October 11, 2017
Friends and Colleagues,
I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce a new service that I am developing to serve our industry due to its complexity and difficulty. Most of you know my history in the Resinous Flooring Industry; I was literally raised on a jobsite. As a young man, I struggled to find a career path that would not lead me to weekends on jobsites fighting with emergency issues that inevitably arise. I grew up with floors being the main topic of every family meal, including Christmas and Thanksgiving. Apparently, I did not venture far enough away from the industry when I received a degree in Environmental Design, with an emphasis on Construction Science, from Texas A&M. I found myself working in the family business less than a year out of college and trapped in what my dad referred to as a “tar baby”; he would say that if you ever get into this business you can never get it off.
After years of running my own company (17 so far), I realized that a person cannot know everything about resinous flooring. There are so many variables that can change the outcome of a job and it is impossible to anticipate all of them. Any combination of situations can lead to a perfect job or a catastrophic failure. As an applicator, you have to develop a very creative perspective to solve many of the problems that can arise in this industry. The combination of my education and experience have led me down a path of creative solutions to difficult problems both on existing projects and in planning future projects.
My goal is to have a two-pronged solution oriented consulting service that can help either installers or contractors that find themselves in a difficult situation and need a solution based opinion either for legal reasons, or for completing a problematic job. The second long-term goal, is to seek out owners and Architects that need assistance in planning the correct products and specifications for their projects that meet both budget and use criteria. Our industry will be much better served and stronger if the right types of products are specified in the correct locations. Sometimes it takes an outside perspective to solve a problem; my goal is to be the creative outside perspective that can give a value-added solution to a wide variety of problems within the Resinous Flooring Industry.
My services will be better suited to areas outside of my existing companies reach except for Owner/Architect consulting; the goal is to help others without the pressure of competition. Please spread the word about this service and have anybody interested contact me by the email below and check out my blog to get familiar with my unique perspective in this industry.
Sincerely,
Rafe Gibson
resinadviser@gmail.com
www. resinadviser.blog
Resin Adviser 
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