How would you approach this kind of job? Copper roof cleaning and concrete cleaning.
I’ve used OneRestore on copper stains on concrete, worked great. I’d walk away from that roof personally….thats just me. You could try citric acid on the roof to see if it puts a dent in it? That’s the “organic” route. The patina actually protects the copper from corrosion…..but people ask us from time to time to do their copper awnings sometimes over bay windows. Anyways…..much success, post pics if you do the job. Never see that on here.
Did someone actually ask you to ‘clean’ that copper? Or just the concrete?
I’m starting to stress about the commercial leads I’ve got. I just got done washing 3 houses today. I enjoyed every single minute of it, I feel like I got a great workout hiking up and down the backyard hills doing the jobs, a butterfly landed on the tip of my gun and chilled for a minute, I had good conversations with my customers, a buddy drove by randomly and saw me and stopped and we chatted, I got tipped (twice) and got paid for all 3 jobs in cash. Rewind to Thursday I ran this estimate and another commercial estimate and it was hot (all the concrete/parking lot heat), I couldn’t get anybody on the phone when I had a question, I wasn’t sure who was going to be paying me and what exactly they wanted me to quote, I felt miserable and like I had gotten into something that I hadn’t wanted to get into. I’m seriously considering just sticking 100% to residential where its nice and comfy and feels good and pays well.
After this job lol
Wow…what a day! Yeah we do 95% residential, a lot of high end homes. Commercial can pay well too but for some reason I’ve always gravitated to residential. I feel homeowners are more loyal to you verse commercial clients….may be just me, but over the years the commercial end was always super competitive and they would drop you with new management. I don’t know….just residential worked out better for us. But I know a lot of guys that are the opposite, so there you go.
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Yeah agree completely with you, I don’t want to get too philosophical or deep here but I’ve had some really good moments with homeowners this year. Especially the real country folks it seems, they are so proud of my work and so proud of their home. People like us with the equipment we have are able to transform their algae’ed molded up dirty homes back into something that looks beautiful again and crystal clean. I’ve been numerous times packing up and being thanked repeatedly…just yesterday finishing up my first wash of the day, the neighbor had come over and the older lady I washed for were both standing in the driveway waving to me and saying “thank you, sir” a couple times to me. I looked back as I drove down the driveway and they were literally still waving at me. I mean, I’d love the job even without the appreciation, but that’s next level. I’m humbled by it and I respect them so much. I’d be nothing without my customers and it makes it easy to remind myself that I’m a service man and I’m in service to them, first and foremost. It is just so cool that they equally value the relationship and the whole thing keeps going wash after wash after wash…
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