Sal at ESG
New Member
A few years ago, I was gearing up to go into the PW biz, the wife and I had another baby, and decided we didn’t want to put our kids in daycare. I put the PW biz idea on the shelf and retired my Bartending Apron.
I've really enjoyed the last 3 years as a full-time stay at home dad ( I have continued to work, I manage some rental property that I own, but I have great tenants so the property management take very little time/effort )but I'm ready to get out of the house a few days a week and start making a little more money.
I plan on starting by doing only residential. I'm going to see if I can fit into what I see as a niche market here in my area, Docks & Sea walls. Of course as I'm starting out, I don’t plan on turning down any work other than roofs (I understand there is a HUGE market for PWing roofs here, but I'm going to leave that money for someone else ) unless the job is out of my league or the customer tries to rape me on the price of the job.
I've been doing some pressure washing over the last 3 years for friends and family so I know I can do the work and while my equipment isn’t the best, I know that it dose the jobs I want to do. ( 4000 PSI, 4 GPM, Cold Water, 13HP Honda w/ an AR pump-16 inch surface cleaner, NO CHEMS)
If this takes off, I'd like to upgrade to Hot water & a wider surface cleaner.
In the last week or so since I've made the decision that its time to get this going, I've devoured just about everything on line I could find about Pressure Cleaning (firm believer that Knowledge is Power) and I'm looking at several books and tapes on the subject as well.
Would any of you care to offer any advice on which of the books/tapes are worth spending money on?
Also, if someone in the Southeastern US that does lots of Flatwork was interested in receiving a few weeks of FREE labor in exchange for some OJT I would be MOST happy to oblige
Sal
I've really enjoyed the last 3 years as a full-time stay at home dad ( I have continued to work, I manage some rental property that I own, but I have great tenants so the property management take very little time/effort )but I'm ready to get out of the house a few days a week and start making a little more money.
I plan on starting by doing only residential. I'm going to see if I can fit into what I see as a niche market here in my area, Docks & Sea walls. Of course as I'm starting out, I don’t plan on turning down any work other than roofs (I understand there is a HUGE market for PWing roofs here, but I'm going to leave that money for someone else ) unless the job is out of my league or the customer tries to rape me on the price of the job.
I've been doing some pressure washing over the last 3 years for friends and family so I know I can do the work and while my equipment isn’t the best, I know that it dose the jobs I want to do. ( 4000 PSI, 4 GPM, Cold Water, 13HP Honda w/ an AR pump-16 inch surface cleaner, NO CHEMS)
If this takes off, I'd like to upgrade to Hot water & a wider surface cleaner.
In the last week or so since I've made the decision that its time to get this going, I've devoured just about everything on line I could find about Pressure Cleaning (firm believer that Knowledge is Power) and I'm looking at several books and tapes on the subject as well.
Would any of you care to offer any advice on which of the books/tapes are worth spending money on?
Also, if someone in the Southeastern US that does lots of Flatwork was interested in receiving a few weeks of FREE labor in exchange for some OJT I would be MOST happy to oblige
Sal