@eqador6244 it was because we blasted out the gutters with our pressure washer because they were filled with mud water and other debrie. So just rinsing it off. Quicker that way for us atleast only go up ladder once each gutter.
Some people don’t understand how much work goes into pressure washing. To not only wash a house, but also have to bring your own water would be a waste of time, effort and would cost more money for transportation and actual cost of the water. Keep doing your best man, love the content
@@angelcolin51 yep, exactly the same thing. Specialized toolsthe average person doesnt have that fits in a car trunk is exactly the same as a readily available infinite source of water that every single building that would take a dump truck to haul around.
I used to run a photo booth company. I had a wedding once that was in the grooms farm house. We were not allowed to use their power and found out the day of the wedding. Good thing we had something on the contract to prepare for this. It would be a 200 dollar charge extra. Went to the neighbours house and explained what happened and asked if I can plug my equipment to her power and I would give her 50 bucks. She was shocked and said yes.
When I was doing construction, we were putting up 600 square-foot addition on a customers house and they wanted the same thing that I wasn’t gonna use their power and when I told him it would be $50 a day to run a generator they decided to let me plug into their house. We’re only running circular saws, and a drill that’s about it. Air came from a gas compressor.
the only exception to this is well water. most of the time yes you can use well water, but if there’s a dry spell, it’s polite to ask the customer what they want.
Seriously. I lived in a place where we used well water one time we tried to fill up an adult sized inflatable pool and we ran out of water for days 😂 that is the exception.
I had painters pressure wash my house and I told them my well wont keep up with two 6 gal/min machines running simultaneously. The macho guy in charge scoffed and said it would be fine and surprise, ran out of water and he was whining about his pressure washer possibly being damaged and stomped around swearing.
@@joegardner7329 - it’s about doing the full service not a half assed one. My point was wetting the leaves makes it harder to clean up and the bags heavier both unnecessarily.
@@sambeaumont395 their not gardeners bruh lol the groundin wet there no picking up that shit now of he cleaned the gutter then yeah he would need to picking them up but that shit is no necessary when its like that thats for the landscapers
Why everyone acting like veterans of trade & experts of efficiency? He was talking about a washing business which often does include wetting foliage & structure plus pushing off debris before apply chemicals. Why would anyone use a leaf blower to do all those things? You right - the posted video makes perfect sense and I agree completely.
Just don't use the customer hose when they tell you not to. My mom had Flexi hoses and told a company not to use them because they would pop. Well they used them and popped my mom's brand new $60 hose in about 10 seconds 😕
@@MitchelPie it's not ment to be put under pressure. My mother is 67 and can't lift traditional heavy duty hoses anymore. She loves her garden and flowers and won't stop just because it is too much to lug around traditional hoses. They're a relatively decent hose for water gardens.
It wouldve failed anyways. The hose from the house to the machine only ever has as much pressure as your house/city gives out. The hose on the other side of the machine is specifically made for the machine, so you cannot plug a garden hose into it
Used to work at a company as a supervisor washing mining equipment, quads with quad axle 60m, also went to do farmers loaders etc. Only ever carried two 1000L IBC's on trailers with the machines & we had how powered hot water setups. Get a fair bit done without needing to refill. Get yourself a trailer that can hold 2 IBC's of 1000L each.
I actually started my own small pressure washing business! I'm 16 years old and I live in the Netherlands. I have a, compared to your guys', small pressure washer that goes up to 145 bar and it cleans fine for me! I really enjoy doing it and seeing the result! I currently ask about €12/h and people are so happy with the result! I have a small trailer behind my bicycle so i can take my pressure washer, hoses and extension cords (almost) everywhere. PS: I started doing all this because of videos like this!
leaf blower wouldnt work here, the ground looks wet so every surface is probably wet meaning all the leaves will stick to whatever is there, meaning that the easiest way to clean this deck is by simply adding more water. plus if you blow leaves off of siding or anywhere after they were wet, they stain anything they were on due to their color and being a plant. so as a landscaper i would rather power wash a deck so it looks clean on top of having no leaves, a blower would push all the leaves off but leave ur deck dirty and grimey
Lmao we use buffer tanks the water could be coming out at 20 gpm 500 psi and we be ok. You want other people's equipment to break like how broke are you hahahha
You could use a leaf blower but this clip looks like its from the cleanup of stuff that fell when cleaning the roof or something like that, so the water sprayer was already set up. It would probably make little to no difference using either option, though it may take more time to go get a leaf blower going instead of simply using the tool currently on hand
@@Ryan-wx1biCrazy concept… Maybe the pressure washer on the roof is to ya know, clean the leaves? Quick work and it does little damage to gutters and I’m sure he didnt charge extra to clean up after himself, in turn cleaning your steps… Everybody loves telling people how to do their jobs. Trust me Bud you’re doing a great job being a keyboard warrior!
