The prep of the rest of the sewing room exterior walls was completed this morning. I have applied two coats of The Precious Stuff (Nansulate Clear Coat) and am about to apply the third. The Guest Room follows and it was a bitch to take all the old layers of wallpaper off, but off they came bit by bit, layer by layer. I counted 5 layers in the corners. A copious water spray soaked the paper and eventually the glue let go. No fun there. It now awaits it's third coat of Nansulate in about another hour. Then...we wait for 30 + days til we can wallpaper the completed jobs and finish the refurbishment of the upstairs rooms. Kelly has finished the appliance applications and one gallon of Nansulate is now on the walls and appliances. Onto the 2nd gallon for the third coat on the walls.
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One of the prospects for buying the Little House at Dix Rt. St. Amand called this morning and we met him at the Cafe Commerce downtown and had lunch (on him!) prior to visiting the house for an inspection. He was most organized, having a folder with all the pictures I sent to him and all the other info about the house as well, very impressive documentation. He was a yacht broker in a previous life and his attention to detail was very apparent...like a ship inspector checking out an old hull! Money is very difficult to get these days so we will see. He's be a real asset to our local community. We shall see.
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Back to the Nansulate job. I applied the final coats on the sewing room and guest room exterior walls. Now we wait in earnest for the CURE, 30 - 60 days though exactly how much time depends much on the humidity and temperature. Otherwise a good guess is the best I can do...so 30 days it will be. It looks good now, all shiny and the walls are quite sealed by the coating and definetly in a better structural way than they were thanks to the glue-like effects. Kelly finished up on the refrigerators and her clothes drier. They seemed like a good idea but how to test now that they are already coated? It's ok.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Cure Is Taken
Today we ventured to Bourges and the Tissues Du Monde outlet in the eastern part of town. Kelly was looking for a bold cloth with pink and perhaps black or violet as an addition to the current curtains in the dining room that we have hung over the two front windows. We both hunted high and low in this quite large stock of raw cotton, linen and polyamid cloth. They have a wonderful array of material from intricate brocades to common canvas and oil cloths. We have spent much time in the store going back several years, and always seem to find something that will be either superb or fantastic and that happened again today when Kelly spied a rather bright pink material with large dark flowers, at 50% off. It was only 18 Euros for 4 meters. She bought some other yardage for projects yet to come. Then we drove back through the recently harvested wheat and colza fields to the Maison Blanche to tackle the painting of the insulating paint on the water heater in the grenier (attic).
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The Water Heater
Kelly washed it and dried the heater thoroughly and then I tackled the Nansulate application chore. I measured with a precision digital thermometer I use for my wine making activities. I took the temperature of of the attic adjacent to the heater, 77 degrees it was and then on a spot midway across the top of the heater and it indicated 86.3 degrees. I will retake these some days from now and see how the application is doing. They say full effect isn't met until 30 - 60 days of cure time has gone by so my expectations are less than immediate. I used a very short nap roller of the small variety, only about 5 inches in length. I stirred the translucent grey-looking Nansulate for a bit over 5 minutes and finally deposited a few ounces in the small plastic roller tray and rollered it on careful to cover the top evenly and without thick areas or drips. It is similar in viscosity to regular paint, it is NOT overly thin and doesn't drip everywhere or spray from the roller either. Very well behaved in fact. It is a milky translucent material and goes on absolutely transparent. The first coat on, I retired to my computer for the requisite 1 hour drying time before the next coat, to chronicle the start of this quite amazing project.
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The Water Heater
Kelly washed it and dried the heater thoroughly and then I tackled the Nansulate application chore. I measured with a precision digital thermometer I use for my wine making activities. I took the temperature of of the attic adjacent to the heater, 77 degrees it was and then on a spot midway across the top of the heater and it indicated 86.3 degrees. I will retake these some days from now and see how the application is doing. They say full effect isn't met until 30 - 60 days of cure time has gone by so my expectations are less than immediate. I used a very short nap roller of the small variety, only about 5 inches in length. I stirred the translucent grey-looking Nansulate for a bit over 5 minutes and finally deposited a few ounces in the small plastic roller tray and rollered it on careful to cover the top evenly and without thick areas or drips. It is similar in viscosity to regular paint, it is NOT overly thin and doesn't drip everywhere or spray from the roller either. Very well behaved in fact. It is a milky translucent material and goes on absolutely transparent. The first coat on, I retired to my computer for the requisite 1 hour drying time before the next coat, to chronicle the start of this quite amazing project.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
A Red Letter Day and 108 Euros!
