Navigator7
New Member
First....way nice website and great posts!
Second...I'm just about to step out into unknown territory by purchasing a steamer.
I own and operate a small concrete pumping business and a small crane service in a remote and sparsely populated area of Washington.
Winter kills my otherwise successful young business..... it just get's too cold here to pump concrete. The ready mix plants simply don't gear up for the cold weather because the contractors call it quits......so things just die.
Crane work also falls dramtically.
This year is a little different as a few contractors are simply going to try and pump concrete! The fact is they are losing lots of money due to contract obligations.
Every time I enter into one of these "Tough" cold weather pours, the conversation always comes up.... "If we only had a steam cleaner!"
The idea is a steamer would provide the heat in the ground the contractor is looking for before the pour and then heat the concrete after the pour.
I dunno.
I personally don't care how cold the weather is and how it will affect the concrete as the weather is trying to kill my expensive concrete pump.
However, working is better than not working! Risk is risk. If I can provide a tool that will inspire my customers to work...then that would be a good business move!?!
My thought is to purchase a steamer cleaner with several goals:
o Thawing gutters, pipes, ditches, septic tanks, drains and perhaps even removing ice from business entrances....and any variety of things that can be done with steam in the winter when no pumping is happening.
o Pressure washing my own equipment.
o Pressure washing other's equipment.
o Renting the cleaner to others.
and especially...
o Hopefully, run a sacrificial tube on the ground before the concrete pour in the form of loop or circuit with a water or water/glycol mix running back to a storage tank. I am of the belief a steamer can input enough heat to keep the curing concrete from freezing.
My customer wants to pour and if this option works for him....it will solve many dilemmas.
I simply want to be gainfully employed during the three or four months of snow and cold whether pumping concrete or pumping hot water thru a steamer.
My area is very small. My town has close to 900 people. I know everybody. (Instant name association) There is no steamer in my town except for a very old fixed unit at a fruit company.
There is one guy here who thaws pipes with a commercial pipe thawing machine...but the unit does not work on plastic pipe, gutters nor does it do anything to sidewalks or street drains. He does not have a steamer.
I'm considering a Steam Jenny 1550 OMP
http://www.jennyproducts.com/CombinationChart.html
I'd sure like some feedback here!
;-)
TIA
Nav
Second...I'm just about to step out into unknown territory by purchasing a steamer.
I own and operate a small concrete pumping business and a small crane service in a remote and sparsely populated area of Washington.
Winter kills my otherwise successful young business..... it just get's too cold here to pump concrete. The ready mix plants simply don't gear up for the cold weather because the contractors call it quits......so things just die.
Crane work also falls dramtically.
This year is a little different as a few contractors are simply going to try and pump concrete! The fact is they are losing lots of money due to contract obligations.
Every time I enter into one of these "Tough" cold weather pours, the conversation always comes up.... "If we only had a steam cleaner!"
The idea is a steamer would provide the heat in the ground the contractor is looking for before the pour and then heat the concrete after the pour.
I dunno.
I personally don't care how cold the weather is and how it will affect the concrete as the weather is trying to kill my expensive concrete pump.
However, working is better than not working! Risk is risk. If I can provide a tool that will inspire my customers to work...then that would be a good business move!?!
My thought is to purchase a steamer cleaner with several goals:
o Thawing gutters, pipes, ditches, septic tanks, drains and perhaps even removing ice from business entrances....and any variety of things that can be done with steam in the winter when no pumping is happening.
o Pressure washing my own equipment.
o Pressure washing other's equipment.
o Renting the cleaner to others.
and especially...
o Hopefully, run a sacrificial tube on the ground before the concrete pour in the form of loop or circuit with a water or water/glycol mix running back to a storage tank. I am of the belief a steamer can input enough heat to keep the curing concrete from freezing.
My customer wants to pour and if this option works for him....it will solve many dilemmas.
I simply want to be gainfully employed during the three or four months of snow and cold whether pumping concrete or pumping hot water thru a steamer.
My area is very small. My town has close to 900 people. I know everybody. (Instant name association) There is no steamer in my town except for a very old fixed unit at a fruit company.
There is one guy here who thaws pipes with a commercial pipe thawing machine...but the unit does not work on plastic pipe, gutters nor does it do anything to sidewalks or street drains. He does not have a steamer.
I'm considering a Steam Jenny 1550 OMP
http://www.jennyproducts.com/CombinationChart.html
I'd sure like some feedback here!
;-)
TIA
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