jbruno
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I've only used Gutter Shock in my short time powerwashing. The ONLY time I couldn't get a gutter clean was an 11 year old gutter with painted finish. It had never been cleaned and I got about 85% off. The homeowner was saw another customer of mine's house, who had newer gutters and figured his would look the same way.. And I have never had a paint removal problem. Also, I used to x-jet it up on the gutter the brush it. but if they are with in reach of the brush, I just brush it on about a 70/30 mix (70 water)
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Thanks James. I sure would not mind tagging along with you sometimes. 100% of my business is in the city and Nassau. Just moved up here and want to expand a little but definately do not want to step on any toes of a potential friend and collegue.You're not going to be stepping on toes, Don't look at it that way, Getting quality 'competition' is what makes our pricing valuable. Also the ability to work together is also an added bonus. There are many Hacks out there that can drive us crazy, but that's something we'll talk about.
I actually have the Landa water jet that has a wand attached to the machine so I can rinse after I do a few passes with the surface cleaner.
Oh and Mike W. I was getting out, then I got back in, now I don't know what I'll do! Getting out of this business is like trying to quit drinking... It's hard. And you guys keep pulling me back in! Maybe I'll Teach Tom everything I know. (it'll only take about 15 minutes!!)
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I just had a great post that I lost because I'm a little drunk! so here it goes again.
I posted this because I thought it was a COOL project, and It has become a learning process. And no my competecnay isn't in question because I told my friend his deck was a nightmare and drastyic measures may be involved.
But I did this 'flip' for a few reasons 1. because I wanted to see what it would take to do such a job, in case I had to resort to it in the future, and 2, because I couldn't just "cover and run" even knowing that they would have been fine with that aproach. I don't really care that I'm losing money, I wanted to make sure my integrity wasn't compromised and that I was learning throughout this process. Sometimes the best learning comes at your own expense, because I won't make that mistake twice!!
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two more pics
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Here is a project I got involved with for a friend! $600 for house wash, and deck strip/stain... would ahve benn easy money if she told me she had 4 layers of stain and some latex paint (i think, it was like armor) on it. Striped it once and took off 2 layers, then tried to sand but the boards were so bad I couldn't get the sander fush to the wood. So I flipped all but 3 boards! Took 4 hours to pull nails/flip and screw down 5 lbs. of screws, and I still need more!
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looks good, but let's get some better pics! LOL.
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here is the money maker in action!! it's actually the m-5 and it's in total fan mode here. Some overspray, but it's easy enough to control when doing other stuff. Plus it was a little breazy that day.
second/third pic is my "other" money maker... my helper cleaning the gutters w/ gutter shock. Clean gutters really impress the homeowner! These were really nasty.
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OK thank you Scott. I will chalk this up to experience. So much to learn in this business. Love this message board but I always feel like an idiot when I see everyone else is so experienced.Tom,
If you need Help or questions answered, Call me. I'm "THE KING" of Orange County Powerwashing (or at least that's what my friends say! LOL). I'm right over here in Goshen. And I've been doing this stuff for 4 years. I'm actually going to buy a box truck today (I hope) in Warwick
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What in the world is "some sicko" going to do with those pics?Hell, I have several hundred of Michael on my webpage...
Bruno: She's not too young! We're taking Michael down there for his 1 year birthday next month.
Yeah, but you knowhow the wives are. They talk, We listen... Plus we just took them to Hershey Park and Dutch Wonderland in the spring. My son is an animal, he loves the rides. My daughter went on a few rides, and Heather doesn't do rides. So until mydaughter can ride more than a few rides, we'll have to wait (orders from the big boss!)
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I don't have photo shop (i think) so I did this in paint?? Looks ghetto, like some of my decks I've been getting this year! LOL
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James....be careful putting pics of your kids on the internet...maybe photoshop your name or something across the pic. Can't be too careful with the sickos out there....will do, but how do i switch out pictures on a post?
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Great lookin' kids, Bruno!When are you gonna bring 'em down to the Mouse House in Orlando?
