Ran into a couple guys at the bar the other day and found they are selling a new chemical called MonoFoil. It is a microbial and they say it should be used after a cleaning. The chemical will turn into thousands of spikes that impale any micro organisms that land, killing them. They state that it will keep regrowth of microbials from growing, and even smells from reoccurring. I think there are uses for it in our industry, but it is pricey at $75 a quart. One quart makes a gallon.
Hey Chris-- I’m not sure if I understand the purpose for this. Let’s say you clean a Vinyl house for example, are you saying the Monofoil will keep the mold from coming back for a longer length of time?
Yes! The guy says it would last 6 years or longer in that case. Longer to indefinite in other circumstances. So my thought was sell it as a add on for different services. I know some sell wax as a add on service, but this might workforce high end clientele.
The only drawback is the frequency of cleaning may go down drastically if the stuff works as good as your friends say it does. Some of my customers get their house cleaned every other year. We would lose 2 cleanings in 6 yrs if that product worked that good.
But then again some guys upsell the wax after the house cleaning and they do pretty well with it. Dan Galvin comes to mind here. He loves selling his customers the wax treatment after the cleaning.
I was thinking the same thing John… Is their a product that does the opposite, making the green come back sooner JK HA HA… My business plan is geared towards > 50% repeat business… So the sooner the better but it looks like 2-3 years is going to be when most need another cleaning … I am going to be pushing the wax treatment hard in 2014 though … I going to offer free wax treatment for the front of the house in by EDDM mailings this year (I got 15 gallons of it so I need to move it)
Just be careful with the windows if your going to use a house wax. I never used one but I heard a few horror stories of the wax drying on widows. But then again there’s plenty of stories of guys having trouble with Sodium hypochlorite drying on windows and that hasn’t stopped us from using a little higher dosage then usual for many years now because we rinse rinse and rinse some more.
Best of luck and let us know how the wax works out fo ya.
I’m not sure I buy the 6 years or longer the gentleman you met claimed. It is one thing for a product like this to work indoors, and another for it to maintain its effectiveness out in the elements. There are so many industries trying to come up with products that can beat Mother Nature, but it seems the products always lose.
