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Looking to start a house/mobile home softwashing business.I have read about it but need your help getting started. What chems to use,how to apply it and rinse it off? Have read where some use a pump up sprayer others use a chem tank with a pump mounted on there truck. The other question is do I...

Well it looks like we are going to start our business in about a couple months.Been a bad year for the family,lost aunt and mother in law so we put things on hold. The problem is the insurance co.wants $2500 for $500,000 liability,I think that's a little steep but if I was going to do this full...

A guy told me about this home brew for washing houses and mobile homes. 3qts pool chlorine,1qt jomax,big squirt of dish soap,cap full of casscade rinse aid and the rest water in a 5gal bucket apply it with a x-jet. I know the jomax is not a commercial product,what would you put in it's place...

Not trying to start a big issue but how do these slash and dash people do it being uninsured? I thought it was your responeability to take care of any damage you do to someones property. Do they have the customer sign a waiver or a contract saying there not responseable? I wouldn't think of...

Saw this issue somewhere and was wondering,do you ask for some kind of deposit before starting a job? I belive I read 25-50% they were asking for,I don't remember where I saw this just thought it was interesting.

Saw this on another board,they read that house washing is the hardest (physical labor)job a p/w contractor does and they couldn't figure out why all the newbies want to start that way.

I read on another board where someone was using this product to clean rsidential/commercial.They said they mixed it with water but didn't give any details.I would think you would ad some soap(dawn/ect) or maybe I am wrong. Does anyone here use it and if so how did the job turn out?

What do you think of Graco and Allpro p/w,they have direct drive and belt. Also what's your opinion on Mi-T-M,all of the above are cold water units.

I read in here(search)where people have leased there trucks and p/w equipment. What leasing co.does this? Also read about the $1 buy out and the 10% buy out.Understanding the $1 buy out,your payments are higher which one of these would you pick?

On ..... website they said to charge .50-$1.00 running ft.depending on the difficulty.My folks live in a big condo complex all 1 story.The buildings are all the same,so just got to messure 1 x number of buildings. Should I give them some kind of discount if it's over a certain number of feet?If...

A friend of mine is looking to get into the business.He is a diabetic uses insulin and takes high blood pressure pills.Do you think this business is to stressful for him?He was in the hospital for his problems.I think it is just because of the physical labor involved in this job.What do you...

WHOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO Will not be long now and all the snow will be gone!

I know this question more than likley has been answered but i couldn't find it What is the lowest temp.you can have and stll wash houses?Thanks for your help.

What a perfect day for working outside! It's party cloudy,72,NE breez 10-15mph and its 2:15pm.lately by this time its been 90+ with heat index of 95-100.Be nice if it would stay this way the rest of the summer but its gona warm back up. Had a few minutes thought I would throw my 2cents worth in.

Not me,got a 5 day weekend not working to today.I am going to the local stock car track,got racing today through Sat. Have a happy and safe holiday.:)

Found out I have MS(multipul sclerosis). Do you think I still could start a power washing business.Some days are fine and others I am very run(very tired).The doctors don't know anything about power washing so I need your very honest advise please.Do you guys think this would be to much for me...

That's right folks we had snow flurries around 10am lasting about 10-15 min. It snowed yesterday morning around 7am. We had rain/sleet/snow Sat afternoon. Just thought I would pass this along.

Was just wondering if you guys had any pictures of your rig setups? I think it's kind of interesting to see what everyones got.Around here in mich alot of the pw companies plow snow in the off season.Do any of you do that? Good luck to eveyone this year.

What chemicals would you use to clean a house and mobile home? Have seen some in the store that is ready to go but looks like that would be pretty costly.Had a guy tell me to use Dawn dish cleaning soap,but would think that's not good to run that through the pw.Tryed going to search before...

I am new to the business and was reading that you can use a cold water pw to run the whisper washer,is this true and if so what size pw would you need? Can you run chemicals through it? Thanks for the help.