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<blockquote data-quote="blkGT500nCA" data-source="post: 13618765" data-attributes="member: 74752"><p>Bryan, your hood vents show they were delivered. I know we lost communication somewhere between You, Sara, and I because your vents were done and boxed up sitting on my shelf for almost 2 weeks before I got payment and a ship to address. I sincerely apologize for any delays on our behalf. </p><p></p><p>My Saga... lol </p><p></p><p>I'll admit, I've been hard to get a hold of lately. Ever since I started this powder coating business in '09, it's snowballed out of control every year. This all started because of my 2008 GT500 and a car show stand that I made. </p><p></p><p>In 2008 I bought my Shelby and liked to go to car shows. I enjoyed making signature pictures for members here, fancied myself an amateur graphics designer, and made myself a poster listing some of the mods I'd made on my Shelby. I went looking for a stand to hold my poster and I couldn't find what I wanted so I ended up making myself a 3 piece aluminum stand to hold my poster. </p><p></p><p>I posted some pictures of it, and PM's started trickling in. I made 2 more stands. Then 10. Then 20, 30,... Now I make 50 at a time, selling 100's of them per year. </p><p></p><p>Back when I was making 20ish at a time, I was having them powder coated 90miles away from my house! It was going fine until I started asking them to match Ford Grabber Orange paint to powder coating. </p><p></p><p>I had been doing new construction plumbing work at the time and had been for 10+yrs, but I got a small 600sq/ft shop, built a 7x5x4' powder coating oven, bought an air compressor, a powder coating gun, and coated my own stands. </p><p></p><p>For a year and a half I was juggling plumbing and powder coating, but the powder coating business started to grow, Shelby started selling my stands, and I transitioned over full time to coating. Next I got into hydro dipping, which led me into painting, which quickly filled up a 600 sq/ft shop. I bought a couple 20' steel shipping containers and had them outside the shop, but when shop space came available in my rural area, I jumped on it and moved into a new 7,000 sq/ft space last November, 1yr ago. </p><p></p><p>Some of my customers that have been with me for awhile will remember the move from shop to shop seemed to take forever! I sold my old 7HP air compressor and bought a new, HUGE 40HP rotary screw air compressor and plumbed (by myself) over 160' of 2' galvanized piping for my new 14'x20' media blasting room. </p><p></p><p>Besides the plumber, I'm also my electrician. Between my new 12'x20' paint booth, media blasting booth, powder spraying booth, pressure wash station, I ran 800' of electrical wire. Right when I started getting the shop back into order, I broke my freakin right arm! The Dr put a cast on my arm that was supposed to stay on for 6wks, but it went around my elbow and made it hard to work, so I took it off after 2wks.</p><p></p><p>I got caught up with the back log of work around July of this year and started building my new oven, which put me back in construction mode and work started piling up again. I finished the new 20' oven a few month later and have been inundated with commercial powder coating work ever since. I've got a forklift now and have been doing large batch work lately. Yesterday I powder coated a 13' custom made BBQ!</p><p></p><p>I'm getting caught up again now with the custom painting/powder coating/hydro graphics work. I'm working on some more hydro dipped mystichrome parts today. </p><p></p><p>The best way to get a hold of me is through email at <a href="mailto:NorCalPowderHouse@gmail.com">NorCalPowderHouse@gmail.com</a> . PM's will be referred there because they're too difficult to search for past conversations. Oh, and if I do communicate back and forth via PM's with anyone, DON'T delete the old text field when you reply to PM's. I end up spending 15 minutes sifting through 100's of PM's looking for our old conversations to see what we're talking about. </p><p></p><p>I don't always answer my phone while I'm at work because.... wait for it... I'm working. lol Leave a message, but again, emails might get you a quicker reply. </p><p></p><p>Sara has been answering my emails, voicemails, PM's, and facebook messages lately. I work 10-14hrs almost every day and my shop is an hour away from my house, so I don't have time to answer them anymore. I know communication is key to a business like mine, but I was literally going crazy trying to do it all myself. Sara gets to these messages as quickly as she can, but she has a full time job, and is the mother to my two young girls, besides dealing with me. :uh oh:</p><p></p><p>Like I mentioned earlier, we live in the sticks and I don't get cell reception at home. Before recently switching, we had super awesome satellite internet :bored: through DirectTV , but we kept hitting our monthly bandwidth usage literally answering emails and doing basic internet stuff. Now I have super awesome internet :bored: through Hughesnet, but it's been better... So far.</p><p></p><p>I don't usually take payment on orders until the part is ready to ship back. Although I have been taking core charge money ahead of time on parts that I'm supplying and coating, after doing some custom finishes and having the customer back out of the order. