Jarrod
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Thank God!!
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Whatever happened to ol' Seal Max?
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Like - house washing best & deck STRIPPING & flat work
Hate - degreasing
Don't enjoy - deck staining
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Overpriced squirt gun. This is what 90% of my competitors use to do decks with.
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That's what I'm thinking too. I just do not think people will pay.
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I'll let you know
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How many sq ft is the deck?
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I hope you made some serious $$ on that job. Good job!
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I like the idea of "fee" estimates. I just think that people will just throw the bill in the trash and laugh. I thought about this a lot as I do over 200 estimates every summer. At $5 per estimate, it would be worth it for me. I like the idea Beth had about charging outside a certain radius. Of course, if the cust. accepts the bid the charg would be waved.
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I never worried about it and never had a problem either.
Ken, 6 am?! People up here would KILL us if we showed up at that time!
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Look for a mailing place. Not the post office. Here, it's calles Pontiac Mailing.
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Oh, and by the way, it takes me a lot longer than 1.5 haurs to STAIN a deck:lgsideway
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9 times out of 10 my customers are not home when we are staining their deck. (Or they get the sudden cabin fever when we are almost done.) Because of this, we hardly ever get a chance to give them a walkthrough and a Q&A time. We always leave about 20 oz. of stain or the aerosol spray can like Tony mentioned.
We travel from 5 min. to 40 min. to do decks. Average travel time (1 way)_ is 25 min. So you can see why I hate call backs, especially when the cust. has a spray can to do it with. It would only take them 1-5 min tops to do it too. It would take me an hour! I look at it this way, it takes them just as long to fix a missed spot as it does to notice it. Let's face it, most of the time, it's a spot the size of a toothpic! Last year I got sooo tired of driving all the way to a cust. house just to fix a spot that really didn't need to be fixed at all. I remember 1 lady that made me drive 30 min to her home on a Sat. morning to fix a spot. She acted as if I ruined her whole life. Whan I got there, (no joke) it took her AND her husband 15 minutes to find the spot that they wanted me to touch up. It was under the bottom of the railing just between 2 planks. The spot was literally the size of a toothpic!! AHHHHHH!
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Whether we wanna admit it or not, we all get that annoying call to come and dab some stain on 1 or more spots that we may have missed. I'm curious as to how you guys & gals would handle this.
And if you say that you never get callbacks, I will personally come over and bludgen you with a folding chair!!:lgsideway
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My buddy up here has a Deckhand and loves it. It's 5-6 years old now and still works great.
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Airless 4 verticals, speed sealer 4 floor
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Believe it or not the overspray is very minimal. I always prewet all greenery b4 starting & rinse after. Besides, we charge extra for killing plants.
Seriously though, we have never killed 1 plant in 5 years.
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Jarrod,Is it tough to get a potent mix when downstreaming? Are you using the Gemini products (i know they are made to downstream). From what folks say (i have no clue) i thought DS cuts your product down to about 9:1, and that seems weak to me. Maybe you buy a liquid form product that is extremely strong??
I'm glad you asked. I use a product that shall remain nameless (for local competitive reasons) It is made here. As for strength, it is 10X stronger than anything else so that by the time it is downstreamed, the ratio is perfect. No dwell time either. No furring either. If you want me to pm you more about it I will.
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Knock on wood - 5 years without a problem.
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Downstream inject it. You can cover a 500 sq. ft. deck in 5 min. or less. That's 1 benifit, the other is no streaks. I downstream both stripper & brightener.
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How Many Peaks Per Bld?
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Just looking at all this work is stressing me out!:lgbugeyes
How many peaks on each bld?
I would charge by the peak plus the lift.
I have to redo someone else' work
in Wood Cleaning & Restoration - Decks, Fences, etc.
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Nice job. How long did the HD80 dwell?