Commercial Wash pressure vs. non

Prestige_Pressure

Prestige_Pressure

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This building used to be a panasonic plant, the new occupants wanted the mold and mildew removed for highway appeal (sits 100 yards of I-75). After about 6 hours in it, my machine decided to stop holding pressure. Come to find out it was a garden hose fitting with no o-ring. So i decided to finish using non pressure. The one picture is where I did a demo pressure washing a spot. This sold it, they skeptical that the stains would come off. You can see the differance between pressure and no pressure. I ended up finishing pressure washing the rest of the building. I quoted them two prices for the wash, they were hesitant about using chemicals, although it would have been cheaper for them.

How would have you gone about this job?

Non pressure is going to be a lot quicker and less labor intensive, but maybe not as clean.

Pressure washing is goin to ensure that all mold, mildew, dirt and grime will be removed.

What would you do?
 

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Looks great! It's not my expertise, but I'm not sure why a soft wash would get it less clean. It's my understanding that the soft wash is more likely to kill everything and make it take longer to grow back. Pressure might get it all off if you're lucky, but something is likely to live and, with no competition, grow back with a vengeance.
I'm in fleets and hoods, both very chemical intensive. While pressure plays an important role in both, we've proven good chemicals can quickly replace the $10k+ in pressure washing equipment we lug around.
 
Most building washes down here and most of the south is chemical clean no pressure, we do rinse after but no pressure and it comes out great.
 
Prestige_Pressure said:
This building used to be a panasonic plant, the new occupants wanted the mold and mildew removed for highway appeal (sits 100 yards of I-75). After about 6 hours in it, my machine decided to stop holding pressure. Come to find out it was a garden hose fitting with no o-ring. So i decided to finish using non pressure. The one picture is where I did a demo pressure washing a spot. This sold it, they skeptical that the stains would come off. You can see the differance between pressure and no pressure. I ended up finishing pressure washing the rest of the building. I quoted them two prices for the wash, they were hesitant about using chemicals, although it would have been cheaper for them.

How would have you gone about this job?

Non pressure is going to be a lot quicker and less labor intensive, but maybe not as clean.

Pressure washing is goin to ensure that all mold, mildew, dirt and grime will be removed.

What would you do?
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I don't understand why you gave them the option?

It looks good!!
 
swrest said:
I don't understand why you gave them the option?

It looks good!!
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It was originally quoted non pressure and they were weary of using chems, so I gave them the more expensive plan B.
 
I would have used my roof cleaning set-up and would not of gave them an option. I would have just told them that we are professional and we know what we are doing. Our soft wash methods are guaranteed not to hurt the building or plants. If you are not satified then you owe us nothing.
 
Chesapeake said:
We would have used a non pressure chemical application and then rinsed. This method is by far faster and less labor intensive.
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Simply Glass said:
I would have used my roof cleaning set-up and would not of gave them an option. I would have just told them that we are professional and we know what we are doing. Our soft wash methods are guaranteed not to hurt the building or plants. If you are not satified then you owe us nothing.
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Amen brother, no options -- no choices -- just a WE CAN DO IT ATTITUDE!​

And thats it ! But options are just that, an option for the customer to think about and explore ( maybe to somebody else ) about what is out there, and what they think they may be missing out on. Selling a job is these days not just about, what we can do, but how we can do it. This being said, giving out to much info leads to the "choice dilemma", so a need to balance this situation is what we as pros need to master.

So -- ONE price and thats it! No choices!

If we all keep the market price steady, and when I say "all" I mean the pro's not shmoe's, then we we will all prosper. Remember that we all got into this business to make $$$$, and by evolution we all got better, smarter, bigger and hopefully richer, and we did this for us, not the competition, who by default is the exact entity who will potentially do a job if we cant. And why do they get the work? Simple, for example we gave options to the prime decision maker, this is just one example, but one of many that the pros face, and just cant afford to take.

