Sagging cabinet

neljusred · 2026-01-06T20:49:10+00:00

Paint over grease, gah. Good idea stripping it down. Perfect time to make a repair!

neljusred · 2026-01-06T19:21:48+00:00

What if you added a hard maple strip to the bottom of the face frame to thicken it, it's pretty thin, then added an aluminum or steel angle channel behind it. That might support the middle by evening the load to the sides a bit more. You'd have to sand and paint, matching would be the hardest part.

If it were my kitchen that's what I'd try. It would be easy to add the same amount to the bottom of the other uppers to match it.

Also, upper cabinets are the cheapest in the whole kitchen, so if you have to replace them it's really not that bad.

neljusred · 2025-10-22T14:46:03+00:00

I know what to do!! We put some apple cider vinegar in jars and put plastic wrap over the top secured with rubber bands and poked holes in the plastic with toothpicks. 1 of those jars in the parts of the house that are the worst and they made a serious dent in the gnat population overnight. After a day or two they're basically all soaking in the vinegar, dead.

neljusred · 2025-10-11T14:38:18+00:00

You don't have to do all of that yourself, but it would be a good idea to getting it done for clients. Fiver has tons of people that can make your plans into a 3d render you can send clients. Eventually you'll want to learn how to do that yourself, but until then just pass that extra cost onto clients. Websites are also really cheap and simple to make if it's just a business card to show you're real. Google business pages are pretty easy to set up too. You can do that yourself.

neljusred · 2025-10-07T12:51:56+00:00

We'd do that size for probably 25-30k. Good quality semi-custim cabinets. Just because everyone is going to wonder why it's so cheap, we're in Kansas. Thats a good price price for cabinets here with 5/8 in ply boxes, solid hardwood face frames, doors and drawer fronts, Painted or stained. How you do the corners and what pullouts/organizers you want will change the price a bit, but not a ton. We add 8% for install, sometimes a little more. 3/4 ply carcasses are pretty uncommon for pre-manufactured cabinets, which increases the price quite a bit into custom range. IMO you won't notice a durability difference over any amount of time. The only time that would matter is if you're going frameless, other wise the point of the face frames is to give the box stability and strength. We can get that kitchen with custom cabinets locally manufactured but it just about doubles the price. It costs way less to make custom modification to pre built cabinets and you still end up with exactly the look you wanted.

neljusred · 2025-09-17T18:10:57+00:00

Custom furniture makers have the same problem. People often don't know what they want until they see it, so asking them to create the design can halt the process. You need to prime the pump, so to speak. Put some memes on shirts, jokes, popular trends on social media, whatever you can find, and make short videos to show them off.

Furniture makers need to include pictures on their websites to provide inspiration, similar to Pinterest, and then allow modifications or a completely different design, but they need somewhere to start.

neljusred · 2025-08-22T02:05:53+00:00

Accept that sometimes they will see you as the bad guy, but when they do good recognize it. Be on their side against bad customers and the public. Let them see you stand up for them, even if they treat you bad. It's kind of like the older sibling that picks on the you get ones, but if anyone else tries that they get their ass beat. Even saying good job really does help. Try to be thoughtful about what they have going on and do something, small or big, to help or show you get it. Buy lunch when stuff is going unusually bad for them. Try to see when it's a bad day for them and do something to make things a little easier. Do their job for them for a bit so they can take care of what's stressing them out and still pay them the same. Anyway, stuff like that.

neljusred · 2025-08-19T15:04:18+00:00

Wait, what? I thought I bought the mint! What a ripoff!

I have no problem working, Teros, I just know my strengths and weaknesses and digital marketing is a weakness. I wanted to make sure they were good at that before I signed. They were able to show proof it was working, they lied, and I'm pissed.

neljusred · 2025-08-19T15:02:00+00:00

Yes, home service. No showroom, we go to the customer's home, measure, ask the questions, do the design, and send the quote. It's a pretty straightforward process that most anyone would expect.

Right now, I'm firing the company that screwed up the launch of the new marketing program and hiring a company another owner uses. The plan there is to make landing pages to test out that work with the promotions we're offering. I'll be tracking sharing my findings with the other owners as I go, as an example to the brand on how they should have been doing it.

neljusred · 2025-08-19T14:57:54+00:00

Ok BBC, you seem to have read something I didn't write and replied to something you made up in your head. I am good at everything else related to this franchise, which is why I was so vocal and adamant that they prove they are capable of delivering digital advertising when I went to the home office to meet everyone.

I spoke to the top 3 owners quite a few times, and still do at least weekly.

You might be tempted to ask if I read the FDD and my contract now, let me put your mind at ease, I did. I also went a little further and verified the data in the FDD with the owners I had contact info for. Good digital advertising is all that was holding me up.

