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shows you are creative. I am sure there has been worse. Hold your head proud, your making money and that is what this about.

I went through 2 of those wal-mart hose reels this year,because of the weight they didn`t hold up. Kipp

It will do, for now.
I started out with a 4 by 8 lawn trailer, 100 gallon tank, and a shurflo pump with 5/8 garden hose - 2 - 100 foot pieces from dollar store!
Plus, a pawn shop ladder

I knocked on doors till my knuckles bled, had no business cards, or flyers either.

Drove around on weekend mornings, looking for neighbors outside talking to each other, stopped, said "watch this", and sprayed a piece of moldy driveway.

That often led to a roof demo, and then a sale.

Once one neighbor did it, the rest were easy.

After I did one neighbor, I told the other neighbor about how the dirt on his roof is an airborne spore, and could make his neighbors roof dirty again!

I would say stuff like " You know joe next door just had his roof  cleaned, and your dirty roof can make his roof dirty?"

Works everytime, now you got 2 neighbors, so you keep knocking on the other neighbors doors, and before long you will be saying "Those guys on the RCIA Forum were not BS'ing, there IS a lot of money to be made in cleaning roofs!

I personally know many who advertise not at ALL, yet make really good money.

When you are new, and not yet established, good old door knocking is a good way to get started.

Inspirational... Thanks for the post. Many times we get caught up in having the prettiest rig or best looking advertising. Thank you all for the git-r-done attitude.

how do you like that spray gun ive been looking to get one to try for a while now i hate using a ball valve 

Yo' Red
 That's what they call, Good old American ingenuity. Adapt and over cum!

H2OCleaning wrote:

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how do you like that spray gun ive been looking to get one to try for a while now i hate using a ball valve 

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Billy, sorry I was in the middle of a the "family feud" whan ya called Man.
 

nice! you got it going.
just bought an F-250 and i'm trying to set up, did you put plywood on the truck bed?
what did you use to protect the bed from SH?

best of luck!
rick

rocky roof top wrote:

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Thanks Guys its been fun so far just trying to get my feet wet if you know what I mean. I help my family run a large roofing co. in Tennessee and we get tons of calls about cleaning so last year when I lived in St. Pete I seen a job apple was working on and thought hey when I move back I need to give it a try.
Thank you all for any advice and pointers. I have been reading on the site with my mouth shut about a year now and it was time to start putting something together...

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Part of me is like wow that's cool, and part of me is like, way to ignore our warnings about hose size and leaking components.  Just being honest.  Regardless of that I am glad to see you out there hustling and trying to get it done with whatever you can use.  It takes balls and innovation to throw that thing together and rock out some roofs!!  My trailer is a POS so I can't be too judgmental.

Please be careful of getting love on your skin as your stuff will leak eventually, but i bet you knew that.  Good to see you posting and I look forward to watching your rig grow.

-- Edited by Baltimore MD Roof Cleaning 410-482-4367 on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 08:58:11 PM