I wonder what he was planning on doing with the oily water?! That sounds like a mess waiting to happen. I am guessing the Water Dept wouldn’t want in the sewer system! 
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Heck that fence needed more attention than trees lol
We were originally there to do their fence, but the other side facing the street.
I personally hate wood work. Ill do fence cleaning as long as its not previously sealed. But i will not touch a wood deck.
I hate wood work too but its good money. Ive made $1700 in one day doing it. I have deck to do Tuesday that im dreading already lol and another one to do the day after mothers day.
Prison pod after a riot. It wasn’t bad since we had design input on this very scenario, but it is still an unpleasant task.
That was also when I received my most disturbing text, asking what the threshold was in sq ft for brain matter splatter. If it was small enough the janitorial contractor had to do it, if it was above then we had to. I gave that tech the rest of the week off with pay.
That contract was why I left facilities management, left me feeling a little empty from all the experiences lol.
Last week I did about 100 headstones. Not too weird of a job, but the circumstances surrounding it were. I got a call from a man from a cemetery foundation and we talked for a bit and I named my price of $1200. He didn’t hesitate and said he’d write and mail me a check right then and there, which I ended up receiving in the mail a full week before the job. Now I’ve never been paid up front so it was odd to me.
Come to find out he passed just a few days later and was buried in the same cemetery I would be cleaning. I wonder if he knew it was coming.
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Straight up weird! OOOO WEEEEE no thank you
Very honorable thing you did, good on you for accepting it.
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It was by far my most profitable residential/commercial job this year and it was rewarding to see the results. I’d do them all the time.
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Nice work! Those cleaned up great! I love looking around old cemeteries and looking at old headstones. There’s a website called “find a grave.com” or something like that. A few years back I had a cousin who was searching for family ancestors and had posted pictures of my great-great-great grandparents headstones and I happened to run across them. I didn’t know they were on there at at the time. Anyways, people post photo requests of headstones when searching for ancestors. If you happen to be in the area of cemeteries of a request you get an email. Then, if you want, you can go to that cemetery and try and find the headstone and take a picture to send to the person requesting it. You get requests from people from all over the country. It’s kind of fun trying to find them and nice to be able to help others out.
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@pressureguy that’s amazing. What was your process on getting all these clean? Sounds like a good way to give back a couple times a year for a smaller cemetery.
I found that the quickest and easiest way to get them clean was a quick spritz of about 6% SH with heavy surfactant, scrub it in with a brush, then rinse a few minutes later. Some of them will require a few coats but I managed to clean over 100 like this in just 6 hours.
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First I tried just letting it dwell for 10 minutes but that didn’t really work at all.
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Just got a call today to wash the trunks of a few trees. Weird…
Sometimes?
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pretty?
Maybe could’ve done without the “pretty” and “sometimes”. 
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@pressureguy what did you charge if you don’t mind me asking? I just did some work for a long time customer who works for our local museum which also manages an old historic cemetery in town. She asked for me to take a look at it and give her a price on cleaning the headstones.
He post stated he did 100 headstones for $1200. That would be $12 each which to me sounds about right. I would have said $10 each - some are very small and some larger but average it out. He did it in 6 hours so $1200 for 6 hours work is called a good day!
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