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A smart way to spend our money!

Power Washing Charlottesville wrote:

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I am looking forward to getting one of those myself! Expect, it'll probably be on a skid.

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 Have you priced skids? I hope you have plenty of work and a fork lift!

 

 

If I end up getting one, it’ll most likely be from Pressure Works in Richmond, Virginia. Those guys have an awesome pressure washing store down there and I’d have them put it in the back of my 6x12 enclosed trailer. I’m a firm believer in having the best equipment for your business and to answer your question Brett, I have looked at prices for a skid and they aren’t cheap! 😆

I’m willing to spend 6-8k for a good skid and it’ll have to be an 8 gpm machine. I won’t spend that kind of money on anything less than 8 gpm.

Here’s a picture of my truck and trailer(the name will be getting changed this week). Again, I have been doing this for a while with my painting business so I’m not coming into the game a newbie by any means, but I won’t get one until I need to. My two cold water machines get the job done just fine.

-- Edited by Diamond Roof Cleaning on Thursday 30th of April 2020 09:49:41 AM

I'll Never ruse anything less than 8GPM again....have been back and forth myself over the 5 vs 8 but for the type of cleaning we do and the fact we rarely have water issues....we use only 8 and 10GPM's and AODD pumps....Bretts right...if I had to wait around for water I'd never go higher than 5 or 6...that is so frustrating.

Brett,

You make a very valid point my friend. Especially in our area.

Honestly, I’m more interested in doing commercial jobs and larger homes versus hopping to and fro on smaller residential homes. I have been debating on the market I wanted to target and I am definitely going to give tapping into the commercial side a shot so the larger machines are obviously what I’d need in that instance.

I have an s-10 with a ladder rack(my first work truck) that I am contemplating turning into a residential cleaning truck. This would take my current 4 gpm and maybe 5 gpm belt drive machines and allow two guys to drive around and knock small jobs out when we get them and leave me and another guy to use the enclosed trailer for large jobs.

The above is totally dependent on the volume of work of course, but definitely the next step when I do add the skid to the business.

One last thing... I saw some guys from Northern Virginia cleaning in our area(like 3 trucks behind each other on 29) and it burned me up lol... I hated the fact that guys were being called out of town to do jobs on our home turf. I believe that’s because we don’t have a large outfit here in town, but I intend on changing that. More on this when we finally get a chance to meet up.

Thanks for commenting, Doug. I have looked into your cleaning school/courses, but haven’t pulled the trigger, yet. Do you think we could chat about it sometime in the future?

Thanks guys