Hey guys. Just thought I'd let everyone know why I've been out of the picture lately. I had shoulder surgery on March 18th and I'm in the process of healing up. As you all may or may not have known, I was working a full time job at the time while getting my stuff in one bag to make the move to p/washing full time on my own. Well, once the doctor released me to go back to work ( light duty for 2-3 mos. ), my employer told me that there was no position available for me, like he had previously promised, so I ended up losing my primary job. Needless to say, all the money I had saved up to purchase a hot water unit has now been spent on doctor bills and just trying to cover my monthly bills and keeping the family's bellies full. So for now, I'm stuck with using my cold water unit, picking up whatever jobs I can find, mostly vinyl siding on homes here in Western N.C. , and occasionally some
flat concrete work. I hope things are going good for all you guys .
Hey guys, thanks for the supportive words. It means alot, specially to hear from people I never met before. Truly professional crowd here. Doug, as for me wanting the hot water set up, I was wanting to get into cleaning the drive thru's at fast food joints and grease trap areas, dumpster pads and the like. The plant where I used to work had me do behind their kitchen in the cafeteria one time with just cold water and man that was one long hard and unproductive scenario, until I noticed that their outside hose bib also had a hot water diverter to the hot water tank. And man, using the hot water really made a huge difference. And like I tried explaining to my wife, you know how you leave a dish overnight in the sink and go to pre rinse it before it goes in the dishwasher, hot works better. It took a few minutes of explaining to her, but bless her heart she finally got it . Carlos, as for the soft wash method, I got something that I used on my last 2 jobs that I thought worked pretty good. I attatched a 1/4" x 3/16" hose barb onto a plug to ds my detergent and using a 40 degree 8gpm nozzle to rinse with. I'm still a new guy but I thought that worked really well. You guys have any suggestions on how to sell a job to say Mc D's or any type of place like that using cold water to clean? Maybe a diff approach to what soaps..ect???
You can clean oils, greases, hydro carbons all with the BT200 and cold water. I tuses microbes to EAT the grease and or oil, gasoline, food stains, etc. Mark at Easy Clean is a distributor. Works Great. I use to clean Chick Fil A drive thrus and parking lots using it and a small 3500psi/4 GPM machine and they loved it.
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I have read a lot about the BT200, seems to be a good natural cleaner for a wide verity of marks and stains. I am looking for something to use on house washing and driveways. Brick and siding houses. Would this work good for both?
Hey guys, wish me luck tomorrow. In the morning I have 2 decks to do, and hopefully the house they're attatched to once I show the owner what a soft wash is. After that, I'm going home, cleaning up and going to try and sell a roof wash to a local Wachovia Bank here in Asheville, N.C. I've been rehersing my pitch in the mirror for the past couple days now, so if the manager looks anything like me, I should be ok...haha! Seriously though, all my work thus far has come from word of mouth of family and friends on single wide mobile homes and 1 story house here in my area. This will be my first " commercial venture" so I'm kinda nervous about how I'm gonna do sitting in front of the man trying to convince him that my services will be worth his money. Any advice / suggestions on what would be a good way to approach it? I know all you guys really have your stuff in one bag, and I know anything you guys could pass on to me is going to be sound and knowledgeable information. Once again, I want to say thanks to all of you for taking the time out to help this little fish in a big pond learn his way around.