01/17/2017
Facebook tells me that 117 of the brothers and sisters who have liked the page of Wallace Helms Home Design Consultant haven't heard from me in a while. Well I love you all and I appreciate your interest in my page and I want to shed a little light on my background and experience. I have been in construction since my junior year in high school. I thank Bob Svancareck, Scott Svancerek, Blaine Parenteau, and last but definitely not least Ray Perron who taught me how to measure out of square geometric shapes using level lines.
Ray would use vertical and horizontal level lines to cut out of square mirror shapes. We would cut mirror, wall to wall and back splash to ceiling. We made bad openings look perfectly square using Ray's experience and skill. He taught me this skill and I use it to this day. Once he had me measure, cut, and install a double hidden medicine cabinet mirror. This would be a wall of mirror with two rectangles of mirror in it that when pressed would spring outward like a stereo cabinet door exposing the interior of the hidden medicine cabinet. He pushed me, trusted me, and believed in me. I appreciate him and love him for it. Ray Perron of CALIFORNIA REFLECTIONS. Still in business with Tyler Perron, Ray's son in the fold. I can only imagine what he is capable of after a lifetime of Ray's instruction and training.
Blaine Parenteau taught me a lot about managing a business. It was a crash course. About a year after I started working for Blaine, his appendix ruptured and I had to run the shop. He continued to give me direction, guidance, and advice. He had already acquainted me with the major client accounts, taught me to cut glass and mirror, taught me auto glass installation, and laminated glass pattern cutting so I could replace the City of Garden Grove's Fire Engines Door Glass. Thank you Blaine.
Bob Svancerek! I have never stepped on a nail that was left pointing up by my own hand. Bob taught me and my friend Scott Svancarek to bend every nail over when we pulled one out. He taught us to crown every stud for every wall the same direction so our walls would not be wavy. He taught us to chop bad lumber up into blocks for fire break instead of putting it in a wall like modern day neanderthals do. He taught us to use a level(imagine that). He told us to put a string on the top plate of a wall, so we could make sure it was straight. "STRAIGHT, PLUMB, LEVEL !" I can hear this now in my head. I'm still trying to please him with everything I do. Why? If it would please Bob Svancerek it will exceed your standards.
I choked back tears at Bob's 75th birthday party when I publicly thanked him for laying the groundwork on which my skill sets would be built. I have supported my family with these skills. So many of my clients know of Bob's reputation and this mantel has fallen on me. I am Blessed to have learnerd from you Bob Svancarek. I love you my friend and my mentor.
What can Wallace Helms Home Design Consultant help you with? Everything! If your three time zones away from me I will help you get it right. My savior was a carpenter, and I don't believe for a second that he had tons of complaints with the BBB for bad workmanship. I"m sorry to have to say this, but I only know of one man (a painter) who has a Jesus fish on his business card and hasn't brought reproach upon the name of Christ with it. All workmanship must be done as unto the Lord. He is the final arbiter of craftsmanship and I seek to please him. If I fail, I try harder, and harder, and harder to get it right. That is what my mentors would do! That is what Christ would do.
Be like Christ!