@@thatoneitalian4922 lmao, you sound like someone who has never owned a home. When it's a basic job that I have done myself many times yes, I can tell them how to do it when they are wrong. Cleaning up leaves and debris that are wet, is 100x more difficult. And if all he did was leave all that debris on the ground scattered in their yard.... If I was a customer I'd be pissed.
@@1979utuber psi and volume are two different things! If you have a 1/4 inch tip at 4K psi it’s going to use twice as much water per minute as an 1/8 inch tip at 4K psi.
You should have buffer tanks because some customers won't want you using their water (you charge them more for water transport) but if you can use the customers water you need to be aware if they are on city/county water or if they are on a well because your customer won't be very happy if you drain their well dry and that'll be their main concern no matter how great of work you did.
Make sure you always tell your customers to call their water company to say your going to be using a ton of water outside so they don't get charged for sewage
@@erinzys it's just general advice, dude. Had a roofing company not tell me they were going to use my water before. It's also good advice for your average homeowner if you're going to do lots of gardening or other tasks with water outside of the house
Word to wise - I heard applying pressure washer to any insulated/sealer window pane will void warranties & encourage failure. That happened in this video.
@@SoftWashFactory gpm doesn’t mean low pressure. a regular old car washer uses like 3500 PSI which is plenty to void window warranties. i hope you educate your customers before they wonder why the next thunderstorm causes leaky windows😅
Not clear on responses around my induced banter; 1) what anti-human wrote resentful comment about about business denying claim for low function when ridiculous commenter thinks infinite blast 💥 entirely acceptable for ridiculous claimant 2) psi and gpm semantics…a river has lots of gpm…push it right at high tech seals and and low iq awards should be understood
@Drew Martinez it was a gutter job that was blown out with a pressure washer, and the gutters were full of water so it was just all cleaned up with water. Otherwise yes a blower would be perfect.
I came outside one day to find my neighbor had hired someone to pressure wash. The guy used my hose bib to fill his machines without asking. Rather than be a dick I said it was cool as long as he hit a small 7 foot long section of white fence on his way out. He copped a ton of attitude. Am I the Asshole?
I just bought power wosh simulater a cupol weeks ago and low kea is soo much fun and i loved always using my moms presure washer when i had to do chors for my mom back when i loved with her its such a satisfying job.
Thank you for your advice I can tell your experience I was just wondering I'm opening up a power washing business in Arizona how do I reclaim my water or any way You can give me any tips on that
You need a recovery system but on budget you could use a shop vac of some sort. Also I'm north and we don't have concrete driveways so no worries other than commercial jobs.
@@your_-_mom you would think lol. Had this happen to a friend locally. When you are out in the sticks sometimes city or county water isn't always available or just expensive to install.
I have a painting business and a pressure washing business. I use a 5,000 psi washer so when the house has the paint blown off, I can charge them to repaint the house.
Not sure of the prices elsewhere but in London tower bridge. It's cheeper just to buy the washer yourself. Around a grand for a good one. And still pay the standard water rates you would either way. And then when in 3months it needs doing again, you'll know. If you want a job done right......oh and cheap. Don't forget self labour, Is self love.
@@SoftWashFactory yeah, i guess most city residents wouldnt, but spent the first years of my life on a farm on the isle of lewis, so im good with wetness and grime. also just to say, i think you and others that work labour jobs are dong great, just thought people on a lower income that might lack the info rather than the ability to do it themselves could use the knowledge that you can cheaply do it yourself, saving on labour, skill and pro equipment, of course many would and should pay to have those included.
People ask contractors similar questions in the construction industry too: are contractors allowed to use client’s electricity? The answer should ALWAYS be yes unless the contract specifically prohibits it. It’s cheaper and easier for everyone, because if the contractor has to outsource their needs, the costs will just go back to the customer at a higher price.