And to get to the psychology of the matter it is simple, let the customer think that you will have to do a ton of work, and that this project will be hard, and you will only make a small % profit, that makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

To the pros who will read this; don't ever think that your competition is not looking at this board, while I would never imagine that any more then a couple hundred people look at this board each week, I would never assume that none of these people are mine or your compitition. So lets at least let the novices and newbies know where we stand and what we believe. At least for me, it is, know your place in the market and respect those above you.
 
Prestige_Pressure said:
This building used to be a panasonic plant, the new occupants wanted the mold and mildew removed for highway appeal (sits 100 yards of I-75). After about 6 hours in it, my machine decided to stop holding pressure. Come to find out it was a garden hose fitting with no o-ring. So i decided to finish using non pressure. The one picture is where I did a demo pressure washing a spot. This sold it, they skeptical that the stains would come off. You can see the differance between pressure and no pressure. I ended up finishing pressure washing the rest of the building. I quoted them two prices for the wash, they were hesitant about using chemicals, although it would have been cheaper for them.

How would have you gone about this job?

Non pressure is going to be a lot quicker and less labor intensive, but maybe not as clean.

Pressure washing is goin to ensure that all mold, mildew, dirt and grime will be removed.

What would you do?
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Looks great. Congrats and smart to give the customer what they wanted and made your $$$
 
This job lead to cleaning there loading docks siding, all but the bay doors, and theres 83 total doors. If I have to spend 8 more hours pressure washing the building to clean the actual warehouse, then so be it.
 
Looks like a good contact you got there. Looks great!!
 
jlpressure said:
Looks great. Congrats and smart to give the customer what they wanted and made your $$$
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What they wanted? I would think that they wanted a clean building, correct? I don't think that most customers want to buy a sorta clean building if just for the benefit of a lower price. The customers intention are usually pretty clear, get it done, they dont want to know the minutia of the process, they just want results.

So complimenting on being smart for giving them what they wanted seems short sighted, cause I never heard of getting congratulated for doing just a little bit and only so so results. Giving them a clean building IS what they wanted in the first place.
 
swrest said:
What they wanted? I would think that they wanted a clean building, correct? I don't think that most customers want to buy a sorta clean building if just for the benefit of a lower price. The customers intention are usually pretty clear, get it done, they dont want to know the minutia of the process, they just want results.

So complimenting on being smart for giving them what they wanted seems short sighted, cause I never heard of getting congratulated for doing just a little bit and only so so results. Giving them a clean building IS what they wanted in the first place.
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They wanted a clean building without using a chemical process, so pressure washing is what they got for a more costly price. The building turned out great, they're happy, i'm happy ($), and more work coming my way from it. Can't complain about that.
 
Prestige_Pressure said:
They wanted a clean building without using a chemical process, so pressure washing is what they got for a more costly price. The building turned out great, they're happy, I'm happy ($), and more work coming my way from it. Can't complain about that.
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This is good indeed. The end result was a job well done.

Getting bonus work is always sweet.

I am just trying to point our that, you knew how do it and do it professionally, the customer did not. Just try to keep them like a mushroom sometimes, it relay is theirs and yours best interest.
Good job on the building and procuring more work.
 
Prestige_Pressure said:
This building used to be a panasonic plant, the new occupants wanted the mold and mildew removed for highway appeal (sits 100 yards of I-75). After about 6 hours in it, my machine decided to stop holding pressure. Come to find out it was a garden hose fitting with no o-ring. So i decided to finish using non pressure. The one picture is where I did a demo pressure washing a spot. This sold it, they skeptical that the stains would come off. You can see the differance between pressure and no pressure. I ended up finishing pressure washing the rest of the building. I quoted them two prices for the wash, they were hesitant about using chemicals, although it would have been cheaper for them.

How would have you gone about this job?

Non pressure is going to be a lot quicker and less labor intensive, but maybe not as clean.

Pressure washing is goin to ensure that all mold, mildew, dirt and grime will be removed.

What would you do?
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Nice job!!
 
Great job that led to more work, super!!!
 
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