Fed Ex recieved the paint on the 14th and as of last night it was in Paris getting duty assessed by French Customs before leaving for Bourges (St. Doulchard). 5 US gallons of the ever more precious nano paint are, at last, in the country of France and subject to whatever duty Customs can figure out. There is no estimate of additional charges on the Fed Ex site at this time, and there probably won't be anyway as by the time they process all the fancy and expensive paperwork the stuff will be on the truck speeding down the heart of France to our anxious little hands. We will pay by check whatever amount is necessary to get the paint into our house, rest assured. And I did, and slept like a baby.
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Up at 7am, coffee, potty and check the Fed Ex web site...it's IN Bourges! Arrived there this morning, terrific! Now to another truck (probably a local expeditier) and then to us sometime today! Whoopee! Guests gone one day and The Paint arrives the next! Great timing! Another cup of java at 8am and read the emails, start writing the blog to explain all of this. Recheck the Fed Ex site and l'viola! It's on a deliver van already! Cool! Or HOT depending on which side is one or the other (It IS insulating paint after all!) Wondering where we start the application and if we have the right roller(s). Kelly wants her sewing room finished and so that is where the action will start so that we can paint and wallpaper and get it back into useable condition ASAP. I walk downstairs and go to my kitchen to assess the days activities in that arena. Wash a couple of pots left over from last night, put away the now cooled thoroughly roasted (overdone actually) chicken and on my way back to the sitting room...the truck of our dreams (nightmare?!) arrives in front of the house.
I openned the front door and the driver handed me the small box with 1 gallon of the ever more rare and precious paint inside, he then returned to the truck for the other 4 gallon box. $108.68 duty is indicated on the shipping receipt. Wow...$657 for 5 gallons of the stuff. We must be mad or terribly convinced. Check out their website...http://www.nansulate.com/
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Up at 7am, coffee, potty and check the Fed Ex web site...it's IN Bourges! Arrived there this morning, terrific! Now to another truck (probably a local expeditier) and then to us sometime today! Whoopee! Guests gone one day and The Paint arrives the next! Great timing! Another cup of java at 8am and read the emails, start writing the blog to explain all of this. Recheck the Fed Ex site and l'viola! It's on a deliver van already! Cool! Or HOT depending on which side is one or the other (It IS insulating paint after all!) Wondering where we start the application and if we have the right roller(s). Kelly wants her sewing room finished and so that is where the action will start so that we can paint and wallpaper and get it back into useable condition ASAP. I walk downstairs and go to my kitchen to assess the days activities in that arena. Wash a couple of pots left over from last night, put away the now cooled thoroughly roasted (overdone actually) chicken and on my way back to the sitting room...the truck of our dreams (nightmare?!) arrives in front of the house.
I openned the front door and the driver handed me the small box with 1 gallon of the ever more rare and precious paint inside, he then returned to the truck for the other 4 gallon box. $108.68 duty is indicated on the shipping receipt. Wow...$657 for 5 gallons of the stuff. We must be mad or terribly convinced. Check out their website...http://www.nansulate.com/
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Mystery Product...A Three Month Wait +!!!
Nansulate is the name of the insulating nano technology paint product that we ordered from the Florida based company on March 22nd. Sent payment (credit card) which they soon negotiated (like cashing a check). Then heard nothing. Finally we got an email saying that they would get some of this amazing, near miraculous product...the clear coat for home application on/about 8 May. We waited somewhat impatiently. The 8th came and went and we heard nothing...they were supposed to email us with shipping details on this nearly 500 dollar order for 5 gallons of the stuff. The 11th came and went and I emailed them asking where the paint was. An answer came that it was due in soon and we would get a confirmation of the shipping when it shipped. Weeks went by, soon it was June and still nothing.
So does this product even EXIST? Why do they cash my check and send nothing? I'm getting suspicious by mid-June of a scam of some sort and we are quite involved now.
