| Having been in the pressure washing business | | | | they'll smile, take a cup of coffee and leave |
| for some time know; a few decades. I have | | | | you alone. Then they will take your business |
| come to the realization that most pressure | | | | card and pass it around the public agencies |
| washing companies are missing many lucrative | | | | for more work. Government work although it is |
| markets; market segments, which are uncommon | | | | riddled with paper work and regulation and |
| but not unprofitable. Here are some ideas, | | | | they are extremely slow to pay their bills |
| which can help you in your pressure washer | | | | can in fact be good for fill in busy work on |
| business if you wish to increase sales and | | | | long-term contracts.Dairy Industry CleaningIn |
| expand your business.Lumber Industry & | | | | your pressure washing business you might find |
| ServicesSome pressure washing companies wash | | | | you can help dairies and independent |
| heavy equipment for many U.S. and Canadian | | | | distributors with all their cleaning needs. |
| timber companies, lumber mills, and logging | | | | You can steam clean costly pasteurization |
| trucking companies. We recommend that you | | | | equipment using corrosion resistant soaps on |
| paint your equipment a bright and safe color; | | | | a routine preventative wash maintenance |
| our equipment is painted safety yellow and | | | | schedule. Make sure all of your products |
| our crews have worked in and around the | | | | meet USDA inspector codes and are FDA |
| timber industry, so we realize the importance | | | | approved. The easiest way for the Dairy |
| to stay "heads-up" in work zone, as well as | | | | Industry to keep from being milked by the |
| out of the way of the massive equipment we | | | | FDA, USDA, EPA, OSHA, and animal rights |
| are cleaning while they are in operation. You | | | | groups is to run a tight ship. You will also |
| should take a similar approach and mindset to | | | | find lots of work cleaning facility |
| safety when working pressure washing in the | | | | forklifts, delivery trucks, buildings, and |
| lumber or timber industry.Many times you will | | | | equipment. Make this one of your market niche |
| need to work weekends cleaning equipment so | | | | specialties. Here is a link to a reclaim |
| that you are undisturbed. This is also good | | | | system called a vacu-boom, which we use. You |
| for the timber or lumber company since they | | | | might use something similar in your pressure |
| you don't have to worry about another crew in | | | | washing company. With livestock all around it |
| the yard. You may be asked to clean and work | | | | is imperative that your reclaim your water |
| on cranes loading rail cars, barges moving | | | | for the health of the animals and our food |
| timber down the river and steam cleaning | | | | supply. may also find the dairy companies |
| mills. There are many lare companies in | | | | asking you to wash down bars, fences, covered |
| this industry such as Boise-Cascade, Potlatch | | | | awnings, troughs, barns, storage tanks, |
| and Mead Paper. Logging trucks are also good | | | | fittings, concrete pads, etc.. These are |
| accounts, some are owned by fleet companies | | | | important items to take care of as well. |
| and others by independent operators.Drainage | | | | Make sure you have convenient monthly |
| Ditches | | | | billing, workers compensation, SB198 safety |
| | | | plan (if in California), OSHA approved safety |
| As you know, the county flood control, | | | | ware, EPA approved soaps, NPDES recognized |
| districts, EPA and State's NPDES permits | | | | Best Management Practices (BMPs), MSDS for |
| require that you meet all required code; | | | | all products and fully comply with all |
| otherwise you can't work. Once the | | | | government regulations. There are always lots |
| authorities know you can clean without | | | | of visits from government inspectors to such |
| polluting you will find they also have lots | | | | facilities and you need to run things |
| of work to be done. Debris and dirt in cement | | | | right.Think on these additional industries |
| ditches must be removed and the organic | | | | when determining your focus in the pressure |
| material flushed out to keep the drainage | | | | washing industry, sometimes the most |
| clean and clear. When inspectors show up and | | | | lucrative accounts have little if any |
| find a dust free excavated field, clear | | | | competition involved.Lance Winslow - Online |
| drainage ditches, hay bales in strategic | | | | Think Tank forum board. |
| locations and cement cutters installed, | | | | |