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Bought a half of a pine tree for a mantle. Will be awesome... Now how to get this pitch off my hands...

Turpentine, or strong Alcohol. Last step can be gasoline.
 
Awsome ! Heck of a way to spend a Sunday. But I know, when you own a small business, no days off.
Is what it is, right? I love doing things like this any day of the week. A great mental diversion from running a company. Thinking about offering refacing as a service too. Working with this fake rock stuff is a lot of fun and very rewarding. Hearth is going straight up at the ledge to the ceiling, will be a show piece for sure! Cannot wait to see the chestnut enamel insert in there with the mantle and fire burning!
 
Looking good. I wish there was a stove store that nice in this area. I would definitely be a customer.

Best of luck.
 
Building the zero clearance hearth with some fantastic fake rock.

You rock. ;lol

Looks like that 150 posts are gonna land right at grand opening time.
 
Telephone and cable, what do you think?
For those stove owners who refuse to use Wi-Fi T-stats you can hook up a rotary dial telephone and landline to the stove.

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Awsome ! Heck of a way to spend a Sunday. But I know, when you own a small business, no days off.

lol- get used to it......Sunday is a pretty big sales day when most families these days have 2 folks who have to work during the week!
 
We had a hard time NOT opening on Sundays during the season. Basically, it was a matter of leaving money on the table. I'd say an average Sunday was $4 to 5K in receipts in 4 hours (12-4) we were open. Today, that would equate to about double that or more. Sell two stoves and an installation and a few accessories and you are there!

Of course, we had the benefit of 15+ years of building up customers by that time....hard to say what a newer store would look like.
 
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You are the real deal, Scott, and it is great to see success come from the fruit of your labor. YOU BUILT THAT! ==c
 
We had a hard time NOT opening on Sundays during the season. Basically, it was a matter of leaving money on the table. I'd say an average Sunday was $4 to 5K in receipts in 4 hours (12-4) we were open. Today, that would equate to about double that or more. Sell two stoves and an installation and a few accessories and you are there!

Of course, we had the benefit of 15+ years of building up customers by that time....hard to say what a newer store would look like.

yep- these days, that's a VERY slow Sunday.....middle of winter slow, actually......one stove sale would do it, and now, with pellets, its more.....I blame the Big Boxes....
 
How about a drive through window for those people who want a couple bags of pellets and some starter gel to go?
 
Scott-
have you come up with an daily-hourly schedule yet? evening hours? weekend hours?
 
Where is the service center with the computers to schedule the service calls?
 
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Five more posts then the beer is suppose to flow...just sayin
 
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