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I dont know Doug, that guy seemed to have a few trucks and that was some smokestack that they were cleaning. their website talks about cleaning whole cities after floods. he says he capabilities to can clean 1 million square feet a night and that he does 4 thousand vehicles a week.
 
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junker1 said:
I dont know Doug, that guy seemed to have a few trucks and that was some smokestack that they were cleaning. their website talks about cleaning whole cities after floods. he says he capabilities to can clean 1 million square feet a night and that he does 4 thousand vehicles a week.
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was talking about the ebay one...big truck for a 5gpm skid, unless I missed something in their.
 
oops, I thought you were referring to the pw company. but yea your right that truck on ebay was not all that. just way to much truck. unless you outfitted it for cleaning every shopping mall on the in new england.
 
Just watched the video. One word is all I can seem to come up with....WOW!
 
That company is impressive! Very sharp ad. I'm surprised they wand alot of flatwork tho, no surface cleaners in that commercial. 1 Million square feet of flatwork power rinsed obviously still has value to some clients.
 
Did you notice that they talked about 25% of their fleet being equipped for reclaim, but there was no reclaim to be found in the videos?

This guy definitely has a good thing going and should be an example of how to build a business.

Notice a few more things:

1) Even though he will travel for work he has a defined territory.

What does this tell us? First, this guy is in Illinois! Where it gets COOOOOOOOLD! Yet he still has enough business to fund this large operation. What does that tell us about the potential of our own territory(s)?

2) Apparently he's built his business one truck at a time using his own employees. That gives him complete control of quality, liability and costs. This is not some guy going around making deals with subcontractors all over the place.

3) He has been in business a LOOOOOONG time. Don't lose hope. If you are five years in business you are still new. Just keep working at it and perfecting what you do and build your business one day at a time.

This guy has a lot of balls to operate like he does. I'd like to think by this time he has no debt and deserves every account he has.

And Doug, you are right about the rig for sale, but it has potential. But is it worth the extra paperwork and regulations that are involved in driving a semi-rig around if you don't already have the need for it?
 
I have seen that video a while back and they bash the 2-step method and say that it damages paint.

Obviously they did not know how to do it the right way or had inferior chemicals or are just saying what someone else said about 2-stepping without really knowing how to do it and what chemicals to use. I have been 2-stepping for years now and know a lot of guys that 2-step fleets of trucks all around the country that have not caused any damage to painted surfaces so that tells you that he either did not know what he was doing, had inferior chemicals or is just repeating the nonsense that others have fed to him and he never found out for himself to see if it does cause damage, some call those kind of people talking heads. hahahahaha

It is good that people out there will pay for rinsing that much concrete, I bet anyone in that area could go and stencil some of that work and show a better or deeper clean if they wanted to.

You can go and nit-pick more of their stuff if you wanted to like using way too much pressure to wash buildings, not cleaning concrete that good (just rinsing and no before/after pictures or video to show the level of clean) and wasting a lot of water (surface cleaners are a lot more efficient when cleaning and not wasting water) when compared to wanding the surface (rinsing instead of cleaning the concrete) and what he says about the competition and other things but he does have a huge company, multiple trucks and can do a lot of work in a nite for those companies that want that level of service that he provides to them.

I have hired and fired guys the same day or the next day that were saying how they can wand concrete as good or better than what you can do with a surface cleaner, they just had no clue as they have not used surface cleaners before or were told that surface cleaners do not clean good. It is a shame that people out there will blindly believe nonsense like that and then you show them the proof that the surface cleaners do a great job, give a uniform clean and are more efficient at using water, it is hard for them to believe it and some will still not believe as that is all they know and they are not good at changing their beliefs since they have been brainwashed for so long.

I had a few guys come from a large company here that were wanding like crazy fast (like in the video) and I go back and show them how much they missed, how with even less pressure and a little closer to the surface it gets cleaner and when you use the surface cleaner it gets clean as long as you don't walk too fast, they are just dumbfounded and baffled when they see the results. I never could get them to slow down to actually clean the surface as they were trained to walk while wanding as fast as they could or walk with a surface cleaner as fast as they could so they could finish fast to impress their manager and then go sleep in walmart parking lots or the whataburger parking lots until it is time to go home, what a shame! They are basically paid to put on a show of how fast they can move the wand or surface cleaner, not actually clean.

I have seen these guys spray some soaps down before working and in theory, it should make it so they can work faster but when using the surface cleaners, they are moving so fast there are swirls over the whole area so they are walking way too fast or their soaps are watered down too much or both because they are not cleaning, just putting on a show.

Imagine a 4gpm machine and a big guy surface cleaner or 30" steel eagle surface cleaner and the guy is walking as fast as he can, we all know what the concrete will look like and that is what they offer their customers. Too bad the managers on duty don't come outside and inspect the work, those guys would be ran off the property and they would lose that huge contract if they did not improve their level of cleaning.

Now I don't hire anyone from other companies because there are just too many bad habits to try to break and their idea of cleaning is a lot different from mine as my customers will not pay for what those guys call clean, they will pay when the job is done and the surfaces are clean.
 
Tony Shelton said:
Did you notice that they talked about 25% of their fleet being equipped for reclaim, but there was no reclaim to be found in the videos?

This guy definitely has a good thing going and should be an example of how to build a business.

Notice a few more things:

1) Even though he will travel for work he has a defined territory.

What does this tell us? First, this guy is in Illinois! Where it gets COOOOOOOOLD! Yet he still has enough business to fund this large operation. What does that tell us about the potential of our own territory(s)?

2) Apparently he's built his business one truck at a time using his own employees. That gives him complete control of quality, liability and costs. This is not some guy going around making deals with subcontractors all over the place.

3) He has been in business a LOOOOOONG time. Don't lose hope. If you are five years in business you are still new. Just keep working at it and perfecting what you do and build your business one day at a time.

This guy has a lot of balls to operate like he does. I'd like to think by this time he has no debt and deserves every account he has.

And Doug, you are right about the rig for sale, but it has potential. But is it worth the extra paperwork and regulations that are involved in driving a semi-rig around if you don't already have the need for it?
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You are right Tony, the only reason I would have a semi rig is if I had to haul water, like more than 5,000 gallons daily or several times a day for most jobs but honestly, you could rent a water truck that hauls anywhere from 2000 gallons to 4000 gallons for less than $1000 per day for those kind of jobs and if the job lasted a long time, the rental places give you discounts on weekly or monthly rentals to save you money. Most of the water trucks here have ball hitches so you could pull your pressure washing trailer behind the water truck if you wanted to.

Then you have the issues of where you are going to have to pay monthly to park it, that is a nice truck but huge and will not fit into most of the shops that I have seen.

It is a good idea but for most of the work most of us do, it would be kind of overkill
 
That is strange that there are no surface cleaners in the videos. I would think that he is up to date on the latest and greatest technoligies available. I aint gonna knock the guy, however he is doing it he seems to be on top of it.
 
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