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Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Preparing for this blizzard 2016

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Good Luck Mike, Be Safe

Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Thanks art.

Fred W · Guru

Does Diamond roof cleaning remove snow from a roof in the New Jersey area? I see the snow plow and the salt rig so I know that Diamond Roof Cleaning will be providing a superior snow plow service and salting service to New Jersey.

Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Doug I operate as a sub contractor for snow removal. It's a little easier. I think we're going to get bombed. We could be out for 40hrs straight. Thats alright though it will pay for that shiney new plow.
I just bought 2 cases of red bull. I'm hoping to get some wings.

SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Good luck!!! I hope all my Yankee friends get through this storm unscathed... And if you do snow removal, I hope you make a bundle!!!!

BlueRidge · Approved Exterior Cleaner

We are supposed to get 2 - 3 feet here!

Be safe Mike and get that plow paid for!

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Looks like 6" to 12" here on Long Island. The weatherman still isn't sure whats happening.

Liberty SoftWash · PWS Vender

It's coming, be safe out there.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Art O wrote:
Looks like 6" to 12" here on Long Island. The weatherman still isn't sure whats happening.

Now its 12" or More

Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

There calling for 18-24 now. It's going to be a crazy next 2 days.

Dan Dykstra · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Kind of funny to us here in the northern states on how these storms make national news.

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Even more funnier is how 1 inch constitutes an emergency in the southern state's!

Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Haha.

Bryan P · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Maverick Contracting wrote:
Even more funnier is how 1 inch constitutes an emergency in the southern state's!

Yep. We got two inches and school has been out for three days. Seriously!

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Got my 1970" Tecumseh Tank Snow blower ready to go. Electric start. Plug it in' push the button. Its a $40 Special. On year 2 with it.

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Woke up at 6 am, 10 inches,

18-24 expected

I've been spending the last few days helping my best long time customers getting prepared and finally getting my generators and blower working at 10 last night

I can't wait to spray some roof's in warm weather!

-- Edited by Maverick Contracting on Saturday 23rd of January 2016 10:00:14 AM

John Aloisio · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Here is out the back door this morning. About a foot now with 8 to 10 more inches to come. Can't wait to get to Florida Monday.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

We have about 12" and more on the way. My Estimating car is buried. Can't do any Estimates today.

SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Maverick Contracting wrote:
Even more funnier is how 1 inch constitutes an emergency in the southern state's!

Hey, don't make fun of us dealign with snow...its a very rare occurrence down here.....kind of like how rare it is for a northern school to win a BCS national championship!

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

At 20 going to 30 inches here's some pics for you Florida types to enjoy

Brandon Vaughn · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Wow I'm jealous. We rarely get snow - usually its freezing rain with an inch of solid ice on the roads. Winter in Portland is lame.

Liberty SoftWash · PWS Vender

We got 30 here.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

We got about the same here on LI Eric.

Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

We got around 20-24 inches. Went out Friday at 2 am got back home about an hour ago. And of course my driveway is the only one not fully cleaned up. Could possibly have to go again tomorrow for salting. It was a fun 2 days.

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

It was an adventure all right, not sure I would go as far to say "fun".

I live at the bottom of 2 hills, no plows other than 2 little privateers getting stuck and plowing snow back where I just cleaned over and over again, and ripping up roots that ended up jamming up my blower, digging out idiot tourists enjoying the scenery getting stuck in front of my house and 2 sliding downhill almost running me over and crashing into my cars.

And of course my truck wouldn't start due to electrical gremlins I thought were fixed from last winter. Fun? Yeah right. At least finishing off a bottle of Jack with my neighbors and getting fat tips made everything fun in the end.

Bring it on Spring!

-- Edited by Maverick Contracting on Sunday 24th of January 2016 08:41:12 PM

Dave O · Retired Member

It's a good thing we have that so called "man made global warming". Just imagine how much worse it would have been without it!

waxman18324 · Founding Member Rest in Peace

This was our first storm of the season. We got away with only 12" in Stroudsburg. Just 25 miles south in the Lehigh Valley they got double that. We don't do plowing as everyone has a plow.

Hank

BlueRidge · Approved Exterior Cleaner

I set out with the snow blower on Friday morning. It wouldn't start! It was in the shop in the fall for service so I was a bit perplexed! I filled the tank with gas before I went out to fill the gas can. When I checked the blower tank, it was empty. I found the float bowl had not been seated properly so I took it off and got it on so the gas would stay in there and not leak out. Finally I got it started and then Saturday the belt that drives the the auger broke. Great! With at least a foot of snow I started calling every parts store in town. The only one open was O'Reilly's. Now to bust through the 3' wall the city plows put in front of the driveway and get the belt. After replacing the belt I could finish my work at the house and go make a few dollars.

Needless to say, the shop I took the blower to will not see me again. Run by dad and his son, I already had to return with my chain saw because that wasn't right. One of the oldest small engine shops around... time for the old guy to retire!

Chris Mozick · Approved Exteior Cleaner

Good luck guys hope everyone is safe. I'm in Anaheim at Disney it's freezing for me LOL I'm not use to this 65 degree weather. I'm usually I'm board shorts and no shirt but I'm bundled up with long johns and jeans. My blood is so thin I feel like an alligator that needs sun. Lots of it!