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    This may not be the appropriate forum, so if a mod. wants to move it, go ahead...

    A friend of mine has a great deal on an E-150 work van. I am considering buying it, but I am a little skeptical about using it to work out of. Does anyone have van set-ups that you could post pics of? How could I manage my chem. and gasoline storage? How could I secure a skid unit?

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    I hate to be the devils advocate, but don't most of us buy our supplies from a vendor that has reasonable prices? We all love Bob and yes he has the best at it all, customer service and PRICE. But, would we buy from him if he was way over priced then his competitors?

    Do we thank Walmart became the power they are today by having the highest prices?

    I looked at Eds site and I see the marketing tool he is using to get customers, and it doesn't look that bad to me (maybe I'm old, dumb and blind).

    Yes, I agree he is advertising a price to get the calls and upsell so he can make a living at what he is good doing, selling his service and making customers happy, while like he said making a good profit.

    I wish I could dictate the prices of house washes and roof cleaning in my area, but hay this is a business and we will always have competition which makes it interesting. We can't make the rules, we just have to deal with them and the monsters they can create. I love America, The land of Oppurtunity.

    John,

    Do you run into may "lowballers" in our area? I can't say that I have. I know of one guy that runs a $79 house wash ad, that's about it. Most of the rigs I see around here look like they are pretty professional. Decks on the other hand, are a different story. It seems like customers don't really care. You show them pictures of decks that are damaged by lack of maintenance and they still balk at your price. I've gotten pretty good at weeding the cheap ones out over the phone, so at least I'm not wasting my time as much.

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    A customer called me yesterday and wants Sikkens Cetol applied to his deck. He said that he did his front porch, but he didn't want to do his deck because it was such a pain in the a$$. He said that the manufacturer states that it takes 2 coats and it must be brushed on. I am not sure yet which Cetol it is, but I looked on their website and they mention spraying as an acceptable application method for Cetol. I have personally never applied any Cetol. Does anyone have any advice that needs to be followed when applying Cetol with an airless?

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    If your fuel supply has no cut off valve you may have to much fuel in the carb... Also make sure you have no pressure in your hose while cranking hold the trigger down......

    I've tried it with no hose attached at all, and still nothing. It saddens me to see a small squirt of water each time I pull the rope. I'm gonna change the plug and fuel/air filters tommorrow and see if that helps.

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    This unit has been setting for about 3 weeks. When I started it at the job for the first time, it would only run with the choke on. While messing with the choke, I realized that I had not attached a gun to the pressure hose, so I turned the machine off. It was running for about 20 seconds. When I attempted to start it (pull start), it wouldn't start. The plug looks OK. I pulled the air filter housing off to make sure the choke/throttle linkage was OK. When I pull the air filter, it had a small amount of motor oil on it, and it looked like motor oil may have been in the carb. Any thoughts?

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    I don't understand the big deal of downstreaming. I can't get the ratio I want, I can't get the chemical to the top of the structure without getting the ladders off the trailer, and I've got to run it through 200 or more feet of hose. A certain amount of chemicals get wasted this way (stuck in the hose) and I'm sure I don't have to tell anyone here that some of those liquids can be quite pricy.

    At least for me, the big deal is not toting buckets or getting my x-jet hose tangled with my pressure hose. Using a 0030 or 0040 tip will throw chems. as high as an x-jet. I use a General hi-draw injector and can pull through 200' of hose.

    As far as wasting chems., I think the x-jet is more wasteful with it's "cloud" of chems that covers cars, neighbors houses, etc. Instead of completely covering your surface with chems. using your soap tip, replace the soap tip with your rinse tip for the last 5 or 6 seconds of your soaping and you wont waste any.

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    Yaz,

    Strip & Seal. Cedar, PTP, T111 and Trex. Cabots oil Cedar goes on.

    My life revolves around what my workers want to do. They are my life blood & if they want to work weekends, they let me know. They also remember the winter time when we ONLY do 8-10 decks a month (which is Jan-Feb).

    Is the pool close enough to worry about runoff/debris? If so, how are you handling that?

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