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I been away for a while and noticed so's everyone else. There's an echo in here, here, here.

What if any results is anybody getting from using a thickener chemical in with their caustic, like that Bonzi stuff, which is pretty expensive. If you took some Bonzi, like 2 cups say, and mixed it into a hot caustic brew, would it thicken and stick on the grease. Like they say it does? That...

Forget about Rusty, etc. Where is Matt and Chris for that matter. They have both been noticeably absent from here and I for one am getting concerned. Did Big Joe catch a holt of them and do them in? Wha'sup? ::confused:

I did a job today on a serious steep pitched metal roof that I insisted the owner have a work platform constructed on. They had a commercial heating contractor put up a nice, but narrow platform which looks real good from the road. I was all set to install hinges on this standard upblast fan - I...

A small fire in a refrigerator at a place we service got me thinking. We don't always remember to get a manager to sign off on our copy of the after service report. How do you handle getting sigs from management/owners. We know how we should do it - how do you do it - when say you have keys or...

The neighborhood tool collector made a visit to my area recently and burglarized 2 of our trucks. Happily I can't find anything missing. He popped the lock on one van and just snooped around leaving shop vac, electric portable and scads of greasy tools behind. The other one he popped the sliding...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Facilitec USA Announces Major Corporate Change June 21, 2006 Daryl Mirza, President of Facilitec USA, the largest Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning Company in North America, has decided after careful consideration to divide the business into five independently owned...

For several years we have been using camping head lights to light the way for fan cleaning. What are other guys using to give you working light on the roof. We been running into a lot of pitch black roofs lately. I was just thinking today there's got to be a brighter way to do this.

Customer we had in 2003 - had two locations. His former cleaners didn't bother to remove the original nuts and bolts from the hinge kits. You can picture the fans! Meanwhile I told him I wouldnt "sticker" a wood burning pizza oven with type 2 ducting as cleaned by us when we didn't. We had a...

We have been using 24 ft fiberglas ladders for the obvious safety reason of non-conduction, they are heavy 1A rated. I am looking to buy some newer laddies and wonder if anyone if using aluminum 1A's to climb up roofs since they weigh less. What about those 22 foot Little Giants, seem safe...

According to NFPA 96 as long as the fire inpector ie. auth having jurisdiction, finds us acceptable based on the above, trained, qualif, certified etc. we're good to go and inspect for grease in kitchens per table 14.3. And if we deem them to be greasey we are qualified to say so and start...

There is a giant echoing void in this board. WHERE IS RUSTY? I find myself going back and reading his old posts to get my fix and it's getting old now. I think he made a new year's resolution and vowed never to write again on the PWI board until the democrats nominate Howard Dean - (which might...

I don't know if anybody else has noticed, but Mikey from Casper, Wyoming and Dominic A from Southern Colorado haven't posted in over a year. Are they still out there scraping and washing hoods? While I'm on the subject, where is Rusty? Did he take that cruise to no-where and forget to return...

I heard from several sources that the new president of PWNA is going to be an emplyee of one of the founder members. A person who once had a small company in South Bend and closed it down so he could go to work for a larger company. A person who knows far less about your concerns and is far less...

A guy I know in the midwest started running a PW company in 2000. He proudly told me he grossed $35,000 last year, working 9 months (due to the weather conditions). We figured that to be 180 days and he worked 6 hours per day on average. Here's what his situation is: He spends, $ 2,000 on...

This is a particularly bad time of year for many people in this business, when they realize that they are not making enough money to pay themselves a salary, pay their expenses and pay Uncle Sam and co. That's sad because we delude ourselves into thinking next year will be better, but unless we...

Whatever happened to: carwashguyssuck.com? It appears that they (CWG) are taking another stab at the gullible. I know they'll be successful cause it says so on their website and they can't lie cause the FTC said not to!

Are any florida companies involved in this cruise ship clean up? Massive jobs! I wonder if this whole thing is a terrorist strike. The cruise industry was the only part of the travel industry not directly touched by 9/11. They have just about done in the airlines, and now the cruise ships - who...

Hi Dan, Is Dan S the same guy as Dan Shannon? Do I remember rightly, did you go to work last spring for your local utility co? The reason I have been talking to the local here and considering the P/T opportunity. Was it worth the time involved. Would you do it again?

Just wondering, hadn't seen any posts from Mikey and Dominic. They were both fairly active and then suddenly stopped. The last I remember, Mikey was teaching hood cleaning for free and Dominic was cleaning a bunch of grocery store hoods. Hope these guys are still at it! It's getting colder now...