John T

With Facebook swallowing up everything in its path around the globe making so many platforms obsolete, it never became the beacon of professional information like these Industry Bulletin Boards did at the turn of the century up until about 6-7yrs ago. I had great memories on this particular bb here that came to mind today which is why I'm posting this now. For this dinosaur these memories I call....the good old days.

You can't go wrong purchasing a Hydrotek. They have one of the best reputations in the Industry.

We can't make the PWRA big dance this year since Kathy booked a house on the Jersey Shore the first week of August for my daughters sweet 16. Out of curiosity Beth what will you be speaking about there?

The guys that splash & dash vinyl obviously don't know what they're doing. Vinyl is such an easy clean that we can price them out without even showing up to do the estimate.(This takes some experience in doing). If guys are brushing houses more power to them. We haven't had to brush any in 21 yrs in business but I'll say this, we are not in the business of "restoring" vinyl. We just clean it to the customers satisfaction. Restoring vinyl to take out oxidation for example is great money but it's not for us.

The days of cleaning vinyl on a continuing bases with a brush & cloth is ancient history. No offense but doing a house like that these days is like saying you saw a dinosaur at the beach.

Yup--Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) in your house wash mixture is pretty much a must when cleaning vinyl.

If the gutters can clean up nicely with our house wash mix then we spray them. Most cases we just apply our gutter cleaner with a brush.

We have employees & every cleaning solutions we use we have SDS sheets for because of safety & liability reasons. At the PWRA convention in DC we took that class Jeremy Keifer taught about why you need SDS(Formerly known as MSDS)sheets & the fines that were levied towards his company because he didn't have SDS sheets on everything. Safety must come first especially when it comes to employees.

OK Andrew I added you to the Parking Garage Cleaning FB group. Check it out & you should find some pretty cool pictures there. Enjoy

Andrew what's your last name so I can find you on FB and add you to that Parking Garage group.

Go on Facebook and look me up under John Tornabene . Then hit me up on a PM and I'll connect you over to the "Professional Garage cleaning" group I'm running. There's plenty of pictures of large surface machines on that including ones you can drive.

Interesting post back in the day.

To one of the best and oldest Powerwashing bulletin boards I ever been on - Merry Christmas & a happy healthy & prosperous New Year to the TGS & Members.

Nice setup Rod. How do you like that blue non marking hose? I use to own some yellow ones & also a couple of blues & I found they use to leave marks on driveways etc. The grey hoses always worked best for us.

Cool Rod. Show pics if you can. I may do another van setup down the road.