That guy just watching is like my dad lol my mum always tells him to 'go check on the the guy outside ask him if he needs to move someting i dont know' and then my dad dwpressigly goes to wherever the worker is 😂
@@thelvadam5113 it has nothing to do with doing my job correctly, it’s just fucking awkward AF. Esp a laborious job such as this. Absurdly weird. Watch from afar, no worries. But to stand next to me staring is WEIRD!!!!!
Bro I literally just got called to bid a commercial job . A wash of their building and the awnings on the two adjacent buildings. No exterior faucet on all three 🙄. Going to have to get creative. Luckily i do have a 100 gallon buffer. But also a 8 gpm so that goes by by fast lol. But also luckily my parents shop is only about a mile and a half away so i could always run back and top off … for a price. To be determined lol
@@SoftWashFactory definitely a possible solution. Hoping to get the property owner that had me do the bid install an outdoor Spicket. He was mentioning when we walked around that he needed one anyways. Hoping to go that route.
@@WashproBrad The worst that could happend is that the connection would fail, but there is still the sink, technical nothing could happend, but some people are just shitty.
The last company that pressure washed my house and driveway used my water. They had a hose hooked up to my water faucet outside. Then they had the audacity to charge me $150 for water used on my invoice. After that I got my own pressure washer and started doing the job myself.
If it's an apartment building, the tennant might pay a monthly water bill. I had a company use my water because the manager said to use it but when I called them on it they had to pay up. If I had not been home, I'd never known why my bill was so damn high.
Why would someone in an apartment need someone like this? What are they gonna have pressure washed their parking spot? Or their side of the building lol
Tbh it's crazy how many people want there driveways and houses pressured washed. Didn't have a clue until I did a pressure wash one weekend at a relatives and people would stop by and asked to do theirs. Ion even do pressure washing
If he was using his most powerful machine for 3 hours without turning it off it would cost the house owner roughly $5.31 or should they be hit with the water sourcing cost instead
I mean, he'd have to be running it constantly at full blast for many hours to be costly. Here in Canada, running for 8 hours would only cost me $36 ($26.24 USD)... if im paying hundreds of dollars for the service, that extra $36 isnt noticable, especialy knowing it would probably cost 10x that to rent a water tank for the day.
There is 1 pressure washing company I know of around me. They haul in 2,500 gallons inside the truck. The outer cabinets all had the wands and hoses looped up in it on reels
I always say up front: I’ll knock 15% off the bill if you allow me to use your water I inflate the initial quote by 15% so that my costs and time are covered if the customer does refuse to allow me to use their water.
I believe you should definitely ask the home owner IF it is alright to use their water . It may not cost them much but if they weren't expecting it I would be irritated.
Yes, we always do. It's good to have the customer completely informed on everything that is happening at their house and what they are paying for like you say.
Depending on where you live can be pretty expensive. At 8gpm, which is just over one cubic foot of water per minute could cost up to $4-$5 per minute to run where I am in Massachusetts. So if they are running for an hour, that's another easy $300 just in water. Definitely not everywhere and most won't notice, but there are some in areas which it will ruin your bill.
@@Jakecook17 You sure about that? I'll send you my water bill for my latest quarter which I just received. One shower a day, living alone, $154. I'd be more than happy to break it down for someone who doesn't have a clue as to what they are talking about :).
I'm a commercial pressure washer technician and there is not a snowball's chance in hell that you use 8 and 10gpm machines the largest machine I know of in the state of New York is an 8 gallon per minute at a tractor trailer company and their mechanics have trouble holding the wand because of the fact that it's basically a water cannon
Hey, I have a pressure washer 4 gallons a minute 3500 psi 13 horse Honda years ago. I switched the engine and the pump over to Amsoil full synthetic now out of the same 1.3 gallon tank I get one and a half hours more run time out of the same tank of fuel, and it’s far superior to the conventional garbage that is put in there from the OEM.
That's actually a great explanation because you know it must have been so many greedy gut customers that asked you if you'd be bringing your own water for their driveway or of they'd get a discount for you using their water. Lmao!
Trust me I had a business like that for 4 years And I never used customer’s water, I always came prepared with my tanks because when I charge people I do, I don’t want to give them any leeway to negotiate prices. Its just how I see it. U less its a really big site like a commercial site id connect to their water supply. Some people don’t care
water bills actually go more off o how much water is drained and filtered more than what’s used. also if you use it for filling up a pool you can call and let your company know and they won’t charge you for the water used. we did it with our pool and it’s massive.
