Power Washing and Roof Cleaning Forum

Dave O · Retired Member

Slow month of July

Ed Thompson · Approved Exterior Cleaner

It's a bit slow here too.

SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

My residential has dropped off significantly , but commercial is screaming.

Eric Schnaible · Approved Exterior Cleaner

It's been a bad year in California. I think it's mainly because of the drought, which is significant.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Phones are slow here also, But I just finished a big project that made up for the month and then some.

SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

I'm actually booking into September at this point, but 90% of August is commercial, or investor rental houses.

Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

July wasn't to bad. Phones just slowed up the last 2 days. Been 2-5 jobs a day for the whole month. I'm a little worried about august though.

Bruce Sullivan · Approved Exterior Cleaner

The rain we have had in Iowa this year hasn't been our friend. Though the bookings are okay we stay about three weeks out but that is cedar cleanings. We have done about three asphalt and two metal roofs for realtors.

We like to keep the realtors happy. wink

We are about 15% off from this time last year Gross income.

We also only work 4 days a week, take the week of the 4th off every year and don't work the month of August, normally, just push our bookings over to September if possible.

That's the benefit of being a small operation, one truck, two people.

Our normal season is about May 15th to November 15th, minus the above work week and times off.

Though others I network with said they are off this year also.

Barry Landis · Approved Exterior Cleaner

We had a big hail storm come through the area a month or so ago. Everyone is getting new roofs and holding off on the cleanings. It's killing me - physically!!! I hate roofing. It's funny to see all the storm chasing roofing companies that come to an area with hail damage. Old commercial buildings that have been sitting vacant for five years or more are now occupied by roofing companies.

SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Barry, we had a hail storm two years ago that shut down the roof cleaning for half our town, so I know what you mean.

Doug Rucker · Vender

We had a two week period this month that I noticed the phone slowed down. I had Dwayne, my web site manager, do some checking, and he compared the number of people searching our terms in July this year vs last year. He said July was slower both this year and last year, but get ready for August, as it really picked up.

waxman18324 · Founding Member Rest in Peace

We all know July can be a slow month. Our numbers are up from last year this time by 38%. We have worked every available day (weather and bass fishing permitting). We are small two man operation and I like it that way.

Hank