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    No I dont own a roof pump and the job is tomorrow

    I will buy a pump up at home depot and bring along my M-5 xjet as a backup plan

    If the above mentioned gets me no where is it possible to dip a hard bristled brush in a 5er mixed with percarb

    And scrub in on the deck?

    (I wil be prepared better for my next deck for sure)

    Yes you can use a bucket and scrub brush to put the percarb on as well. I would go with the pump up, unless it's a huge deck it won't be too bad. Try to work in the shade and it won't dry out so quick. When you mix your percarb, do it in a 5 gallon bucket stir well and wait 10-15 minutes for it to settle down before pouring it into the pump up sprayer. If you pour in the sprayer right away it could over pressurize the sprayer and burst.

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    Heres the thing there are no alternatives to bleach. You could try sodium percarbonate or some other oxidizer but it won't clean as good and youll need to use pressure.

    If a customer calls you to do a service there needs to bea faith in there that you are the professional and can be trusted to do things right. Unless you sell yourself as a day laborer what you provide customers is knowledge, experience, and results. Seems like thia customer doesn't want any of that. I would pass. And since the house will most likely not get as clean you are setting yourself up for more problems down the road when they are not happy

    If their last landscaper ran over a flower bed with a lawn mower would you be ok with them asking you to cut the lawn with a scissor?

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    I had Google work on my campaign for me and its been crazy good for us (residential wood). Not sure how well it would work for commercial work. The ad placement for pressure washing terms around my area is pretty competitive so your bid per click has to be pretty high

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    We've been doing a lot more wood replacement the last year and it's always problematic to get the wood to match. Anyone that expects their to be no noticeable difference between new and old wood (especially pressure treated) is insane. With any wood variety you have so many species and treatment processes that picking two boards off different stacks of lumber at the SAME STORE on the SAME DAY could be a risk let alone replacing a pressure treated board from 15 YEARS AGO!!! The pressure treatment processes are different, the type of tree varies by region and of course as Guy mentioned, the stain penetration is of course way less on new wood versus older wood.

    I've even tried buying wood in advance sometimes to age it on my own property and install that before cleaning and staining the entire deck and it's still not the same.

    To me the more important thing is making sure the deck is safe and the wood we are replacing is usually in such a condition that leaving it unrepaired is risky. If you have kids or pets or heck even for yourself, it's not worth leaving a broken a spindle or missing lattice or rotten floorboard or splintered handrails just because the wood may look different.

    Initially it will be off but give it a few years and restain it another time or two and by then you barely even remember it was ever done.

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    sodium hydroxide based stripper and neutralized with an acidic brightener after washing. Will also depend on the type of thompsons, some of the newer stuff that comes in a plastic container has some sort of dye in it and is very difficult to remove compared to the regular thompsons wax product.

    25x19 on my calculator equals 475. Two of those equals 950 so no idea where your math is coming from.

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    The only thing you can control is the way you conduct your business and the manner in which you provide quality service to your clients. Unfortunately there are bad powerwashers out there. Just like any industry. You or I trying to figure out a way to ruin their livelihood by stealing their signs, reporting them to thee government, letting air out of their tires, following them around, poaching their customers, or any of the other ideas people come up with doesn't do anything to help us grow a company.

    If he is in fact as bad as you claim and there is no other company in the area then it sounds like you have a good business opportunity. Because you worked for this guy and found out all his customers I personally wouldn't make a point to approach them right away and bad mouth the other guy, but that doesn't mean once you have a business developed and advertising in place that word won't spread and give you opportunity to offer these folks a free demo and illustrate what you can do. If the customer chooses to switch to you, than thats great. If they stay with the hack than you just keep on trying.

    But your first step is to start your business, doesn't really matter much if your just a regular guy who happens to know about fleetwashing.

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