jerry.. i know that it sucks to have to wait that long, and not fair for you.



but on the brighter side of things...



you can enjoy your car care free for a long time rather than taking it to a shady shop and having somehting break 2 months later and having more down time. and.... at least you'll have your car for the summer

 

FikseRxSeven - thanks for the words.



fd3boost - thanks to you.



Thanks to all for hearing me out. I think a lot of us will get a better understanding of this. Shopowners and customers alike.



We will see once my car comes out of Judge Ito's shop.

 

Ito is gonna tighten you up man but he's only one person, Me and my buddy had a repair shop in town and people really dont give a **** what it takes to get something done they just want it done. Real easy to say it doesnt take that much time when you're not turning the wrenches. On your side tho I would be pissed if my car was down for 14 months but is this your daily driver or just a side project?

 

One day Dave is going to get a call from someone who he has done numerous smaller anitique furniture restoration jobs for and the guy will tell him he bought a old house and wants to completely furnish it with antiques and wants Dave to restore 25 pieces for him



Then what are you going to say to the guy? Cant help you?

I dont take in big jobs? Thank you for your previous work, but no thanks?





In a perfect would we would all do 2-3 day jobs, but that doesnt happen.

Im 75% of the way through a job on a boat that I am into for 2000+ hours,

**** thing about that is alot of other people wait for a job like that to get done

before thier can get done.



Shops will always have someone "mad" at them, if not they arent busy enough

 

To late Rob, I just did a job at the Baltimore Marriott. I did four floors in two days.

I just had a job two weeks ago for the "brotherhood of railroad signal men" in Front Royal Va. It was a claim with 117 items. I worked five eight hour days there getting it all done. On top of that I generally run 15 claim appointments a week. I also do complete refinishing here in my shop. Last thing that came through here was a dinning room set including a dinning room table with two leaves,pedistals, and eight dinning room chairs. I told the client it would be between two to three weeks to get it done. I ran one week past my dead line of three weeks. She got a call from me at the beginning of week three saying that this would happen.I have been in this line of work for eleven years and I didn't go into business for myself because I didn't know how to get things done. I bust my *** to get things done. Work Sat, Sunday, evenings, whatever it takes to get it done and send the bill. About 90% of my work is assigned from moving companies and or Insurance companies. They don't pull punchs, if you slack on the work and deadlines they will not hire you twice. No offence but don't assume to know about my business, I wouldn't assume to know yours. I only based my comments to Ito from What he posted himself.

 

You dont know my work, I dont know yours, and you dont know Ito's.



I gave the number of pieces as a example, your work is obviously fast work that doesnt get very involved if you can do 4 floors in 2 days

Sounds like you do repairs to furniture damaged in transport, spot repairs, things like that.



working 5 - 8 hour days to get something done? thats a normal work week without overtime, whats so involved with that?



You were just protecting your buddys over at PFS, if the post was about PFS im sure you wouldnt have posted the same thing.



Im also sure that if Jerry really wanted to he could have taken the car out of Ito's shop after a month, HE chose not to.

 

He posted excusses as top why the work was not done. Thats all I commented about.

Yes those particular jobs were spot repairs. The repairs themselves were not the difficult part. The volume of repairs was. I mean how many gouged boat hulls can you repair in two days?



True but the fact that the job was a two hour drive from my house, so that makes for four hours in the Van to get to the job doesn't help when I had to get back to the shop to get the hour of paper work done that goes along with the job. It's a long day any way you look at it.





PFS does not have cars sitting around for 14 months.



I agree with you 100%



Cheers.

 

it would depend on the boats, but generally speaking I average $175 a hour when we charge $125 a hour, sometimes I end up billing out $200+ a hour, sometimes I work on 1 boat a week because its a 40-50 hour job, and sometimes I work on 10 boats a week because they are 5 hour jobs a piece.



then there are jobs like this 2000+ hour one, where we only make $85 a hour because its so involved we have to give a break so the guy will get the whole boat restored.



We have people who come to the shop, we tell them we are 6-8 months behind, and they still leave thier boat there, then once we start to work on it the job grows and next thing you know the boat is there for a year.

It happens all the time, I always said I would take 10 $1000 jobs over 1 $10,000 job any day



what does cheers means anyway? I generally only see it on the internet, I dont run into people who say "cheers" when they are done talking?

 

"cheers" all the guys on the mini forum use that, mainly the foreigners.

 

Cheers is Limey for Seeya Later.