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All education is important
It occurs to me that it has been a while since I climbed onto my proverbial soap box to share my thoughts on a topic. Well' date=' spring is just about here, or at least it feels like it in many regions. This is the time of year when we begin to plan, and it is the time of year when many companies pick up a wand for the first time. For any business owner, new or seasoned, selecting your professional education should be something that is budgeted for both in terms of time and money.There are many opinions out there as to what kind of education is best, and from what source. There are pro-association or pro-organization folks, and also those who find that for their own use, it is not a good investment. There are many manufacturer courses, to show you how to successfully use a product. The goal is simple, they sell product, you sell jobs. It's a win win. There are distributors who hold wonderful annual events in different parts of the country, and there are contractors who do the same thing. And of course there are companies who bundle together classes teaching certain topics who are perhaps affiliated with one or more of the above but who are focused on selling course work. Let me be clear; ALL EDUCATION IS GOOD. All of it has value. One company's choice and opinion as to what will work for them is based upon that company's needs and objectives. As business owners, each of us must evaluate the services we plan to offer, and the needs of our business. We must decide for ourselves what to spend our budget on. Compare before you spend. Some of the courses out there are similar in design and content. Before you spend your hard earned education budget on class, consider the content. Look at the competing education at products. are some closer to home? Are some part of an organization? Would the credentials of an association membership give you a competitive market advantage? Should you get the training at a round table, at a convention or simply in a class offered by an education company?
Once upon a time, our business was new. At that time, we did not have what seems like dozens of forums with lots of data just waiting to be searched by a user and browsed as time permits. And back in that day, we chose to go to a PWNA convention. There was no other org, and the classes were offered that we had a personal interest in. So we went. We learned and we networked and we made decisions that moved us forward. It worked for us, because we aligned our goals and needs with what was offered to us.
Are the classes enough? Ummmm....hell no. You will not ever get everything out of any of these classes. I do not care who the instructor is, or how many years they have been at it. You cannot impart in just a few short hours or days, enough knowledge to fill your head with all you need, and it is not matched with what you gain over time as you learn and grow. You will read magazines, you will find articles, you will search the forums. As you do these things you will discover your likes and dislikes, and you will tailor your business around your own points of interest and strength, or at least, that is my advice to you.
Never, ever stop learning.
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Dog Grooming in Lexington KY
Got your attention!
Hey, you have your pet looking good and clean. Why not your Homes exterior? Just as you would only take your Dog to be Groomed to a trained Professional, you should also look for a trained and experienced professional to clean you homes exterior. After all, it is your largest investment.
While your pets are very important to you and you see the value in keeping them groomed and healthy, so is your homes exterior. A clean Home is a healthy home.
I made a silly little video for getting the word out.
Go ahead and groom your pets but lets get that house washed too.Call us today to learn how we "Pamper" your home. 859-983-5955
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The PWNC is pleased to announce our two newest participants - Jake Clark of Armstrong-Clark Company and Byron Briney of Ambassador Window Cleaning! Welcome Aboard!
Take a look at this network for professional pressure washing companies in North & South Carolina today - we're here to help YOUR business!
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Los Angeles Hood Cleaning
Here is a great video that shows that when getting your restaurant hood cleaning in Los Angeles, cheaper is not always the way to go.
Lots of hood cleaning companies in Los Angeles will offer service for around $250, but what are you really getting when you pay this low low price? Take a look:
Bryan Exhaust Hood Cleaning in Los Angeles has never been the cheapest guy on the block, but we guarantee our work, and follow up every hood cleaning service with photographic evidence.
And if there is ever a problem with your service, you can rest assured that our friendly office staff will be there when you call and get any customer service issues handled properly.
We are the only Grease Police Certified Hood Cleaning Company in Southern California (Restaurant Kitchen Exhaust Hood Cleaners «Hood Cleaning Professionals) which means we are the only restaurant exhaust hood cleaning company in Southern California completely dedicated to quality kitchen exhaust cleaning and overall customer satisfaction.
