PWNA promoting Wash Water Recovery
- Thread starter Ron Musgraves
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Ohio pressure wash
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Here's our residential starter rig. Although it's configured for driveways, our modular design allows you to add on the roof cleaning boom and the atmospheric house wash bubble system®.
Contact: joe@bigmofo[dot]com
Big Mo-Fo Equipment Inc
Green Vally Ca
Member: Giant National Org (BOD)
/the future
I have nothing against gigantic service trucks that cost a small fortune....in fact, I don't mind if Hujass Recovery Inc co-writes a National BMP and you need a Masters degree to clean a Jack in The Box........
But until they address the profit/loss statement of the commercial property owners the Vendors need to sit in the back seat. If all the Org's do is sock puppet the vendors....they can join them.
Anyone that's cleaned a nasty oil soaked piece of concrete (and has any conscience at all) knows that dumping it in a river or stream is just wrong. I don't think pressure washer business owners are environmental sociopaths that need constant monitoring.
The problem is that the focus of BMP's and Reg's are targeted at the wrong person. Regulation works best when the system allows capitalism to find a solution. Right now the system is broken and I have seen nobody even acknowledge it let alone address it.
Like I told you on the phone, the way our industry is regulated, it's like charging the paramedic with assault for bringing a beating victim to the emergency room. A better example is police.....crime is happening, it will happen if you do or do not respond to a 911 call. If you make the Police dept and city or county responsible and liable for the crime then they will not respond. There is no similar "Good Samaritan" protection for the solution to the problem......which in our industry is the Mobile Contract Cleaner.
IMHO we are reaching a tipping point. As more local reg's get stiffer and enforcement gets tighter, the equipment expense offset by speed will be overcome. Right now I can justify the costs of reclaim/recovery with the time savings. As the reg's get tougher and the equipment and procedures become more labor intensive....commercial property will simply become dirtier. People and vehicle traffic will help spread it and mother nature will xfer it to "The Waters of The United States". As strange as it might sound, it seems like the industry is under regulated or maybe misregulated would be a better way of saying it. I'm the environmental solution....not the problem. Somehow, and I'm not sure how or why....this entire industry has progressed for years without any simple root cause analysis. If I spill coffee all over my desk it isn't the napkin's fault. I'm not going to sue Bounty.
This is where I intend on focusing my money and my time. I don't intend on wasting a nickle or a minute with any environmental vendor or organization that is not. If they are not part of the solution, then they are part of the problem. I'd spend 20 times my annual dues of an org if it addressed my issues in my market.......think about that.
Professional Pressure washers/Mobile Contract Cleaners are being offered two solutions by our leaders/venders and pioneers, and both are untenable, unsustainable and IMHO unacceptable. The Kobayashi Maru....the unwinnable scenario. We've been looking at the solution bassackwards. I might not change the world but it's not really my intention.....I do plan on changing my little piece of the world. :smilewinkgrin:
I don't like to lose.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49bBPf7b4g
Contact: joe@bigmofo[dot]com
Big Mo-Fo Equipment Inc
Green Vally Ca
Member: Giant National Org (BOD)
/the future
I have nothing against gigantic service trucks that cost a small fortune....in fact, I don't mind if Hujass Recovery Inc co-writes a National BMP and you need a Masters degree to clean a Jack in The Box........
But until they address the profit/loss statement of the commercial property owners the Vendors need to sit in the back seat. If all the Org's do is sock puppet the vendors....they can join them.
Anyone that's cleaned a nasty oil soaked piece of concrete (and has any conscience at all) knows that dumping it in a river or stream is just wrong. I don't think pressure washer business owners are environmental sociopaths that need constant monitoring.
The problem is that the focus of BMP's and Reg's are targeted at the wrong person. Regulation works best when the system allows capitalism to find a solution. Right now the system is broken and I have seen nobody even acknowledge it let alone address it.
Like I told you on the phone, the way our industry is regulated, it's like charging the paramedic with assault for bringing a beating victim to the emergency room. A better example is police.....crime is happening, it will happen if you do or do not respond to a 911 call. If you make the Police dept and city or county responsible and liable for the crime then they will not respond. There is no similar "Good Samaritan" protection for the solution to the problem......which in our industry is the Mobile Contract Cleaner.
