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I was just sitting here thinking about how hot it is here this week and a thought crossed my mind.

Have any of the veterans had to deal with drought conditions where the state or county has placed water restrictions on the area. I can remember years ago, having such strict water restrictions that no non essential water use was allowed. Golf courses had brown fairways and greens. Farmers lost significant portions of their crops.

That was an extreme time, but we do still see less stringent water restrictions pop up from time to time if our rainfall is minimal in the summer.

Have you run into homeowners that refused to let you use their water to rinse everything down because they are conerned about water consumption?

This isn't something I expect to run into this year, but it could be an issue in years to come. That could be a major obstacle to a roof cleaners income.

I don't carry a rinse tank on my truck as of now so this would be a much bigger problem for someone like me.

Brian

-- Edited by theroofcleaners on Thursday 3rd of September 2009 09:41:24 AM

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I have ran into a few homeowners that were not happy that I wanted to use their water. I power wash too. I do not have a big enough setup to carry a water tank around with me, or a permit to fill up from a hydrant. It costs a homeowner between $4-$5 per 1000 gals in my area. I tell them that to get my friend to bring water will be another $125.
In my experience they were concerned about consumption not because of a drought but because of how it would affect their pocket books.
We have had some water restrictions in place down here but mainly on the irrigation front. We have a reclaimed water system in place and they only turn up the pressure twice per week. I always pull off the house water. We have some law down here that prevents them from reducing the pressure on this.
At the Tampa RT we had a lady from water management speak and they pretty much told us (pressure washers and roofies) we are near the bottom of the totem pole as far as they were concerned about water consumption. They were gonna shut the industry down earlier this year but a group of contractors got together and studies were performed to show just how little water we actually use. It opened their eyes.
Sorry for the long post...hope it makes sense.
I have learned not to rinse now and let mother nature do it so I'm not too concerned. So long as I have the water to mix with the SH etc I'm good to go.

-- Edited by Prime Choice Power Wash on Wednesday 5th of August 2009 03:18:31 PM

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I guess I should clarify my first post a little. I'm refering more to the water needed to keep all of the plants, siding, windows, decks ect wet down.

I rinsed the shingles my first year, but gave that up when I read more about SH and how and what it degrades into.

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theroofcleaners wrote:

I guess I should clarify my first post a little. I'm refering more to the water needed to keep all of the plants, siding, windows, decks ect wet down.

I rinsed the shingles my first year, but gave that up when I read more about SH and how and what it degrades into.

Brian



Duh...my bad didn't even look at it that way lol.

Same thing as before though... I tell them the cost of bringing the water myself or using theirs. Also I tell them we can burn all your plants or keep the landscaping nice.

I wont even bother cleaning there roof if I can't soak the landscaping...would make me look bad. (not ran into that yet though).



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