Mike

Thats even better. From what I have seen, you just have to treat each account different when it comes to how often you clean them out. Like you said, one area has no trees and may only need 1 cleaning a year, the other has pine needles that fall year round and may need to be cleaned 3-4 times a year. Up here it seems like all the leaves fall within a week, and then the race is on to see how many you can get done before the other guy. (just kidding about the race part :) )

It's a great add on service. Every year money falls from the trees sometime around October - November. While your up there check for loose brackets and leaks as well and add that on if repairs are needed.

Congrats BOTH of you. If I make it down to Florida, I'm taking you guys out for dinner, in the NON Smoking section. :D

What would you like to see happen in our industry in 2006? What are you willing to do to help? What can the rest of us do to help?

I'm a playstation junkie as well, a great way to get away from the craziness. I'm addicted to the RPG games from Square software like Final Fantasy and Star Ocean. These are games that you save your progress as you play along the storyline, much like a movie.

Is there such a thing? NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. Do you ever read the small print on the bottem of web pages. I've been noticing more and more of this on sites like yahoo, google and other sites lately. It seems like you cant go anywhere on the internet anymore without a server taking personal information from your computer and doing who knows what with it.

Great idea! Thanks for the advice. I would have never thought of that. The best thing is it has multi-uses as well.

You answered my next question already as well. If your using pvc, how do you get your spray patterns. Thanks Lance. Shane, let me know about those triggers as well. Thanks.

Lets here more about your home made wands?

Of course it does, anything that makes the home look better makes it worth more money to potential buyers. Also, like Ryan said, you also have the safety angle to work. Dont forget you can also take a preservation angle with wood and roof cleaning. All of these things factor into home value.

My winter project this year has been to build a good "multi-use sprayer". This is the first thing I have tried to build on my own from scratch. I am using a 12 volt shurflo pump with my tank and now I am looking the best wand to use that would stand up to the chemicals and the elements. For those of you that use 12 volt pumps, do you use your vehicle or another battery to power your pump. I'm just wondering how I would keep it charged all day.

check these threads out. Gutter Pricing: http://www.thegrimescene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2750 Gutter Cleaning: http://www.thegrimescene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1896 Gutter Cleaning: http://www.thegrimescene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2915 Gutter Cleaning with Vac: http://www.thegrimescene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4615 Exterior Gutter Cleaning: http://www.thegrimescene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=272

Welcome to TGS. There are many "woodies" here that I'm sure would be more then happy to help. I just wanted to jump in and welcome you to the forum. :cheers:

God Bless the Dungy Family

They dont work well when the gutters are filled with wet leaves which sometimes become matted down. If your cleaning dry gutters they work like a charm. Even after it rains and then is dry for many days, the "junk" in the gutters could still be wet and matted down.