I do all those other services you mentioned and i agree no reason to leave $$ on the table if your good at those as well.
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I’m a moss, mold, algie, and dirt cleaning mobile business. I can call myself a specialist in the field of exterior cleaning with a straight face because that’s all I do. If i implied the same to painting, staining, lawn care, refrigeration, towing, pet grooming I wouldn’t be able to get a good nights sleep. Ide wake up with a taste of guilt. Just my view on it.
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Your assuming that person isnt qualified. Some people can actually do more than one thing and have experience and a portfolio to back it up.
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If you call yourself a professional pressure washer and brand yourself or business as such then do pressure wash services. If you want to sand, paint, sandblast, lay concrete, build fences, then call yourself a general contractor or handyman service and brand yourself as such. Electricians don’t do plumbing and farmers don’t sell exotic cars. So don’t brand yourself as a washer and offer 20 different services that isn’t related to cleaning things with chemicals and rinsing with water.
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If you want to make a profit off of other services that could be offered around your cleaning, hire a subcontractor to do it and collect a referral fee.
It’s better to be a master of something instead of mediocre at a bunch of things.
Offer a few services, be really good at them, and show a big presence in a smaller service area. You’ll be more successful that way then offering 15 different services in a large service area.
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Im not knocking handymen there are homeowners that don’t want to pay for a specialist to take care of there needs. That’s where handy men come in. There’s nothing wrong with that. 8/10 times if a handy man has been there before me to do my job it’s unsatisfactory, when asked why they didn’t call a professional the answer is always they were too expensive, we wanted someone cheap.
The point I think is that to grow and have multiple crews with revenues exceeding $1m each year it will be difficult if you over extend yourself with all of those extra services that really are not part of exterior cleaning or pressure washing.
You may want to do all of those things and be perfectly content doing a bit of epoxy here and staining there and painting over here but many of us on this forum want to develop businesses with repeatable and expandable models. What you are suggesting is for the sole proprietor type I believe.
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Everyone has to run their business as they see fit. Personally ive been in the painting business for 30 yrs. Staining,expoxy,texturing is all part of it. Ive been a paint contractor last 10yrs. Buisness name is Hydrowash painting & pressure washing. When i go in and do a great p.w job im called back for all those things. Paver sealing is good for p.w too. Also do tile roof painting. Also keep a pole saw in trailer and Hell that alone nets me a couple hundred extra a week. I like being versified but thats just me. I would never do a job
that im not qualified to do. To each their own
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I know, for sure, I am definitely not over extending myself. That is definitely not the problem 
. Like I said, I don’t advise other services. But, a good portion of my pressure washing work comes from my ability to step outside of the very specific skill set.
I actually had a job a couple months ago that I got because I changed $150 to hang a rope swing. Customer didn’t think he needed anything cleaned until I got there to point out all the stuff that was dirty. That’s what I love about pressure washing. Once you point out all the dirt it can’t be unseen! They have to have you wash it!
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Of course they do. Where do you think Lamborghini and Ferrari came from? Both of those companies were originally tractor builders.
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The real question here is, could a handy man repair one.
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Some guy spent like 20 years building a Lambo in his basement. It can be done.
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very good points. im in longview texas. less than 3 hrs from dallas. im currently building my set up. is nice to find here people from east texas.
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Not firsr estimate anymore but figured I’d revive same thread instead of makongmaking a new.
Have another roof quote, plus 3 other roofs when doing one today, im building a 12v system this week, this one looks tricky. If I can get any insight on this, I’d appreciate it. House is 185 hrs old , roof is 16. No leaks in home. Dude was talking about some machine he had seen to clean shingles. I advised him the pressure wouldn’t be good on a roof that old. I was thinking around 450-550. Thanks in advance for any advice or insight
You’re too low. Remember, the more risk to you the more you should charge. Not that it’s a hard roof but you’ll be shooting from the gutter line two stories in the air on a ladder.
Do you plan on rinsing or letting the rain take care of it? I have to rinse around here but some areas of the country it’s the norm to let it sit and let the rain rinse it all down over the next month or so.
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In this case, it’s 45m drive. As long as I am confident in my mix taking care of the organics, ill leave and let rain take care of it. Their gutters are clogged im sure, so might be able to upsell them while im up there.
I was really overwhelmed or felt overwhelmed, in looking over it. Planning my attack now, im sure I’m capable, and more than willing. Ill also make sure they’re aware of possible damage via my service contract
Long drive, bigger roof, charge more
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