 So we are doing an on-site cleanup with Corey today so yeah this is their Wi-Fi I think new client but one of the things you have to do you get a new client is this a lot of the cleanup work so we're gonna get started on this and because this this is a puzzle to us so someone went down and did the punchdown but it's not bolted to anything it's just it's dangling under its own weight so they actually cabled some of it but then and we're not sure why this this this is a puzzle it's a phone splice yeah it's a phone splice but it has a network jack put in here so we're yeah yeah this is this is a big puzzle yeah I'll solder that in so it doesn't ever break lose it goes to the phone and came in they were touching so yeah so there'll be some before and afters of all this we got the time-lapse up here to kind of watch the progress of it of putting this together in a more rational manner this is going in here and this goes out to here so while Corey's doing his thing right now I'll explain a little of what's going on here so these are a lot of small businesses and anyone who's worked in IT you know this is how all these companies end up at some point is kind of they let their friend in they did this they did that they have this mystery where the punchdown panels floating and just hanging off the tension of that now why someone went through the trouble putting a punch down panel but didn't put a place to mount the punch on punch down panel complete mystery they don't know the guy that used to do it kind of fell off the planet they're like if you you are a guy now so we met them through the Chamber of Commerce and some mutual friends and now we're taking over IT from so the first project is of course the wiring cleanup they have really not a big company in terms of technology they don't need that much stuff but they do need a network that doesn't look like that so the cleanup is pretty basic they have no on-premise servers so it's just basically wiring to get them out to the internet everything they do is you know so speak in the cloud so this is all just building connectivity for them now the way we build these projects out for these clients is we look at them we assess them we give them a flat rate if someone just wants us to charge our only generally shy away from it because that becomes kind of subjective of a how long will it take you and we work pretty fast and so what you when you're sizing up these jobs and you want to bid a cleanup job you kind of have to know yourself you have to know about how long does it take you to get that type of work done do you spend a lot of time doing it do you spend a lot of time cleaning it up and of course there's expectations from the client they opted not to have it all put in a cage or a rack they just kind of wanted it to look nice and make a lot of sense now oddly a lot of the labels and it's hard to see but there's actually a few labels here in there to denote where things are plugged in we did offer as a service to relabel where every punch down goes like so we put a label on them but they decided not to but when you're calculating a bid you want that in there you want to be able to go through and say you know these are the deliverables these are things we're going to do we're going to clean it up so there's an expectation on there and what it will look like when it's done they're happy this was like I said not a real expensive or high-end one or we would have put a really nice rack in a box and everything in with all the mounts but these are very helpful when you're telling us the clients and the way you want to really tell them a job is it's going to make it easier because there's ever a problem and some of those wires get pulled out and they've actually experienced that already that's probably the reason they were fine with it because the other guy would just go in there and monkey with the wires and till it worked it they're usually easy to get someone as a sell on that to go okay this makes sense this is we want to be able to have faster troubleshooting times less downtime because it cumulative we let them know it always adds up if they don't have a clean wiring room and it's causing them problems it also means there's more troubleshooting time so you know put all these little bills for troubleshooting because a wire fell out because it's hanging from the tension of other wires and things like that so if they're not too hard to sell we give them a flat rate based on how long so you still put your hourly rate in your head of you know what you're going to charge because it's going to take you two hours or three hours this job was done and I think it took Cory about cumulatively two hours he actually ran down the street and came back to go pick up something they needed because when we uncovered the messed of wires there was he was short on one extra power strip and he even cleaned up the power strips near because they were all dangling from each other as well we thought they were mounted it turns out they weren't mounted at all they were they were just kind of set there on the edge of things we properly mounted those too but these are popular things you're going to see if you start out in servicing small business and we we service large companies but we still have a lot of these smaller companies that are clients they they're great clients and cleaning them up is like the first thing we want to do we really push hard for that when we take anyone on as a new client to you know they want fast service like look if we have to come in here and sort this out every time and it's an unlabeled nightmare this really needs to get sorted out and once we sort that out life gets a lot better but I'll throw a couple finished pictures up here uh this is what it looks like when it's done and like I said easy projects they look more complicated than they are but once you sort out where some of the wires go it's not too hard to do and now it's nice and concise so if we have to come out there and actually service anything no big deal and we do everything in case you're wondering if you didn't notice that those are all just Velcro strips uh that we love when we're putting them together I might do a demo inside the shop sometime because it's hard to get these onsite I don't have time to spend a lot of time filming out there but show how we use the Velcro strips they're the same ones we use when we show you how we do our rack and everything like that so hopefully I'll get to some more onsite videos like I said they're kind of tough to find time to do or places just don't allow cameras but I will keep working to uh towards that but this is a little thought to you know how you look at some of these projects and sell them some of the clients and of course the end result of start to finish cleanups which so many people do bad jobs at wearing cleaning these things up is a never ending battle there seems to be an endless amount of technicians out there doing work that looks like that uh so our work is never finished until we have all the clients and it's it's a whole another there's always there's somebody right now who has their cousin wearing something and it's looking like that I'm sure all right thanks for watching if you like the content here like and subscribe