I am creating this as a resource for people to find out whether they are considered “essential” under the quarantines of variois states. Not every state has shut-down in effect. Please help me by adding to this list and offering advice. Thanks!
I have not yet researched lockdowns of NJ, LA, or CA. I can say that you can easily find this list online, and so far every lockdown I have seen has allowed contractors like us to continue working. Anyone who provides maitenance and services which promote sanitation are usually allowed. Otherwise, if someone’s plumbing went out while they were locked down, how would it be fixed? What about appliances? I will research and get back to you.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Proceed at your own risk.
Let’s say you’re in PA and you are allowed to continue to wash. I can’t imagine the residential market will have any demand right now right? What’s the best way going about it all if you’re allowed? Grocery stores? Commercial? Especially as time goes on and the economy weakens even further and companies have less and less money to go around?
Is anyone getting any inside contracts with a fogger or something similar? I know very little about that but would think inside cleaning right now would be a decent way to try and earn some money?
There’s always a market. It is never zero. It may be harder to find customers, but the tactic is the same: address customer concerns: catching the virus, and spreading it by having you work.
The government says you can work, and you can clean their home with no contact with them at all. Not only that, but your services are important enough that you can continue working through all of this legally. Plus, you spray the chemical the CDC says kills the virus.
We’re going to be on a diet. We’re not foing to starve to death. Market harder, and you’ll come out ahead of your competitors.
That’s not what I said. Once you’ve already pointed out the other thinhs I mentioned, it won’t hurt to simply say “plus, the chemical we spray is one the CDC says kills coronavirus in much smaller concentrations that when we spray it.” None of that is a lie, nor are any guarantees or promises made by this statement. The customer can draw their own conclusion, but I can say with truthfulness that having someone spray a virus-killing solution all around my home and yard would actually give me a bit of comfort. I feel quite safe while dousing the air around myself with SH.
I’m in OH, where the governor is chastising non essential businesses for not shutting down despite not having provided a list of which businesses are essential. Lol
You need to read up long and hard about how this virus is actually transmitted from person to person before just rambling garbage to customers and forum members here, think logically. I can assure every house owner that there siding, garages, driveways, roofs, lawns, gutters aren’t littered with corona virus (the things that we happen to clean and make money off) this is just a ridiculous marketing ploy that holds no weight how ever you look at it. Most businesses are going to suffer from these unforeseen global circumstances. Stop BS’ing your valued customers, some have low paying jobs and kids to feed, they don’t need your marketing campaign at this point in time.
No logic has been spoken by you. All you are doing is spouting emotional babble. No guarantees are being made to the customer. It is a fact that the CDC says SH kills the virus. It doesn’t matter to me or to the customer whether spraying their homes with SH actually helps, and that was never part of any “marketing plan” or “ploy.” The fact is this: I legitimately and, yes, baselessly feel better and safer when I am spraying SH. It’s not hurting anyone to let them feel this way, nor is it a lie to once again point out the undisputable fact that SH kills the virus. If it held no weight, you wouldn’t care if anyone did it. The fact is it will work, because I used my own advice in totality (not just the “SH kills coronavirus” part) to convince a customer not to cancel just yesterday.
I’m not going to let my business go under for the moral high ground, and I’m not going to lie or manipulate to save my business either. But “SH kills the virus, and incidentally that chemical is what I use” is not a lie or a manipulation.
I am well aware of the danger of the virus and the effects it will have. However, destroying the economy for this is not worth it. The quarantine is going to last for many months if it is going to be effective. The economy is not a freaking desk lamp that can be turned on and off whenever necessary. I’m not going to make my 3 toddlers wait in bread lines food to save the 1% of the population that will actually die from this, of whom at minimum 80% will be people age 70+, nor will I support any measures that will lead to this, nor will I accept or regard any chastisment for not doing so.
None of my customers have low-paying jobs. The businesses and low-income families are going to be hurt more by this preposterous lockdown than they would ever be hurt by the virus.
You could write a whole essay on here It doesn’t camouflage your BS. It is a lie your advertising and charging them for something that isn’t there, clearly taking advantage of people that don’t know any better because your the guy that sprays “sh” and there just “idiots”. Next time a customer calls apologise to them and tell them to listen to there health advisor about the virus precautions not some guy that washes houses and driveways that’s sees a market to make a buck. And by the way have some respect for the elderly, there not just a statistic there fathers, grandparents, role models, mentors. Shame on you.
Nah. I think I’ll keep stating simple facts so I can support my family instead.
I can provide service with no contact.
SH kills coronavirus.
I spray SH.
My business is considered “essential” by the government.
4 facts. They can judge those facts or consider them however they like. I would never tell anyone “hire me because I can protect you from coronavirus.” You seem to think the worst of everyone who disagrees with you. You should get that checked out.
My kids’ (and wife’s) well-being is worth more to me than anyone else’s well-being. “Having respect” doesn’t change the facts.
I don’t think the worst of anyone, I say it like it is without the disco balls. If you can’t handle people calling you out on your BS and and dishonest practices then take a hike. We’re contractors here not con artists.
NJ’s Governer will make his announcement today at 1pm. If its like Pa or NY we should be able to continue working. I hope they are a little more clear on what businesses are essential. It can fall onto the city enforcing the states directive to make the call.
Not trying to takes sides, but I will point out the virus does live on surfaces for a while, and we got notification today that it gets tracked in on our shoes. The most important chemical that kills the virus is ‘soap’, as it’s encased in a lipid (fat) which is dissolved by surfactant.
I wouldn’t actively promote our services as virus-killing, but don’t think for a second what we do isn’t capable of killing micro organisms on some level.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if a state government entity calls up a few PW companies soon to soft wash sidewalks, etc.
I’ve never for a second thought that sh doesn’t kill living things, I work with this stuff everyday, thousands of gallons a year, bleach is to me what a knife is to a chef, I know what I’m working with here. What lead you to that conclusion? As one member said on here in another thread, we went from masking the smell of bleach from customers with fancy surfactants to advertising it as a sanitiser and virus killing service openly using bleach, I bet some would even carry paperwork proving it’s bleach. I can’t agree with people aligning there business towards the trends and panic of society for profit. I do business the old fashioned way, honesty and a firm handshake. Speaking of handshakes I’m surprised we’re not up selling hand sanitiser. Go figure.
