Jeff

Thank you ALL. I went to the water company and they are going to sho me what to do. I need 2 meters for this job 1 for a tank and one to run 2 other machines. i dont have the job yet, but its one of my regular PM's. $500 deposit on each meter around here. Thanks again for all the info JL

Insane isn't it. They are building 20+ more buildings and still aren't going to put any hose bibs on. They know its a PITA for pressure washing because the PM told me the last time they PWed it was a nightmare. They dont want people washing cars. This is a nice complex too I just think they are crazy In this whole 47 building area there is one hose bib at the pool area. This would be such an easy job, its all vinyl, but with no hose bibs its going to add a major PITA factor. Nothing we cant handle for the right $$$$$$

Get the belt drive then you won't have to worry, like you would with direct drive

I was wondering about containment also, wonder what the law/rules are in NYC. John use the owners lift but Id have a 2nd lift, hell I would use 3 lifts, get in & get it done as quick as possible, less time, less hassles that way. If you are using owners lift make sure its not a peice of crap, check it out 1st to make sure it in good running condition and wont slow you down. I've used properties lifts before and almost everyone was an old rental unit and pretty beat & SLOW, it can add a lot of time & aggravation to a job. just something to check out before bidding looks like fun!!! John whats that building made out of, is it all painted now Good luck JL

Hey put some Gargoyles up on it and it looks a little like the building in Ghost Busters. John looks like it could be a very profitable job. What are you cleaning off it, Pollution? I would imagine you would need a restoration chem with all the traffic exhaust and city pollution. Good luck JL

Good luck to you Florin. 1st paying job, I can remember mine, I also was excited & nervous. Went and did a great job. I'm sure you will too!!!!!!!!! JL

I dont know Pam & Cujo, but I have read some of their post and they seem like very nice & helpful people. Thank God they are alive Pam & Cujo good luck to you & God Bless Jeff

I've used Gutter Zap from Xterior & Gutter Shock from steve R, they both are great chems for black streaks

Hot water at a minimum of about 5 gpm is a real BIG plus and a must if you want to get into commercial concrete. And the use of the right chems The higher the GPM also will get the work done quicker for you. Time is money Good luck Jeff

I've used OXALIC many time for AC rust works fine and will be just fine on the vinyl. I mix it at 4lbs to 5 gallon warm water for xjetting but you can dilute that some and brush it on, rinse any windows good, Ive never had it etch glass but better safe than sorry If you don't have Oxalic go to Lowes they sell Rust off or someting like that in gallon jugs and its Oxalic just brush it on and watch it disappear. You may have to do a few applications oxalic is great on rust & vinyl JL

Jim's a great guy and knows quite abit about surfaces. Jim congrats and you know as always Me, my guys & equipment are here if you need us. Now get out there & PW something. JL

Looking ahead what are your company goals or in the longterm what do you want out of your company. Your wildest dreams for your company what would they be? realistically what are you striving for? I'd like to make a very good living off my company, when I dream of what the future could be for my company I dream of a very successful, respected company. I'd like to make 200K minimum in my pocket, have crews doing condo complexes, parking garages & other commercial work. Have fulltime work for all crews. I'd like to have Property Managers calling for our company because they know we do good work and get the work done properly and on time. I'd like a fulltime salesman and myself going after as much of the work as we can. I'd like to educate as many PM's HOA's & commercial customers on the benifits of PWing and change the way most thnk around here. They wait until its so dirty its disgusting. Id like the hotels & condo towers to keep up their properties better and realize that PWing is a must do. This town is very dirty and I'd like to keep it clean Id like a small retail store with office & warehouse space for all my trailers etc. Retail I'd like to sell locally parts & equipment I'd really like a fulltime office person keeping up with all the paper work, payroll daily scheduling etc etc. When I say I want to be The Pressure Washing King of Myrtle Beach I mean it. Id like to be the largest & most respected company around. Not the largest just so i can say I'm the largest, but because I have consistantly large volumes of work. If I didnt have to do as much of the daily pressure washing & office work I could go out and hustle & sell much more. I'm getting pretty good at talking with PM's and if I had this to do 3-4 days a week I think the skies the limit. WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS & WISHES? JL - TPWKOMB