IMHO we are reaching a tipping point. As more local reg's get stiffer and enforcement gets tighter, the equipment expense offset by speed will be overcome. Right now I can justify the costs of reclaim/recovery with the time savings. As the reg's get tougher and the equipment and procedures become more labor intensive....commercial property will simply become dirtier. People and vehicle traffic will help spread it and mother nature will xfer it to "The Waters of The United States". As strange as it might sound, it seems like the industry is under regulated or maybe misregulated would be a better way of saying it. I'm the environmental solution....not the problem. Somehow, and I'm not sure how or why....this entire industry has progressed for years without any simple root cause analysis. If I spill coffee all over my desk it isn't the napkin's fault. I'm not going to sue Bounty.
This is where I intend on focusing my money and my time. I don't intend on wasting a nickle or a minute with any environmental vendor or organization that is not. If they are not part of the solution, then they are part of the problem. I'd spend 20 times my annual dues of an org if it addressed my issues in my market.......think about that.
Professional Pressure washers/Mobile Contract Cleaners are being offered two solutions by our leaders/venders and pioneers, and both are untenable, unsustainable and IMHO unacceptable. The Kobayashi Maru....the unwinnable scenario. We've been looking at the solution bassackwards. I might not change the world but it's not really my intention.....I do plan on changing my little piece of the world. :smilewinkgrin:
I don't like to lose.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49bBPf7b4g
That unit likely cost a few hundred thousand
Here's our residential starter rig. Although it's configured for driveways, our modular design allows you to add on the roof cleaning boom and the atmospheric house wash bubble system®.
Contact: joe@bigmofo[dot]com
Big Mo-Fo Equipment Inc
Green Vally Ca
Member: Giant National Org (BOD)
/the future
I have nothing against gigantic service trucks that cost a small fortune....in fact, I don't mind if Hujass Recovery Inc co-writes a National BMP and you need a Masters degree to clean a Jack in The Box........
But until they address the profit/loss statement of the commercial property owners the Vendors need to sit in the back seat. If all the Org's do is sock puppet the vendors....they can join them.
Anyone that's cleaned a nasty oil soaked piece of concrete (and has any conscience at all) knows that dumping it in a river or stream is just wrong. I don't think pressure washer business owners are environmental sociopaths that need constant monitoring.
The problem is that the focus of BMP's and Reg's are targeted at the wrong person. Regulation works best when the system allows capitalism to find a solution. Right now the system is broken and I have seen nobody even acknowledge it let alone address it.
Like I told you on the phone, the way our industry is regulated, it's like charging the paramedic with assault for bringing a beating victim to the emergency room. A better example is police.....crime is happening, it will happen if you do or do not respond to a 911 call. If you make the Police dept and city or county responsible and liable for the crime then they will not respond. There is no similar "Good Samaritan" protection for the solution to the problem......which in our industry is the Mobile Contract Cleaner.
IMHO we are reaching a tipping point. As more local reg's get stiffer and enforcement gets tighter, the equipment expense offset by speed will be overcome. Right now I can justify the costs of reclaim/recovery with the time savings. As the reg's get tougher and the equipment and procedures become more labor intensive....commercial property will simply become dirtier. People and vehicle traffic will help spread it and mother nature will xfer it to "The Waters of The United States". As strange as it might sound, it seems like the industry is under regulated or maybe misregulated would be a better way of saying it. I'm the environmental solution....not the problem. Somehow, and I'm not sure how or why....this entire industry has progressed for years without any simple root cause analysis. If I spill coffee all over my desk it isn't the napkin's fault. I'm not going to sue Bounty.
This is where I intend on focusing my money and my time. I don't intend on wasting a nickle or a minute with any environmental vendor or organization that is not. If they are not part of the solution, then they are part of the problem. I'd spend 20 times my annual dues of an org if it addressed my issues in my market.......think about that.
Professional Pressure washers/Mobile Contract Cleaners are being offered two solutions by our leaders/venders and pioneers, and both are untenable, unsustainable and IMHO unacceptable. The Kobayashi Maru....the unwinnable scenario. We've been looking at the solution bassackwards. I might not change the world but it's not really my intention.....I do plan on changing my little piece of the world. :smilewinkgrin:
I don't like to lose.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49bBPf7b4g
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Jim's going to be really mad if he sees that rig. 
Tony thats nothing, we have a guy here that makes that rig look silly. He is coming to NCE west in Sept, each unit costs nearly a Half million.