All Forum Posts by: Adam Logan

I never receive and never have received such notice. I have only had cancellations of a couple coutertop jobs.

I can do anything and I can do it as well as anyone. I also have a blackbook with 6 years of experience containing the best and most profitable subs, contractors, suppliers, and products anyone could have.

I can help drastically. I personally remodeled 15 homes the past 5 years or so, top to bottom. Wiring to additions to real wood laminate on cabinets to bathtub/tile/coutertop reglazing which actually I own a company performing such work now.

I never lost money on a deal. My skills are outstanding. I can perform professional or better quality work in almost every field. I have more corner cutting knowledge and shortcuts, replacements and subsitutions, and alternative options knowledge than any investor I have ever met.

I have a 4 year college degree as well. Strong legal knowledge, thousands in equipment, auction and REO experience, and an ex licenced assistant real estate appraiser.

I am probably the perfect person to talk to definitely the most experienced you will find.

I can do anything and I can do it as well as anyone. I also have a blackbook with 6 years of experience containing the best and most profitable subs, contractors, suppliers, and products anyone could have.

I can help drastically. I personally remodeled 15 homes the past 5 years or so, top to bottom. Wiring to additions to real wood laminate on cabinets to bathtub/tile/coutertop reglazing which actually I own a company performing such work now.

I never lost money on a deal. My skills are outstanding. I can perform professional or better quality work in almost every field. I have more corner cutting knowledge and shortcuts, replacements and subsitutions, and alternative options knowledge than any investor I have ever met.

I have a 4 year college degree as well.

Check the BBB and local civil lawsuit data.

I run whats been said many times is a reliable service.

I do not ask for downpayments, I dont need the money I can afford the paints out of pocket, I answer warranty calls by visit the same day I am called, and fo the repair within a day or two. I quote within an hour of my calls if I can, even if briefly leaving a job. I check back with customers on how everything holds up. I send xmas cards and such, and I give them giftcards for referrals. I have a website with extensive graphics, I am in the yellowpages with 2 big ads. I wear a uniform custom mase with out logos. I have professional logos on the vehicle. And I guess lastly I explain the reality of the difference in prices and workmanship across the board. I even give them a competitor referral when they insist they want to get a shoddy job, because I will not allow anything I paint to represent my company by looking less than perfect.

Most smart customers usually let me paint their tile surrounds for another 100 or 150 when I tell them about the fact that it makes their grout and caulked seam suddenly non pourous and mildewproof. I fix anything missing. It just looks better, and you can get a darn good job for the tub and tile around $450 in my industry which is not too bad and is done in 2 hours. Just watch out for the $200-300 guys they are vastly different to the point a buyer will readily notice the fixture has been painted. I do 50% of my work over the top of these "scab" painters. sometimes I am reglazing within a month of their work. It costs the customer an extra 150 or 200 in prepwork and paint removal as well so they get a double penaltty when these guys nearly ruin their bath.

Hmm, good advice.

Reglazing companies vary so much in their ability its amazing. The typical investor friendly (CHEAP!!!!!) reglazer will give you a MAYBE 5 year tub, which will fade in months and show signs it was painted from day 1. He will be half price of a high end pro who is actually a PAINTER like an automotive painter is. He may give you a 1 year warrenty and charge u $150 or so maybe 200. he wont most likely return for the warranty. 1 tenant will ruin his job.

High end like my company ranges from $250 to $450 on a single tub. You pretty much will not be able to tell really it was painted. You might get a 15 year life, 20 if your lucky. The paint will be more durable. Infact so hard that a piece from a chip can cut you. His primer will be self etching into the porcelain, and will be primarily an application used for outerspace equipment. The real smart ones will drop by in a month to show you how to wax it. Thats the key being able to protect it from the stupidity and carelessness of tenants and using abraisives. Wax will protect for months.

I just repaired one today for a customer of mine and it was a nighmare.

He had about 10 cracks in his fiberglass tub!!!!!!!! He told me 2 on the phone. He also failed to tell me the dang thing had been repained before and NOT professionally. It was one big chip I had to sand out. I made the mistake of believing his description and quoting him over the phone. I only charged him $225 and I put in about 10 hours, filled ALL the imperfections with bondo, glazing comp, epoxies, adhesive foams, AND ALSO reglazed the tub white on top of it all. It was perfect, he ripped me off but oh well he was very happy. I should have gotten about $450. Even that woulda been a bargain compared to the 2 grand a plumber drywall and tile guy would cost to change it out.

