Most unusual request???

MARK W.

MARK W.

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What's the most unusual request anyone has had (cleaning wise)?
 
I had a guy call up and ask "Do you clean underwear??"

To which I answered.............." No, do you??"


He laughed and said he had the wrong number......obviously. :)
 
I would have to say my most unusual request was to Pressure Wash the inside of the Stainless Steel tanks that they transport milk in. I would have had to hook myself to something and all but free fall inside the tank to clean it without getting blow up against the sides of the tank.

Between the Bio-Hazards, and the obvious physical hazards, I declined the job. THe thought of working in all of that was pretty skin crawling.
 
I cleaned an operating Ice Cream Freezer about 8 years ago. 20 below, and the walls would buckle if I used hot water. Basically I was blowing off dust and mildew.

Scott Stone
 
I cleaned a house that some collage students had just moved out of and the owners wife asked me if I could pressure wash the bathtub for her.
 
These are some of the unusual things that we have been asked to clean.

Fly ash from the inside of 3 four-story boiler heat reclaim units. (8 gpm @ 1500 psi)

Clean the inside of railroad grain hopper cars (spoiled grain) sticking to walls. Did 7-800 of them. (Rotary nozzles 3000 psi)

Clean the inside of HVAC Ducts that had several inches of flour and cinnamon in them (bakery). (Wet and dry)

Spent Sulfuric Acid from inside of 10” pipes. (10,000 psi @ 10 gpm)

Truck scales at coal mine. Was frozen and the temperature when we cleaned it was –15 degrees below zero! (Zero nozzles 3000 psi 200 degrees)

Removed interior insulation from HVAC Ducts supplying heat and air conditioning to an enclosed swimming pool at a resort. (By hand)

Clean the interior of a 12,000-gallon stainless water tank. Tank was 30 foot high and 12 foot wide. The only opening to put people in was a manhole in the side at the bottom. Used pipe and clamp scaffolding and built platforms to work from. (Soda blaster)

We cleaned the interior of buildings at the local sanitary plant after they were flooded. They had a major rain event. (2000 psi and heavy degreaser)

We removed graffiti from automobile bridge that goes over our areas drinking water supply. (Soda Blaster)

Clean kitchen grease exhaust systems that go over offices, operating rooms, etc., 2 blocks from where we park our truck! (1500 psi, heavy degreaser)

Removed residual coal from 100 coal cars. (Vac truck).

Clean railroads maintenance of way equipment on the Main Line! (Normal type cleaning)

Removed paint from billboard sign frames without hurting the paper signage! (Water blaster 10,000 psi no chemical)

100% paint removal from a 100-year-old Victorian Style house. (Potassium Hydroxide based stripper and low pressure @ 8 gpm).

Cleaned bird droppings from main electrical entrance of a local manufacturing plant. They had shorted out! Of course it was after dark and raining! (Just water 1500 psi or so)

Cleaned up 7-800 gallon soy oil spill in a food plant. (Kitchen degreaser hot water and a lot of vac’ing)

Dust from overhead pipes, conduit and top of equipment and structural beams. (Dry with HEPA vacs.)

Cleaned selected equipment at a forging plant. Flywheel on one press was 25 feet in diameter and was 30 feet off of the floor on top of the press. Had to clean it by hand, customer would not allow using water in that area! (Degreaser with an electro solvent rinse/wipe.)

Clean the interior of 16-story garbage chute in a dormitory. (Spinner, rotary tips, degreaser, 200 degrees, 3000 psi.)

Clean 100,000 square foot of floor in an old manufacturing plant that has no floor drains! Was to dirty to use surface cleaners. (Used both of our unit’s wands only. Prewashed, straight Sodium Metasilicate degreaser, power rinse 3000 psi, 200 degrees, Tennant sweeper to pick up the water. When pumping we were putting down about 16 gpm. I estimated that we used well over 10,000 gallons of water!)

Dave Olson
 
a guy once a long time ago had me blast the complete inside of his car. yes it was pretty bad. turned out better than i thought.

i've done some underground gas lines, that was a trip...

the national forest restrooms have been the nastiest things i've done. bad bad bad...

