that happened. Keep in mind that anything can happen to someone - accidents happen all the time. Pictures help people remember the good times.
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Dec 7, 2006 10:04:57 GMT -5
That's true. Its just crazy to me. I would never be able to live with myself if i did something like that.
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Dec 6, 2006 16:26:08 GMT -5
I see stuff like this all the time....I've always wondered how well it worked for the people that do it. I guess if just one person falls for it then it makes it worth their while. Still it seems like an awful lot of work for not much return.
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Dec 5, 2006 13:37:36 GMT -5
I totally agree with this message! We got snowfall last friday and one of my employees fell down her steps on her way to check her mail and hurt her wrist and totally messed up her tail bone. She's gonna be out of work for a coupe of weeks or more.
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Post by rhapsodyvf on May 24, 2006 15:15:24 GMT -5
and your drawing is great by the way!
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Post by rhapsodyvf on May 24, 2006 15:15:03 GMT -5
lol, i did something of the same thing to myself at a job once. We were there for a one time clean for post renovation. We we supposed to be wiping down everything and i closed a door in one of the offices to wipe it down. It locked. So my husband and i were stuck in the office on easter sunday. Luckly we had one other person there that was able to hear us knocking to let us out. The really sad part? Neither of us had our phones on us. Now i am sure to carry it with me where ever i go as the office that we were locked in didn't have a phone in it. It was more like a drafting room/copy room. We got lucky.
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Aug 9, 2006 12:17:30 GMT -5
never run into this before.....is this everywhere?
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Sept 8, 2006 10:43:00 GMT -5
microfiber
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Jan 18, 2007 10:58:11 GMT -5
Great Story. Congrats. Tip: After you have done a few of these jobs, you will find family and freinds shying away from you. They become afraid to come around because they think you will want them to work. I use to have lots of friends but after awhile they just seemed to disappear. They already are!!! and only the one really big job....sigh....I think we worked them too hard!
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Jan 17, 2007 16:43:47 GMT -5
That call was from me Thank you very much for your advice, i really appreciate it! It was actually origionally an 80,000 sq. ft. post construction clean up for a nursing home. They found us from our IJCSA listing. We did that job in 4 (!) days trying to get them ready for their state inspection. We started the Saturday after Thanksgiving and did most of it that weekend and finished up Monday and Tuesday. They had their inspection Wednesday. They passed with flying colors and we passed out. Wow, just wow. That was a heck of a lot of work. That job led directly into a 40,000 sq foot post construction clean up job for the same company, different area of the city. We are doing that job the end of this month (this time we have 5 days). Let me tell you from experience if you are a small company (we have 2 owners, 4 part time employees) you have to hustle to be ready for something like this. What we did: 1) Bid the job (friday after thanksgiving, they called about noon, met with them at 3:30pm, I'd been up all night for black friday), didn't expect to get it but had a really good raport with the executive director so hoped... 2) Got the call friday night at 6 pm that we had the job (we started saturday) 3) Called 2 of our employees to see if they could work (they could) 4) Asked them if they knew anyone that wanted work for the weekend (one of them brought one other person) 5) Recruited family members 6) Panic some more 7) Worked our butts off untill the job was done! It ended up being me, my business partner (my dad), my husband, my brother, 2 employees, and one of our employees fiancee for the weekend. Then for monday and tuesday it was just my dad and 2 employees, I had to be at the store. We put in 19+ hours over the weekend and got a suprising ammount done. It was crazy. For this second job we have more time to prepare so will be able to do things a little bit differently. Also i am going to be in vegas the 27th - 31st which is when we are scheduled to do this job. I made resurvations and paid for the hotel room and the plane ticket the day before she called about doing this job. such as business goes...
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Dec 7, 2006 10:10:27 GMT -5
Bill, I'm guessing you don't get too many complaints from customers about the cleaners not doing a good enough job? For instance, the employee thinking.."I'm getting paid for 3 hours so I'm going to do it in 1.5"? Or i'm only getting paid for 3 hours...why should i work 3.5 to do a great job if i'm not going to get paid for it? These are just a couple of the things that keep me from not going to paying a flat rate. How do you get around them?
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Sept 20, 2006 9:47:55 GMT -5
wow, i think i pay around $6000 per year for insurance and that includes
a million dollars general liability for buildings that we clean workers comp for 12 employees including 2 owners liability insurance for my store front full coverage insurance for 2 vehicles and a rider for the lift on one vehicle plus any equiptment hauled around in both of them up to 20,000 each vehicle just liability insurance on another vehicle
and I got bonded for $25,000 for 12 employees plus 2 owners for around $270
i go through american family insurance, my agent is the same agent that i have had since i started driving though. I did check around though and he was the best deal/most helpful agent that i found.
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Post by rhapsodyvf on Sept 12, 2006 10:50:06 GMT -5
oh trust me, i could write a book about my experiences! If anyone has any questions ask....I will do my best to answer.
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