ARMEX WADU cleaner

Joel Hawley

Joel Hawley

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Are any of you out there familar with the WADU cleaning system. It uses a cleaning product made by Arm & Hammer, basicaly your are useing baking soda to clean with. It looks to me it would be a good system to clean statues and tomb stones with, but the info I have on it also says it will clean, concrete, brick, tile, granite, stucco, aluminum. stainless stell, brass, copper, etc, etc..

I guess I am looking for a nich market, have made a few cold calls to places where I am relocating to and they showed an interest.

It is made by a company called
Church & Dwight co
Princton NJ

The info I have is 7 or 8 years old so they may not even exsist anymore

I would be happy to fax the info I have to anybody to get there opinion on it.
 
Dave Olsen has one

and wadu has an ad in cleaner times mag allmost every month.
They just wrote a nice artical about them in nov. issue.
 
joel

i just noticed your signature
J&B
are you getting a partner, or have one?
Are you going to have 1 wash rig or 2/or more?
 
Ron the B in J&B is my wife Billie. Right now I have one rig and plan on sailing solo until I get my feet on the ground in Maryland. I have my business plan written planning on having 2 rigs running in the spring of 2005, hopefully thing will go quicker then that but until i actally get my feet on the ground and see what advertising and marketing works and what dosen't in the Maryland area I won't really know. But I have one hell of A plan on paper:D

I am fortunate that my wife has just about has her Masters in business and will sit for the CPA when we get to Maryland so I have a built in Accountant/Book Keeper
 
cool

and good luck.
What are you going to start out with as far as equip. and what is it you plan on washing?
What is your background?
 
Ron, right now I have a 16HP Landa hot/cold running at about 6 GPM 3000 PSI with a kerosen/diesle coil heater mounted on A 12 foot trailer with A 250 gallon reserve tank. I got quote today on a 30" surface cleaner made by cairns Manufacturing called a water spike, a buddy of mine ran them in the past he said theyu are a good piece of equip so i am ordering one at $575 just can't decide weather to get plastic or metal. Will probably get plastic easier load and un load.

I initially plan to tackle primarly residential (tell me if my reasoning is flawed here) normally with residential (i.e decks/drive ways/houses/ and roofs)you get paid upon completion and the most important thing for a new business is cash flow once I get some working capital i will dwell into the commercial, though I will probably be doing some new construction brick cleaning from the git go, I have family there that are contractors who build new homes and home improvemnet.

As far a back ground goes I spent 9 years in the Army (82nd, 8th ID, 10th MTN) and when I got out went into the masonry business brick and block layer, one day my boss couldn't find anybody to clean a house we just finished and I said "Hell pay me I will do it" and it went from there. Unfortunatley I was young and stupid and didn't relize what I could have started. I had 14 commercial accounts (6 tires tores and 8 midas mufflers stores) on a bi-monthly plus all the new constuction I could handle. But I hurt my shoulder and was layed up for a couple of months and instead of keeping it going I got into sales and have been here for 9 years.

Now i am ready to start working for me again but doing right, last time I flew by the seat of my pants and who knows how much $$ and business I pissed away.
 
ron p/joel

sounds to me as if you have a good head start over a true new guy.
A couple of things.
For homeowner stuff re-think the 30 inc surface cleaner. Some walkways are not 30". A smaller hover cover is more flexiable. You can do front walks,some steps,JUMP curbs,get under things,the HOVER type are good for uneaven surfaces. Both would be best.
cant weld a plastic deck!
Second is advertising cost's.
Homeowner cleaning requires a lot of advertising.
Commerical, you can just stop in and do a free demo.
You should think about fleetwashing also,year round,steady pay,easyer to train help to wash 1 thing then 5 or 6 things.
Do a search on X-JET or housewashing it will help you out.
Also check out www.deckguide.com
to see if that is a route you might want to take.
good luck.
 
Ron p, thanks for the great input, you have made me stop and re-think my initial game plan on the 30" surface cleaner, also the welding plastic point never dawned on me.

On the x-jet Steven Rowlett is about 15 miles from where I live now and I am going to get in touch with him to try to set up a time he could Demo that equipment for me and also check out some of his chemicals and try to get a little education from him.

The biggest thing that is really blowing me away is all of the new technology that is around since the last time I dealt with this business. There is allot more to it then just finding a water source, hitting start on the PW on begin blowing 3000 PSI of water pressure on anything that don't move.

The one thing I found that I need to be real careful of is that i don't go out and buy every gadget I see, when you are just getting started $100 here $300 there adds up real quick

I just need to figure out what equipment I really need to be effective as a one man operation and then grow from there.

Any input from any of you would be greatly appreciated
 
Joel

Give me a call and maybe sometime next week you can go with me on a job and I can demo a few things for you. Iuse a 24" surface cleaner and think that might be the way for you to go for conrete cleaning. The only time I use 3000 psi is on concrete. I use around 1000 psi on houses and 500 psi on decks. Chemicals, not high pressure do the cleaning.
 
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