Recent content by delam

bye Yaaawwwnnnn! This has become so boring...I will let you "professionals" get back to stroking your ego's. Bye now :XXXXXXXX

I would I always wanted me one of them firemans hats. Some of them big rubber boots too. I'd wear them and make sure I had clean underwear just like my momma told me to. That way when dat restaurant blows up and catches fire to the whole damn block, and there is dead bodies everwhere and I have...

I am IMPRESSED! I am impressed at the number of people that are failing around you. I guess us monkeys just need to stay home now. By the way, do you wear a firemans hat to work?

Holster that gun! Beleive it or not I agree with you 1000% You have to start somewhere and if you can't afford the school, which I beleive is a good thing, and the only response you get from your peers is to just pass it up untill you can get experiance, then what is this guy gonna do? That...

Get er done attitude-Post Script-Ken I know that vent hood cleaning is hard work Ken. It is hard in more ways than one. When I was doing it I had several nice accounts but then one day I stopped by one of them and there were three guys blowing lime powder up the tube and calling it fire...

OK, I hear ya. In my original post I stated that insurance is very important, the right type, if I may reiterate. However, when someone tells a person they are not "professional" enough to start learning a trade or get out and make a living then that pisses me of! If there is one government...

Bravo sir!!!!!! Finally, some one that gets it! Took a while I really must say. If you want it go get it. Do not let anyone tell you you can't!!!! How many of these guys tried to help this person get started in the biz? Not one. But....how many people that gave him the negative ran down to...

Tough Job! Could you use a mild bleach and water solution to first kill the mildew and fungi then somehow either shop vac your waste water or attach some kind of flexable hose to the down spouts and collect it in buckets? If you use bleach, which will kill all of that crap, you will want to...

Where? Where do you get it?

To Blackjack21 Go to chemistrystore.com and look for Oxalic acid and also, try Sodium Percarbonate. There are recipes for concrete and vinyl siding cleaning. You can buy 50 lbs for around $1oo.oo as well as smaller amounts. These are the safer bleaching agents that work quite well. Oxalic Acid...

???? Yea, pressure washer comedy, that will go over real big! The world is just waiting I'm sure. [white]

Exactly my point, thank you! Thats exactly what I am saying and that is the reason I got out of it. Too many monkeys blowing lime up in the vents and calling it fire retardent. 25 years ago there were also some real professionals that were cleaning vents and hoods using pressure washers. Who do...

Go for it! I cleaned restaurant vents and hoods 25 years ago and I was not certified by anyone. So who certifies the people that are doing the certifications. Insurance is very important I will agree but come on folks, a monkey could clean hoods and vents. All you really need to do is funnel...

A thousand thank you's Man I love this forum! Thanks guys. [white]

While we are on the hose subject, Does anyone know of a strong, non marking hose?