Starting up hood service in phoenix metro area

mattadler

mattadler

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I am looking for some help in learning the buisness any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Here are my 5 steps to starting a hood cleaning business:

1. Go to www.ikeca.com and read through the manual. Its free, is very extensive and you will get many different views from different companies on how to do the work.

2. Buy the $50 DVD from Delco on Kitchen exhaust cleaning. It gives great demonstrations on how to pressure wash hoods. It makes it look almost too easy because of the type of systems and lack of heavy grease buildup but you will get good visuals of what is involved. You can also play a fun drinking game with your friends, every time they mention "Delco V-500" or "Delco V-501" degreaser have a shot of your favorite libation and see if your not f-ed up by the time Larry Hinkley shows you how to install an access panel. If you watch closely when the guy is spraying the filters outside you will see his chemical sprayer explode (I think they should have spent more time on this explaining why you should always wear the proper safety gear while using chemicals).

2a. Watch these videos to see what it is REALLY like to clean a difficult system:

http://media.putfile.com/Greasy7183
http://media.putfile.com/Look-how-thick-this-is
http://media.putfile.com/Hi-kids-how-are-you

3. If you think you are ready, try a small system. If not move to step 4.

4. Get someone to let you go out with them for a couple of weeks and offer to pay them or buy them dinner every night. Most guys will probably do it for very cheap, your only cost will be flight and room and board and of course whatever you will lose by not working those weeks.

5. If you are still not comfortable on your own take a hands on course from Delco or Rusty. You can also buy franchises from Dunnwell or Industrial Steam Cleaning and they will train and certify you.

You can get paper certified first but unless you have the actual training to go with it you will be very frustrated.
 
most people will give up on 2a.
 
I have been in commercial pest control for 14 years I meet quite a few hood guys but I have never had a chance to to get any hands on experience I all so noticed that the hatred Chinese restaurants is universal no mater what buisness your in
 
I actually like the Chinese, they are great hood cleaning entertainment and good for building character. There is nothing like a good chinese horror story. I just hate their grease.
 
You must get to know the grease first.....it has many faces. Beware of the Chinese grease .... it's..well.....you know ......hell Chinese Grease!!!!! Around here nothing more need be said
 
Try opening a Flatwork/ truck washing company up there.

I hear there is hardly anone out there doing it.:D
 
I heard that there wasn't much to flat work I want to try some real work instead
 
reminds me of the ol saying.."Women are like rocks........you skip the flat ones"

F..IT! I am doing Flatwork until I get the chance to train in the trenches or rather the ducts with El Jefe De La Grasa on the West side.
 
And it is so easy to do. I would go for truck washing myself. I hear that some of the dump truck companies pay upwards of $15 a truck to have them washed. And concrete, people are sometimes paying a half cent a square foot to have it done.
 
Matt Adler,

The good part about hood cleaning is you don't need to use your pressure washer so much. Maybe 10-15 minutes at most and that's mainly to clean the grease off your equipment. All of your tme is spent on prepping, scraping, foaming, washing off and cleaning up. The hot pressure washer is just in case they want the sidewalk, dumpster area cleaned.
 
Scott Stone said:
And it is so easy to do. I would go for truck washing myself. I hear that some of the dump truck companies pay upwards of $15 a truck to have them washed. And concrete, people are sometimes paying a half cent a square foot to have it done.
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Wow that sounds like a cash cow.
What are the sales comissions on a dump truck wash?
Can you do 1000 trucks a day?
 
indiana jones said:
Matt Adler,

The good part about hood cleaning is you don't need to use your pressure washer so much. Maybe 10-15 minutes at most and that's mainly to clean the grease off your equipment. All of your tme is spent on prepping, scraping, foaming, washing off and cleaning up. The hot pressure washer is just in case they want the sidewalk, dumpster area cleaned.
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:D :D OHH that's what I'm doing wrong!! i use pressure washer 25 minutes
 
cgibson said:
Wow that sounds like a cash cow.
What are the sales comissions on a dump truck wash?
Can you do 1000 trucks a day?
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You know, with enough guys with a good enough tan, you just might be able to do a thousand trucks a day. The question is, though, are there a thousand trucks to wash???
 
100 dump trucks = $1500 or 20 trucks a day for a week-now thats money. "Skip the flat ones", that is rich-Hey-Matt you get that one!
 
I guess I wasted all that money on a hot machine when I could have gone to pep boys and got me a mr clean car wash kit
 
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