Employees, employees, employees. Its just to bad. I'm lucky so far I have 2 great guys My worker Derrick is 27 and a great work ethic. My Bro In Law is also a great worker and now I have his cousin who is working out great. I pay them $14 an hr just got the raise and the new guy $10 and will give him a 60 day raise if all is well. I think they will stay with me but you just never know. The pay I give them is pretty darn good for this area and I want them to make a living wage. I work at keeping these guys, last year was a nightmare at times, crackheads, theives, lazy etc. etc. I hope to have 2-4 guys I can always reley on, we'll see As I grow I need them to step up and they do, they'll work almost any hrs I need and they do care, they are still learning and Id like to offer more for them but i cant affor health care yet. Good luck to all of us with employees I like the questioaire for new employees, it cant hurt.

I am a worker on the jobs and as S Corp am not covered. I got a quote to have me put on comp coverage, with the payroll I do Id have to pay over $4600 just to cover me. As I was told insurers dont want to cover the owner or Prez, they think you'll use it as a health plan, fraud! say you get hurt on the job even if you werent JL

I'd love to have a secretary, god I'd love one, but cant afford or justify it.

This year is going real well, I'll surpass last years #'s around August this year. I've added another 2 PM companies that use our services now, not all their PM's use us but a few do and I'll try to get the others on line with us. As Ive mentioned before these are 2 PM companies Ive been targetting for at least 2 years. Im always happy to get calls from my targetting, I then know its working. As for employees I'm lucky my 2 fulltime guys are good and reliable and I jut hired the cousin of my Bro In Law and he is working out real well these past few weeks We've done hundreds of condo buildings and thats the work I like most. We go in with 3-4 machines and knock them out, the PM's are thrilled how we get in & out quick with no or very few hassles. If the PM's are happy I'm happy My goal is to have enough work for the winter for all my guys if possible. If not for at least 2 of my guys. I'm working on lining up winter work and have several projects I do in the winter already. I hope to be doing Parking garages after the tourist season and through the winter, so Ikeep writing hotels and condo towers every month I figure I do about 1% tops of all the condo complexes around here. Looks like i have a long way to go to get 50% of them, thats my little dream I have and work towards Im thrilled with how things are going for JL Pressure Washing, I really never imagined it would be like this JL

Like Jarrod says and you can use a white tip or roto nozzle and for debris that does get blasted around or on the house rinse with a black soap nozzle which is low pressure. Mulch can be a pian

