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Most of you know me I havnt been on here in a while but I have been around. I am asking all my friends to pray for my daughter. Tue Night December 6 th my oldest daughter Shelby being 13 yrs old had a massive stroke and just got out of intensive care tonight December the 9th. They moved here to a room but she has a long road ahead of her. She lost all speech and all control or movement on her right side. She cannot move her right hand or her right leg. Please tell church's we need all the prayer we can get. The doctors have told us that the blood clot is very large and there is nothing they can do about it.

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615-394-9162 is his phone number

I think it looks good for a bid sheet. I use Quickbooks Pro for invoicing and the two combined always worked great for me.

My father in law lives next door to me and he has 10 of them.

Here is two Bid Sheets One for Pressure Washing and one for Wood. BidSheet.doc WoodBid.doc

Jeff I have three girls. I was told after my second and no boy that with girls you just have to worry about the one girl, with boys you have to worry about all the girls. LOL

I dont want to take away from anything you did, I think its great but it doesnt hurt that the deck was right up on the road so that everyone could see your work. I would think you got some work off of that. When you do good things good things happen.

No I cant say as that I have done that before!!!!!!!!!

Dont forget if you downstream you might have a tank full of chemicals. Just keep an eye out for that.

Beth what did you guys put on it the last time you did it. It looks great just curious as to wheather you were touching up or complete restoration. How long ago did you do it the first time.

Hi Beth were doing pretty good. Shelby the one that had the stroke in December is getting better she can walk really good now but still needs the wheel chair when we go shopping or something that involves alot of walking. She has limited use of her right arm and very little use of her hand. We are hoping to get her theropy started soon still waiting for her brain to catch up. She started being home schooled 3 hrs a week through the public school system last month. She is on about a second grade level and she is in the 7th so she has alot of catching up to do. I still check this board and of course The cleaner network but Im out of washing all together I just help my friend that has all my equipment make bids and stuff so that I can collect my rent and percentage of the jobs he does. LOL I am driving an 18 wheeler now hauling sod for a company that pays my health insurance and a good wage to boot. At this point in life with my kids the insurance is the main factor and with there health I have to work for a company. I still like helping folks on the board and cominicating with all my internet friends. Good to hear from ya. See ya:lgwave:

http://www.businesslead.com/grants/ Here is the website address I got this information off of.

Locating grants to start a new business or expand an existing one Read this section while connected to the Net, Web links will be live To locate grants, loans and assistant programs for starting a new business or expanding an existing one, follow these steps: 1. Browse the business categories of the Online Catalog of Government Grant, Loan and Assistant Programs (To access the details of a program, click on the CFDA# to the left of the program name in the list): Small Business (40 programs) Minority Business Enterprises (22 programs) Economic Development (51 programs) International (14 programs) 2. Contact your local SBA office to see what grant and loan programs are available. Click on the link below to locate your local SBA office: http://www.sba.gov/regions/states.html 3. Contact your state's Small Business Development Center and find out what programs are available. Click here! to locate your local SBDC office. 4. Locate your state's business development site and see what they have to offer. 5. See if you are eligible for a low interest loan from the small Business Administration. 6. Get a personal free expert advice and counseling. 7. Obtain a low interest loan or a stock investment in your business from a Small Business Investment Company.

Skip Navigation Home | FAQ | Privacy | About The CFDA Web Site Programs Sub-CategoryCFDA#AgencyProgram TitleMinority Business Enterprises 10.421USDAIndian Tribes and Tribal Corporation Loans 10.768USDABusiness and Industry Loans 11.108DOCCommercial Service 11.110DOCManufacturing and Services 11.300DOCGrants for Public Works and Economic Development Facilities 11.307DOCEconomic Adjustment Assistance 11.427DOCFisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program 11.800DOCMinority Business Enterprise Centers 11.801DOCNative American Business Enterprise Centers 11.802DOCMinority Business Development 11.803DOCMinority Business Opportunity Center (MBOC) 11.806DOCMinority Business Opportunity Committee 15.124DOIIndian Loans_Economic Development 20.511DOTHuman Resource Programs 20.903DOTSupport Mechanisms for Disadvantaged Businesses 20.904DOTBonding Assistance Program 20.905DOTDisadvantaged Business Enterprises_Short Term Lending Program 39.001GSABusiness Services 59.006SBA8(a) Business Development 59.007SBA7(j) Technical Assistance 59.011SBASmall Business Investment Companies 59.046SBAMicroloan Program 81.082DOEManagement and Technical Assistance for Minority Business Enterprises Total Row Count in Report- 23 Row(s) 1 - 23 General Services Administration Office of Chief Acquisition Officer Regulatory and Federal Assistance Division (VIR) I copy and pasted and I think you can goto the links. I paid money for this information so your welcome

