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Not For The Faint at Heart! Danger and Adventure a Part of This Vocation!! »

I’m glad I don’t think too much before I tackle a job. Try going into an abandoned industrial building sometime complete with bats that doesn’t have any power.  There was also a burned out, condemned apartment building with heavy water damage, that I had to go onto the 2nd floor of for rafter information.  Getting […]

Unbelievable – Seeing the Blood of the Civil War!! »

I’ve had all sorts of COOL EXPERIENCES going into numerous unusual building situations.  But I’d have to say the most precious was when I saw actual blood from the Civil War stained deep into the 2nd story floor boards of the 1848 House Restaurant in Marietta, Georgia.  It was a historic mansion that was turned […]

2011 – An Incredible Year for Me »

2011 – Started out a little slow for us. I had one person working for me and things were tight. Then we landed a contract with an architect who was working for the state of Georgia. It resulted in a total of 65 buildings for us. And they were easy! There were some times when money […]

TEACHING SITEMASTER MEASURING SOFTWARE – The chance to truly Learn »

About 3 or 4 years ago, I was approached by Give Me Power Corporation to be a measuring subcontractor for them in the Southeast.  I very flatly refused feeling it just wasn’t right.  Give Me Power is who invented and marketed the computerized measuring software SiteMaster that I had been using in my business for […]

HISTORY – As-Built CAD Athens, Georgia »

I measured my first building in August of 2003, nearly 15 years ago. It was a 12,000 square foot historic building in Commerce, Georgia. I delivered electronic CAD Files for 3 floor plans and 4 exterior elevations by email to an engineering firm in Buford, GA. That was the birth of a very creative business […]

FORTUNE COOKIE – You should be able to undertake and complete anything! »

Can you imagine what it’s like to look up at a 900,000 square foot, 27 story hotel with 3 wings, and know you’ll have every square inch of it documented in 18 days?! That is, if everything goes like clockwork!  That’s exactly what happened and I am telling you, it was the experience of a […]

HONESTY – Doing the right thing: »

It has been my experience that sometimes clients want you to do things to save time and money, when what they may want you to do is really not their best interest. Once a client supplied me with paper drawings that they wanted me to scan in, go on site and then try to correct […]