I started doing home improvement projects in 1980. My crew and I ran trim and hung doors in new homes for several area homebuilders. We were so good with finish woodworking that we started building sun decks and installing hot tubs and spas. After a year or so I moved my opperation to Pensacola Pools on highway 29. At that time we were a relativly small opperation and we all prided ourselves on our ability to wear many hats and sometimes none! It soon became apparent that we could I started doing home improvement projects in 1980. My crew and I ran trim and hung doors in new homes for several area homebuilders. We were so good with finish woodworking that we started building sun decks and installing hot tubs and spas. After a year or so I moved my opperation to Pensacola Pools on highway 29. At that time we were a relativly small opperation and we all prided ourselves on our ability to wear many hats and sometimes none! It soon became apparent that we could use a general contractor amung us. I was full of energy and a big dreamer so I stepped up to the task.
 I took coarses at PJC and went to a weekend seminar in Destin then drove down to Ginsville to take the test. Needless to say I was a wreck! I had jobs sold and needed to buy permits so we could start building.

 I arrived at my motel early and studied most of the evening. On the way back home to Pensacola I was still worried if I had passed the test. A few days later I went to the local contractors licence office and The office manager was Lucile McDill, well know for her great smile and boistrerous personallity. The monthly meating of the contractors competancy board was was conviening. Mrs. McDill shouted out so everyone could here"Oh Mr. Miller! You have gotten the highest score ever on the General Contractors test, why NONE of these men got that good of a score!) Well. I was happy and embarased but most of all releaved.

The first permit that I bought was for Bob and Trudy Sherwood of Cordova Park. We had become dealers for a nice line of curved glass solarrooms and they were getting our first one. Well it came out great and we ended up adding a carport and tile floor before we were finished.

One day a man by the name of Dub Huin came in to the showroom and said that he was getting in to the pool screen enclosure business and he wanted to put a FREE cage up over our display pool. I hadn't worked there very long at the time but I was sure that the price was good and I gave him the OK. Larry, the owner of Pensacola Pools was glad to here the news and said "Those things are everywhere in south Florida, I bet they will do well here". That was in 1982...the rest is a blur.
John Miller