Here is just a thought. Put the business in your wifes name and then file for grants. There are more grants available to women than there are for men. Sub-CategoryCFDA#AgencyProgram TitleSmall Business 10.212USDASmall Business Innovation Research 10.406USDAFarm Operating Loans 10.767USDAIntermediary Relending Program 10.768USDABusiness and Industry Loans 10.769USDARural Business Enterprise Grants 10.773USDARural Business Opportunity Grants 10.775USDARenewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program 10.856USDA1890 Land Grant Institutions Rural Entrepreneurial Outreach Program 11.108DOCCommercial Service 11.110DOCManufacturing and Services 11.150DOCExport Licensing Service and Information 11.313DOCTrade Adjustment Assistance 11.611DOCManufacturing Extension Partnership 11.617DOCCongressionally-Identified Projects 11.800DOCMinority Business Enterprise Centers 11.803DOCMinority Business Opportunity Center (MBOC) 11.806DOCMinority Business Opportunity Committee 14.412HUDEmployment Opportunities for Lower Income Persons and Businesses 15.124DOIIndian Loans_Economic Development 20.930DOTPayments for Small community Air Service Developmen t21.003TREASTaxpayer Service 36.001FTCFair Competition Counseling and Investigation of Complaints 39.001GSABusiness Services 44.001NCUACredit Union Charter, Examination, Supervision, and Insurance 59.002SBAEconomic Injury Disaster Loans 59.005SBAInternet-Based Technical Assistance 59.006SBA8(a) Business Development 59.007SBA7(j) Technical Assistance 59.008SBAPhysical Disaster Loans 59.009SBAProcurement Assistance to Small Businesses 59.011SBASmall Business Investment Companies 59.012SBASmall Business Loans 59.016SBABond Guarantees for Surety Companies 59.026SBAService Corps of Retired Executives Association 59.037SBASmall Business Development Center 59.041SBACertified Development Company Loans (504 Loans) 59.043SBAWomen's Business Ownership Assistance 59.044SBAVeterans Entrepreneurial Training and Counseling 59.046SBAMicroloan Program 59.047SBAPre Disaster Mitigation Loan Program 59.048SBAMilitary Reserve Economic Injury Loan 59.049SBAOffice of Small Disadvantaged Business Certification and Eligibility 59.050SBAMicroenterprise Development Grants 59.051SBANew Markets Venture Capital Program, Operational Assistance (OA) Grants 81.082DOEManagement and Technical Assistance for Minority Business Enterprises 81.105DOENational Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment, and Economics 97.022DHSFlood Insurance

I sold cars for a year and I know how to sell I just dont like selling cars god aweful hours. The thing about selling is you have to make them see it, feel it, and own it in your sells pitch. If you dont sell the job and I mean sell it dont just go up there and measure and give them a price. Anybody can do that you have to bulls t with them. While selling cars I have spent a hole day with a single customer selling them a particular car. The point is dont be in a hurry to get somewere else this is how you make money and selling is 50% of the job cleaning is the other 50%. The famous line from my car selling days was LOVE THE ONE YOUR WITH. One more thing to remember in selling is to listen listen listen people love for you to put them up on a pedistal. Give them there 15 minutes of fame and it will pay you more money in the long run.

Just a word of caution before you go loading up alot of 55 gallon drums on your trailer. You need to check with your state and local officals you are only allowed so much weight on chemical before you have to put placecards on your trailer and have a CDL with hazmat endorsement. I think its 1000 pounds of chemicals and at 8 pounds a gallon on water that is only 125 gallons or just over two 55 gallon drums. Just a thought. Oh ya and dont forget to have your MSDS book with you at all times.:lgwave:

I was washing a house in a historic distict using my X jet and water hit the power lines and sparks flew and smoke went everywere. I stopped and went and got the home owner and showed them all the exposed wires that went all the way from the street to the house. They said every time it rained it looked smokey outside but they didnt know why needless to say we called the power company and they came and replaced the line and the home owners thanked me for finding the problem it sure scared the heck out of me though. The wires had to be 100 yrs old I would guess. Now I always look at the wires very carefully while I am making my bid.