Another email fired off with a delayed response all too similar to the last exchange, we will notify you when it has been shipped. Yea gads, time for some consumer hotline I thinks. Maybe the Florida State Attorney General's office? Anyway we put our determined daughter Audrey to the task of calling them for an update and to see if real humans are actually answering the phones at Industrial Nanotech. She contacted them and the standard replay was repeated "we will be getting some soon and we will give you the shipping info via an email when it has/is being/will be shipped. So there is where we are at as of this date the 24th of June, 2009.
For all to read here's one of their replies:
Tue, 5 May 2009
Dear Ms. Lute,
Thank you for placing your order INANO-2240 with Nansulate.com. We appreciate your business and value you as a loyal customer.
We apologize for the delay, due to the high volume of orders. We are working diligently to expedite your order.
The new arrival date to us is estimated to be May 18, 2009. When items in your order are shipped, you will receive an email confirming the date and providing you with a tracking number for the shipping method you chose.
We would like to thank you for your patience while we work to get your order shipped as quickly as possible.
If you have any questions, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.
Best Regards,
Customer Service Team - Zone 3
Industrial Nanotech, Inc.
customersupport@industrial-nanotech.com
www.industrial-nanotech.com
www.nansulate.com
US & Canada: 1.800.767.3998
International: 1.239.254.0346
Fax: 1.239.254.1381
And another a few weeks later:
In the morning of 5/26/09
Dear Mr. Lute,
Thank you for your order at Nansulate.com. We truly appreciate your business and strive to provide you with exceptional customer service. Your Nansulate® products will be arriving soon.
We sincerely appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused you. Our team is working diligently to expedite your Nansulate® order so that you may begin experiencing the benefits of our products as quickly as possibly.
You are important to us and we wanted to communicate the status of your order and let you know that it is expected to arrive to you within the next few days. Due to unprecedented draw down of inventory across the supply chain due economic conditions, our order process has taken longer than anticipated. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again in the future, and wanted to assure you that your order is of the utmost importance to us.
When items in your order are shipped, you will receive an email confirming the date and providing you with a tracking number. If you have any questions, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.
You may contact us at:
Email: contact@nansulate.com
Phone: 800-767-3998
Thank you again for your understanding and the opportunity to earn your business.
Best Regards,
Customer Service Team Leader
Industrial Nanotech Inc.
customersupport@industrial-nanotech.com
www.industrial-nanotech.com
www.nansulate.com
www.epx4.com
www.beeprotect.org
US & Canada: 1.800.767.3998
International: 1.239.254.0346
Fax: 1.239.254.1381
Later the same day:
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:35:02 -0400
Dear Mr. Lute,
Thank you for your order at Nansulate.com. We truly appreciate your business and strive to provide you with exceptional customer service. Your Nansulate® products will be arriving soon.
We sincerely appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused you. Our team is working diligently to expedite your Nansulate® order so that you may begin experiencing the benefits of our products as quickly as possibly.
You are important to us and we wanted to communicate the status of your order and let you know that it is expected to arrive to you within the next few days. Due to unprecedented draw down of inventory across the supply chain due economic conditions, our order process has taken longer than anticipated. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again in the future, and wanted to assure you that your order is of the utmost importance to us.
When items in your order are shipped, you will receive an email confirming the date and providing you with a tracking number. If you have any questions, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.
You may contact us at:
Email: contact@nansulate.com
Phone: 800-767-3998
Thank you again for your understanding and the opportunity to earn your business.
Best Regards,
Customer Service Team Leader
Industrial Nanotech Inc.
customersupport@industrial-nanotech.com
www.industrial-nanotech.com
www.nansulate.com
www.epx4.com
www.beeprotect.org
US & Canada: 1.800.767.3998
International: 1.239.254.0346
Fax: 1.239.254.1381
And then this:
The 10% off Sale Ends Soon!
Don't miss your chance to save this June. Use coupon code STAYCOOL and save 10% on any Nansulate® energy saving and asset protection product.
Residential customers typically report energy savings of 20%-40% after using Nansulate® on their homes.
Order online at www.nansulate.com or by phone at 800-767-3998 or +1 239-254-0346.
Offer ends 6/30/2009. Not valid with any other discounts.
Join the One Room At A Time Program and the last Room is on Us!*
Don't wait to start saving money on energy bills and improve the comfort of your home. With Nansulate® HomeProtect insulation and mold resistant coatings you can take it one step at a time, one room at a time and see your monthly heating & cooling expense go down.
