Sorry when I offend

So maybe we should put a stop to FREE ADVISE.....and R/T should only be open to industry leaders and Distributors. If u want to come to a R/T and learn ,it should cost u a good fee to get in. I would have paid $1000.00 back in the day to get into this buisness, No one shared crap with me. I learned how to travel and make a great living with mobile contract cleaning with no help from anyone, so it seems pretty ridiculous to just give all this hard earned knowlege away to competition for free?
 
2nd guy is a painter told me he just finshed cleaning a roof. Now you think this guy might have a clue. Pump sprayer with pool bleach 1/3 and mirac acid1/3. Now thats has to hurt the lungs eyes.
I feel sorry for the home owner thinking these man say they know what they are doing but dont have a clue, plus dont want to find out the right way.

I did tell the painter the right way of cleaning a roof. I knew he would get hurt using those 2chemciasl together. Then showed him some of the larger jobs we have done, but he didnt seem catch on.[/QUOTE]

TAMPA - A container with an acid residue exploded Friday morning in New Tampa, severely burning a 36-year-old man. Investigators say Kenneth Toledo, a Tampa man who owns a pressure washing business, poured chlorine and water into the container, which had previously been used to apply an acid wash. The container had not been properly rinsed, and the resulting chemical reaction caused the explosion, officials said.
The container exploded as Toledo scaled a ladder to clean the roof of a Hunter's Green home in the 17800 block of Osprey Point Place, pelting Toledo with chemicals and shrapnel. He was airlifted to Tampa General Hospital. His condition was unknown Friday.
The explosion also blew a 2-foot-wide hole in the roof. Tile was scattered about the driveway.
 
The Cleaner said:
So maybe we should put a stop to FREE ADVISE.....and R/T should only be open to industry leaders and Distributors. If u want to come to a R/T and learn ,it should cost u a good fee to get in. I would have paid $1000.00 back in the day to get into this buisness, No one shared crap with me. I learned how to travel and make a great living with mobile contract cleaning with no help from anyone, so it seems pretty ridiculous to just give all this hard earned knowlege away to competition for free?
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I agree. And I'm the first to admit I exploited the hell out of this free info. Anyone with any type of business acumen would.
 
scottwash said:
TAMPA - A container with an acid residue exploded Friday morning in New Tampa, severely burning a 36-year-old man. Investigators say Kenneth Toledo, a Tampa man who owns a pressure washing business, poured chlorine and water into the container, which had previously been used to apply an acid wash. The container had not been properly rinsed, and the resulting chemical reaction caused the explosion, officials said.
The container exploded as Toledo scaled a ladder to clean the roof of a Hunter's Green home in the 17800 block of Osprey Point Place, pelting Toledo with chemicals and shrapnel. He was airlifted to Tampa General Hospital. His condition was unknown Friday.
The explosion also blew a 2-foot-wide hole in the roof. Tile was scattered about the driveway.
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I have to add an extra warning here too. One of my crewmen simply added caustic soda to a pump up sprayer that was always used for caustic. The foreman, who usually mixes the chems, not knowing, adds his dose of caustic, then while climbing the ladder, the canister was hot enough to burn his leg through his dickies (some pun intended :yikes:! He dropped the caninster and when it hit the ground he had an explosion that broke a 15lbs chunk out of the concrete curb. The crewman on the ground took some chemical splash, and said he thought he saw a fireball.
Long story short, we had a kit to quickly treat the chem. burn, change of clothes (including underwear) and an extra sprayer. It only set the guys back 18 minutes! And me, just an hour to get, mix, and set the concrete. The owner was very understanding. That was 4 years ago and we still have the account...
It's important that we know some of these things, and while it might appear to hurt us to share with our competitors, we have a very high chance of improving the industry. And that will greatly improve our own bottom lines!
I know I've said this before, but...
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. We all likely lowballed some time in our career. I know the first hood I cleaned was for $250, and it took me a little over 6 hours. I personally wasn't happy with the results, and I'm not sure I was really worth the price, but it was experience! We have that first invoice in a frame with some embarrassing pictures to remind us how hard we worked to get where we are. A lot of that improvement I owe to many of you guys, and a few more customers that were willing to let me make some bad judgments for a discounted price.
 
My new rig

Here is my new rig, just got it yesterday.....ready to start making money
 

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Here is my new rig. I should be able to rake in the bucks with this. Hopefully I can make at least $40.00-$50.00 a day. I can't wait to get started. For an extra $45.00 I was able to get a Re-Claim unit with it so I figured what the heck. Never know when ya gonna get a call for one of those big Parking Garage that require Re-Claiming.
 

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Competition is good, it drives me.

Everyone has different pricing strategies, not everyone falls into the same category.

I question the whole "softwash" is the bad guy theme here, it makes no difference the process, it is the end result that needs to be evaluated.

Who cares if a guy buys an electric pump or a home depot pressure washer..... if he does a good job, sells to market and makes his customer happy then what difference does the amount of his initial investment make?

I don't get hung up on low ballers...there are guys around here that are charging $50 for a home that is 1500 sq.ft. - it has not impacted my business at all. Let them do it and fail.
 
Ok, just have to throw a little comedy in here. Yesterday when I clicked on "New Posts" the threads showed up in this order and it was funny:

S*x Off*nders
Russ Spence

Sorry When I offend
Russ Spence

I just thought that was funny when they showed up in that order. :)
 
I started a Roof Cleaning job today but it got real hot out and I was running low on gas so I just left my rig at the job site. I will go back tomorrow to work on it some more.
 

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Not many because he would be dead in short order. They don't store Muriatic acid and chlorine together because they make mustard gas, which, if you remember your wwI history, is deadly. Just saying.

Some time we need to start a thread of crazy pressure washing pictures, called, "Don't let this happen to you"
 
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