I dont think this guy understands that he's in a cleaning business and not a pressure washing business. Sweep that shit with a brush for quicker results before blasting railing/siding/corners
I don't think you realize it was a gutter job of muddy wet leaves and was blasted out with a pressure washer and then rinsed off after took 1 hour to make $850 how it's done!
Wow pressure washer really did a number on those leaves, amazing! Leaves stick like glue onto everything I find my regular hose just gets them wet and can't remove them at all. How did all those leaves get there? From the decomposed leaves right off the tree?!. Crazy
When it rains This guy will say such a water of water Sora water goes underground look around u the green plant need water the rest evaporation water life cycle
@@blendedcircuit479 By that logic, you wadte food by not foraging for as many berries as possible; Those berries are dropping to the ground and decomposing. It's scarcity that makes waste a problem; If you have a renewable, functionally infinite resource, you can't really waste it. As someone else said, if you suffer from water scarcity, this would be a waste, but it looks like the American Northeast, who will get the same amount of rainfall and river flow every year regardless of whether they use it or not
You could've just brushed away the leaves before pressure washing the steps, but who would do that when you can waste all the clients water? Great job my guy!
There is a reason for cutoff(s) for the spigot(s) outside. Hard to use what you aren't entitled to when there is no water to access. Rather funny that 30 years ago we used water containers we brought to do pressure washing jobs. So glad to see "business" owners think they are entitled to anything from a residence. This is why we just do it ourselves and save thousands every year.
@@SoftWashFactory considering we were pressure washing county buses in a lot using water totes your smugness shows how little of the world you actually know. The issue is people these days think they are entitled to the easy way through everything.
Pro tip take that valve out of line it’s extra weight for no reason you aren’t surface cleaning. Two take that x jet out your rinsing not trying to clean concrete with pressure. You use water volume to rinse cleaners do all your work. X jet and pressure with fur up wood porches if u hit them to much.
Some of them don’t have the time (which ofc they do) but bottom line really is that they just don’t wanna do the job. And that’s where we as contractors come in 😊 capitalize on that and get paid
Is my water FREE lol and you need a bigger truck with a 1000 gallon tank of water to bring not everyone can do that. That means $$ also its $2 for 1000 gallons of water on your bill stop being cheap
That's why I buy pressure machine myself it's easy and faster way to clean my garage normally it took 2-3 hour but with pressure water it's only took 1 hour top
If you want to do it yourself then whos stopping you? Some of us actually have busy lives, value time, and earn enough money to pay the professionals to get on the roof and clean the gutters 😂
It only cost around $2 for all the water I used. I assume everyone in the comments RENT because they don't know what real water bills look like LOL I pay $200 a year and I water my yard and fill huge tanks every day!
@@SoftWashFactory I own my home, along with everyone else in my area of living. Quarterly water bills are anywhere from $200 and up. Average use for a small family is $1200-$1500 in water. And there's neighbors with quarterly bills of over $1000. Water is insanely expensive.
@@SoftWashFactory depends on location, it's also pretty expensive here. That being said, not letting a power wash guy use the hose just... doesn't make sense lol. Option B is bring a huge truck with water... when there's perfectly functional plumbing here already
Ive done service work before. When folks come to work in?on my house I give them the grand tour. So they know where and which bathroom to use. Where I stashed cold drinks for them. Where microwave is. Yeah I just open my house to them. ZIf its an all day job I know youll need a bathroom so lets not make it akward. And if its hot out a few cold sodas, water or such is not to much to give to these guys.
“Can I use the customer’s water?” That’s the dumbest question I’ve ever heard. “No you can’t, you must bring your own water and it must be Evian mineral water.” 🙄
One of the biggest questions when starting a Fire Fighting business is: “Can i use the customers water?” Yes, absolutely. If you’re not using the customers water then you’re not a professional fire fighter.
This is one of the most physically demanding jobs. People think it would be a great business and buy equipment after a 10 minute demo. But on a job after 15 minutes, your arm and back muscles fatigue. Grueling.
It sounds like You’ve worked in a cubicle your whole life not saying you do but just sounds like it. It saying it’s bad either. Wish I went to school so I could work in an office. But we all make choices
😅 I’m a forklift mechanic now but used to work at a Carwash, in rainy days we’d power wash the whole tunnle walls and floors after 4 hours straight my arm would get tired but that’s why I got 2 arms….I wanted to be a jerk but couldn’t it’s ok not to be blue collar
