John T

I'm debating on doing this half crocked crazy traveling schedule for the week of February 5th. Follow this and tell me if I'm nuts..ah don't answer that I already know what most people think about me..yea he;s nuts. February 4th-Superbowl party I was supposed to attend..I had to cancel to go into work so I can get some time off for..now follow this. Feb 6th am get off work. sleep 3 hrs and catch noon 12:30pm flight to Texas. Feb 7th am- Sit down with Robert and Michael Hindeliter and the PWNA managment team leader Michael Beaudry to try and reach some resolutions and understandings between the PWNA and *****. Then catch plane and arrive home near midnite. Tentative Schedule: Feb 8th- early am..drive 14 hrs to Goergia and try to make it there before midnite to get a hotel and sleep a few hours. Feb 9th- Go to Sunbrite building and take the PWNA Environmental class and certification test. Finish that talk some shop with Pete Marentey if he has time then back on the road for a 5+ hr trip to NC. Feb 10th- Attend Celeste and Roger's NC Roundtable meeting then hit the road aprox 4pm and travel 8 hrs to NJ and find another hotel and catch a few hours zzzzz's Feb 11th- Attend Everett's PWNA sanctioned Roundtable open to all at 10:30am. Call one or two guys from my "Other" job and beg them to cover me untill 9pm that night to get in to work untill the next morning(7am). Crazy---yes...why..well besides being passionate about this business and enjoying seeing everybody and networking and learning etc....Along comes Tuesday Feb 13th...........Florida bound jetwise with my wife and girls...and that my friends makes all the hard work worth it. The drawback from feb 9th-11th is not getting anyone to cover me at my "Other" job because they are already covering me to go to texas. You can only ask for so many favors. I'm thinking I have a few left since I did tons for them over the years but there is no guarantee's there. So how far will you travel to make these events??

Personally I think EClean magazine http://www.ecleanmag.com/ is excellent!! I've been around now for a fairly long time in the pressure washing business and EClean is one of my automatic "must read" magazines to keep me ahead of the curve in my area. I enjoy the articles and also reading about people that I had the honor to meet or had some type of contact with during my "Powerwashing" career. So who else reads EClean and what's your thoughts on it?

Here's a picture of a house we did that I tried in Vain to talk this homeowner out of staining it Cape Cod grey. This house was covered in black mold and mildew that was sped up because its on the water in the Hamptons. It cleaned perfectly and a nice Natural Cedar type color would have really turned this house into a head turner but the wife demanded Cape Cod Grey.. We all know the wives are the "House" bosses. Personally I hated it as did the husband but he lost out. Its reasons like this we don't mess with colors anymore. Money to some is everything but I have a hard time doing something that I hate no matter the money involved. You'll all do much better if you do not think like I do:) look how this house was destroyed--Yuk.

PWNA Environmental President – Robert M. Hinderliter Internet Committee – Chairman: John Tornabene Nigel Griffith Jim Gamble Robert Hinderliter PWNA State Environmental chairman’s Jim Gamble N CA JG Chairman North West US John Tornabene NY JT Chairman North East US Nigel Griffith MD NG Chairman South East US Robert Hinderliter TX RH Chairman Central US Shawn Downham HI SD Chairman Pacific Islands Ty Eubanks S CA TE Chairman South West US Please go to The PWNA - The Power Washers of North America for contact information.

What does Past World Champion Boxing Extraodinaire Sugar Ray Leonard & Beth Bachschmid Borrego have in Common?? They're speaking on the same bill at this years Ceta event!! If you Industry guys don't know who she is...you should. She started The Grime Scene Bulletin board years ago that was top ranked for quite a few of those years. She's also an Industry writer for Cleaner Times Magazine and other publications. Soon she will have a book coming out about Marketing for the Powerwashing Industry and beyond!!!! I was fortunate enough so serve with her when she was the Secretary of the www.pwna.org To an amazing woman who is a trailblazer....CONGRATS!!!

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.

This week alone we stripped 2 houses with a few other jobs as well. This house here is 3 stories in height on the sides and front which faces the Long Island Sound. We did not only the house but also the roof as well. This job took two days and today when my guys finished it was 39 degrees for the high. A total pain but where booked and these jobs have to get done.. Clark Check out the shirts you just made for us.. they are pretty stain resisting. Bleach or hydroxide hasnt hurt these shirts.. Anyone reading this get Clark Hussey to do your shirts. He knows about Powerwashing and he knows what type of material works.. Clark has also done our business cards. He is an Industry person that powerwashers and he knows what works best for us. Check out his website and let him suggest whats best for you but he will also do what you think is best as well. Just another reason to work with Industry type people who are out there like you are doing the work like we do. Thanks Clark:) https://mybizcard.co/user/rate/1192/54f0457b374dadd18812c75f927907f3/

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.

If the playoffs were now the Caps could be champs. Come the real playoffs the Caps are notoriously their own worst enemies. They put a new meaning in "Choke" lol

If its above freezing and there's work that can be done we do it. This time of year when it gets slow every job we get now is more money I can squirrel away for those snowy days that are coming.

This ice damming is for commercial flatwork only for a particular object. My connection has 6000 accounts and I will be covering the 5 Borroughs of NY city and possibly a chunk of NJ. This work sucks but a friend of mine made over a 100grand doing this so with those #'s I'm willing to role the dice.

Gearing up for commercial ice-damming with one of my trucks. I may regret this because I'll be on call whenever they need me. Could even be called on Christmas day. The money side is good because we get paid the minute we leave to the minute we get back. Right now where doing gutter clean outs and and an out of state Parking Garage thanksgiving day weekend which is going so suck but it will help pay the bills.