Topless clubs and peeps show places are horrible toooooo.. believe me no wise cracks about that one.. they actually were pretty nasty.. haha,,, i mean dirty, on you know what i mean. LOL
 
I WASHED A JEEP INSIDE AND OUT , THERE HAD BEEN , A MAN DEAD IN IT FOR 2 MONTHS , HE SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD
UP ON A HILL BY A GOLF COURSE IN ARLINGTON , TX 360 NORTH.
THEY HAD IT ALL CLEAN, BUT HAD A SMELL THEY COULDNT GET OUT. THE MAN WHO BROUGHT THE JEEP GOT IT DIRT CHEAP!

MEL R.
 
Oh and by they way, how is it that none found him before two months, if he was by a golf course.
 
A golfer has tunnel vision - he is oblivious to his surroundings. Even the nose is exempt. Obviously Bryan is not a golf aficionado.
Richard
 
it was a woody area ! About the smell I dont know they never called and complained. true store belive it or not.

MEL R.

MEL'S MOBILE WASH & STRIPING
CLEBURNE, TX
 
He was probably a cowboy fan afraid of getting spanked by my Skins next year!!!!
Gav
 
We clean water/solid waste separators at sanitary plants. Had to keep one eye open so the white mice didn’t get us. HA HA HA
Clean punch presses at local stamping plant.
Had to clean some mining equipment, 1000+ feet down in a mine.
 
I did not clean this, but 20 years ago I was Parts Mgr in a Chevy dealership. One day the boss walked into the shop and told the shop foreman that the feedlot lost a pick-up in the settling pond. The pick-up lost its brakes, coming to a stop in the shit pond. The stuff was deep enough that when someone waded out, and opended the door, sshit ran into the cab. (Someone had to reach under the rear bumper & hook a chain) He said the pick=up was coming in to be steamcleaned, and he (the boss) wanted to know when it showed up. The wash boy heard this and knew who was going to clean the cow shit off. He was going to go to the boss and quit. I told him it would take an hour at least to get the pick-up in, and not to quit until then. The pick-up arrived, the boss was notified. The kid came back to the parts room and said it was time for him to quit. I told him to wait until he was told to clean the pick-up. the boss walked into the shop and asked to have someone drive the pick-up into the wash bay and put it up on jacks. The kid shows up, & again I told him to wait. The pick-up was put on jacks, the boss was again notified. The kid shows up again & I agreed it was time to load his tool box in his pick-up and give notice. As the kid was heading to the front office to give notice, the boss was heading into the shop. He walked up to the shop foreman and said " Ed, you & I are the same size. Can I borrow a pair of your coveralls?" Yeah, the boss crawled under that pick-up and cleaned the underbody, the interior and the exterior. I got the kid stopped before he quit. Next time the boss asked someone to do something, it got done.

Douglas Hicks
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc
 
The strangest thing I was ever asked to wash was the inside of a log cabin. I did it and it came out great. I used wolman's brightener on it and power washed it off flooded his damn house though but I had him sign a contract that I wasn't responsible for water damage. It was new and had no carpet or electric in it yet but had all the flooring down as far as the sub floor. Im sure it warped pretty badly.
 
I am in the process of cleaning a water wheel for a grist mill that was erected about 20 years ago and is over water about 4 feet deep. The water temperature yesterday was
about 45 degrees and I stood in neopreme waders for 5 hours.
The wheel is about 20 feet in diameter and is comprised of
cedar sides, oak spokes and some wood I cannot identify as the steps of the wheel. They have a tar applied to make them waterproof but the part that is not exposed to water is black with mold. Well, that is my most unusual so far this year.
 
Tuna,
do you have to clean this with water only, if so are you useing hot or cold and if your useing a chem what is it seeing how your directly in a water supply.
Gav
 
Outlay, cleaned the wheel with no chem and cold water
since I was not sure if the pond fed any watersheds.
I was told th pond was a self contained unit but I could
not really be sure so I was not about to take a chance on
third hand information. There are quite a number of Canada
geese around the pond and that was another reason for cold/no chem.
 
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