High Tide Wins City Project

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HighTide

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The City of St. Augustine has hired my company to pressure clean historic St. George Street in downtown St. Augustine. The city wants the top tourist area to look good when "Nights of Lights" begins on November 21st. Work must be completed from 10 pm to 6 am over the next four days starting tonight. This pedestrian only street is just under a half mile long with widths between 20 and 35 feet.

To enable me to get this large project completed on time, I have hired Mike Barrett of Barrett's Pressure Cleaning to assist me. I met Mike at the Tampa RT and look forward to working with him. This will be the first project I have ever done involving help as I have always worked alone. Before and after pictures to follow in a week. This cleaning project will require a TON of gum to be removed, plus cleaning of 44 concrete benches and the exterior of 33 trash containers.
 

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The City of St. Augustine has hired my company to pressure clean historic St. George Street in downtown St. Augustine. The city wants the top tourist area to look good when "Nights of Lights" begins on November 21st. Work must be completed from 10 pm to 6 am over the next four days starting tonight. This pedestrian only street is just under a half mile long with widths between 20 and 35 feet.

To enable me to get this large project completed on time, I have hired Mike Barrett of Barrett's Pressure Cleaning to assist me. I met Mike at the Tampa RT and look forward to working with him. This will be the first project I have ever done involving help as I have always worked alone. Before and after pictures to follow in a week. This cleaning project will require a TON of gum to be removed, plus cleaning of 44 concrete benches and the exterior of 33 trash containers.
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Congratulations. My mom was just in St. Augustine and she was just telling me yesterday that everything looked dirty and moldy around there.
 
nice snag, remember to take as many photos as possible because it will be good to have several good ones for marketing to those larger projects
 
We do a similar thing for the city of FT Laurderdale, The first cleaning was almost 5 miles. I also used guy's from this BB to help me. The gum was also mind boggeling but you will get thru it.
 
Congratulations on that job!

It is great to network with friends here.
 
Great job on landing that David. My wife and I go there a lot. Mike is a good guy and I'm sure it will look great when you guys are done. :clapping: Just watch out for the Ghosts! :eek: LOL...
 
Hi Larry, thanks for the kind words! Forget the ghosts watch out for the drunks:yikes: The first night a guy tried to grab Davids wand (pressure washing) when we were popping gum 200 deg, so he could spray his girl Friend. Many funny drunk girls and guys, a few complaining about the noise,David got yelled at last night. We watched a lady stumble and weave all the way down the street:rotflmao: I think if it weren't for the building she would have fallen at least once
I just wish I could sleep during the day, maybe this afternoon I'll sleep 4 or 5 hours before we are back at popping gum. I hate gum:shout: but I guess it keeps us working.
 
When removing gum I keep this equation in mind. Surface - Gum = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Mike Barrett and I completed this project in 4 full nights. I have attached a few after shots as the street is pretty much gum free. I have never seen so much gum EVER as it seemed there was a piece every foot with it heaviest around trashcans and benches. I am glad the project is over, but I am ready to do it again the next time! Thanks Mike for the help to get this project complete for the Nights of Lights celebration that happened last night. I was good working with you! St. George street was packed last night as I took the girls down to enjoy the festivities.
 

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That is great David, Congratulations!

Sometimes when you are popping that much gum it seems to never end. hahahahaha
 
I dont think I've ever seen it so clean. Great job guys!
 
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Mike Barrett and I completed this project in 4 full nights. I have attached a few after shots as the street is pretty much gum free. I have never seen so much gum EVER as it seemed there was a piece every foot with it heaviest around trashcans and benches. I am glad the project is over, but I am ready to do it again the next time! Thanks Mike for the help to get this project complete for the Nights of Lights celebration that happened last night. I was good working with you! St. George street was packed last night as I took the girls down to enjoy the festivities.
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I was born and raised in Jacksonville, Fl bro. St. Augustine is the gum capital of the world lol. Not only from America, but from parts unknown. I have always visited that place and the entire city since I was a baby. Beautiful night life there and the celebration that takes place is wonderful. One of the places I would love to get some beach front property at.

They have the best food down those streets. The chocolate store..dang it Mike, now I gotta go get me some man and I am up in PA lol.
 
HighTide said:
Mike Barrett and I completed this project in 4 full nights. I have attached a few after shots as the street is pretty much gum free. I have never seen so much gum EVER as it seemed there was a piece every foot with it heaviest around trashcans and benches. I am glad the project is over, but I am ready to do it again the next time! Thanks Mike for the help to get this project complete for the Nights of Lights celebration that happened last night. I was good working with you! St. George street was packed last night as I took the girls down to enjoy the festivities.
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Congrats on getting and finishing the job. Interested to know with your new experience what would you have done differently and/or could make the project go faster/better?
 
Thank you David for bringing me on this job. David is a great guy to work with.

One thing we learned during this job was to work to the crest/high end of the road. So you rinse down to the drain one time.
The other thing we learned was to surface clean-cold water rinse-pop gum
What I would do differently would be to use a 48" lance for popping gum, I only had a 36" lance, hard on the back. Some places on the street had 10-15 pieces of gum per S.F. especially out side the ice cream shops (3)
 
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