Colorado Pressure Washing News & Notes
Keep up to date with news about our company, the pressure washing industry, and some of our latest jobs.
Training New Pressure Washing Drivers
The pressure washing business can be hard on our employees - especially in the winter. The hours can vary widely from early mornings to late starts to overnight work. Weather can keep us from working for many days at a time and then we’ll get a warm up and have to...
Graffiti Removal Is Way Too Unpredictable To Bid In Advance
The Orange County Register ran an article on January 27, 2012 about a graffiti removal contract and problems with the contractor who won the bid. ANAHEIM – The graffiti removal company hired by the city in September has given notice that it wishes to discontinue the...
Pressure Washing At The Last Minute – Really??
C’mon People, we can handle the last minute stuff, but that doesn’t make it fun - especially when our pressure wash crews have already worked for 12 hours. We pride ourselves on being able to respond quickly to emergency spills and other similar jobs. We know *stuff*...
Raising Pressure Washing Quality Without Raising Prices
Some of our truck wash clients and a few of our car wash clients know we raised our price last fall. After a review of each of our accounts and the time involved in taking care of them, we realized we had several accounts we were losing money on. We know the economy...
Water Recovery Issues At The National Western Stock Show
For the past few years, one of our clients has had five or six vehicles on display at the annual National Western Stock Show. About half way through the stock show they have us pressure wash the cars to clean all the dust that builds up on them from the show. We...
Special Truck Wash To Prep A Church Bus For Sale
Selling Your Church Bus? Most of the truck wash jobs we do are for freight companies or distributors that deliver the goods they produce. We have furniture companies, medical equipment supply companies, building material supply companies, post offices, water...
Pressure Washing A Concrete Spill At a New Home
Most building material supply companies call us to pressure wash when a hydraulic hose breaks on one of their trucks during a delivery and they leave a large hydraulic spill on a customer’s street or driveway. We recently had a change of pace when one of our clients...
Hollywood Producer Asks For Pressure Washing Magic
The name ‘Hollywood’ conjures up different images for different people. Most people think of the place in California where movies are made. But Hollywood’s magic can happen anywhere. Many movies are made in multiple locations around the world. We recently had...
Pressure Washing A Locomotive In 1943
The Denver Post ran some photos recently from the Library Of Congress. They were all showing life in the United States in the early 1940's. There was one picture that showed an early type of pressure washer being used to wash a locomotive. We do a lot of...
Denver Pressure Washing During December 2011
I’ve made several posts on the challenges of running a pressure washing business in Colorado during the winter. Every winter we have to shuffle, adjust and adapt to what nature sends our way. We have to keep our guys working and the cash flow stronger than a...
Pressure Washing Is More Efficient With Custom Made Soap
We use many different kinds of soap, polish, buffing agents, graffiti removal, de-greaser, etc. in all the different jobs we do. But we have one kind of custom made soap that’s used for a number of purposes. Mixed in different ratios, it’s good for anything from...
Pressure Washing And The Changing Winter Forecasts
We brought in two three-man crews to pressure wash cars for auto dealers yesterday. But the weather didn't turn out as planned and we had to cancel. If you watch the weather as closely as we do, I'm sure you've noticed the weather forecasts don't seem to be as...
Washing Cars In Icy Conditions For Auto Dealers
Pressure Washing Hazards in Winter Conditions The cold winter conditions in Colorado can wreak havoc on our car wash scheduling. We might miss a couple days to below-freezing temperatures and snow and then be pressed by our clients to get their cars washed as soon as...
Top Rated Pressure Washing Services in Fort Collins
We got an email today from Thumbtack informing us we were on of the top rated pressure washing services in Fort Collins. So of course we clicked the link to see it - and find out who else was on the page. Not surprisingly, we were the only "pressure washing" service...
Pressure Washer Maintenance – Making the Best of Frozen Days
We’ve posted some articles on how winter temperatures sometimes keep us from doing our normal pressure washing work. Sometimes this actually works to our advantage because we can take a full day that isn’t going to get above freezing and use it to catch up on...