If he coulda done it himself with the home depot 100 dollar tub, and knew how to do it, and we were certain the drain alighned in the concrete foundation, I would have recommended it in a second, and really I tried to hint it so I didnt have to do it. But he said he did not even want to spend time working on it, and he didnt want the bathrooom torn up a week while a new tub went in, he only had one BR so I guess thats logical. So I had the pleasure.

Use the foam. But first, drill a hole at the beginning and end of EVERY crack... its so the cracks will not get any longer. The holes stop it. And you ALSO want to use these holes to squirt your foam in, so check the bit size to the applicator. Get your foam in there, and hope ts not ultra thin or it might lift a little bit from the foam.

let Foam dry without weight on it. Now, clean off the mes from the dry foam, razor and acetone help, or sandpaper. Get a power grinder, gring a notch in all your cracks. Fill the notch, NOT all the way full, with 3500lb test fiberglass epoxy (3$ at the store). Let dry. Get some bondo and sandpaper, cover the notches ans holes, and sand away.

Your on your own with the finish fo paint it. You cant buy the stuff I use professionally. Home depot sells a bath paint kit that MIGHT last a year before chipping and look HALFWAY decent if your crafty. Your best option.

Thats how its done, it works, and I am a pro. Sometimes theres other things like HOLES etc that require a different process.

Options:

The cost for you to fix it yourself is under $100 and just lotsa time. it will look "OK." It will last a yr or two but fade well before 2.

If it was me it would be around $300-$350 and thats what I have gotten in about 10 other states when I get work abroad. It will last up to about 10-15 years. It will initially be shinier than a new porcelain tub. It will appear to simply be new to everyone. It will take half a day at most, unless foam is 8 he foam, and be useable in 24 hrs. warranties with our type of business tend to run 1-5 years, mines usually 5 but 2 if theres repairs like this.

An insert. This will be $2000. Dont waste your money. Its the same price as a tearout, your only saving on time and mess. It will get condensation between the insert and tub over time creating mold. They ARENT good in the long run.

Replace it.
a contractor will be up to 2500. DIY for a couple hundred, and maybe 4 days work. You may have to remove door jamb to get it out and a new one in. I would sawzall the old one out. Replace your drywall but use hardibacker or durarock instead of the greenboard and tile over it.

Ford 2006 F250 Turbo diesel with an extended cab, 4x4.

Wow, I actually traded my jobs. I lost my investment co in Feb due to illnesss and a divorce. It was a shame. I made a few hundred k a year in my 20's. Im here to stay versed incase I ever come back into money to buy again.

My second company I only started for weekend money since I bought the setup anyways to use for rehabbing my own houses has had to fill in. But its been displeasing to me having to focus only on residential from my lack of advert cash. I want to get it going more than it has been in apartments and hotels, and somehow get jobs like that out of the state as well somehow.

so now I paint, customize, fix counters, cabinets, tubs, and tile. I got into it by accident as I got sick of my guy doing crap work on MY tubs and tops and charging a fortune. I bought the gun years back and the setup and did my own. I then realized I had a gift with the paintgun, as well as ingenuity in the physical aspects. I managed to make edging go around a formica countertops edge, which had a countour like marble or corian. I bondoes the seam and painted like always. Little did I know I had just discovered something that was going to not only fool every appraiser afterward into documenting they were corian, but would have me making a little extra money cuz no one else does it.

I secretly also outside the other company refinish and turn formica cabinets into WOOD cabinets. I replace the doors with custom made doors, made of solid wood in many flavors, then I coverthe cab faces with a paper-thin laminate which is made or REAL UNFINISHED WOOD to match the doors. Another thing I stubled across for my own houses. Lastly, I stain it all, and cleacoat it with professional clearcoat and an HVLP rig. I Do not do it very often or advertise I can do it. Only once in a while I will mention it if someone says they are going to replace their kitchen. I charge less than the formica refinshers just to be sure I get the job f they get other quotes. I have no competition with the REAL WOOD finishing, but I occasionally have to compete with formica and I think they really should be in different leagues. What I do should cost almost as much as brand new wood cabinets, installed, NOT formica refacing over particle board. I dont get how people think sometimes.