Water Access

We are looking at building out pressure washing clients in the condo neighborhoods. We normally set up with using the customers water source. If we are doing more than one condo, what would you do for water source? Would you use each customers or one main source? Any help would be appreciated?

Just use what ever water is the easiest to get to. Your’ probably not going to use $15 worth or water on the entire job. I’ve done a lot of apartments and townhomes and water has never come up as an issue.

Unless it’s a residential housewash we use hydrants

How do you make that happen?

Go to the water department of whatever town you are working in and rent a meter. Half a dozen different procedures around here but basically pay a deposit, pay for water usage. Roughly $4 per thousand gallons around here.

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It’s pretty easy to use a hydrant I had read a thread that innocent put up and in my town the water department came out and put the meter on and put lock on it all they needed was my address for billing and they didn’t require a deposit

Unless your competitor is a firefighter for his main job, then your requests to use a hydrant keep mysteriously getting turned down for various odd reasons. Last one was because supposedly the hydrant I wanted to use was “dedicated” for a particular building and therefore unable to be used. lol, whatever.

@Steve you need to go raise a stink about that. Are you in a little Podunk town? I had the same stuff happen to me in waltersboro SC.

Not exactly podunk but small enough that things like your last name and who you know can make a difference in the way things turn out. I figured out a work around on that job but if it happens again they’ll be in for a fight for sure.

Hire another off duty firefighter. Fight firefighter with firefighter.

(Just an awful pun. Don’t fight firefighters.)