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: Red"><strong>We appreciate everyone's patience in dealing with us. We've gone through a lot of growing pains lately, but I've got some really great & loyal customers and have made a lot of friends with this business! I do apologize for any slow communications, but we still do the same great work. </strong></span></p><p></p><p>-Brian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blkGT500nCA, post: 13618765, member: 74752"] Bryan, your hood vents show they were delivered. I know we lost communication somewhere between You, Sara, and I because your vents were done and boxed up sitting on my shelf for almost 2 weeks before I got payment and a ship to address. I sincerely apologize for any delays on our behalf. My Saga... lol I'll admit, I've been hard to get a hold of lately. Ever since I started this powder coating business in '09, it's snowballed out of control every year. This all started because of my 2008 GT500 and a car show stand that I made. In 2008 I bought my Shelby and liked to go to car shows. I enjoyed making signature pictures for members here, fancied myself an amateur graphics designer, and made myself a poster listing some of the mods I'd made on my Shelby. I went looking for a stand to hold my poster and I couldn't find what I wanted so I ended up making myself a 3 piece aluminum stand to hold my poster. I posted some pictures of it, and PM's started trickling in. I made 2 more stands. Then 10. Then 20, 30,... Now I make 50 at a time, selling 100's of them per year. Back when I was making 20ish at a time, I was having them powder coated 90miles away from my house! It was going fine until I started asking them to match Ford Grabber Orange paint to powder coating. I had been doing new construction plumbing work at the time and had been for 10+yrs, but I got a small 600sq/ft shop, built a 7x5x4' powder coating oven, bought an air compressor, a powder coating gun, and coated my own stands. For a year and a half I was juggling plumbing and powder coating, but the powder coating business started to grow, Shelby started selling my stands, and I transitioned over full time to coating. Next I got into hydro dipping, which led me into painting, which quickly filled up a 600 sq/ft shop. I bought a couple 20' steel shipping containers and had them outside the shop, but when shop space came available in my rural area, I jumped on it and moved into a new 7,000 sq/ft space last November, 1yr ago. Some of my customers that have been with me for awhile will remember the move from shop to shop seemed to take forever! I sold my old 7HP air compressor and bought a new, HUGE 40HP rotary screw air compressor and plumbed (by myself) over 160' of 2' galvanized piping for my new 14'x20' media blasting room. Besides the plumber, I'm also my electrician. Between my new 12'x20' paint booth, media blasting booth, powder spraying booth, pressure wash station, I ran 800' of electrical wire. Right when I started getting the shop back into order, I broke my freakin right arm! The Dr put a cast on my arm that was supposed to stay on for 6wks, but it went around my elbow and made it hard to work, so I took it off after 2wks. I got caught up with the back log of work around July of this year and started building my new oven, which put me back in construction mode and work started piling up again. I finished the new 20' oven a few month later and have been inundated with commercial powder coating work ever since. I've got a forklift now and have been doing large batch work lately. Yesterday I powder coated a 13' custom made BBQ! I'm getting caught up again now with the custom painting/powder coating/hydro graphics work. I'm working on some more hydro dipped mystichrome parts today. The best way to get a hold of me is through email at [email]NorCalPowderHouse@gmail.com[/email] . PM's will be referred there because they're too difficult to search for past conversations. Oh, and if I do communicate back and forth via PM's with anyone, DON'T delete the old text field when you reply to PM's. I end up spending 15 minutes sifting through 100's of PM's looking for our old conversations to see what we're talking about. I don't always answer my phone while I'm at work because.... wait for it... I'm working. lol Leave a message, but again, emails might get you a quicker reply. Sara has been answering my emails, voicemails, PM's, and facebook messages lately. I work 10-14hrs almost every day and my shop is an hour away from my house, so I don't have time to answer them anymore. I know communication is key to a business like mine, but I was literally going crazy trying to do it all myself. Sara gets to these messages as quickly as she can, but she has a full time job, and is the mother to my two young girls, besides dealing with me. :uh oh: Like I mentioned earlier, we live in the sticks and I don't get cell reception at home. Before recently switching, we had super awesome satellite internet :bored: through DirectTV , but we kept hitting our monthly bandwidth usage literally answering emails and doing basic internet stuff. Now I have super awesome internet :bored: through Hughesnet, but it's been better... So far. I don't usually take payment on orders until the part is ready to ship back. Although I have been taking core charge money ahead of time on parts that I'm supplying and coating, after doing some custom finishes and having the customer back out of the order. [COLOR="Red"][B]We appreciate everyone's patience in dealing with us. We've gone through a lot of growing pains lately, but I've got some really great & loyal customers and have made a lot of friends with this business! I do apologize for any slow communications, but we still do the same great work. [/B][/COLOR] -Brian [/QUOTE]
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