This is a great forum! I thank all of your time and help. I starting my owner power washing company. It should be ready to go 100% by April 1, 2021. I did a lot of research, but realized there are specifics I do not know and difficult to find.
Are there any specific laws I need to know about? I heard you have to have copy of safety sheets or a safety book (because of the chemicals) in your vehicle or will get fined?
Do you have to reclaim water? Where do you dump the water? I barely see that on videos or forums.
Is there any videos or break down of which chemicals to buy and for what job to use those said chemicals?
Is power washing a lucrative service in California? ( I know they have issues with drought and people really respect that). However, driveways and homes have to be cleaned up.
5 If I did move to California, how do you recommend I learn about there laws and ways. I hear they have a tight hold on business.
** Believe me, I don’t want to move to Cali. I promised my wife, we would move if she got accepted to some M.A. program. While there, I figure I start and if successful stay. If not, practice out there and set up Shop in Wisconsin.
I have to listen to my wife lol. I promised her 10 years ago, that I would move to California when she decided to get her M.A., I never thought she was going to do it lol. Happy wife happy life.
I live here. Don’t watch the news or care about silly laws. It’s beautiful weather, yes really expensive but it’s all relative. I’ve lived in Missouri (lake of the osarks) and Idaho. Honestly, I like the politics in Idaho and would fit in well. But just because the local politicians here are idiots doesn’t mean we all suck. It’s like when I moved to MO and everyone asked me about the so-cal beaches. It’s not just that. There’s deep country up here in Plumas county (where I was raised), to big cities, to wine country (my home), including snow, lakes, rivers, desert, etc. it’s really nice out here with no humidity issues, strong economy and yes, good people too. There’s a reason I’m still here…
I don’t blame ya, I hear California is beautiful and the weather is great. Just not my cup of tea. I’m sure you hear plenty of people giving you grief for going to CA
Nope, born and raised here. Idk what others think. I forgive them for being fed mainstream media to believe who we are out here. As far as I’m concerned unless you lived out here and experienced it for yourself your opinion is worthless. Just as i shouldn’t comment on states that I have not lived in.
I may not have lived there, but I have a good friend that moved from VA to near Stockton.
He was a carpenter, very successful. That got eroded a lot when he moved, the rules and regulations are suffocating to the point he couldn’t make a living. He said the government is preferential to their ‘way of thinking’ so they award contracts and permits much quicker to larger companies that subscribe to that agenda. Once he got fed up trying to work as a small home builder, he started making furniture out of wine barrels, beautiful stuff.
But again .gov stepped in and strangled his business with absurd permitting, and they even regulated his sawdust disposal, categorizing it according to wood type.
He finally gave up and ‘joined the dark side’ so to speak, is now the guy that makes sure jobsites are up to code and advises accordingly.
Just plan on keeping SDS sheets for all the chems you use. Whether or not you get fined, it just makes sense.
I also haven’t seen much discussion in this forum on water reclamation outside of a commercial setting. For house washing, your rinse is just going to end up at the base of the house and likely absorbed into the grass, dirt, landscaping. For flatwork, you could have runoff. IF you really want to go the extra mile and catch that water, you could use this system which is pretty cheap: Pressure Washing Driveways - Legality Question - YouTube
Again, I’m not advocating this, but it is a pretty easy way to catch that water runoff and redirect it into grass (if you aren’t pretreating), or into non-killable landscaping if you are pretreating.
Search for the specific thing you are cleaning on this forum and you’ll be able to find lots of details on what chems to buy and how to use them. I’ve only been here a week, and I’ve already been able to find plenty of info on various chems.
