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[jlpressure]

some more xjetting and a little brushing of some rust

 

[DustinC]

Washing spider city.

 

[jlpressure]

hey Jeff,

when you clean a parking garage like that, do you only do the top floor? Or do you do the covered floors too?

Usually all floors, this one is just the top floor, they dont have the bucks to do the rest

 

[bigchaz]

bring it back to the top
Red stain stripped and one of the guys cleaning up in the background

 

[bigchaz]

Padding out a floor. One of the first decks, so not as efficient as now. Customer still loved it

 

[PowerWash Pros]

Xjetting & lifts. we do this complex annually its 26, 2 story buildings and 6, 3 story buildings. This is the job I went fulltime on. I had this project and another large one lined up and we havent stopped since. I love PWing

Jeff - I hear ya, we have done alot of apartment complex breezeways, Apartment Buildings make up about 70% of our business, and you are right once they become a customer and you show them the quality of your work, you basically have a yearly account!

 

[jlpressure]

Jeff - I hear ya, we have done alot of apartment complex breezeways, Apartment Buildings make up about 70% of our business, and you are right once they become a customer and you show them the quality of your work, you basically have a yearly account!

I never stop trying to get more condo complexes and property manager work, its great work. We have several where we do the breezeways every 3-6 months

Did you see my post at PT State about a breezeway job we just did?

The title is "Idiot" I'm still kicking myself in the butt. I gave an estimate on 11, 3 story buildings, the buildings and also just the breezeways. Well they went with the breezeways and are going to do the buildings late fall

Well we show up to do the 11 breezeways and I said OH CRAP!!!!! somehow I screwed up bad instead of 11 breezeways there was 22 BREEZEWAYS (2 per building) I never make mistakes like that. Well instead of a quick 5 hours of work we were there a longggggg day.

Yup 22, what a dummy

I still made money at least I didnt lose, I spoke with the PM and adjusted the rate for future cleaning and it was cool, it was a referall job and there were no other bids. But man I could of lost my shirt


Live & Learn

We are at about 70% condo work. Do you go after that kind of work or does it come to you?

 

[PowerWash Pros]

Jeff - We are in with a general contractor that does all the work for over 3500 properties in the Denver Metro Area. So mostly the work comes to us through them. We have already done a complex of 272 townhomes this year....that is our largest yet. We completed it in 36 hours with 2 guys running 2 machines.

 

[jlpressure]

Jeff - We are in with a general contractor that does all the work for over 3500 properties in the Denver Metro Area. So mostly the work comes to us through them. We have already done a complex of 272 townhomes this year....that is our largest yet. We completed it in 36 hours with 2 guys running 2 machines.

Thats a nice amount of properties
We do a ton of complexes and like you we can fly through them, do a great job, collect the money and move onto the next one. We have done over 500+ condo/townhome buildings so far. thats thousands of units. This year has been our best. Like I say I love the PW Biz

Hey wheres Longmont CO. My nephew and family live there. We are probably going out there next year to visit, if they don't move. Anywhere near you? Maybe we could meet if its anywhere near you

Have a great one and continued success to you

 

[PowerWash Pros]

Longmont is about 45 minutes north of us. It is not bad at all. We are up in that area quite a bit. I go to the big malls up in the loveland area, plus we go through longmont when going into the mountains. We should definetley meet up if you come out this way!

 

[bigchaz]

More pictures! More pictures! More pictures!

I had to take a shot of this. Talk about stripper making the wood dark. No idea what happened, never been this bad for me. Came out good though

First pic: you can see where the stripper is
Second : before
Third: During
fourth: After

 

[bigchaz]

Always do a test spot!!
Behr solid....should make for some fun....and some sanding!!!

First pic - always do a test spot
second - mmmm sanding equipt
third - before of that deck
fourth - after of that deck

btw the birds blew this deck up so no thats not white drips on the surface

 

[bigchaz]

since most of my pictures aren't of me or my equip heres a little something to feast your eyes on

1)sweat, stain, and sanding dust
2)as for my "equipment"...thumbs up for a woodies best friend...wood tux!

try not to lose your dinner over my ugly mug

 

[Ron Musgraves]

 

[Christopher]

Excellent work as always Jeff.



Charlie, when you replace boards like in that picture, do you prefer to use nails or screws? If screws, regular or deckmate or other?
Why do you prefer the way you do it? Faster or more economical?
Thanks.

 

[bigchaz]

Chris I always prefer to use screws. Often times the nails are all popping out on the old wood so I don't want that to happen again. And since the new wood is usually pretty wet, screws help a bit more to hold it in place when it dries out and shrinks. Less likely to cup and warp. And the the screws can grip where the old nail holes were.

I use the deckmate screws as opposed to regular so they dont rust out.
I dont have a nail gun so its probably the same speed when I drill as opposed to hammering (since I suck at hammering). I just like to build it to be over strong if necessary

 

[bigchaz]

One more day!!
Spraying the underside of this two level deck. Lots of plastic for that one. Thats me holding the plastic in those pics

 

[A C F]

Time is ticking away on this. While I would like to win this, ( I could use it right about now) I will only say "congrats" to the winner.

Todd

 

[jlpressure]

I know I thought we would get a lot more people/companies posting some pictures of their work.

LETS SEE SOME PICTURES PEOPLE

Jeff

 

[bigchaz]

Everyone should have pictures nowadays. Get a camera if you dont have one. Otherwise put some photos up!!