Measure Twice Cut Once NOVEMBER 2017 The builder’s guide to all things timber and hardware.
Getting To Know You: In This Issue
Dave Ferry. • We have a chat with Dave Ferry. Dave is a driver here at Wilson concerned about the future of Timbers. His job is to make sure that the environment and the world. • Some things you might your orders get to where you need For the same reasons I really them, on time, every time. Pretty looked up to Steve Irwin too.” not know about the important guy if you ask me. We caught up with Dave to ask him a few 5. Biggest fear? “Losing me job Melbourne Cup questions. and not having a way to pay the mortgage.” • Explore your options 1. How long have you worked at Wilson Timbers for? “27 years, 4 6. Best accomplishment? “Keeping months and 5 days” me job for so long.” • When industry norms are 2. If you won $1M what is the first 7. Where do you see yourself in 10 not in your best interest thing you would buy/do? “Pay years? “Sitting on an Indian and off my mortgage, buy an Indian seeing Australia. Which way I go and drive it around Australia.” around depends on if it’s summer 13. What’s the most ridiculous or winter when I finally retire.” thing you have bought? “Pass. 3. Favourite quote? “Work hard Everything I buy is sensible.” and love your mum.” 8. What is the one thing you have learnt this year? “Life is getting 14. What’s the funniest word in the 4. Someone you look up to and dearer. Everything is F***ing English language? “Fart… looked why? “David Attenborough. He’s dearer these days.” it up in the dictionary once. A 9. What gets you fired up?“Idiot small explosion between the Drivers on the road – and there legs.” are more and more of them 15. What about the opposite sex these days. It really pisses me off confuses you the most? “They’re when people overtake from a left all different – there’s no way to lane when they know it’s ending.” write a book on ‘em. And we 10. What do you hope your last need one – the divorce rate is words will be? “I hope man higher than the marriage rate becomes extinct and the world these days.” can go back to what it was.” 16. If your life was a book, what 11. What would be your spirit would the title be?“Concerns Of animal? “An Albatross. It soars The Natural World.” and soars and sees the world.” 17. Tell us a joke? 12. What makes you roll your eyes “Knock. Knock. every time you hear it?“Political Who’s there? crap. I hate voting… it shouldn’t Dr… be compulsory, we should get Dr Who? paid for it.” Don’t steal me jokes.
Wilson Timbers | November 2017 1 Please Follow Us Some Melbourne Cup Trivia…
On Instagram! The race that stops a nation has (1974, 1975, 1996, 2008) been and gone for another year. o Lloyd Williams 4 Wins Unfortunately to keep our production Please tag and connect (1981, 1985, 2007, 2012) schedule for the year, we put this newsletter to print before the cup • Trainer With The Most Wins @wilsontimbers is run and you get it after the race is o Bart Cummings 12 wins won… so well done to the winner… @wilsontimbers_rep_tammy (1965, 1966, 1967, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1990, The Melbourne cup is a race serves 1991, 1996, 1999, 2008) @wilsontimbers_rep_cherie up some truly remarkable bits of trivia over the duration… here are some of o Etienne de Mestre 5 wins @wilsontimbers_rep_chris our favourites. (1861, 1862, 1867, 1877, 1878) We love seeing how you are • 2003’s Cup set the modern attendance record 122,736 o Lee Freedman 5 wins putting ‘our’ timber to use on your (1989, 1992, 1995, 2004, Kingston Rule 1990 - • Race Record: 2005) jobs! 3 minutes 16.3 seconds • The first woman trainer to • Slowest Winning Time: Archer We’ll keep you in the loop about 1861 -3 minutes 53 seconds (in the ‘officially win’ the Melbourne Cup: Sheila Laxon in 2001 with Ethereal all the adventures we get up to first ever Melbourne Cup) • It’s worth noting the 1938 here too. • Biggest Winning Margins: 8 lengths achieved by both Archer in Melbourne Cup was won by 1862 and Rain Lover 1968 Catalogue trained by Kiwi Allan #weloveourbuilders McDonald. However the actual • Heaviest Weights Carried By A trainer was Allan’s wife, Hedwick Winner: Wilhelmina McDonald better o 10st 5 lb (66.0 kg) known as Granny - a New Zealand Carbine (1890) , trainer of some renown… Unlike o 10st 2 lb (64.5 kg) New Zealand, in Australia women Archer (1862), were not allowed to compete as trainers. So she put her husband o 10st 0 lb (63.5 kg) down as the official trainer. Poitrel(1920) Catalogue’s owner Mrs Jamison • Lowest Weight Carried By A was so upset she nearly scratched winner: 1863 33.5kg, Banker the horse from the race when the VRC refused to grant Granny a • Heaviest Weight Carried In A licence. Melbourne Cup: 10st 10lb (68 kg) Phar Lap who lost • The first radio broadcast of the Melbourne Cup was made by the • Weights most commonly carried Australian Broadcasting Company 52.5kg and 53kg by the Winner: in 1925 with eight wins each, followed by 47kg, 48kg, 51kg, and 56kgs each • The photo finish camera was first have seven wins used in the 1948 Melbourne Cup • Owners With The Most Wins • Jockeys in Victoria must have blood-alcohol readings under 0.02. o John Tait 4 Wins (1866, 1868, 1871, 1872) • Save this one for your next trivia night: What Australian sporting o Etienne de Mestre 4 Wins event did Russia win in 1946? (1861, 1862, 1867, 1878) The Melbourne Cup. Russia was a o Dato Tan Chin Nam 4 Wins horse. He won by three lengths.
