mattfelner
New member
Hey all - it's our first season with the new truck and company and things are going well but we're continuously learning and trying to make our process as efficient as can be. We do mainly commercial cement and parking garages. On every single job we're taking nearly twice the amount of time what we expected to because of debris cleanup after the fact or customer call backs for small puddles and sediment that settled once the area dried out.
The hardest thing has been controlling the amount of surface sand, dirt, sediment/debris, etc. that comes up after a cleaning. For example, one of our commercial jobs was a brick patio entrance area. The amount of "stuff" that lifted up from the surface was unbelievable. We try to rinse everything in one general direction and pick it up with our Sirocco vac but when there is nice landscaping nearby or clean asphalt we don't want to just blow everything there. Nor do we want to blow it to the street. And even if we get the large debris we find that the small puddles left on site leave a ton of residue once they dry. Not to mention trying to wand everything toward a small floor drain is near impossible to keep tidy. I'm frustrated because these places looked immaculate when the job was done but when I came back the next day it looked dirtier than when we began. Especially parking garages with poor drainage, the paint lines or sand embedded in the cement really make a mess. And customers are going through them with a fine tooth comb once finished.
We blow out the areas beforehand and use the surface cleaner vacuum where possible which helps a little bit but lots of times there's still wand work involved. So, how do you handle this? What's the industry standard method of coping with very dirty, enclosed areas? I've been feeling like more of a landscaper than a pressure washer with the amount we've been using the backpack blowers.
We have a job tomorrow thats a brick entranceway with a ton of moss on the cement mortar. The surface cleaner won't lift the moss, it needs to be wanded. And it's a very congested, high end finance property. Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot. Just curious what everyone's doing about this as I'm sure it's an ongoing problem especially in dirty areas like the northeast
Matt
PWRS
Fairfield, CT
844 POW-WASH
The hardest thing has been controlling the amount of surface sand, dirt, sediment/debris, etc. that comes up after a cleaning. For example, one of our commercial jobs was a brick patio entrance area. The amount of "stuff" that lifted up from the surface was unbelievable. We try to rinse everything in one general direction and pick it up with our Sirocco vac but when there is nice landscaping nearby or clean asphalt we don't want to just blow everything there. Nor do we want to blow it to the street. And even if we get the large debris we find that the small puddles left on site leave a ton of residue once they dry. Not to mention trying to wand everything toward a small floor drain is near impossible to keep tidy. I'm frustrated because these places looked immaculate when the job was done but when I came back the next day it looked dirtier than when we began. Especially parking garages with poor drainage, the paint lines or sand embedded in the cement really make a mess. And customers are going through them with a fine tooth comb once finished.
We blow out the areas beforehand and use the surface cleaner vacuum where possible which helps a little bit but lots of times there's still wand work involved. So, how do you handle this? What's the industry standard method of coping with very dirty, enclosed areas? I've been feeling like more of a landscaper than a pressure washer with the amount we've been using the backpack blowers.
We have a job tomorrow thats a brick entranceway with a ton of moss on the cement mortar. The surface cleaner won't lift the moss, it needs to be wanded. And it's a very congested, high end finance property. Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot. Just curious what everyone's doing about this as I'm sure it's an ongoing problem especially in dirty areas like the northeast
Matt
PWRS
Fairfield, CT
844 POW-WASH
