Homeowner gave me their neighbors address by mistake. I told her I would come by to inspect the property, take pictures and send her the estimate. I walked the property and took lots of pictures but was baffled by how clean the house was…Then when I pulled measurements from the county auditors website I noticed that the last name was wrong and I had the house next door. Needless to say, I wasn’t shot or yelled off the property in the end.
Earlier this year I had a house wash/gutter cleaning. I realized I had forgotten my ladder stabilizer and I needed to get on the 1st story roof to walk it and blow the gutters out. Like an idiot, I didn’t bungee cord the ladder to the gutter (even though the bungee cords were 50ft away in my trailer). As I was cleaning the gutters out the PW hose pulled the ladder over onto the ground. I was stuck on the roof.
As I dialed my wife at the same time swearing at myself at how stupid I was for being forgetful and lazy in the same day…I noticed a guy walking his dog in the cul-de-sac. I yelled out to him…he came over tied his dog around a post, and put my ladder back up. I just leave my stabilizer connected to my ladder now. That’s my loser moment for the year
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Been there, done that. Stranded lol
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Very little will make you question your life choices like being stuck on a roof will.
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Buying a new piece of equipment and finding out my wife is pregnant with round two on the same day.
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HAHA I’ve jumped off a ranch style roof once when I was stranded up top. The house I was cleaning was their summer home and not a soul in sight for miles. Wife was over an hour away and had jobs lined up all day. Needless to say mulch beds provide some sort of cushion when tucking and rolling.
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Lol…yeah the way this roof was there’s was no way down except breaking something. The front of the house was one story but back sloped down to 3 stories. But I may have had to Mcgyver something if in your position in the middle of nowhere. I did try and use the pressure wash hose as a lasso and was able to pull the ladder all the way up to within 2 feet of my hand but that’s it…lol. I saw the guy walking his dog and jumped all over it for him to help. You do feel pretty helpless and stupid
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Hopped in the back of the truck to get some water out of the cooler. I guess I forgot about having just mounted my ladder rack bent over in a hurry and it was lights out. Woke up on top of buckets in the back of my truck bleeding like crazy
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I think i seen the pic of your head after that one.
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Probably should have gotten stitches but I don’t do needles well
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12/31/18. Purchased Twin City Pressure Washing, LLC from my old partner…
We started it together in 2011 and I sold my half in 2016. The 275th best pressure washer in the game is back. Cheers.
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My first house wash job, a two story home. Read all the warnings on here from all the veterans against pressure, but right after reading that post from the guy in Canada who was having problems getting his mix right, I was having the same problem. Even 50/50 mix wasn’t getting the dirt off so I used the telescope wand and it was coming off like magic without SH until it lifted couple of their really nice/expensive shingles.
She was understanding and I bought the contact cement and a guy who was working on a nearby house fixed it. She gave me 4 stars on HA for quality.
Have to watch that pressure man.
Oh dude I just came across this old thread. I had this happen multiple times carpet cleaning. I had a newbie with me when I was training him and needless to say it wasn’t the best first day for the poor guy 
it got all over the walls, currents, ceiling, furniture, I tried to clean up all I could but still had to replace a lot and hire a painter.
I was washing a screened in porch and thought “hey, I’ll lightly hose off these glass chandelier globes”.
That took over a month to fix.
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