Give us a call today and find out what true hood cleaning service is all about 800-300-7832.
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Pressure Washing School and Hard Surface Restoration
Power Washing School - Hard Surface Restoration and Sealing - Hands On TrainingFront 9 University
855-803-1133
Next Class: Feb 10-13, 2016 in Palm Desert, CA
Training Hours at Front 9 University Count Towards ***** Credit Hours!
We are pleased to announce that Front 9 University is now in full force! Learn secrets to cleaning and restoration that will separate you from your competition FOREVER!
3.5 Days Hand-On Training Course
Classes are Wednesday through Saturday Afternoon and will be held in Palm Desert, CA.
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Class 1: Wednesday Feb 10, 2016. Rust and Battery Stain Restoration and Sealing
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Class 2: Thursday Feb 11, 2016. Gray Concrete Restoration and Sealing
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Class 3: Friday and Saturday Feb 12, 13th. Colored Concrete/Paver Restoration and Sealing
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Day 1 Classroom Pressure Washing Basics $699: Sales, Marketing, ADA, Hazardous Stains, Slip and Falls, COF’s & Why We are Needed:
- Pressure washer selection: Hot vs. Cold, PSI vs. GMP
-Wand selection
-Chemical selection
-Degreasers and acids
-Surface cleaner selection
--Adjustable vs non-adjustable
--Tip selection
--Causes of striping and damage
Environmental
-Methods of water recovery
-----Vacuboom
-----Recovery surface cleaner
-----Gutter recovery
Safety
-Boots and what kind
-Gloves and what kind
-Glasses
-Respirators
Always have a plan
Day 1 In the Field: Battery Acid and Rust Removal Restoration & Seal
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Day 2 In the Field $899: Gray concrete; Turning an ugly slab into something beautiful. $899 "Granitize" and seal. You will learn how to make concrete "perfect" or close to it. These techniques are unique to Front 9 Restoration and you will not learn these secrets anywhere else in the world. Learn how to always get your surface cleaner than your competition! Covers basics of acid washing, restoration, proper neutralization and a secret way to make concrete look "perfect".
-Remove calcium staining, calcium carbonate, hard water stains, even out concrete texture and color
-Surface cleaner process and techniques with and without recovery
-Etching and how to fix
-Floor tool techniques and obstacle course
-Edging and cutting in
-Advanced Techniques
-More
Earn Certificate: Gray Concrete Restoration and Sealing
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Day 3 In the Field $899: Seal gray concrete from day before and perform restoration on colored concrete. May substitute pavers, riverstone or other substrate depending on work available.
-Remove calcium staining, calcium carbonate, hard water stains, even out concrete texture and color
-More advanced techniques
-Sealer options
-Tips and tricks
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Day 4 In the Field: Seal colored concrete from day before.
-Question/Answer session
-Certificates of Completion
Purchase individual classes or purchase all at reduced rate of $1997. This can be split into an immediate deposit of $1000 with the other $997 due 2 weeks before class. No Refunds, but deposit may be used for another class at different date. Please call 855-803-1133 if you would like to split payments. Training hours at F9 University count towards ***** credit hours.
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Classes will be held at the Pulte Homes Community of Sun City Palm Desert.
There are a few hotels in the area where you can stay. You can fly into Palm Springs International airport. Alternatively, check into flights at Ontario airport or LAX for cheaper flights, but this will require an hour to 2.5 hours travel into the Palm Desert area.
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http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pspsr-renais...
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-photos/ctdca-...
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There are others, so please check them out!
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Front 9 University: The dates for the Hands-On Training 2016 in Palm Desert, CA are as follows:
Classes are Wednesday through Saturday Afternoon:
Feb 10-13, 2016
March 9-12, 2016
April 6-9, 2016
May 11-14, 2016
June 8-11, 2016
July TBD
Aug TBD
Sept 7-10, 2016
Oct 5-8, 2016
Nov 16-19, 2016
Dec 7-10, 2016
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Chewing Gum Removal Baltimore Maryland
Those ugly black wads of chewing gum can put your property in a sticky situation. Our trained professional gum removal experts are ready to help your business today by removing these eyesores from your Baltimore, Maryland commercial building property. Our Hot Water Concrete Cleaning Pressure Washing delivers incredible results! We offer a variety of cleaning schedules to meet your needs. Visit us at www.candspropertyservices.com to schedule your complimentary estimate today.