2 Wilson Timbers | Measure Twice Cut Once Remember You’ve Got Options! There is Still Some
Over the last few weeks we’ve seen Hardies BGC Space To Fill. a few clients ask us about options so that we can look at different ways Linea Nuline We’re really filling out our to save them some money on their Stria Stratum material costs for their upcoming hardware section now. However builds. Matrix Duragrid there is still some space left. Nobody knows better what they One of the key ways to do that is to Axon Duragroove know which building products offer need on a job than you do. So the best value for money (or ask Secura Durafloor Let us know – we’ll gladly take us for options so that we can help Easylap Durascope your feedback on board and there…) build our hardware section so Here is the price difference we’re For example, we’ve been able to able to quote to our clients (who can that we can best serve our loyal save between 15 and 30% on similar either pass the savings on their clients clients. materials just by using a different in order to win the job or bank the brand – which happens to be the extra profits on the job) What is your “Damn, I wish same quality but doesn’t have the I could get {blank} when I’m same price tag. Customer # 1 ‐ saved $2,800 on a $11,000 quote ordering from or dropping by For example BGC (which is Australian Wilson Timbers…” product? made and owned)offers products that Customer # 2 ‐ saved $2,000 on a directly compete with Hardies but at a $13,300 quote Email [email protected] to significantly lower price – despite the quality being similar. I guess it has to Customer # 3 ‐ saved $5,100 on a let us know what you need do with the difference in advertising $16,700 quote budgets for the two companies. This makes a big difference to the Here are the products side by side… profitability of the job.
Measure Twice Cut Once | Wilson Timbers 3 Want To Win a $100 The Problem With Tradition. Dan Murphey’s Voucher? Everyone at Wilson Timbers is They want their big reality TV reveal keenly aware of just how much moment. Yes me too… It’s simple, we really need some help. effort it takes to finish a job well. Getting back to the untreated How much planning is required so timber problem… If you can tell us what you love that you get maximum profit from about Wilson Timbers we’ll enter every job that you do. you in the draw to win a $100 The unfinished deck denies them that moment – which could Dan Murphy’s voucher. The bottom line is when you strike be costing you referrals and All too simple really. a price with a client they don’t recommendations. Email your entry to care how you get the job done, as [email protected] much as they are concerned with This is a simple problem to the end results. They have to live overcome in many ways. We’ve in the house you build, live in the been oiling decking for some of extension you build or use the deck our clients for a while now. With you build… our process we are able to apply a Because of that I find it really coat of Tanacoat for the price that interesting that so many of our you would buy the tin for – so our clients leave their decks unfinished clients are saving the labour costs of for 3 months because that is how applying it themselves – so there is it is ‘supposed’ to be done. We’ve some extra profit in the job for you. talked to our timber suppliers and Congratulations The best part is once job is finished come to the conclusion that exterior – there is no ‘come back in three timber in Queensland should never Tammy! months’ or telling your client “to be untreated/unprotected. get a painter in or doing the oiling Tammy tied the It Needs A Protective Coat From themselves after three months.” knot with her Jobs done – it looks amazing and it partner of six Day 1 To Last As Long As It Can… years Shaun is ready to use. They get their big This is important for your clients Debattista reality TV reveal moment straight – they are making a long term on the 21st away. October. investment when they get you to build a deck for them. They want The next time you’ve got a deck, She’s just screening or timber that is going gotten that to last, and they want it to look back good – they want their friends to to be exposed to the elements to work be impressed with it. They want remember that we can apply after her to show it off – what they will be Tanacoat to those materials for you, honeymoon imagining is the look of envy on for about what it would cost you to – two weeks in Thailand! their friends faces when they come get the product for. Save the labour over for the first barbie… costs and WOW your customers.
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