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Soaps are chemicals. Pressure wash concrete, rinse concrete, then treat concrete with a strong chlorine solution (while concrete is still wet) and watch the leftover tannin, mold, algae, and mildew melt away before your eyes. No need to rinse of the chemical, let in dry and neutralize on the concrete.

Similar to the surfers that get attached by sharks. As a surfer, you know the inherent risks of engaging in an activity that takes place in an area where there happens to be very large, very hungry, predators that view you as a potential meal. Enter at your own risk.

I just realized that on that last post I hit the 1,500 mark. This must be a sign, but what could it mean?:thinking:

I guess It's time we teach you the secret hand shake, and invite you to the 1000 timers club.

I second the second one.

what kind of hot skid?

Just curious, why not just spill the beans? Why the game? Why bring something up on a public forum just to tell everyone that you can only tell a few select people via private message? Seems kinda silly to me.

You read my mind, and beat me to the same responce. If you offer something that no one else can do, the price should go way up, not down.

My question would be why not just use a quality hand held pump up instead of the back pack sprayer? Not only for the issue of leaking, but I find it far more efficient, and less cumbersome to refill, clean, and carry a hand held sprayer. I use modified handheld pump ups all the time when I need a strong dose of chlorine, or for spraying oxalic.

My advice would be to stay away from a back pack sprayer in this business. They always end up leaking and can cause serious burns on your back and aZZ.

Wow! good catch Beth. I was to busy looking at the top of the source code to even notice that. Shes right though. You have pretty much no readable content for the search engines to find. Search engines need text to crawl through, lots of it.

Yeah, That is still the dirtiest house I've ever cleaned to date. The house was buried back in the woods, and was absolutely covered from top to bottom with spider webs, cob webs, cocoons, nests, dirt, mold, and algae. That window was one of the worst spots, but the rest of the house wasn't much better. The house actually cleaned up beautifully though, and considering how heavy the build up was, fairly easy as well. I love cleaning houses like that because when you done the customer thinks you have magic powers.

It's a good start, but here a few things: I'm not even looking at the aesthetics of the site because I know it is a work in progress. some suggestions: Make your title tags on each web page more search friendly. instead of having the title of your index page as the name of your company, put "pressure washing | (your city, state)" the idea is to rank high in the search engines. When someone does a search for pressure washing services in your area they aren't going to likely type the name of your company in google, but rather "pressure washing in city, state" Also, after looking in the source code, I noticed that you don't even have Meta description tags. These are very important for the search engines. You do have the meta keyword tags, but the truth is, they are pretty much worthless to search engines these days because of past abuse. Google pretty much ignores them. I didn't even bother with them on my website. Use an alt img tag for your logo on your homepage Use Header tags for important key phrases I don't see your service area written anywhere on the website. This is a big problem. You need to have your keywords, including your service areas sprinkled in all through you page content, but don't over do it. Lastly, Google likes a lot of good quality content, so I would suggest spending a lot of time filling up pages with text, and as I stated before, be sure to sprinkle your keywords evenly through out the text and pages.

Nice place. Are you on a lake, or a river?

I'm going to re-advise on creating a website. It has been the single most cost effective tool for bringing in regular calls for my company. I'm getting 4-5 calls or e-mails a day requesting estimates just from my website alone. I spend about $90 a year for hosting. What a steal!!

My advice would be to throw the X-jet in your tool box and optimize your downstream set up.

Honestly, only you can know how much you need to charge to make this job profitable. Every company is different, and what one company can clean it for may be way off of what you can clean it for.

Just curious why you didn't post the afters in the same thread as the befores. Besides that, great work!

I like the North respirators from Grainger.

Charging too much will put you out of business just easy as low balling. My advise would be not to worry about how your price lines up with others, and just concentrate on what you need to make to keep your business moving along, while still earning the $$ you feel comfortable with. I get kind of tired of hearing people say you can't make money charging X amount. Every business is different. An established, small business like mine for example, that has many repeat customers, will make much more profit than a guy still trying to develop a customer base because most of my work comes from either repeat customers, or referrals (easy sales). besides the obvious, that being a decrease in advertising costs, I don't have to drive out for as many on site estimates because I've already serviced most of the houses I'm cleaning.

float valve operated buffer tank for suppling your PW with water.

was he dead, or just chillin?

I've had estimates like that. They never say they will be there, and even though you know they are there, they wont answer the door and obviously prefer that you leave the quote at the door. I also have a few customers that will not answer the door when the job is finished. I know they are there, but they pretend they are not. So I leave the bill in the door and they mail me the check. I've still yet to have a customer not pay for services, or even try not to pay. I don't know if that's common or if I've just been lucky.

I used to be a locksmith and another company in the area had in big letters on his van "Jesus holds the key". I never understood what he ment by that. Was he calling himself Jesus? Anyway, I thought it was tacky.

I just recently washed my brothers house, driveway and back porch. I charged him $50 just to help off set my chemical and gas cost. When I wash my parents house I don't charge them anything, but my mom makes me take money anyway. Gotta love mom.