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Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
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01-01-2009, 11:00 AM
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The Deck Guy
 
Trade: Outdoor Design & Construction
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Location: Bergen County, NJ
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Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
I hope everyone has a strong 2009.
Keep up the good fight and do not fall prey to bottom feeders looking to drive pricing down!
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01-01-2009, 11:37 AM
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Location: Eugene, OR
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
Happy New Year to you as well! Was a quieter night than some I've spent in the past, just hung out at home w/ da fam....
Good luck to all of you w/ your '09 goals - Mac |
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01-01-2009, 11:59 AM
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Trade: carpentry/remodeling/"Yes M'am we do"
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
Happy New Year guys!
 
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01-01-2009, 01:11 PM
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Workin' Hard & Havin' Fun
Trade: Deck Designer/Builder
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Reading, PA
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
Ditto Mac's note. We spent the evening with family.
Was really quite a nice nite! Here's to a better year than the last! ~Matt |
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01-01-2009, 01:22 PM
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Curmudgeon
Trade: carpentry/remodeling/"Yes M'am we do"
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
Jus' me.....
and Emmylou Harris. 
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01-01-2009, 01:52 PM
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Trade: Outdoor contracting: fences and decks
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
Took the family for lunch, then watched Dick Clark on our brand new 50" plasma tv.
My kids bought it last week for our 35th anniversary. |
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01-01-2009, 02:17 PM
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John Hyatt
Trade: out door areas, decks,spa room additions,fire pits
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Oklahoma City
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
Same from me to all you Guys. Dannys Blues Saloon for us.
Far as 09 goes I filled out an ap for a Lead Carpenter job at a local outfit. Might be time to hang up the guns. I have too hevey a load to wait for the dust to clear out. John Mon |
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01-01-2009, 04:00 PM
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Trade: Deck Builder
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Austin, Tx.
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
I hope everyone has a good year. It's hard to be optomistic with the way things look. I'm hoping for the best tho.
The year is not starting out well for me either. My webguy has left me out to dry. He changed his server & never told me about. My site has been down for a month & I didn't find out til right before Xmas. Tells me via email just call & he'll work me threw the process, but never takes my call or returns them. Written him off at this point so I'm starting the year paying out $ for a new one with none coming in. The doc that I was supposed to strip off his crappy geodeck & re-install ipe has postponed job. Now I'm trying to get the next guy on my schedule ( and the only one ) to start his next week. No one has called for a quote in at least 3 weeks. I hate Jan., it's always cold & usually I'm setting on my arse with nothing to do. Only good thing about jan. is the fishing down at the coast, but if I'm not working it's hard to spend $ going to the coast for the weekend. At least I can go trout fishing down at he Guadalupe river, can be wading in 1 hr. from the house.  Happy new years guys, best of luck in'09. PS. Somehow John I think you'll be back. |
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01-02-2009, 04:57 PM
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Trade: Carpentry Contractor
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
Good luck to all in the coming year.
I'm in the same boat as JohnMon and have put out some job applications. |
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01-02-2009, 05:57 PM
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Deck Designer/Builder
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
Here's to a prosperous 2009 for one and all!
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01-02-2009, 07:25 PM
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Trade: Outdoor Design & Construction
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I just finished my last booked job of 2008 today and have zero booked for 2009. This time of year always stinks so I'm just circling the wagons for now.
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01-02-2009, 08:21 PM
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Workin' Hard & Havin' Fun
Trade: Deck Designer/Builder
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
You could head out this way & sip a Starbucks, grumble and plan with me!
 It's about all you can do right now. I've got 102 weeks of work left, if it snows a few times. I do have a few tentative projects... but no one's gotten committed, and I've already pestered them... and need to let them "sell" themselves. ~Matt |
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01-02-2009, 10:52 PM
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Pro
Trade: Outdoor contracting: fences and decks
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Re: Happy New Year To My Deck Bretheren!
We have a $100,000 fence job for March. not sure how I'm going to finance it, but it's with a major construction company I've done business with for 25 years.
We have 3 residential decks left over that are on hold. We have 44 decks for a builder to start in April. each is $3500. The deal is payment on completion for each deck. And we have 4 or 5 fences to start. I'm hoping that the new year gives me a reasonable amount of work, and enough crews to do it. |
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