Jack Kramer

The room block is being released this Sunday February 15, 2015. If you are planning to attend call today to reserve your hotel room for $69.00 per night

Kris, I understand your confusion about how many members the ***** has and no one from that org will give us a straight answer. I see the 37 commercial, 77 contractors by state, 17 distributors, and 42 Residential on there website which is very confusing. Once I took a closer look I found that the commercial and residential count is a duplicate of the 77 contractors by state. So the number that I come up with is 77 members. Just a couple of weeks ago I saw a post stating that they had just added over 30 members from some event. If my math is correct they had only 47 members before that event. If someone from the ***** BOD could help us understand the numbers it would be appreciated.

I have had my deckster for 11 years and have never had a problem. I never clean it out, about 3 times a year i take the filter off when it clogs and clean it. I know you can make one but I would buy another deckster in a minute.

Chris, In New Jersey you can create a LLC online for about $125.00. You also should get a NJ Contractor license number from the state (about $100.00 per year). Your insurance cost will start around $1200.00 per year, that will go up fast if you add a company auto. If you would like to talk about it give me a call.

Allison, Thanks for the great job you did on the 2012 Pressure Washing Seminar in Albany, NY. Hope you can make our event. Welcome

Doug, I run 50' with no problem. Are you going to Albany?

The Albany, New York Seminar is being held March 31st and April 1st. The pre seminar classes will be held March 29th and 30th. You will want to arrive Friday night for a cold beer and some great networking. More information to come soon!

I’m co hosting the seminar in Albany New York with Matt Johnson. We are calling it a “Seminar” as it will be much bigger that a round table and in many ways it will rival a conference. Education classes will be available the two days prior to the seminar. If you would like to be added to our mailing list please email me at JKramer@pwseminar.com. Much more information to follow! John, hope you can make it, I look forward to you trying to dethrone the hose rolling champion.

Tom, I agree a new organization for the power washing industry is needed. Here are some of the basic things I feel a new organization would need to have in place to be successful: 1)The financials should be made public to all Members and maybe even non members 2)No board members can have conflicting business affiliations such as Distributorships, Manufactures, Education, Franchises … 3)All members are welcome 4)Create programs for establisher businesses 5)Annual Conference 6)A Logo with ideas to help sell the benefit to customers 7)Some type of accreditation for various aspects of power Washing The purpose of this is to start the ball rolling. Please continue this list and fell free to comment in a positive way with any disagreements.

Most chemicals don’t work as well in cold weather especially gutter cleaners and bleach.

Dave, I'm also from NJ. I have sealed pavers for the last 2 years and it is very profitable. I have used products from V-Seal. Call me if you would like more information.

QuickBooks Pro will do a great job for estimating, invoicing and payments. Contact Manager is used for follow up with customers which is very important. If you have any questions please feel free to call me.

Ken, I have a deckster on wheels that is used when 2 people are on site. I also have an extra deckster pump mounted on the truck wall that I use if working by myself. I disconnect the pressure washing hose from the pressure washer and connect it to the deckster pump. This way I only use one hose to apply chemicals and wash. Once the chemical application is complete I disconnect the pressure washing hose from the deckster and reconnect it to the pressure washer. At the end of the job there is only one hose to rollup (excluding water hose). I don't use this method to apply sealer as cleanup would be difficult.

If you are going to do residential work with an 8 GPM machine you may run into a problem with supply water. If they are hooked into city water you should be ok. If they have a well you could run into a problem.

John, Thanks for your post, I will call on Monday.