When did you build your first recovery rig?

[Clean County PW]

Hey Chris we talked on the phone in the past but did we meet at the Dallas PWNA convention around 2004?? I met quite a few people there for the first time because it was with the IWCA.. I see your pics at other RT's over the years and I keep thinking we met briefly... Probably wrong because we connect alot on the net so it's like I've know you for yrs.

 

[Christopher]

I met a lot of people there, Beth and Rod at their area when they were selling stuff, it was snowing that year so I had some fun driving and drifting in the snow in my Mustang GT.

I took the wood restoration class with Everett Abrams and got certified, I took many other classes.

I met Doc R., some of the Delco guys, the guy selling the Turbo Twister, Pete M, Tracy Handl, a lot of the other vendors,so many people there, I might have met you but honestly don't remember.

I attended some of the window cleaning classes, marketing classes, etc.....met a lot of people, I think I still have the spiral bound book everyone got along with some of the cassettes of the classes.

 

[Ron Musgraves]

1985 to wash Trucks, Greg R may have seen it in my sister Garage collecting dust. Cost me 11,000 bucks. built he second one for around 4200.00 in 1986

The watermaze unit I use today was purchased in 1995 used about 30 days on a job site for Motorola and Intel. I got paid 65 per hour and thought it was big money.

Now we do not use filter recovery at all. NONE, vacuums yes for interior cleaning and where needed.


Everyone should own a Recovery Unit

 

[Clean County PW]

I met a lot of people there, Beth and Rod at their area when they were selling stuff, it was snowing that year so I had some fun driving and drifting in the snow in my Mustang GT.

I took the wood restoration class with Everett Abrams and got certified, I took many other classes.

I met Doc R., some of the Delco guys, the guy selling the Turbo Twister, Pete M, Tracy Handl, a lot of the other vendors,so many people there, I might have met you but honestly don't remember.

I attended some of the window cleaning classes, marketing classes, etc.....met a lot of people, I think I still have the spiral bound book everyone got along with some of the cassettes of the classes.

That's where I met the same people for the first time. Not realizing It was helpful to book at that hotel and help fill the block up I pulled the cheap move to save a few bucks. I stayed at a dumpy hotel and had to walk around a mile everyday to the Convention hotel and back thru the snow Man I couldn't believe there was Snow in Dallas and it was colder there then in NY. I also had to wear Rods Sport coat for my first BOD photo because I didn't think to bring a suit jacket. Had a good time there and learned a ton. I met Brian Penney and Mat Johnson there as well and the 3 of us took Everett's wood class which you had to have been there-- small world.

 

[pdmcali]

When did you build your first recovery rig? Why did you build it? I built mine in 1995. I used it for fleet washing. I used it frequently, but realistically, when I built it, it was unnecessary because the water drop and evaporation took care of most of my recovery needs. I was never required to use a mat.

Ours was in 2007 because a client required it but we found out later on it wasn't needed because we could have done the job with a shop vac. The rule was we couldn't let waste water go down the storm drain it wasn't that it had to be recovered. However we do use if for inside washing and it does get us a lot of jobs just because we have it. And as long as we dont use chemicals we can dump the water in landscape instead of hauling to a waste treatment plant which cost 35.00 per 1000 gallon here.

 

[midatlanticpower]

John- We still carry sump pumps in the trucks for a backup if the recovery system breaks down or like you said you never know if someone's basement steps are going to drain when your cleaning residential.