I had to laugh!!!

Scott Stone

Scott Stone

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I rolled out my kids/employees today to work for the first time this week, due to rain. Only had enough work for one crew, so I thought that it would be good for another day off. I was driving past a local store and someone was cleaning the store front. Just last week I went into the store and noticed some serious scribbling on the walk, and that it appeared that it had recently been cleaned.
Anyway, I was driving by, and saw someone out there cleaning the lot with his pressure washer. He had about a 6 foot wand and was holding it nearly parallel to the lot. I thought at first that he was just rinsing it off after washing it. Then I turned around and drove by again, and noticed that he was a little further down, but not much and still doing the same thing. That got me reallly curious, and I waited ten minutes, ran a quick errand, and came back and drove by a last time. There he was in all his glory doing the exact same thign, about two feet from where he was before. This time I made an effort to check out what he had for equipment. He had a brand new Delco machine, the latest and greatest one that they have to offer, a water tank on a trailer, and maybe a hose reel. No surface cleaner, no chems, no cones, nothing else that was apparent. I guess some people feel that a wand is all you need, but at least he should have had a short enough wand to point at the concrete.
I need to drive by again and check out his rinse job.

Scott
 
Sic Ron and his gang on him!

OH and take a few pictures also.

Now stop laughing and get your behiny to work before more rain shows up.

Wait, you said a SIX foot wand? gad how tall is this guy? Maybe you should have gone and told him he will never finish the job the way he was doing it.

Tell Robert as I am sure he will sell the guy a video of flat work cleaning now.
 
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What they Pay ...

I saw a similar situation last week, the next day I called the owner,
it was the new Mobile on the Run Stores (BIG STORES) anyway I
asked if I could give him a bid he said sure, I came up with $350.00
flat work only. He was shocked he said the guy is doing now for $170.00
Gas bay area 30x80, 25 parking places in front of store, and wrap around
sidewalk 5ftx 80ft approx I told him keep it, the place was filthy and he said
the guy was just there, I said I know, I cant believe you paid for this type
of work, I told him the old saying is right, "you get what you pay for"

Rfitz
 
I saw a guy on a scissor left doing a gas station canopy, in the middle of the day, no cones, no harness, water going on cars, people, and pressure washer was a 5hp. What was funny he had a 25ft pw hose. Garden hose was running across the parking lot. I ask the manger what company is doing the cleaning. They said it was their own man doing all there canopies. The lift was there for 3days<O:p</O:p
 
Thats alright Pantry has a crew of landscapers here doing their stores now with a roll-around hotsey 4gpm machine, big guy surface cleaner and they are doing them in broad day light without shutting the pumps off or diverting customers either. Oh and on top of that they are removing ZERO pieces of Gum.
 
Chris Tharpe said:
Thats alright Pantry has a crew of landscapers here doing their stores now with a roll-around hotsey 4gpm machine, big guy surface cleaner and they are doing them in broad day light without shutting the pumps off or diverting customers either. Oh and on top of that they are removing ZERO pieces of Gum.
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yeah and we were cleaning 96 of the for 2 years and doing it for a very decent price ....... did I mention WE WERE DOING IT RIGHT!:angry:
 
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