It all depends on what you want. I almost always lived in suburbs and I like it. I grew up in Randolph Ma about 40K but was only 15 minutes south of Boston, we had woods we could play & hike in, ride dirt bikes etc, but we also could go to Boston and do so many other things as kids & adults. Restaurants, aquarium, special events like the Tall Ships, 4th of July we had parade & fireworks in our home town or we could go to Boston with a million people & have a blast. Suburbs near a city have a lot to offer, close to everything but usually without as much crime & traffic Now living in a rural area I never really have, for me I wouldnt like it because its not enough for me to do, I would like the wide open spaces but I think I would get bored and may not see whats going on as much if I had to travel 2,3, 4 hours to get to events Big city living Ive done a couple times, I lived in Boston for about a year and Philly for a year & a half. It was cool for those short periods of time but I wouldnt want to live there long term, to congested and I was mugged once One of the Best places I lived was in Goleta CA at Santa Barbara it was in 1980 - 81 I was 18 and me and freinds moved there to have fun & we did, its a great area the ocean and everything it had to offer, GIRLS. The Mountains and beautiful weather. I also lived in San Deigo fun town, but crime also Ive lived short term many places and liked most The perfect place for me to live would be suburbia, but with a 5-10 acre of land , but that you cant afford unless it was in the family. Myrtle Beach is alright I'll probably live here the rest of my life its my home now and I wouldnt want to go back to cold weather I worry about any area nowadays. I worry for my children, I can and have handled all kinds of things in my life , but these days things are so different crime is everywhere, wether you see it or not, Kids arent like they used to be. A fist fight used to be with fist , not kicking or stabbing or shooting. Road rage never heard of it when I was a kid. There just seems like theres a lot more screwed up people everywhere. When I was a kid there was 1 , 2 3 families that were bad or screwy, now it seems like half the population is bad or screwy HotShot if your comfortable and happy where you are stay there, but make sure you show the good & bad sides of other areas to your kids take them on family trips to the city and enjoy, you cant hide or shelter them from this stuff, they might get over whelmed if they go there when they grow up. Educate them on all parts of a real world and show them it. Lots of the reason I lived or traveled many places in my life since I was 16 was because my Dad told me to go see this great country he did when he was young hitch hiked across the country and I travel by car, van, bus & plane and Ive seen a lot of good bad and GREAT stuff. We live in such a great country just make sure you see some of it JL

To funny, as an ex bridge painter & sandblaster I'm laughing my a-- off. You should of sandblasted them no nest left and for sure no baby birds on the ground, just a few feathers in the road. You can always do what some of the sicko's I worked with did, they would put a string around the pigeons neck and lower it down over someones head then pull the string real quick and then a headless pigeon would land on you flapping away. Just for the record I never did that I think Im going to call Keith Oberman and have him put you on his nightly "Worse Person of The Day" To funny JL

Just hoping everyone is staying busy. I hope the #'s are all good for you. You know I think I'm blessed. I have 3 fulltime guys and 1 parttimer and they are getting 45 - 65 hours every week and it seems like I'm always out giving estimates on condos and other commercial projects. Sometimes I worry thou, I'll have only 2 weeks of work lined up and I worry that it will run out and i wont be able to give my guys 40hrs. It happens and then all of a sudden here comes the work, it just got like that this month and now Im booked solid until mid July with more work coming and this isnt including any residential that I have or will get. I'll tell my wife work isnt lined up and she'll say dont worry it always comes in Jeff when you say that. God does look out for me. I know someday I might not always be this blessed but so far so good. Now I do go hunt the work down, even when I'm busy. I even call the PM's and tell them I'm slowing down do they have anything for me. I did this a couple weeks ago and I had two PM's call and give me over 2 weeks work, just from the call I gave them. You know I look out for my PM's and they look out for me. I just had one call Friday and say go look at 30 buildings give her a price and we can schedule it for July or August , she also gave me another gutter cleaning job and 2 other large buildings to clean. I just get so excited that I can call and ask and they help Whats everybody doing these days hows the rest of the year look and do you go out and hustle work or is it just coming to you. Just thankful for God & my luck Life is good JL

Thats great Adrian, its nice when you realize this thing called pressure washing really is a business that you can live off of and enjoy doing it for the most part. Its funny my wife was showing her co workers pictures of our house being built and one of the loan guys asked her "whats your husband do for work" She said owns a PW biz. The guy said you can make a living washing houses. Wife said its a lot more than that. Got to love PWing Congrats on your growth and maybe you can get a full time guy somedays, its helps me with my back !!! I have many days that Im hurting lately so I dont wash I go out and sell, supervise or just deal with everything else thats going on. Keep the work rolling JL