Coating the exterior walls of a typical room will take approximately 3 gallons (150 s.f. per gallon @ 3 coats). Do one room per month, and spread the application out over time. Best of all, once your home project is complete - your energy savings will continue!
Click here to learn more about our One Room Program.
*One Room at a Time Offer: Coat your home with Nansulate® HomeProtect and the last room is on us! Purchase 30 gallons of Nansulate HomeProtect within a 12 month period and we will send 3 gallons FREE! (shipping cost not included)
Offer valid January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Nansulate® Coating Project Chosen as a Top Green Project Pick by the Journal of Architectural Coatings
The Nansulate® project at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand is one of the TOP GREEN PROJECT PICKS in the current issue of the Journal of Architectural Coatings. You can click here to read our case study on this project.
Cheap & Easy Energy Savings
Read our new blog & newspaper feature - Nansulate® NanoBeat "Shocking the Energy Pulse of the World"
Nansulate® Around the Globe
Read our newest Nansulate® project update and see photos of luxury apartments in Istanbul utilizing Nansulate® technology for energy savings.
Customer Letter
"My issue is an 80 year old house without insulated walls. I decided to use Nansulate® because it was a project I could easily handle one room at a time. After some measuring and calculations, I saw it was also very affordable.
I applied Nansulate® on the inside of my house, on all exterior walls and doors, I worked my way through the house one room at a time. I keep a careful spreadsheet of heating expenses and so far, even through this has been a long and cold winter, I have used about 20% less energy that last year. Take in to account that I decided to keep the house 2 degrees warmer during the day and 4 degrees wamer at night! So I am quite happy and had a much more comfortable winter.
-Evelyne Tinkl, Mohnton, PA
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Well there you have the saga of the long missing paint. Maybe we will never get it, who knows...anyway it's worth knowing that consumer issues like these happen everyday and anyone can be victimized by unscrupulous purveyors of mystery goods or even those that DO exist in the real world. Life is good here in France.
So does this product even EXIST? Why do they cash my check and send nothing? I'm getting suspicious by mid-June of a scam of some sort and we are quite involved now.
Another email fired off with a delayed response all too similar to the last exchange, we will notify you when it has been shipped. Yea gads, time for some consumer hotline I thinks. Maybe the Florida State Attorney General's office? Anyway we put our determined daughter Audrey to the task of calling them for an update and to see if real humans are actually answering the phones at Industrial Nanotech. She contacted them and the standard replay was repeated "we will be getting some soon and we will give you the shipping info via an email when it has/is being/will be shipped. So there is where we are at as of this date the 24th of June, 2009.
For all to read here's one of their replies:
Tue, 5 May 2009
Dear Ms. Lute,
Thank you for placing your order INANO-2240 with Nansulate.com. We appreciate your business and value you as a loyal customer.
We apologize for the delay, due to the high volume of orders. We are working diligently to expedite your order.
The new arrival date to us is estimated to be May 18, 2009. When items in your order are shipped, you will receive an email confirming the date and providing you with a tracking number for the shipping method you chose.
We would like to thank you for your patience while we work to get your order shipped as quickly as possible.
If you have any questions, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.
Best Regards,
Customer Service Team - Zone 3
Industrial Nanotech, Inc.
customersupport@industrial-nanotech.com
www.industrial-nanotech.com
www.nansulate.com
US & Canada: 1.800.767.3998
International: 1.239.254.0346
Fax: 1.239.254.1381
And another a few weeks later:
In the morning of 5/26/09
Dear Mr. Lute,
Thank you for your order at Nansulate.com. We truly appreciate your business and strive to provide you with exceptional customer service. Your Nansulate® products will be arriving soon.
We sincerely appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused you. Our team is working diligently to expedite your Nansulate® order so that you may begin experiencing the benefits of our products as quickly as possibly.
You are important to us and we wanted to communicate the status of your order and let you know that it is expected to arrive to you within the next few days. Due to unprecedented draw down of inventory across the supply chain due economic conditions, our order process has taken longer than anticipated. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again in the future, and wanted to assure you that your order is of the utmost importance to us.
When items in your order are shipped, you will receive an email confirming the date and providing you with a tracking number. If you have any questions, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.
You may contact us at:
Email: contact@nansulate.com
Phone: 800-767-3998
Thank you again for your understanding and the opportunity to earn your business.
