Biggest Bid Scrappy Has Ever Done

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DJ Carroll

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I bid on 19 of these bad boys today along with 18 of those garages and 44,000 sq ft of concrete . . . should here something tomorrow!!!

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Mostly brick, should be pretty easy if brick is in good shape, best of luck DJ. Don't be surprised if it takes them more than a day to get back with you. Do a follow up call in 3-7 days if you don't here from them. Ask them if they have any questions or have made any decisions
 
e mailed my bid at 6 pm today had a phone call at 9 from the regional PM said he just e mailed my proposal to corporate. he said they will let me know one way or another because if i do get it and god i hope i do . . . they want me to start Friday!!!! he also said they have 12 other complexes they need cleaned also . . . this one is the smallest one they own :cool: hell of a way to start the season aye? :D
 
Sounds like they gave you the smallest one to see how you do. Way to go.
 
Scrappy - good luck with the bid. Those are our bread and butter. We do about 2-3 large complex's like that per month from April to October. Our largest community was 23 buildings - they looked just like yours, but they were vinyl siding and stucco.

Good Luck with the bid....have fun in the aerial lift!
 
Are you going to reclaim your water on the concrete?

This is a naive question, but perhaps one of the "old pros" can help me out and answer this. How is it feasible to reclaim the water from 44,000 sqft of flatwork? How fast can one clean with a surface cleaner? Let's say 10k sqft/hr using 8GPM. That would take 4.4 hours, or 4 hours and 24 minutes and would consume 2,112 gallons of water. I don't see someone hauling off 16k+ pounds of dirty water, and I don't see being able to recycle that water quickly enough to not ruin a pump, so what do you do?

DJ: I apologize if I hi-jacked your thread, but my question to you was serious, and the follow-up was serious too.
 
Sparklean said:
Are you going to reclaim your water on the concrete?

This is a naive question, but perhaps one of the "old pros" can help me out and answer this. How is it feasible to reclaim the water from 44,000 sqft of flatwork? How fast can one clean with a surface cleaner? Let's say 10k sqft/hr using 8GPM. That would take 4.4 hours, or 4 hours and 24 minutes and would consume 2,112 gallons of water. I don't see someone hauling off 16k+ pounds of dirty water, and I don't see being able to recycle that water quickly enough to not ruin a pump, so what do you do?

DJ: I apologize if I hi-jacked your thread, but my question to you was serious, and the follow-up was serious too.
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diversion and evaporation
 
Diverting over 2,000 gallons is a lot. Set up a vac to blow it into the surrounding grassy areas? Don't customers get irritated by having you flood sections of their properties? I wanted an answer that explained more than 3 words, though I think those 3 are helpful.

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diversion and evaporation
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like I said earlier we do about 14-18 of these style of properties a year. Being that we live in colorado, it is very dry and there is absolutely no humidity here, so on a hot sunny day 90% of your water is gone in a matter of minutes. Diversion is another good technique. If the surface of the parking lot is flat he should have no problem...if he is working on a ski slope with a storm drain at the bottom....then you may have a concern
 
Scrappy said:
it's simple . . . clean the surface and rock on . .. you guys make it too complicated . . . do you recapture when you do a drive way??? i know i don't

but thanks for all the good lucks i'll get yall posted
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You got it kid, theres a time and a place for everything. Washing dirt away thats it

At most divert and evaporation takes care of it. surface clean and wash it to the grass
 
Depending on where the property is I do reclaim when I do a driveway. Many storm drains here lead directly to streams or wetlands and the drains are marked by the local authorties with "No Dumping" stickers. I vacuum up the water and pump it up onto the property.
 
If you come to the Arizona open house, you will discover how it can be done. It is not cheap and it does require equipment.

You gotta spend money to make money.
 
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