Check out the deal I ended up getting on these doors. We had a front door budget for our new home of $2512.00 that was for the front door of the main house & the front door of the Inlaw. The builder recomended Therma Tru doors, fiberglass. I asked them where to get them or look at them and he told us their building supplier place has them, same place the windows & other doors come from. He also said Lowe's carries them and we could look at them. We found out quick front doors cost some big buck and the $2500 budget we couldnt get top of the line or anywhere close to it. We had picked out Benchmark by Therma Tru a lesser quality with a minimal warranty , but they were pretty with silver caning on the glass. The building supply salesman called and he said lets meet about the front doors and this was about 2 months ago. Well they carry Therma Tru but did not haave the same caning style for the glass so he showed me books with other caning and we picked the caning you see in this pic. I showed the guy the quote from Lowes and he said we can get it for that price or maybe even a little lower , he'll check the price. Well one set of doors was door & 2 full side lights and Inlaw was door & 1 half sidelight. The lowes were smooth finish instead of fake wood grain finish I told the bilding supply rep to get a price I have to stay with in the total budget for doors. Well a week & a half went by and no call, I called him to ask for the price he was out on a job sight , he never called me back and I called the next day and he said sorry real busy and he'll get me the price he never called me back, well we never ordered doors and was getting ready to order from Lowes soon Then last week I go to the house and these doors are in the house not installed yet, but I looked at them and I knew these doors were HIGH DOLLAR doors and not within our budget, real High dollar you could tell. The caning and glass was far superior than the Lowes doors and the doors had the wood grain look not smooth finish and the doors them selves were just heavier and just a much better door than the Benchmark by Therma Tru by Lowes. So I call the saleman and tell him hey theres doors at my house and he never gave us a price on them and we never said order them. I told him they look out of our budget price. I told him they were wood grain not smooth and he said smooth or grain were the same priceuaully. He said he would check price next day when he went to office. Next day I call him and he said he's out on another sight and when he gets to office he'll call me. I go out to the house and doors are now installed. Saleman calls and says, the Lowes doors must be a metal door and says he just ordered these doors in a rush and he asks are the new doors installed I said yes. I ask him why, He goes he screwed up big time and the one door set is $2800 and the Inlaw is $1800. i said WHOA and I asked him why he ordered them and they will have to go back its way out of our budget. He said that they are installed at least they wont get stolen and he apoligized and said it was totally his screw up , he just ordered them when we picked out caning style. So we met the next day at the house and he said he screwed up he's been real busy and we can pick out other doors or just order the Lowes doors. We meet at the house and he says the door company may of made a mistake too, these doors are 6 panel and not 4 panel and he hardly ever orders 6 panel because they are more expensive. He's thinking he can get door compnay to eat some of the price. I tell him I cant afford these doors even if he gave them to us at cost. He calls his office and they check again what he ordered and he did order 6 panel , this guy was bumming out. He;s a nice guy and he screwed up. He said would i consider keeping these doors if he gave them to me at cost, I said what about the builder and he said he called and he's going to call back. He said if I pay an extra $700 on top of the $2500 budget he'll eat the rest as long as the builder waives his mark up. I told him if he gets it in writing Id love the much better door and I'll pay the extra $700. These are some great quality doors and real pretty too. So I figure I'm getting a real good deal because this guy screwed up and I just hate to pass up a good deal. If I didnt take doors they would have gone back to building supply place and he would have had to sell them cheap if he even could sell them right away. The builder agreed and I get both door sets for $3200 Im happy, real happy these are so much better doors than the Lowes ones!!!!!! Check out the doors cool !!!! Message to door saleman , check price & budget before ordering.:lgbugeyes oops Sorry for the long story Im just happy I got a good deal and some nice doors JL

Doug I'm pretty sure Im painting them havent decided yet, we had picked out a couple accent colors before these doors came in. You know I really dont think he was trying to screw me on these, He screwed up and he knew it and hell he knocked off over $1400. I went to Lowes yesterday and the price on their really good Therma Tru's was up there around the price he stated or more. His mistake my good futune Man doors can be pricey! JL

Rock & window , no more streak LOL Just swing by and clean it quick, he'll remember you and tell others.