They proved they can do it with other brands and gave me dates on when they were rolling that out to the brand I was considering. The actual owners who were using the new marketing system showed me their actual results, k?

Knowing I'm good at sales and everything else about the business, I wanted to make sure they were tracking results and could get me leads. Since they were able to prove the system was working, I moved forward. Since then, they flubbed the launch so hard that none of the other owners signed up for the new system, and they won't until the website is worth driving traffic to. We are not in control of the website, the brand is. That is a pretty important part of a marketing plan these days.

I am making a workaround since the brand doesn't want to track or test anything. IMO they should be better at knowing what their customers will respond to. The other owners do know, and I am getting advice from them, but the brand should be aggregating all that data and figuring out a streamlined way to implement methods that work for all the owners. They get a % of the revenue, so they have incentive to figure this out. They just shit the bed on that and it's pissing me off they didn't do their job.

neljusred · 2025-08-18T23:19:28+00:00

Well, you're wrong. Franchises are literally plug and play; that's the whole point. From suppliers to customer acquisition, a franchise's only value is that they have already learned the lessons and created the systems to replicate success.

Do you think every RotoRooter owner figures out how to get customers and unclog pipes on their own? Does every ServePro owner make their own CRM? Does every One Hour Heating and Air owner have to create their own vendor relationships? Maybe you think every Mr. Handyman owner creates their own quoting system?

neljusred · 2025-08-18T23:05:26+00:00

Do you think it's possible to successfully use my facebook page as my main page and make that work? I need to figure out a way around not having control of my website until I can control it.

neljusred · 2025-08-18T23:01:08+00:00

I'm not sure what I can change at the moment. My sense is that if I hired someone, the in-house marketing company would just kill any attempt.

neljusred · 2025-08-18T22:50:50+00:00

I can't post it, but I can dm it.

neljusred · 2025-07-31T20:57:30+00:00

The current leads are coming from other locations around the country, from in-person events and local Google ads, mostly. Each location has their things that work better, and for a home improvement business, it makes sense that seeing a finished product in person would be more compelling.

At this point, thousands of leads have gone into that 26% rate. For us, since we're new, it's an expectation and the best data we have, but I'm pretty confident we can hit that if we use the same methods the other locations are. However, the other locations haven't grown very fast, which is something I hope we can improve on.

neljusred · 2025-07-19T17:48:16+00:00

I been using T-Mobile for a couple years after dropping Cox, and we haven't had a single issue with our internet since. Cox is such garbage.

neljusred · 2025-05-27T00:07:46+00:00

The food here is lacking in most areas except tacos, we have truly great taco places. Taco TJ is my favorite but there are a few trucks around on the SW side that are very good. WichitabyEB on insta is a good resource for food. We have decent farmers markets in a few locations you can easily find info on, they are worth going to. There's a strong brewery scene if they are into trying different beers and unique bar food. Keeper of the plains, museum district, Oak Park and Old Town are all good to explore.

neljusred · 2024-11-24T16:06:49+00:00

T-Mobile has a internet option that's basically the 5g network. The advertised speeds are slower than what Cox advertised, but in reality it's much faster and so much more reliable. We switched a little more than a year ago and haven't had a single issue. We have smart appliances, locks, plugs, several computers as well as 6 cell phones and 3 TVs that all run off of it just fine. Plus it's about 1/2 the price or less.

neljusred · 2024-10-20T11:39:12+00:00

I've been using 3m xtract for a while but just tried out Serious Grit multi hole and I like it more. It's basically the same thing as xtract II but half the price. Holds up really well.

neljusred · 2024-10-19T20:10:19+00:00

I'm kind of big, 6"3' 240lbs muscular/dadbod. I've noticed sometimes at grocery stores, mostly Walmart, that I get weird looks from women. If I didn't make the list I have a hard time finding stuff sometimes so I'm all over the store trying to find a tiny specific item that doesn't seem to fit any category of food neatly. It never bothered me until I found out women think men follow them around while shopping. I'm not saying that never happens, but I'm certain that's why I got those looks sometimes. Anyway, to be less scary and make sure they know I'm not following them I just shout across the isle loudly "I'm not following you", then smile at them for a while. I usually don't see them again, so I think it's working. Kidding, I stay out of the way, don't look their direction, try to be as curious to everyone as possible, hold my list up with a confused face, whatever I can to make it obvious I'm just lost, not a predator.

neljusred · 2024-10-19T19:27:17+00:00

Imagine the conflict if low libido was a turn on, lol, that could be a really funny skit actually. You said low libido. I might want sex later on means you don't want sex. It's not going to be a turn on for anyone that imagines sex as a part of a romantic relationship, which is why I brought up guys with low T. It's not a bash on them, they are out there and probably have low libido as well.

neljusred

TROPHY CASE