I actually had an offer of a time share the week after thanksgiving. $600 for the week just outside Disney. But the boss thinks Ella is too young still. But It'll be sonner than ya' know and I'll be knocking on your door with a few cold ones. These kids grow up FAST!
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They defenitley keep me on my toes. Kevin turned 4 on july 29th and Ella is 16 months.
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the deck looks awesome. as well as the front porch. How long did it take you to complete? do you run 1 machine or two at something like this?
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go buy a screen, let it soak in house wash mix while you and the homeowner watch. after, rinse it with about 1200 psi. there won't be ANY rips in the screen. My helper (part-time helper, full-time knucklehead) has open up the wand with the x-jet on straight stream on a first floor window MORE than once and there was no damage. Actually his ears got damaged when I gave him a scream bath!
there is NO Way that house wash mix did that to the screens. those things were shot way before you showed up.
did you get paid yet?
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old fashion muscle? since you already got a few spots up, try a pry bar and a maul (sledge hammer) just start working from the spot that has exposed the walkway already.
I wouldn't even think of power washing something like this, maybe after I got all the mortar of. But it's hard to tell with out even seeing the job.
p.s. how big is the area you're talking about?
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i haven't read that much since college, and I'm talking about ALL of college
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When are you picking it up?? you'll probably drive right past my house on the way (well not exactly!)
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before you do anything, try baking soda. The wife used it on some oil stains on my clothes, and some stains on our coach. It pulled it right out. I'm not sure if it will work on asphalt.
and when someone is having a seizure, call 911! LOL
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floor and spindles. I'll be putting down another coat in the fall before they close the pool. It's already taking a beating, the kids are in the pool every day!
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Two More shots. This is my son Kevin, he'll be 4 on Friday. He keeps me on my toes.
It took me 3 hours to power wash the deck, and 5 for the fence. It then took about 15 hours to the stain, and yes we did the fence and deck by hand. Still haven't bought a sprayer!
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Idiot me always forgets the camera, so no before pics. The fence was ne, and the deck had Cabots Clear solutions redwood that failed miserably. I stripped the pool deck and used Dark Red Ready Seal. Fence got Natural Cedar.
I may bring this to the pool company and try and advertise with them, they have a huge store and do a LOT of pools each year.
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John,
I am using a 7x12 enclosed wells cargo trailer. I have a 275 gallon tank, double stack Hannay reels, and a Landa mghp (i can't remember the new model) And I have a few 15-20 gallon drums with my chems in it. as well as all my brushes, wands, extra 3/4' filler hose, 50' of 3" fire hose, and some 5 gallon buckets of certain chems and empty ones for other stuff. and ladder rack on top.
It's a decent "starter" size, but I'm bulging at the seems. it's also great because it fits in a lot of driveways. but it doesn't enable me to carry a lot of water for truck washing. So I'm buying a box truck. And eventually I want to get a van to be my residential rig. I'll put a 100 gallon float tank in it, with my cold machine. But for now I'm going to be using the Box truck. Oh, the only draw back with the box truck fro me will be my stain work. I'll be using the box truck when I go staining because I'm selling my truck also. (gotta get rid of some debt).
I have pics of it on Steve's Web site from when I first put it together. It's a lot dirtier now!
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I gotta ask, what kind of money did you get for that? (pm me if you don't want to post it). I wouldn't even know where to start with that kind of pricing LOL.
Also, where's Walnutport and Havertown? I know Philly is 2 hours from me, and the Poconos is 45min to an hour... If your close Ken, I would come down and give ya' a hand. Are you gonna use WTW? i'd like to see that in action.
P.s. I haven't heard back from the armonk job. told him it would be my first Ipe deck, may have scared him off??
The X-Jet debate
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I downstream my truck soap, and I just can't see myself doing it for house washing. Plus, with the hand cart and 15 gallons of house wash mix, I can see when I'm going to run out of mix. Also, how high can you shoot while downstreaming (I as because I use a dual wand to truck wash and It doesn't go but 10 ft. or so)?