Mathew Johnson

Jim likes to work with unique and specialty woods. I heard him tell some one that they had a nice deck and he would like to put some oil on it for a charge. Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Where are u from. Give me a call anytime if you need help or have questions. Always willing to help. My cell is in my signature Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Easy Jim, don't get excited , it's just a truck Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just figured out how to load a pic with Tapatalkcall This is the new truck we put in service today[ATTACH]19642[/ATTACH] Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Couldn't post pictures Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

fred flintstone made a round table in the rock quarry years ago for Mr Slate to have a meeting. I also think the round table was later used as a wheel. What ever happened to the old cartoons!

Good info Nigel! Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, but you have to add syrup to your rinse water to make it stick Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sparkle Wash is a franchise that you can purchase from the main company. Matt

Jim, all we can get at Walmart are 1/2 inch chineese brushes. If I pray twice and have Mary help me meditate will the 1/2 brush be sufficient?

Happy Birthday Allison

I agree Mike. You may or may not agree with me, but someone who has the opportunity to do this type of work may be best served by teaming up with a company who has done a lot of it. A sound understanding of Psycometric monitoring and manipulation is needed to assist in eliminating the risk for lawsuit and providing optimum results. Vacuuming up water just scratches the surface when it comes to what needs to be done on a flood damage cleanup project. The additional equipment needed for these types of projects will shock you. From external structural drying furnaces, to oxygen / smell binding generators to dessicant dehumdifiers (some cost upwards of 10 to 12 grand), it is a specialty service that requires specialty equipment. With the three of us, Mike, Tom Defrancesco and Myself, We have over 60K in just drying equipment that we use for our projects In todays society of "lets sue someone" mentality, Flood Clean-up a very high risk service that you can get sued over in a heartbeat. Any folks in that come across the need for this service may want to give Mike or Tom a call. They know their sh, have the equipment and can get it done, done right and done quickly.

John, you make it sound like it is an easy service to offer (LOL) water damage restoration is complex and a very expensive service to prepare for to offer. I won't go into the details, will save that for Albany. But as an example, the testing equipment required can run into the thousands of dollars. Learn more About the adventures of Super Storm Sandy.... Join us in Albany Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wood??? What is wood? The last deck I tried to stain was a mess. Then I had my carpenter guy to look at it to help me fix it. Damn, that trex decking sure looked real before I applied the stain. Uugh!

Sorry to hear you wont be their Rick. We didnt know Tom and Barb were canceling their event until Tom contacted us about coming to our event as a sponsor. We are happy to have him. Keeping Jake and Diamond Jim in line is not possible, Jack and I dont have enough hours in the day. Matt

Mr Petry, What is this "sodium hydroxide" you speak of? Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

WOW Ron, you didn't read the post correctly, it said substitute registered nurse for police officer. The word in front of Police is retired. Therefore it would read to say... Retired register nurse. Thanks for posting incorrect information about my life here in a public forum Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What he said!!!! (except substitute Critical Care Registered Nurse for police department) Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We like box trucks. We bought this yesterday[ATTACH]19535[/ATTACH]. We are going to get it lettered like our other one. [ATTACH]19536[/ATTACH] Mathew Johnson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Started with a 289 dollar 2.5 gpm pressure washer, a hundred feet of garden hose and kicked in 200 bucks for the deposit on insurance policy ..... $600.00 total. I have to laugh, we had that in for the day by 11 am today. We continue to grow. This year we have opened "PWS Commercial Property Services". We now offer parking lot line striping and sealcoating in addition to power washing. It has exploded our schedule with new business. Businesses like being able to call just one place to provide all of thier maintenance services. We also have a painting crew to take care of thier painting needs. It is a blast painting parking lots.... big money, quick to do. We have teamed up with another line striping company for the very large projects like malls and parking garages. The customers are pleased that we can tackle the large jobs quickly and get thier lots open. We have already bid in excess of 40k in line striping for the spring. The expert line striper that trained and educated me and the staff is excellent. We are currently completing the curriculum for both the basic line striping school and the advanced line striping school. If you really want to add on a service this is a great one, much like pressure washing and wood restoration, this is a repeatable service that you will be providing and even in a lousy economy, everone still gets thier parking lots striped!

What is your strongest area in the operation of your business.