First let me tell you I am a bit bias because I am personal friends with a chemical supplier. I am friends with Steve Rowlett who sells the RPC brand of chemicals which includes the Citra Cleen. I used E specs chems before I met Steve and he showed me (hands on and educated me) on his chemicals and now thats all I will use. They are very concentrated and have never failed me. One other thing is the customer service he gives he uses the chemicals that he sells and if you need to know something you can call him and he will advise you on how to do it. Call E-spec and ask them and see what they tell you. Steve can be reached at 1-800-357-6295 call and just talk to him it wont cost you a dime to ask about his chemicals and he loves to talk about them. Sorry I cant help on other brands I dont use them. I will say this though and it will stir the pot just a bit. If you want to act professional, look professional, and work professional then use professional tools. As a fireman you dont pull up to a house with a garden hose you pull up with a firetruck. As a pressure washer in my opinion you dont pull up to a house with a box of tide or dawn you pull up with a pressure washing rig and you pull out professional chemicals and you use them and you know how to use them. Anybody can own a pressure washer and call themselves pressure washers but in my opinion why use something that the homeowner would have in their kitchen or laundry room. Just my two cents worth:lgsideway

I understand your point now about mixing stronger and using the proportioner. I guess if that is how you like doing it keep doing it that way. My choice for no proportioner is that I can go from one type of cleaning to another type that would take a different mix ratio and mix differently in my bucket instead of changing out a proportioner. For instance I can wash a house and strip a deck both with my X-Jet and mix differntly in my bucket and never slow down. Then I can clean some concrete with a differnt mix in my bucket. I guess you can do the same thing using the same proportioner. I just have all my mixes figured without one. Same general idea just another way of doing it. The thing I dont like about downstreaming is the walk back to the machine to get the little hose out I may be 200' from the machine when I need to pull the hose plus you have all that chem in the high pressure line that you have to clear before you can goto water and you still have to change that nozzle out. I use my X-Jet 100% of the time for applying chems be it long range with it open or close up with the close range nozzle. Just for refferance Im not arguing just having a conversation and showing how I do it. If someone finds something that works keep doing it. It's no secret that myself and Steve Rowlett are very close friends and that all my knowledge on chemicals came from him. Thats the way I was taught and thats the way I do it.

I havent been on in a while but here is the reason for the open proportioner for me. Time is money the faster I can get chems on the surface the faster I can clean it the faster I get paid. From pull up to leave on a 2500 sq ft house is about 1.5 hrs for me. The extra chems pay for themselves in time savings which equals more money in your pocket. We have a lot of mobile homes around here double wides with vinyl siding from pull up to drive off less than an hour for around $130.00. If I were to downstream or use the proportioners I could not do it in that amount of time. When I pull up I mix my chems in five gallon buckets and place them around the house then when I get to where Im going they are already there so its a smooth motion and you never have to walk back and forth or cut the machine off. I hope this helps from my perspective. My Mix in a 5 gallon bucket 1/2 gallon Citra Cleen = $2.72 a gallon = $1.36 per bucket 1 gallon 10.5% sodium hypochlorite =$0.90 a gallon a dash of wet wax = $0.30 a dash of rinse aid = $0.25 a dash of foamer for the cling time = $0.40. Less than $3.21 a bucket x 3 buckets on a mobile home = $9.63 worth of chems and I gross $130.00 I dont see it as wasting I see it as time management and making over $100.00 hr to boot.

I use to use Eplus but changed to the Steves citracleen and the mix above there really is no comparison in the two the citracleen works better for me.

You mix 1/2 gallon of CC and 1 gallon of 10.5% sodium hypochlorite in a 5 gallon bucket and finish filling the bucket up with water then X-Jet with no proportioners. That is the recommended mix you can change it up to meet your needs but it has always worked fine for me.

Man thats like a slap in the face when your neighbors get someone else to do the job. I wouldnt touch that house after that no matter what he is paying. Price wars will always be around as long as there is competion. Myself as a consumer when I am getting something done like septic or something I will call a couple of contractors to get bids and I always pick the middle bid not the highest and not the lowest. Thats just business.