Colorado Pressure Washing News & Notes
Keep up to date with news about our company, the pressure washing industry, and some of our latest jobs.
Pressure Washing Companies Still Causing Problems In Fort Collins
The City of Fort Collins is still having problems with some pressure washing companies not recovering their waste water. The city has previously sent letters and flyers to all the pressure washing companies that do work there - and the businesses that hire them. But...
Power Washing A House That Got Egged
Last week we got a call from a homeowner needing power washing to remove egg stains from her house. These are the kind of calls we usually get in the summer. Like calls for graffiti removal, these incidents are much more common when the schools are closed. We don't...
Pressure Washing The Inside Of A Car Wash
After washing thousands of cars, the walls of a car wash usually need more than just pressure washing to get them clean. You might think all that sprayed water would keep things clean but it doesn’t. The dirty water from the cars gets splattered and sticks to the...
Pressure Washing A Grease Trail At A Restaurant
Many restaurants have grease spills that need periodic pressure washing. Food grease goes hand in hand with cooking. Since restaurants do so much more cooking than the typical homeowner, they generate far more food grease. And you can't dump that much food grease down...
Graffiti Blasted Into Permanent Damage
We were called to remove graffiti at a business in Lakewood recently. When our crew arrived, they noticed that someone else had removed a different tag. Unfortunately the other company used the wrong procedure and made it worse. While they removed the painted tag,...
Why We Don’t Bid Power Washing Over The Phone
We got a call for sidewalk power washing from a commercial property manager. It was for the sidewalks of one building in a multiple unit complex with up-scale tenants. Each unit has it's own separate entrance and many of the units are used as offices for doctor's,...
Parking Garage Pressure Washing – Four In One Day
We're still trying to get caught up on all the parking garage pressure washing on our schedule. With the cold weather we had this spring, many parking garage cleaning jobs were delayed due to cold temperatures. Most property managers and HOA's want their parking...
Power Washing Your Landscaping
We got a call for an emergency power washing job - for landscaping! While we weren't actually power washing the landscaping, it was a unique use of our power washing equipment. One of the Target Stores in Denver had their sprinkler system go out right before a holiday...
Water Recovery Is Not Optional
We got a call for a sidewalk pressure washing job that needed water recovery. The call came from a small maintenance contractor that does a lot of work for a large property management company. When I asked them about the gutters and any storm sewers in the area, they...
Denver Water Department’s New Regulations For Hydrant Meter Permits
All Denver pressure washing companies – or landscaping, construction companies, or any other service that needs large volumes of water – must comply with new regulations requiring backflow pressure assemblies if they want to keep their fire hydrant permits with the...
City Of Lakewood Issues Citations For Graffiti
The City of Lakewood has been issuing citations for graffiti on buildings inside the city limits. The citations give the building owners five days to have the graffiti removed. And while this can be a hassle, there is a very good reason why the city is forcing the...
Graffiti Removal On Blond Brick Commercial Building
A property manager called us for graffiti removal on a building she managed. And when we got there, it was obvious the building had been tagged many times before. Some of the graffiti removal had been done well enough that only tiny flecks of color remained. And some...
Historic Washington Park Boathouse Prepped for the New Season with Pressure Washing by Wash On Wheels
After a $1.3 million renovation completed in 2012, the historic Washington Park Boathouse just needed a good pressure washing for the 2013 wedding and special event season. But pressure washing a boathouse without letting the wastewater reach the adjoining lake takes...
Pressure Washing Apartment Building Breezeways
A property management company we do a lot of work for needed pressure washing to clean some breezeways. It was a large apartment complex with many three-story buildings. A lot of suburban complexes are designed like this since anything over three stories requires...
Truck Washing For The EPA
We got a call for truck washing at a local EPA office. An EPA contractor called us for truck washing a few weeks ago. The unit they needed cleaned is an EPA emergency response vehicle for Section 8. The truck and trailer had some winter road grime they wanted to get...
