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Yeah Ron, I convinced him that he couldn't miss your seminar. So we will both be there Friday and I will stay for Saturday. The scoreboard job at ISU went great, it was a lot of fun! Thanks for the referral. It was quite the climb. I had to make it up and down 4 times on day 1 of the project...

This is a deck we pressure washed and sealed in Des Moines, Iowa. Cedar decks turn grey because of the sun but as you can see they can be restored to their original appearance and protected against future weathering.

I'm proud of our little guy, its nothing compared to what others are posting but for its size (4x6), it packs a punch. I have a 5.5gpm cold pw, with a 15 gallon float, 200 ft each of supply hose, pw hose, and roof sprayer hose. My roof pump is a 1/2" all flow powered by a 9hp 16cfm compressor...

Does anybody have any tips on softwashing a limestone bldg on a regular basis? Its not old enough or nasty enough to justify full restoration costs. I have used Prosoco's limestone restorer and have heard about Safe Restore but I don't think their worth the hassle on this job. Any reason I...

Hi all I have a big home and garden show coming up and I'm looking to create some banners with before and afters and I realized none of my photos are high enough res to come out clear if I blow them up. I have hundreds of before and afters (mostly residential, some dumpster pads) that look...

That would rock to have . I met Paul in Milwaukee at his march round table. He's a great guy and I bought some misc. stuff from him. He has some good oil socks.

Hey all, any tips on removing these stains... I tried a couple test spots. Hot water and pressure improved it a little bit. Soft-washing (typical house wash mix sh, sc and h20) knocked out the stain completely from the bottom of one of the streaks but only lightened it on the tops. There is an...

I just got a 1999 F250 7.3 powerstroke with a utility box. its listed gvwr is 8800, i got everything mounted, 2 passengers and 55 gallons in the float tank with a full tank of gas and took it out to some scales, it weighs exactly 8800! Well, that's cutting it close so I'm deciding what to do. As...

I drove by this just a couple hours ago. I can't believe it but the driver of the second semi was taken out alive. He rear ended the first semi so hard that his cab was smashed to nothing. The two trailers are actually touching each other. It took them 2.5 hours to pull him out of the wreckage...

A homeowner is having me strip their basement walls because they had been painted and water was seeping through (they were not properly sealed). I am facing two problems on stripping these cinder blocks. 1. some of the walls (see pic 1) have some sort of primer or sealer that I can't strip 2...

I thought you guys might find this interesting. http://www.weather.com/maps/activity/garden/usnationalnormalfirstfreeze_large.html We had a low of 33 one night last week and I was thinking to myself I can't believe I already got to be thinking about winterizing overnight. However, it looks the...

Anybody have any tips on cleaning out these gutters fast: The gutter line is about 28 feet off the ground, the roof is steep tile, and there are gutter guards. I'm thinking a 32ft extension ladder on the corners to open up the guards, and get a visual down the line, then a gutter ball on an...

Here's a pic of the swivel. How do I grease this? there's no port for a grease gun like the display model had in the store.

I just picked up a gp hammerhead 20" surface cleaner and unlike the display model, mine doesn't have the grease port on the top of the swivel. The instructions said to grease every 200 hrs of use. I've read on here that some recommend greasing that swivel every day its used. Anybody know...

if the weather is forcing you to reschedule a residential client and you are booked for a couple of weeks do you make them top priority the next day and push everyone back, or do you schedule them a couple weeks out when your calendar is open?

The other day i went to thread some hose into my brand new cox reel, and without a swivel on the hose I fought it until i did some damage to the female threads on the reel. I picked up a tap and die set to chase the threads but the tap labeled 3/8 is much smaller than what I need. From my...

Quick help guys. Some of my workers sprayed goof off directly onto vinyl siding to remove some overspray and when it dried it left a white haze that is almost like white paint. I can apply more goof off or gasoline and the vinyl will return to normal for about 1 minute then the haze returns. I...

Did my first dumpster pad this morning. It went surprisingly well. We did an area of sidewalk coming out of a restaurant too. They said it had never been cleaned in 5 or 6 years and it was gross. In alot of places the grease was 1/4 inch thick. We scraped, sprayed down caustic, and hit with 200...

I picked up a cheap used pw from craigslist yesterday that wouldn't pressurize. everything turns and the seals and the plungers look fine, but I'm confused by the plumbing. on the left hp outlet is the unloader which dumps down into the inlet which makes sense. but on the right hp outlet is...

I'm curious what you guys have found to be your closing rate for doing direct sales on commercial flatwork. I'm talking about hitting up restaurants, banks, gas stations, fast food etc in person with unsolicited bids on maintenance cleaning and trying to get it into the hands of decision makers.