Best Regards,
Customer Service Team Leader
Industrial Nanotech Inc.
customersupport@industrial-nanotech.com
www.industrial-nanotech.com
www.nansulate.com
www.epx4.com
www.beeprotect.org
US & Canada: 1.800.767.3998
International: 1.239.254.0346
Fax: 1.239.254.1381
Later the same day:
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:35:02 -0400
Dear Mr. Lute,
Thank you for your order at Nansulate.com. We truly appreciate your business and strive to provide you with exceptional customer service. Your Nansulate® products will be arriving soon.
We sincerely appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused you. Our team is working diligently to expedite your Nansulate® order so that you may begin experiencing the benefits of our products as quickly as possibly.
You are important to us and we wanted to communicate the status of your order and let you know that it is expected to arrive to you within the next few days. Due to unprecedented draw down of inventory across the supply chain due economic conditions, our order process has taken longer than anticipated. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again in the future, and wanted to assure you that your order is of the utmost importance to us.
When items in your order are shipped, you will receive an email confirming the date and providing you with a tracking number. If you have any questions, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.
You may contact us at:
Email: contact@nansulate.com
Phone: 800-767-3998
Thank you again for your understanding and the opportunity to earn your business.
Best Regards,
Customer Service Team Leader
Industrial Nanotech Inc.
customersupport@industrial-nanotech.com
www.industrial-nanotech.com
www.nansulate.com
www.epx4.com
www.beeprotect.org
US & Canada: 1.800.767.3998
International: 1.239.254.0346
Fax: 1.239.254.1381
And then this:
The 10% off Sale Ends Soon!
Don't miss your chance to save this June. Use coupon code STAYCOOL and save 10% on any Nansulate® energy saving and asset protection product.
Residential customers typically report energy savings of 20%-40% after using Nansulate® on their homes.
Order online at www.nansulate.com or by phone at 800-767-3998 or +1 239-254-0346.
Offer ends 6/30/2009. Not valid with any other discounts.
Join the One Room At A Time Program and the last Room is on Us!*
Don't wait to start saving money on energy bills and improve the comfort of your home. With Nansulate® HomeProtect insulation and mold resistant coatings you can take it one step at a time, one room at a time and see your monthly heating & cooling expense go down.
Coating the exterior walls of a typical room will take approximately 3 gallons (150 s.f. per gallon @ 3 coats). Do one room per month, and spread the application out over time. Best of all, once your home project is complete - your energy savings will continue!
Click here to learn more about our One Room Program.
*One Room at a Time Offer: Coat your home with Nansulate® HomeProtect and the last room is on us! Purchase 30 gallons of Nansulate HomeProtect within a 12 month period and we will send 3 gallons FREE! (shipping cost not included)
Offer valid January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Nansulate® Coating Project Chosen as a Top Green Project Pick by the Journal of Architectural Coatings
The Nansulate® project at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand is one of the TOP GREEN PROJECT PICKS in the current issue of the Journal of Architectural Coatings. You can click here to read our case study on this project.
Cheap & Easy Energy Savings
Read our new blog & newspaper feature - Nansulate® NanoBeat "Shocking the Energy Pulse of the World"
Nansulate® Around the Globe
Read our newest Nansulate® project update and see photos of luxury apartments in Istanbul utilizing Nansulate® technology for energy savings.
Customer Letter
"My issue is an 80 year old house without insulated walls. I decided to use Nansulate® because it was a project I could easily handle one room at a time. After some measuring and calculations, I saw it was also very affordable.
I applied Nansulate® on the inside of my house, on all exterior walls and doors, I worked my way through the house one room at a time. I keep a careful spreadsheet of heating expenses and so far, even through this has been a long and cold winter, I have used about 20% less energy that last year. Take in to account that I decided to keep the house 2 degrees warmer during the day and 4 degrees wamer at night! So I am quite happy and had a much more comfortable winter.
-Evelyne Tinkl, Mohnton, PA
Forward email
This email was sent to kell12@sonic.net by contact@nansulate.com.
Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by Industrial Nanotech | 801 Laurel Oak Dr. Ste. 702 | Naples | FL | 34108
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Well there you have the saga of the long missing paint. Maybe we will never get it, who knows...anyway it's worth knowing that consumer issues like these happen everyday and anyone can be victimized by unscrupulous purveyors of mystery goods or even those that DO exist in the real world. Life is good here in France.
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