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Ed Thompson · Approved Exterior Cleaner

RE: Where is everyone?

Dan Dykstra · Approved Exterior Cleaner

This whole season has been busy but Sept and October were by far the busiest we have ever been. I am trying to fit 5 days of work into the next 3 days and then I am taking a week off to relax in Mexico before the stress of our winter business starts up - snowplowing/roof top snowremoval/ice dam removal.

waxman18324 · Founding Member Rest in Peace

We are still working albeit not with the numbers we had hoped for. Majority are small projects.

Hank

Jim Williams · Newbie

We have just finished our annual exterior applications to control over wintering pest like lady bugs, cluster flies, spiders and wasp. Has been a good year for roof treatments and pest control. I hope we can squeeze in a few more roofs and then we go into exterior rodent control for winter.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Jim Williams wrote:
We have just finished our annual exterior applications to control over wintering pest like lady bugs, cluster flies, spiders and wasp. Has been a good year for roof treatments and pest control. I hope we can squeeze in a few more roofs and then we go into exterior rodent control for winter.

Welcome to NSWA Jim. Its about time you did a post!

waxman18324 · Founding Member Rest in Peace

Jim,

Nice to see you here.

Hank

Ed Thompson · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Sup Jim, welcome!

gutterdog · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Hey Jim!

RIP Rapid HotClean · Eternal Member

Welcome Jim!

Shea74 · Member

Wish I had your guys problems on the busy thing. In my area this is a very hard business to sell people just don't get it or the benefits of a clean roof or surfaces

waxman18324 · Founding Member Rest in Peace

Shea,

If it's any consolation we've all faced the same dilemma when we first started. As contractors it is our responsibility to generate awareness and educate the residential and commercial property owners as to the benefits to a algae free roof or exterior surface. Keep pushing forward and you'll reap the benefits of your efforts.

Hank

Patrick G · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Dan Dykstra any trick to ice removal from gutteres besides physical labor?

Shea74 · Member

Thanks for the boost Hank I'm def striving to never give up. I truly enjoy the business

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Art i thought about collecting them, spraying them white and making a template with business info and producing my own signs. there were more thise year than ever piled up at curbs. freebies!

Pat, nice little ad on for ice damming ,PM me for info biggrin

-- Edited by Maverick Contracting on Wednesday 5th of November 2014 10:51:49 PM

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

And we are on our way again

Dave · Approved Exterior Cleaner

So far the busiest October and November yet. We are scheduled a couple of weeks out, and booking jobs for the spring. weird how people wait until it gets cold out.

Bryan P · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Dave wrote:
So far the busiest October and November yet. We are scheduled a couple of weeks out, and booking jobs for the spring. weird how people wait until it gets cold out.

Yeah, that's weird. We're busier than we've been all year. Didn't expect that. We've got 70's right now though, so it's still really nice.

BlueRidge · Approved Exterior Cleaner

I'm here keeping things going scheduling out two weeks now although we were booked three weeks all season. I just noticed buds and small blooms on my Lilac bush yesterday! Thirties at night, 60's + during the day. We'll just keep going until we have to schedule for next season..

Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Same here. Very busy october and so far november is looking great. Once all the checks come in i can retire for the rest of the year.

Liberty SoftWash · PWS Vender

Busy as chit over here.

waxman18324 · Founding Member Rest in Peace

Keeping busy with house washes, roof cleaning and some commercial work. It's cold up here so we are starting later than normal. 2017 is already shaping up for us on the commercial side.

Hank