Doug Dahlke

An X-jet only puts out what you mix in the bucket. The mix can be weak or strong. Just because you use an x-jet doesn't mean chems are all over the place. I adjust my mix based on what is on the surface to be sleaned.

I always have a brush with me for house washes but only use it for gutters and spot cleaning. No one here has ever asked about brushing the whole house and I wouldn't want to. Good idea to separate your company from others if it works for you.

I will be voting for "none of the above". Jeff said that Romney has changed postions to say what people want to hear. I agree but so have all the others. Lets face it folks these politicians float trial balloons and conduct polls so that they can say what you want to hear to get elected. Once in office they do what they want. I will not vote against one candidate or for the lesser of two evils. My vote will go for a third party candidate that better represents my views and what this country was meant to be when founded.

Your family will be in my prayers Chris. Sorry to hear of your loss.

My first car was a 1969 Chevelle SS four speed. The previous owner had blown up the 396 and it only had a 283 in it when I bought it. Wish I still had it. I also had a 55 Chevy two door wagon and a 66 Corvair.

Looks like wand marks from too much pressure. Those will not go away.

I would let it go and move on. Some people just can't be pleased or have completely unrealistic expectations even after you try and set those expectations for them.

Same here. I have done plenty of dormers and the house mix just won't cut it to remove the roof algae.

Showing up for a new construction clean up and finding piles of crap in the garage and or other trades on the site and in the way. Several times I have gone to one and the water is not on.

I have Hardi on my house and I have done others with it. I use the same mix I use on vinyl. Never had a problem.

Looks nice. Hope it does well for you. Are you running Google Analytics on it?

Looks good. Can't wait to see the finished pictures.

I enjoy not being stuck in an office all day. been there, done that. I least enjoy temperature extremes. It is tough working outside when the ambient temp is in the 90's and the humidity is high. Just have to slow down and drink lots of water.

I measure out and multiply also. I just round up to the nearest dollar. I have had people wonder where I came up with $247 or something like that.

If you have a formula for residential bids use that and then take off about 30% to 40%. You make your money off jobs like this by the fact that there are multiple buildings and it is a larger job. If you bid these jobs like residential you will be lucky to land any.

What size tip are people using in the Titan 440i?

I keep thinking about DS but still x-jet. Only DS once and that was using a variable pressure wand and soaping some concrete. My big concern is that most houses down here are on at least a one acre lot. I usually park my rig in the street and routinely have 200'+ of hose out. Some of these houses can be pretty nasty and I don't think I could pull enough chem to clean them.

Never touched any composite decking but I have seen a few that were several years old and they all have looked like crap. Oxidized, warped, moldy. A friend of mine was talking about redoing his with composite. Warned him against it.

The problem with 6% is cost. You can usually find 12% for less per gallon. If you want 6% just cut it more and save some money.

I went out today to look at a pool apron. The pool is new and the owner had a coating put on the concrete apron. Soon after the coating began to blister up in spots and come off. The contractor came out, power washed the entire apron and reapplied. The new coating is now coming off. The coating contractor is ready to give up and refund the customers money. Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it. The coating looks like epoxy but I would think that would be too slippery to put around a pool.

I have a Ladder Max and really like it. Had to buy it on line.

I have a 24' extension wand that I bought for one of the first jobs I did. Discovered the x-jet not long after that and have not used the wand since.

I set up my own site a year and a half ago. Didn't know much about it and although the site itself looked good there were a lot of problems I was unaware of at the time. I had never heard of SEO, I had the file sizes too big on the pictures and they took a long time to load and the host company I was using changed their software and I could no longer edit the existing site. I now have a local web designer working on a new site that should be much better and hopefully bring in some business. My advice for what its worth is if you want to grow find someone who knows what they are doing to build your site. It will free your time up for other things and you will end up with a better site. Call you local chamber of commerce or search the web, Yellow Pages etc for someone local. Most will have sites you can visit that they developed so you can get a feel for their design style and capabilities.

Gas in Mexico is cheaper than the US. My guess is the price difference has more to do with how much tax the Mexican government levies on the gas and the fewer environmental, transportation, etc regualtions than it has to do with Bush helping out his buddies here. Just for the record I am not a Bush supporter.

Residential is really slow. I am working on getting more commercial work. Have some bids out there for decent size PM jobs that will hopefully come through.