Here is a deck project we did last week. It had medium red readyseal (4 years old) We prepped it in the usual fashion and applied ONE coat of Armstrong Clark Oxford Brown Semi Solid. It applied easily and covered well. No issues or problems

A local painter has started a powerwashing division; Here is his web page link: http://www.mariottipainting.com/Powerwashingx.html

The History of Pressure Washing Services DBA then to Inc, In June of 2003, we had our driveway blacktopped. The first week in August, I bought a "massive" power washer from Tractor Supply, it was the best machine out there (so I thought at the time) (3.5 gpm - 3800 PSI with a briggs engine. My son (13 at the time) and I were washing the driveway, he looked at me as said "I wonder if anyone would pay us to do stuff like that?" I said maybe... decided that we were going into the business. I landed my first job on labor day weekend for a house wash - I hit it big $225.00 for the wash. Our family of four went to do the job, we blew up three pressure washers and it took us a total of 2 days and 12 hours of work. That came out to almost 20 bucks an hour. I took that money and bought insurance. The rest is history. I found the grime scene and started doing my research and got hooked up with a guy named Tom Vogel, Started buying the right equipment, using the right chemicals. Went from using a ford ranger with all of the stuff loaded into the back - loaded and unloaded for each job. Decided to buy a trailer with money from the jobs - started with a 5X8 open, then a 14 foot open - then had to get a hot water machine to take up room on the trailer - back to ACR for a bigger machine - hense my first Hydro Tek, Went through a winter, realized that bills came all year long for a seasonal business, dumped more money into the business, next year - ditched the ranger, bought a f 150 and then a 14 foot enclosed. Continue to grow and reinvest, back to Tommy VOgels for deck sprayers and surface cleaners, Over the following years, business grew at about 50 percent over prior years sales every year - bought out two businesses, one local and one in NJ for the equipment only. Grew the fleet to add a 6X12 enclosed trailer rig designed specifically for wood restoration, then a one ton E 350 van with an additional hot water machine - Then the floods came - in the summer of 2006 we started flood cleanup with a sludge sucker and a Lowes shop vac, overnight expressed in a steel eagle recovery surface cleaner and purchased a 40 foot vacuboom system and a Nikro dual head vacuum of which we installed our own pump out. Back to Toms to buy my Hydrotek filtration system to complete our arsenal of reclamation equipment, A short time later, we had been helping at ACR's RT and Jack Kramer and I decided to write the curriculum for a combined wood restoration and power washing class (I had been working part time at State University of Delhi as faculty and applied many of the concepts of adult education to the program) Hense the starting of a partnership with Jack, COntractor Education Services, which we still have today provideing individual and group educational classed to contractors starting a business or looking to expand their businesses. Over the next couple of years the business continued to grow each year, much attributed to the marketing and branding done through KBK Graphics and Keith Bruce. I took up the hobby of buying used equipment, fixing it up and reselling it. At the same time we were getting calls from local businesses for pressure washing repairs and serviceing, we started to go out and repair them, often picking up cleaning jobs for shop floors and businesses, we started to sell machines to them through local dealers getting a commission off of the sale. The power washing entity continued to grow and in 2009 we though a contractor party - AKA The NorthEast Pressure Washing Seminar - Ended up with a great turnout and event with over 100 people from 28 or 29 states assembling in Albany with a few contractors from albany. 2009 was a great year and we continued to expand, adding an additional hot water setup, and sales to the local businesses, highway departments and school districts continued to increase. We started a distributorship and became a Hydro Tek Dealer, In 2010, my wife left her full time job and took over the majority of the Contract Cleaning Business., We added a fork lift and chemical mixing room. 2011 - What a year - We had floods again and we did an enormous amount of clean-up, We added a 14 foot Isuzu style (GMC Logo) Box Truck and purchased a mega-vacuum system that we built out in a 16 foot enclosed trailer, We continue to grow, keeping our workforce and labor cost in check, There are many to thank along the way, from the contractors on the Grime Scene, to Beth, Tom V, Bruce S, Henry B., the list goes on and on. The moral of this story... pay attention to the contractors and distributors out there, there are a lot of very successful contractors on this BBS and throughout the industry who dont "eat the newbie" and truely want to see you succeed. Enlist their help with big projects, refer it to someone who has helped you, or ask for their help and take on the job, and know when to walk away from the job when necessary. Dont Low Ball the job - we will call you low ballin Rob, Dont cut rates and take a financial hit.... It will disenchant your fellow contractors and only land you in Sh&^!

Mike, What store near you picked up stocking readyseal. MAtt