coating roofers my @#$%^

Tim,

Thank you so much. I honestly don't know what to say. I appreciate it very much.

As for the "what was I thinking" question, I don't think I'll feel that way. Flying has always been a dream, a passion, and something I love to do. I've never been scared in the air. Though the opportunities to go up in single engine craft have been few, I never turn one down.

As a kid, for years I dreamed almost nightly that I could fly. My neighbor and I both had big dreams of the Air Force. He went to Ohio State and got an aeronotical engineering degree. I was going to The Citadel, when my back injury ended the dream. He went on to become the winningest pilot in AF history by taking the 1st place award in 32 of 33 categories of flight school. Got his pick of aircraft and flew an F15 over Saudi Arabia for a couple years in Desert Storm. The only category he didn't win was Presentation. Apparently he just didn't care how shiny his boots were. He became the youngest modern day peace time test pilot and works at Area 51 today. I'm really proud of what he's done.

High BP has kept me from getting a full fledged flying license and I thought the parasails would be my opportunity to enjoy being in control of something I've dreamed about for as long as I can remember. I will read the book from cover to cover, several times, I'm sure.

Thanks again, Mike

Tim,

I was talking about the plane.

I have been seriously thinking about taking lessons for powered parasailing from this guy: http://www.flyohio.com/index.html

Seemed like a very thorough person. What do you think?

I have not decided yet, are you. Do you have a booth there?

If the industry new what we know about glass and emulsion and what a great system it is everyone would be doing It. you and I should get together in the near future and do some brain storming on how we can help one another. I will contact you by phone on Monday to see if we can set up a time and place to meet. Thanks

Hey Tim, is that your ultra light, and if so, did you build it?

Well first I will say I did not direct this post to anyone in particular there are many roofers trying to make the glass shield system work in the northwest, even kold kingers. Just for some history the glass shield system was invented by don Wyatt who had a partner Larry widmer in 1964 -1965 who in 1967 hired my father,and later went on as partners in GSRS the largest installer of the glass and emulsion system on the west coast. In 1972 my father invented the two hole fanning system on the chopper gun doing away with the 4 hole fanning gun. Later this gun was marketed by western colloid and sold it to there installers. he also helped create the fortron pump still pumping products today. I have known the system from owning a manufacturing plant to installing my hole life. So now lets roll the calendar forward. My problem is not kold king it is the people buying equipment and trying to make roofs without knowing what they are doing, what they are doing is destroying the reputation other people spent there lives building. Now I see a lot of roofs with glass and emulsion systems that were meant to get a 12-4 and had no more than a 6-2. Now this being said, I will not say they were or were not kold kingers. Also Tim I'm sure you would like your clients to do good work. We both want this system to have the reputation it has earned. I tried to work with you 3 or 4 years ago when I had holtzlander coatings the emulsion plant but I never heard from you. till now. I'm sure there is a way we could work together to get these people on the right track. Thanks for posting.

A properly installed glass and emulsion roof should last 15 years minimum on your standard 25000 sq ft roof. We have numerous roofs over 25 years old and still doing there job. With that said it is a miracle in a can system. This miracle just takes lots of practice. tpo,pvc,hypalon,torch,hbu and all the other systems with proper installation all should be long lasting the problem is all the fly by night roofers who learn a little bit and think they can just go cut corners and rob people. Giving all systems bad names! So I guess we need some solution?

As a supplier I am constantly asked for the easy quick fix. For small issues or mobile home roofs the average guy with a roller or sprayer can make it work. However, there are some incredible systems that will restore everything from TPO, EPDM, and even tar and gravel using emulsions and fabrics usually coated with a final elastomeric that will last as long as a new roof and give sustainabilty. These systems are great for certain circumstances and can't be beat, but as with everything, they must be applied correctly in the right conditions and with proper preparation. That is not a job for an average homeowner or guy with a roller and sprayer.

My advice to building owners is to do some research and ask intelligent questions to ensure their roofer is indeed qualified to do the job at hand.

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Here in the great northwest we have 6-8 months of rain so a good roof system is very important. Mobile home roofs are usually white coatings. Glass and emulsion also known as (the glass shield roof system) is a very different animal,I believe the glass shield system is the best system on the market (installed properly) but now we have allot of people calling it other things and installing it very wrong,therefore giving it a bad name just last week I inspected a roof in northern cali that was installed very poorly last year and the owner now has a bad taste in his mouth,thanks to badly trained applicators. I am all for competition but not for companies out to sale a system and not give the proper training that goes with it that's not good for anyone but the company selling it. Not sure of how much coatings get done in Florida never been there. :( :( (someday) I know several consultants that claim they know how to install glass and emulsion but its been proven they don't that is the reason for my comments. Just here to set the record strait no disrespect.

Explain it to us. I for one have seen alot of it done on Mobile home roofs on an assembly line. No where else. B) :) :) B) Deep Down In Florida Where The Sun Shines Damn Near Every Day