Pressure washing the interior walls and ceilings a warehouse or shop can be complicated.
Pressure Washing A Warehouse Interior
Sometimes, the building is being renovated and is vacant. But sometimes, the pressure washing has to be done at night when they’re not working – unless they’re a 24 hour operation.
One of the projects we look for in the winter is pressure washing warehouse interiors. We pressure wash warehouse interiors all year long, but any kind of indoor washing is a great way to add hours for our guys when the temperatures keep us from doing our normal weekly work.
A great job we had a couple winters ago was pressure washing the entire interior of the Kenworth heavy and medium duty shops. We had to work around their schedule as much as they had to work around ours. We had 1-3 crews at their location over the course of two weeks. Even though the temperatures outside were moderate most of the time, we had a couple days where it was too cold to wash outside, so we sent all our crews to work inside the heated building.
We pressure washed the heavy duty shop, the medium duty shop and the dynomometer room from top to bottom including all the steel joists, light housings, walls, doors and floor. We had to do it in sections so Kenworth could keep their mechanics working while we did our pressure washing. Most of the tools and equipment in the shop are mobile, so most of it was completely out of our way while we were working, but some things had to be carefully covered with heavy plastic to protect it from water.
Pressure washing the dynomometer room was especially challenging.
Pressure Washing The Dynomometer Room
It is an enclosed room where they do emissions testing and other diagnostic tests by running the tractors on the dynomometer which simulates real road conditions. The room is ventilated, but not enough to clear out all the diesel exhaust generated by the tests. The dynomometer room hadn’t been cleaned since the building was built, so the soot buildup on the ceiling and walls was tremendous. We had to pressure wash the surfaces multiple times to remove the soot layer by layer.
Working large two week jobs like cleaning warehouse interiors into our normal schedule is one of the things that sets us apart. No other company has the capacity to handle this kind of project while keeping the client open for business 24 ours per day.
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