By Robert on Jan 5, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Robert on Dec 16, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Robert on Nov 25, 2011 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
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 […]
By Robert on Mar 14, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Robert on Mar 2, 2011 in Uncategorized | 1 Comment
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 […]
By Robert on Mar 2, 2011 in Uncategorized | 6 Comments
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 […]
By Robert on Feb 21, 2011 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
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 […]