Recent content by tdickman

I wouldn't recommend acid. Oil is a hydrocarbon and acid will not have much effect on it, but it will etch the concrete. You can't scrub oil and grease stains away. The trick is to draw them up out of the concrete. You need to stick with a a strong industrial degreaser or something that is a...

I never a met a customer who prefered to have job sub'd out to a contractor, this typically shows no commitment from the business owner. I do agree with the statement as to positives and negatives, the only positives I can think of would benefit the busines owner but not the customer like no...

All material that PremierGarage uses is from the same source (suppliers). We have two manufacturing facilities where cabinet parts are manufactured on CNC equipment, beams saws, etc. Phoenix supplies parts for franchisees in the Western US and Canada, and Atlanta supplies the east.

premierguy, not sure why you posted info about the Orange county franchise? I know the owner very well. As far as our pricing. I think your question has already been answered. Each franchisee sets their own price. We use M3 grade particle board with thermally fused melamine. M1 is a low...

franchisee.....PremierGarage Central Valley

I was thinking the same thing yes and gargageguy too, sounds to me like he is just being honest and open, if your read most of premeirguy's posts, most of them don't' make a whole lot of sense, he did bring up the question "why are PremierGarage's cabinets expensive?" Same reason BMW's and...

We used to use CO2, like a fire extinguisher, to clean pine sap off sanding belts. It freezes the sap and you can clean it off with a wire brush. Just another suggestion.

We call them stem walls (they are part of the foundation that supports the wall) and we coat them all the time, always done the same time as the floor. If you want to just leave them solid you may want to coat the stem walls first with the base coat, let it dry then do the coat and chips on the...

carr99r, Hope your grind went OK. Here's a video and some good shots of an HTC500 grinder. Kind of gives you an idea of what good prepped concrete should look like. http://www.lxtv.com/openhousenyc/video/297

News article from Northern New Jersey http://www.lxtv.com/openhousenyc/video/297

Sorry, PG doesn't sell cabinets online. Sounds like your best bet is to fnd some one local. Good Luck.

call you closest PremierGarage, estimates are always free, they should give you price ranges over the phone. http://www.premiergarage.com/locations.html

In all due respect you are still way off in your estimation. Looking at your analysis its obvious you most likely don't own a business with employees and are not comprehending operating costs. garage guy pointed out many of the costs that we use in calculating overhead. To sum it up... Every...

Pricing for cabinets depends on the franchise, we set our own pricing. When setting your price, you need to cover materials, labor, and your overhead before you realize a profit. I can tell you as a franchise owner we are not getting rich. Your guess on cost of a cabinet is way off, $175 would...

When we first started we rented several machines, Blastrac, Edco, etc, none of these rental brands worked very well. We went with our corporates preferred vendor HTC, we now have two HTC 420's. They work very well. http://www.htc-america.com/grinding/machines/grinding/htc420/ Many other...