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What exactly is IKECA ?
Can one of the IKECA guys explain why a guy like Don Pflieiderer who has probably more experience in the kitchen exhaust cleaning industry that anybody in your organization (Don Pfleiderer | LinkedIn) and who's quality control program is the benchmark for any reputable company in the industry (enVIROmatic corporation of America' date=' Inc. - Photo Requirements[/url']) has never been elected to the IKECA BOD after running several times but a member who has more lawsuits against them for fires than probably any other member of IKECA gets elected the first time he runs.- Read more...
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RHL Hood & Duct Doctor are an IKECA certified hood cleaning company and Proud members of The Grease Police.
It is in fact the owners responsibility and liability to know the fire safe condition their exhaust system is in.
For inspection purposes the following series of photos should be taken and provided to the restaurant owner (This Process is standard protocol for Grease Police Members. Also adopted by others outside of the Grease Police)
Photo's in an inspection:
1. The hood
2. The Plenum Chamber (showing whats behind the filter track)
3. Up the duct
4. Down the duct
5 outside of fan. (noting the condition of the fan, hinges, wiring etc)
6. Picture of the roof area (Noting any grease accumulation on roof)
7. Bottom of fan blades
8. top of fan blades
9. Fan housing
This video is of a kitchen exhaust inspection. With the protocol as outlined above.
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24 YEAR PROFESSIONAL EXPERT'S ROOF TECHNICAL BULLETIN.
Written by Chuck Bergman on 08/27/13
SHINGLED ROOFING:
I have cleaned roofs in Charlotte County Florida since 1989. I started out pressure washing them, but I could see, with shingled roofs, severe granule loss taking place on the shingles and turning the pressure down didn’t solve the problem. Why? First off, it takes a certain amount of pressure to remove the black algae – period!
So, if it requires say 1000 psi of pressure, which will work to blast the black coloration from shingles, then it’s just semantics.
If at 1000 psi I can clean a roof holding my gun tip say 1 foot away, then, if I turn the pressure down to 1/2 that, I have to move in to 6″ away, bringing the pressure right back to 1000 psi. Another words nothing is accomplished!
TILE ROOFING:
With tile, most are manufactured with at least a light glazing on top of a slurry coating {paint}
Pressure washing tile, requires a higher blasting pressure, starting at 1500psi up to 3000psi.
This can remove or dull that glazing. If the roof has been pressure cleaned in the past and that glazing is mostly gone already, then the slurry coating, creating your roofs coloring begins to be removed. This will turn a red tile roof into a pinkish roof. It will turn other colors pale as well. Eventually, it will reach the plain cement the tile is made of, showing bare cement areas.
Some companies have found an easier pressure cleaning tool, called a “Surface Cleaning Machine” and to cover the fact that these machines use pressure to the extreme, they give their cleaning method nice names like shampooing your roof. These machines were originally designed to clean flat surfaces { I own 2 } and are great on driveways, sidewalks and cement parking lots, where almost no damage can occur. They are the worst thing you can do to a tile roof though. The powerful jets are angled to cut sideways, also, they are set at an exact amount of inches above whatever surface they are set on. With flat cement that perfect! Tile is not a flat surface, so the high parts get blasted badly, while the lower portions of the tile, barely come clean-if at all. If you went up and inspected such a cleaning job, you would find many small black lines of leftover algae. If any algae is left, it will continue growing and return with a vengeance within 1-2 years! A chemically cleaned, soft-washed tile roof is easily evenly coated and all algae is killed and disintegrated. That’s why a Non-Pressure Roof cleaning, as explained below, lasts just about twice as long as any type of pressure washing / shampoo style cleaning will.
