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If the grime comes off that easily then try chemically cleaning it. Give me a call. I've cleaned that type of boardwalk before for a municipality.

Don't forget that walking too fast is not the only cause of those lines. You can get them if a tip is clogged or if the bearing assembly needs rebuilding. Bad check valves or a bad packing kit will be the result of pulsating water from the pump and that will also cause lines (if you don't slow down to compensate for the lack of water)

John, you're not talking abou thte F350 on Ebay that you posted about? That was a sweet rig.

If you get them to sign off on the their terms of employment and payment schedules then that shall prevail over the law. After all they knew under what conditions they accepted the position.

David that's what I've been thinking aswell. Could be that the concrete is in bad shape and he's scoring it.

Inc..

Integrity PSI, I don't like it simply b/c, by looking at the picture, I get the impression that you're marketing some sort of event organization, banquet hall, restaurant, etc. You need to put some exterior before and after shots on the card instead of a shot of some tables with settings. Besides, your verbage referrs to everything exterior. Then why the interior shot?

See now I disagree with you. Just b/c you're dealing with the county it doesn't mean that the lowest bid will win the contract. I know that tends to be the case but it's not 100% of the time. It sounds to me like he's already got one foot in the door and they're happy with his services.....that's the reason he's been invited to bid.

If you're catholic and are offended by the joke then go read another post. :)

Vanilla...I like that:)

Mel, atleast he's consistent. This Is Much Worse....Every Time I Read His Posts I Get A Headache! (I don't remember the poster off the top of my head.... still I mean no offence. All in good fun.) :)

If I remember correctly, and I've have two drinks, what I said was that I'd find it hard to believe. Then again nothing suprises me anymore. A woman called yesterday and asked if I was the pressure cooker. I confessed :lgwave:

I'd find it hard to believe that an entity such as a county would accept a bid, on something as large as that, based on hourly rates. Why trust the contractor not to pad the Invoices? Who's going to monitor to make sure he spent 2.6 hours onsite as opposed to 3.2? If you charge 10cent/sqft then it's 10cent/sqft. The only question left is how much sqft was cleaned. Someone can always go out and measure to make sure bids aren't padded. Jeff could use hourly rates in order to calcuate flat fee rates but I think it would be suicidal to hand in a bid with hourly rates. Jeff, in no ways am I implying that you are dishonest. I'm simply making a point that there are a lot of players involved in you getting this job and even more that will be questioning budgets at a later date. And trust you me that things will get questioned.....you just might not hear of it. The simpler and straight forward price schedule is the better for you in the long run.

We don't have winters!!

This is one is a tough one and you'll spend some time surveying for sure. Have a set price /sqft for flatwork. Then set your price /sqft for gum removal, oil removal, rust removal...etc. Have a set price /sqft for two story substrate and then another price /sqft for 2+story and lift assisted jobs. Give them prices on equipment surcharge (scissor lifts, cherry pickers, etc) and offer to save them those costs if they provide the special equipment......most of the time they own a few things here and there. You know what your chems cost you and you know, how much of what you need to clean a certain area. From there you can pretty much tell how much more you'll have to charge for the use of chems. The other way of doing it is by giving flat fee rates per section, per building, per situation (rust removal, oil removal, gum removal, etc) The difficult portion of this will be determining your rates based on frequency of cleaning. DON'T GIVE DISCOUNTS ON PROMISED FORCASTS! Instead try to come up, the best you can, with a discount tier that they can use for forcasted budgets. ie: $200 to clean building. -$ 15/service if cleaned every 4 months. -$ 35/service if cleaned every other month. You can do this with per sqft rates aswell. Good luck.

Post a picture of that vine stain.

Don't you guys include an 'oops factor' into your prices?

The amount of an a**hole a person is, is directly proportional to the distance they are away from you at the time you discover this flaw. :lgsideway

pldoolittle, Have you ever connected a 12ft and 10ft pole together? Or larger? it's not easy to handle that sway. Add to the equation windows and it's and accident waiting to happen. I guess it depends on how much room you have to store things. I've got enough to fit some larger wands. What happens when you need to reach 18+ feet? I don't like standing on A frame ladders while pulling the trigger on a gun! At 8gpms, and with a 7gpm tip at the end of your 3+6+9 combo all at once, what you got is a real nice bend. And potentially a bend that can snap in two places. It has nothing to do with cost of wands. I dislike using more than 2 connections at a time. Would you connect 300ft of high pressure hose consisting of 50ft sections? For odd jobs sure. But if you use 300ft on a daily basis it's foolish. Why not use a 200ft and a 100ft section? Less connections, less hardware and less possibility of those hoses blowing at the crimps. In the end it comes down to what you are comfortable with and exactly what you are doing. We all have our ways I guess.

I don't xjet anything and have never owned one. However, some of the homes around will require you to carry a couple of extra long extensions. In most cases it's the pool patio overhangs that are a good 16-20ft off the ground. Important to note that I'll never connect two long extensions together. It'll always be a 12/18fter alone by themselves. Point I'm trying to make is instead of connecting two or more small extensions why not just have one longer one sitting on the truck for those 1 in a million chances. They're really inexpensive.

Call Russ Johnson. He posted above you. I'm sure that he'll be able to find you some. If not then give me a buzz.

Richard, my broom elevates the handheld toolbox so it doesn't get lost in the abyss of fender mounted box. ps: spring rolls around and I'll have you visit my mother in Hamilton. Clean her place up a bit.

Supercharged 5.4?

Am I the only one who finds it aggravating that the customer, knowing she had a coupon in her pocket, tried to bring the price down before presenting the coupon. Sounds too sneaky.

I was just going to say, throw the broom out. :)