Concrete Care: Pressure Wash, Seal and Protect

Concrete Care: Pressure Wash, Seal and Protect

Chances are that nearly every home owner has a visible concrete surface exposed to the elements.  Concrete is a versatile building material that is well suited for today’s construction needs. Many don’t realize that some form of concrete has been around for thousands...
New Masonry Clean-Up

New Masonry Clean-Up

Constructing a new building takes loads of planning, financing, scheduling, consulting, cooperation and work. As opening day draws closer there are numerous small jobs that may have been neglected or pushed off to be dealt with later but are now immediate and...
The Benefits of Having a Fleet Wash Program

The Benefits of Having a Fleet Wash Program

It’s pretty hard to travel anywhere these days and not see a “Help Wanted” poster up.  Across the nation, labor is in short supply, from the service industry, fast food, convenience stores and retail to the trades and engineering. The transportation industry is...
Ice Dam Removal & Prevention

Ice Dam Removal & Prevention

No matter where you live, the first week of 2018 has been very, very cold. Freezing temperatures are covering most of the United States causing damage in their wake. Next week is looking better with temperatures returning to their local averages. Unfortunately these...
Pressure Washing and EPA Regulations

Pressure Washing and EPA Regulations

Our government lives to regulate.  Un-elected agencies make it their goal to keep us from harming ourselves or something else.  24 hours a day, everything we do, purchase, hire, drive, eat and wear is regulated.  Thousands of pages or rules exist to keep us from...
Why It’s Important to Remove Graffiti

Why It’s Important to Remove Graffiti

When I was in the pressure washing business, I thought the perfect graduation gift was a case of silver spray paint.  Within hours of the commencement speech, my phone would begin to ring with thousands of dollars of graffiti removal work.  Silver, the easiest color...
The Brief History of Thanksgiving

The Brief History of Thanksgiving

Compliments of the History Channel In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were...
The Importance of Managing Waste Water Removal

The Importance of Managing Waste Water Removal

Back in the day when I was in the fleet washing business, I often made sales calls, sometimes as a request of an owner or manager, but often from the “dirty” habit of seeing filth everywhere. It’s a curse you know. Even after years of retirement, I must admit that I...