Fortunately, you are not stuck, having to accept roof damage in order to have a nice, clean, healthy roof!
Many years ago, some of the roofing manufacturers, came up with a formula to “chemically clean” roofs, using no pressure at all. It’s called by a few names “Non-Pressure” “No-Pressure” Soft-Washing” and “Chemical Cleaning”
I started using this method and chemicals specified by the roofing manufacturers and their Manufacturers Association {ARMA} back in the 1990′s and found that it cleaned tile just as well as it cleaned shingles!
It calls for a mixture of about a 3-5% total solution of Chlorine Bleach and a little TSP {Tri Sodium Phosphate}
I then add a commercial soap / surfactant to that mix, to thicken the mixture, so it won't run off the roof.
Nowadays, there’s always someone trying to sell you something. Non Bleach alternative chemicals are on the market and I try them as they come out. They all use the “Eco-Friendly” “Green” approach, to sell their chemicals with. The products I have tried do not tell you what chemicals are in the product. So, are they safe and eco-friendly? Who knows? We do know bleach though! We wash our clothes in it, disinfect our kitchen food preparation areas with it, swim in it in our pools and drink it in our city water! When it dries, it turns back into salt, which is what it is made from.
You can go to my website and click on “MANUFACTURER SPECIFICS” and read directly from the makers of your roofing, that what I am saying is what the makers of your roofing also say. Or just go there directly, using this click-able link: http://www.bergmanpressurewashing.co...Specifics.html
Incidentally, the ARMA also says not to allow anyone to spray on ANY after coating “Field Coating” on your roof.
It says that those coatings can cause damage and at the very least, none have proven to accomplish anything.
They are sold as a supposed way to not have to ever clean your roof again. They only claim that the products will keep your roof clean for 2 years. 99% of all roofs cleaned properly, will stay clean longer than that, without buying into their programs. Read the ARMA statements here:
http://www.asphaltroofing.org/sites/...tin/tb_227.pdf
So, after 24 years of roof cleaning: First with a Pressure Washing machine and then without the use of any pressure, this is what I have learned to be facts.
Chuck Bergman Roof Cleaning "AND" Pressure Washing. Charlotte and Sarasota County Florida.
In business here since 1989. Father & Son business since 1994. No Work Crews - No Trainees!
We do not run our business from a cell phone. We have old land line numbers that have been mine for over 20 years.
We are permanent residents and here to stay!
Englewood, Rotonda West, Placida, Cape Haze areas CALL: 941-698-1959
Venice, Nokomis, Osprey and South Sarasota office: 941-483-3673
Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda Office: 941-255-8600
Englewood, North Port Office: 941-474-8883
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Altamonte Springs Pressure Cleaning Services
If you are looking for professional Pressure Cleaning in Altamonte Springs click on the link to the left for more information.
Walker Services provides expert Pressure Washing and Exterior Cleaning Services in Altamonte Springs and all surrounding areas of Orlando and surrounds Central Florida.
Services Include:
Pressure Washing of all surfaces and substrates....including concrete, brick, stucco, pavers, tiles, stone, wood, metal, paintwork, masonry, vinyl siding, roof tiles, asphalt shingles, awnings, gutters and more.
Roof Cleaning Orlando - Soft Washing Experts. Removal of black and green algae, moss and other micro organisms without damage!
Concrete Cleaning Orlando - We clean driveways, sidewalks, parking lots and garages and all other concrete or hard ground or vertical surfaces.
Visit our website for more information.
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Have you inspected all the locations? May want to do that. Single hood single duct single fan single story 400-425. American grease. You should be able to do 3 locations per night easy.- Read more...
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Latest travertine paver pool deck we completed.
This stuff is just stunning! It adds so much to the appeal of the house. It was just so bland before we sealed it with the Seal 'n Lock Super Wet. We also drained down the pool and sealed the stone coping and spillover spa.
