LIFE PAINT SAYS Thanks for finding one of our sample boards...

I gave Life Paint a spank for their AL sample board I spotted at Miners Ace Hardware a few weeks ago using language that ICC specifically forbids using...here's their reply after they read my blog...and a picture of their corrected header...

when their sales guy comes up to get the board and replace it, they should take me to lunch, hint hint...sure would be nice to have that board as a souvenir, hint hint

Good to know that I'm being read out there!

Thank you Bill for finding one of the boards that went out with that printing. A few were released before the error was caught. We had the headers for those boards adjusted immediately when the error was found and we've been looking for the boards (one which you have found) to replace them. I tried to attach a picture of the corrected board to you in this post. If it did not attach I can email you a picture of the corrected header. Thank you, Life Paint

QUEST BUILDING PRODUCTS, A New Distributor of Concrete Flooring/Coatings Ready's For Opening in Anaheim

Down on North Patt Street in Anaheim is a new set of industrial buildings...in one of these buildings a new distributor of flooring and concrete coating materials and surface preparation is preparing to open their doors to wholesale/trade sales.

Quest Building Products, the brainchild of Ron Webber of Pro-Coat Systems, large decking/waterproofing/concrete coating firm in Orange, has hired Dennis Chevrier, previously with La Habra, to head up the company as General Manager.

Quest will have their own line of flooring products, including Liquid Lava, a unique epoxy type coating that has multiple flooring uses-homes, business' , restaurants, wineries and warehouse...
Blastrac will be carried, rentals and sales of equipment

The pictures are of Quests floors and warehouse, showing off the Liquid Lava Flooring...

Quest is located at 1129 N Patt Street Anaheim CA 92801. Telephone 714-738-6640, fax 714-738-6950. Find them on the web at www.questbuilding.com

Dennis can be reached at dennis@questbuilding.com or by cell at 714-715-5703.

Opening day is scheduled for about 2 weeks from Monday, a grand opening is planned in several months.

Training, demo's and more will be coming...look for more news and Quests official announcement that they are open for business here.

Picture of the Week

So I got a call last week from a client in Grover Beach; she'd had her deck redone by a local company a couple years ago.

She said "there's rust coming through from the chicken wire". I rushed right over...

The patient had signs of serious distress; rusted lath all over the deck. Close examination and an autopsy revealed what looked to be Tufflex or some type of urethane troweled over the lath. Some sloping work was done, we could see the built up materials over an old existing fiberglass system that went over the original urethane surface we found buried down below...

The deck was flat in many areas, attempts at crickets to move water to the scuppers were done poorly, water ponded on the deck just from the heavy fog we get on the coast in corners adjacent to scuppers, and out on the field of the deck.
Clearly who ever did this was guilty of not knowing what they were doing...

Demo'ing the stucco walls, where i could see the flashing was rusting through, we found serious amounts of water damage to the plywood and metal. Removing the plywood in one corner revealed the damage below to the TGI Trusses (Engineered Truss System, uses wood and OSB for strength).

This brought our work to a screeching halt; a general contractor will be needed to fix this problem, then we can come back and waterproof.

This job for us is around 10K, the owner now faces another 10k in wood repairs before we can waterproof her properly...

Lesson, you can cheap out on your job, but your job won't get any cheaper!

Do it right the first time, not the second or third.

Another Condo Project Slides Into Oblivion in SLO County

Atascadero CA
In the Tribune this morning, there is an article on Southside Condo's, which has had work stopped for over a year now, has had it's lender file suit against the builder.

Charnley Development/Pembroke Builders started the project several years ago, when the heady days were around...I actually sold the decks and stairs on the project through a company I worked for.
We did three buildings, 2 were 100% completed and the 3rd was 75% done when work stopped.

Sun scorched building paper is drying out, plywood and trim is cracking and drying out. When/if this building ever starts to go again, it's going to need some help to ensure deteriorating materials are removed and replaced...

Rabobank has filed for payment of 7 million, the Trib said an appraisal of some sort valued the property at 3.5 million. Huh...and there's the poor folks who bought a unit and are stuck probably...and then there's this huge eyesore of a lot, and an unfinished building...

Massive Fraud in Construction Defect Litigation in Nevada?

FROM NEVADA, a story of massive alleged fraud involving construction defect litigation, steering jobs to "preferred" contractors, law firms in cahoots with the management company...all brought about by a raid by the FBI.

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Federal and local law enforcement officers raided nine sites around the valley on Wednesday in a sweeping probe into possible collusion between homeowners associations and businesses benefitting from construction defect lawsuits.

The raids are part of a "pending public corruption case," according to Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Dave Staretz, who refused to release details. He said no arrests were made.

According to a law enforcement source, the FBI is investigating whether individuals were placed on homeowners association boards who, in turn, would direct business stemming from construction defect lawsuits to select companies.

At issue, according to the source, is whether HOA members were steering contracts to certain construction companies.

Other sources said there has long been speculation that some HOA representatives were hiring certain law firms to handle construction defect lawsuits in exchange for kickbacks.

State Sen. Mike Schneider, D-Las Vegas, a lawmaker who has been involved in homeowners association issues before the Legislature, said the speculation involved management companies steering construction defect business to law firms in exchange for kickbacks.

One of the companies raided Wednesday by FBI agents and Las Vegas police was a business in an industrial area near the Palms owned by Leon Benzer, who is involved in a variety of businesses.

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Idaho company owed about $200,000 for work including architectural metal roofing, deck coating and water-proofing a garage roof.

From the Idahostatesman.com website came this news feed about a big construction lawsuit

Contractors have filed 77 liens against Tamarack Resorts in Idaho for more than $22 million in unpaid bills, according to Credit Suisse, the Swiss bank that began foreclosure proceedings against Tamarack last March after the resort defaulted on a $260 million loan. Companies owned by Tamarack principals Jean-Pierre Boespflug and Alfredo Miguel Afif filed for bankruptcy protection to block this and other foreclosures.

The liens range from $3,000 for the installation of three computer-designed steel garage doors at a parking garage to $1.4 million for work performed on the condominiums at Tamarack Village.

Another developer going belly-up and leaving subs who can ill afford the losses....nice.

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