This is one of the dirtiest properties I clean on a monthly basis. It’s the trash room for a large complex with muliple hotels, high end condos and about 6-7 different restaurants. In addition to the room proper, we have to do out into the adjoining garage area about 600 sq ft from where the various restaurants track grease back out into the garage area leaving the area and then outside the rollup door where dumpster picked up about the same.
They have a broom there, but I have to carry a rake to get all the small stuff off the floor that’s usually embedded in the grease. Thought you might enjoy some pics. Link to my dropbox folder which I keep for each job.
What’s worse in your experience? Apartment dumpsters or dumpsters shared by multiple restaurants? I can imagine how bad apartments could be.
Here’s a little of what I cleaned last night: all the water kept flowing back into the pad against the wall so I got pretty misty trying to blow it all out.
Multiple restaurants sharing central dumpster. They’re always terrible. I’ve got several. I recorded an hour long video on commercial concrete cleaning doing a big one. Just haven’t had time to edit and post.
That’s one of my goals for 2023 - to get dumpster pad cleaning clients. I’m working on getting (funding) an 8gpm machine with heat now.
Do you ever get requested to clean up the dumpster itself (outside) or do you just do that in course if it’s nasty?
No, never. The user doesn’t care. They just rent it. I’ll occasionally hit base if it’s had crap spilled on it. But clients don’t expect or care usually.
Thanks sir. I have a service body F350 and struggled with getting an 8gpm with heat, but I think that’s the way to go, especially with dumpsters and commercial (gas stations, drive thrus…) now I just have to figure out how to fit it in the truck with a large tote! it will have to go in the bed - no room on top of the cabinets…
The most you’ll probably be able to get it 200 or you could put a tall tote in there and get 335, but between it and machine, you’re not going to have a lot of room left. What skid unit are you going with?
I say something like because it’s not the actual unit, but it’s got the same size spec just a different cage which is aluminum not powder coated and the psi is 3500 not 3000 and I believe around 7.8 gpm. (Honda gx690 engine I believe)
I have a 335 gal tote in the truck (I have a few customers that don’t have water close in N GA so I can fill from hydrant and carry a short distance to wash - I have an office park coming up in the spring with 6 buildings and it’s all flat work)
So the only real place I can put it is in the very back because I need a spot for the 55 gal drum of bleach and I have another 15 gal container I’ll probably use for degreaser. I keep a Proportioner in one of the cabinets with my 12v pumps and can just put a container for surfactant in there to draw from.
What are actual inside dimensions on that bed? I love totes, but in my truck bed was virtually impossible to realistically do? What skid unit are you actually looking at?
Do you have to have hot water? Easy to do if you don’t.
So I have the long bed - it’s 107" long. With the tote there is still 59" to the tailgate and with the 55 gal drum of bleach, I still have 29" left to the tailgate. The washer is 27.5" from front to back so that will fit between the tailgate and the 55 gal drum. I asked about clearance for hit from the burner shield and they told me that it wouldn’t be a concern - I’m not right up against it anyhow. Width-wise I have a couple of inches as well and height is of no concern as it fits well under the ladder rack.
I waffled over hot water because I could mount the washer onto to the top of the drivers side cabinets, but I think I want to have the heat. I really want to do more commercial and have a few business parks that I believe I can be the washer for.
For the skid - I didn’t write down the manufacturers name. I do know that it has a TSS2021 GP pump, a 690 Honda motor 7.8 GPM @ 3500 PSI. It’s actually a little smaller footprint for the skid - 45.25" L x 22.75" W x ~40" H. The Skid isn’t powder but Aluminum.
On the skid, you need to think about servicing it and fueling it. Also, one of the reasons I went with the BCE unit is it has 12 gal tanks. Those 7-8 gal tanks on a hydrotek are ridiculous. If you’re running high heat you’re going to have about 3 hours of run time.
The other problem with putting it on the very back is the weight. Most 8gpm skids with fuel going to weight in right at 1000 lbs. I’d consider putting skid just in front of tank and then get you a 50 gal vertical tank to put near rear for your SH. Put it in one rear corner and then your soap tank in other.
Great points as always. Where did you get the BCE unit from? Maybe I need to look at that instead. Serviceability is why I was considering putting it at the back. I’m putting air shocks on in a couple of weeks to compensate but maybe I should just shift things around. I’d still be able to get to what I need to with the tank in the back.
Sure wish the whole thing would fit on one of the sides, but with the heat it’s too wide. I was talking with Heath about maybe a separate burner but it.ms not as cost effective as getting it all together.
y, don’t go the separate burner route. Just sold the one I had, they’re a pain. I got the BCE unit from BCE. They’re not that far from you, in Calhoun Ga
I haven’t actually bought anything yet - I was thinking if I had a separate burner unit I could put that in the bed and mount the washer on one of the sides. The pain is that I can’t fit the whole unit on top of one of the sides - sure would be a lot cleaner and get me the bed space back.
The separate unit will work, but they take up space, the default tank on them is small, so you end up needing another fuel tank and then you need a pretty decent sized generator to run unless you’ll always be able to plug into clients power. So by the time you put all that stuff together, you’ve got almost as big a footprint, if not more, than an integrated skid unit and maybe more money.
Yeah - good point - forgot about the additional fuel tank. I was thinking splitting it up would allow me to put the washer on top of the cabinets and the heater in the bed, but not saving a lot of space because of the additional tank and the size the burner needs to be if separate. I need to check on the fuel tank sizes, other than that, what I’m looking at is a little less expensive than BCE. It’s 14 miles away -v- Calhoun which is 50 miles - as I’m sure you’re aware, 50 miles in the ATL is 80 everywhere else
