i would like to start a small business providing pressure cleaning sevice on residential homes,including mobile homes,decks,roofs,outbuildings,driveways,vinyl siding,gutters.feel free to include in your answer any other surfaces that one would like cleaned in this manner.also include a cleaning solution that would work.
2006-12-19 23:29:39 · 5 answers · asked by JAMES W 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
I wouldnt rely on that to suppliment my entire income! You would be starving in the Winter Time!
As a side business its ok, but, I would get a regular "day job" when times are lean... Or, have other interests that would sell also...(like repair work, or handiman work or some other line of businesss to keep the kids fed well).
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-12-19 23:46:54 · answer #1 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to work for an outfit that cleaned tractor trailers when I was in high school. They had a pressure rig with a heater contained on a truck that carried it's own water. Soap injection for cleaning, and an acid solution for the really tough smoke stains. We would also rinse after the wash.
By the way, until you get enough regular business to support it, don't give up your day job.
2006-12-20 04:36:55 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the time you need to put something on after you take the dirt off. You could be a painter washing and then painting. Or a deck man wash the deck and then seal it. Or driveway,roof,and so on.
Mobile washing service tend to be for tractor trailers and car lots.
Good Luck.
2006-12-19 23:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are looking in the wrong place. What I think you are looking for is what author Tim Ferris refers to as a "muse". Simply put a muse is an automated, scalable business structure that relies on outsourced infrastructure and employees and only requires minimal input from you which consists of reviewing detailed reporting from your outsourced employees. Too much to go into, the book is called "The four-hour work week" and while the title is cheesy, which was based off of a test marketing technique that he explains in the book, it is not only a how-to it is a how not to manual for anyone looking to escape the deffered life plan and live. Changed my life, and I highly recommend that you read it before you start any of these ventures. Good luck and don't forget to live while you are building your new venture, you can't get that back.
2016-05-22 23:37:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both a friend of mine and my son started this business separately, they both do well. My son retired but to keep busy started a lawn service, that built into yard cleaning, tree trimming and yard maintenance. And now, it's pressure washing, decks, mobile homes, siding, semi=trailers and tractors and farm tractors. You wouldn't believe the business. A "keep busy" thing turned into a full time with three men business. A 100K inventory of equipment plus. so, I guess you'd be O.K.
2006-12-20 00:32:44 · answer #5 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