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John, I am familiar with SNL but have not used it except cert. class. Is the product dry in those photos or is that freshly applied? It looks great!

The sunny side is that you have had excellent insight practically dropped into your lap about local competitors, and your new market.

Occasionally a customer will ask "do you do brick". I think they might actually be asking "could you give me a price that doesn't include the brick". My answer in the past has been that we clean everything, not only what you can see but we'll be killing the spores. Plus the cleaning solution on your eves will run down onto the brick and it will need rinsing anyway. Well, I have a small group of houses that I want to clean and I was asked this again by one of the residents. Now that I have electric pumps for chemicals I can clean more specific areas. I’m reconsidering my marketing approach for this neighborhood. Any suggestions?

Tim thanks for spelling it out for me. I could sense that on a couple of occasions people expected a different process, price or something because they have a brick house. Your response explains a lot and is valuable information to me, thanks again.

Let me rephrase my question -- on a brick home, would you charge the same price for cleaning just the eaves as you would for cleaning the entire house? For example, in this video Bob is only washing the trim...would this be priced the same as washing the entire house? Low pressure high volume chemical pump spraying - YouTube

Thanks for the feedback! How does this sound? I'll work on my brick pitch; instead of lowering my regular house wash price for detailing the soffits like I was considering, I guess I’ll keep it the same price and charge extra for thorough brick cleaning as more of an add-on.

Thanks Celeste

Hello Grime Scene, The names Greg and I’ve been washing house on and off for a few years. I started out taking almost any odd job dictated by the customer. My customers and their encouragement have helped me tremendously. My first cards and flyers were actually made by customers while I did work for them; I never asked, they’d just come out with ideas eager to help. My name “Neighborly Services” was actually something a customer had put on a flyer. I consider my customers to be the heart of my business. Having faithful regular customers has enabled me time to sit back and study these boards and provide a more professional services. It was much slower going and more difficult to find the info I needed until I found these boards about a year ago. I started by focusing on cleaning compounds and studying proper equipment so I wouldn’t be working from the trunk of a car/jeep. Now I have a trailer rig and soon a web site. I have experience in wood finishing as a spray technician and went to a tech school for fine woodworking. Woodworking is more of a hobby, because I couldn’t get move out of the spray booth once I got good. The difference between working in a spray booth and in the field is like night and day. I have set up spray booths and a line of finishes for a couple of small companies’ years ago, and thought I’d eventually do the same for myself or mobile furniture touch up/repair. I love working for myself (Neighborly Services), the work is often fun and there are less fumes. This is getting kind of lengthy so I’ll finish by saying thanks! I’ve learned a lot from reading your posts, and I will gladly post here again. P.S. A message popped up encouraging me to post on here, it worked.