Old Cedar Shake Roof

Clean County

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Nice looking work John....very nice.

I don't have the patience for wood restoration!!!!
Hey Carlos--You'd be surprise how easy wood restoration can be when you use the right chemical mixtures. The thing I always hated about wood restoration is the staining end. Besides striving for perfection which can slow you down--Rain can stop the staining job and thats another thing I can't stand. When we go out I don't want anything to stop us and rain will stop staining everytime.

Those houses above ranged from $1200-$1800 and all three were done in a day each and thats with my 2 fulltime guys.

The drawback with restoration is when your teaching an employee how to do it. Thats the hard part until they get it right then after that chaching chaching into my pocket
 

Doug Rucker

PWN ADMIN TEAM -
Staff member
A few years ago The makers of Trex contacted the PWNA. They just lost a class action lawsuit. This is where I say at times you can really benefit from being in an org. But many will still resist because they just don't believe it. Anywho Trex wanted reputable Powerwashers(I guess they figured going thru and organization like the PWNA would show that TREX wasn't horsing around when it came to the courts, Judges etc) they were looking for guy in this org. to be there solution to the class action lawsuit they lost which went into the Millions. In there lawsuit they had to clean just one time anyone with a TREX deck at that time within a certain time frame.
Everett Abrams help TREX to come up with a good cleaning solution and oh yea we had to seal these decks to.

End result anyone who signed on got (Get ready) $1.50 a sq' and thats counting spindals,steps,rails etc in there to clean these decks and seal them. I couldn't sign on fast enough. I ended up getting around 17 TREX decks and made over $15,000. They only took a couple of days to do all of them. What we had to use was a soap and bleach mixture as per there standard and then wait an hour or two because these decks dry out so fast and then pump spray a milky white sealers on them that turned clear when it dried. I made at least $300/hr doing these decks. One of the guys and we all know him here made over a $100,000 because he jumped on board fast and had his guy travel thru 3 states to knock out trex decks in about a month. Do the math there. I didn't jump on fast enough and I only asked to do decks in close proximity to my house. STUPID!!!!!!!!!!

Who says an org. membership can't make you money.[whatup]

Today we still do some of those trex decks but there no longer involved in any lawsuits so we don't get much for them but we use a stronger solution today and they come out mint..... in that solution is a stronger solution then bleach.....hint hint----Chlorine.

I was called a few years back by Trex to clean a Trex Deck for Warranty. They seent me there cleaners and instructions and I followed them. I as well as the customer was not happy with the outcome. I went back a couple days later and used the BT200 on it. Mixed it at 5 ounces to a gallon of water, sprayed it on the deck w a pump up sprayer, and my helper came behind me w a street broom and agitated it in. Waited about 45 minutes and then cleaned it using the PW'er and the 60 degree soap tip. Now when they call for me to do it, I tell them not to send there cleaners and I just use BT200. I don't have pic's of that deck but I'll post pics of a recent Trex Deck I cleaned using BT200. It's the only thing I use now for composite deck cleaning. Use about .50 cents to a 1.00 worth of product, plus when I am done I spray some on it and leave it. The decks stay cleaner much longer.
 

Clean County

New Member
Wood restoration albeit its becoming a smaller part of my business is the most amazing before/after shots we ever had. Today my company focuses on parking garages sometimes a million + sq' in size to clean. These are the challenges now that I enjoy...& the money isnt to shabby either :)
 

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