Recent content by Ron Musgraves

Thank You, Phoenix! What's Next for National Cleaning Expo To everyone who came out to the National Cleaning Expo FREE Parking Garage Cleaning & Commercial Sales Class in Phoenix on October 23: thank you. You filled the classroom, toured the shop, asked great questions, and made it a day to...

Southern California Pressure Washing Meetup Returns in March 2027! 🌴 If you run a pressure washing business in Southern California, put this one on your calendar. Jeremy Jennings of Washed Out Pressure Washing in Oceanside has been bringing local contractors together for a Southern California...

🔥 Robert Eisenstadt is taking commercial pressure washing education to the next level! If you haven't met Robert Eisenstadt yet, you should. He's the founder of CPW Live (Commercial Pressure Washing Live) and owner of Property Pros Pressure Washing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Robert didn't just...

FaythWorx is giving away a free BATGuard™ Pro T along with the new book bundle of The Power Washer's Place at the Table, which includes the Workbook and the Handbook. No purchase is necessary, and it's open to US residents only. Entries close Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 2:00 PM Pacific /...

Bumping this one because guys still get these calls every year. The answer was right here in the thread. Track your leads. Ask every caller how they found you, and write it down. Add up the jobs that came from each place at the end of the year. If a membership or ad brings you more work than...

Bumping this one because every new guy asks it, and a lot of guys learn the hard way. Water is the heavy part. It's a little over 8 pounds a gallon. A 250 gallon tank full is about 2,000 pounds before you add the tank, the machine, hose, fuel and chemicals. Go weigh it. Run the whole rig over...

Was It Caustic Flakes? A Serious Warning for the Commercial Cleaning Industry A routine pressure washing job at a Chili's restaurant in North Carolina turned into a frightening chemical exposure incident that injured three customers and two employees. According to the Foothills Health...

This machine was AHEAD of its time 🤯 A stand-on surface cleaner with instant capture recovery, named Most Innovative Product at the 2014 National Cleaning Expo. Would you run one on your jobs? Tell us below. Free training events for pressure washing & cleaning contractors...

Leaf "shadows" on a new commercial sidewalk, with a sealcoated parking lot right up against the curb. Every fall we get this call. A new, light-colored sidewalk out front of a store, and leaves sat on it for about a week. Now it's covered in dark leaf "shadows," and there's an asphalt parking...

Bumping this one because it's still one of the most-read house wash threads on the board. The ball valve setup works. It's cheap, it's simple, and it keeps the pressure low on vinyl. That's the big win. An X-Jet reaches higher, but you're carrying a chem bucket and hitting siding with more...

Bumping this one because striping still comes up all the time. Short answer: most of the time it isn't you. The outside edges of a surface cleaner get hit more passes than the middle, so some banding is normal. Here's what I'd check, in order: Tips. Same size, same angle, all seated the same...

San Francisco, California | Fire date: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 Most restaurant fires we hear about come with a lot of guessing. This one doesn't. The fire department told reporters where it started, and it's right in the part of the system we get paid to clean. What happened at Mel's Early...

Plant & Property Protection: What Patrick Clark Shows You on a Real Job Site Most plant damage doesn't happen because somebody doesn't care. It happens because somebody didn't look first. One of our Trusted Coaches, Patrick Clark (patclark.com), put together a short video that shows exactly...

Hey Gus, Good on you for asking before you bid it. Here's how I'd look at it. Don't price it over the phone. You won't know how dirty it is until you're standing in it. When you meet her, take pictures of the rafters up close, and do a small test spot on the wall and the floor. That one spot...

Flue Fire at San Francisco's Oldest Restaurant: What the 2009 Tadich Grill Fire Teaches Hood Cleaners On Monday, August 24, 2009, a two-alarm fire hit Tadich Grill at 240 California St. in San Francisco. Tadich was established in 1849. It's the city's oldest restaurant and one of its oldest...