Customers water bill

[steve_64]

I'm with bruce. I get the same comments about hooking up. They are usually happily surprised and impressed that I am 100% self contained. No dumping in the toilet or yard neither.

 

[Cleanworks]

I'm with bruce. I get the same comments about hooking up. They are usually happily surprised and impressed that I am 100% self contained. No dumping in the toilet or yard neither.

What are you going to do if you run low on water on your second or third job?

 

[steve_64]

What are you going to do if you run low on water on your second or third job?

Go home dump and fill up like every other day.

 

[Cleanworks]

Go home dump and fill up like every other day.

I guess when you live in a hick town, you can do that.

 

[steve_64]

I guess when you live in a hick town, you can do that.

Yep! I usually stop at home between most jobs. It's centrally located. Most jobs are less than ten minutes away. Sometimes I go pick up keys then go home and take a nap first.

No traffic to deal with neither so that helps a real lot.

 

[Cleanworks]

When you live in a larger city, you don't have the option to go home, have lunch or take a nap. My first job may be an hour away. My next one may still be an hour or more from my shop. I hook up to every job and use an auto pumpout or stop by a sani dump if its on the way. Every year we lose more sani dumps. Some of my larger jobs, we use over 150 gallons, running for 6 hours straight. We have to be hooked up to the buildings water supply and have an auto pump out. To indicate that it is unprofessional to hook up to a water supply is simply ignorant.

 

[steve_64]

Hack!

 

[bob vawter]

Yep! I usually stop at home between most jobs. It's centrally located. Most jobs are less than ten minutes away. Sometimes I go pick up keys then go home and take a nap first.

No traffic to deal with neither so that helps a real lot.

I Betcha I know what ya do when you stop off at home
....

 

[steve_64]

Why do you think I need a nap...

Did you get some vitamins?

 

[Cleanworks]

Do you carry water for your portable too?

 

[steve_64]

What portable

 

[Cleanworks]

That's the difference between rural cleaning and city cleaning. What works for one may not work for the other. It's not a matter of professionalism, it's a matter of practicality.

 

[steve_64]

Not my fault you live in the city.

 

[Cleanworks]

Not my fault you live in the city.

Not my fault you're a hick.

 

[Living The Dream]

When ever a customer show's me where to hook up my fresh water hose I tell them a professional never hooks up to a customers house , then they look at me and say , well the last guy did and I look at them and raise my eyebrows and just stare at them.

Oh gag!

 

[Spurlington]

Brakes and tires wear faster carrying the extra weight. Which adds to the landfill sooner than later. Also more pollution and wasting fuel energy carrying the added weight when you have the choice to hook up to water onsite.

 

[Cleanworks]

Brakes and tires wear faster carrying the extra weight. Which adds to the landfill sooner than later. Also more pollution and wasting fuel energy carrying the added weight when you have the choice to hook up to water onsite.

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a large fresh water tank. If I lived in a colder climate, I would love to have a butler with 210 gallon tank. No worries about the site water being turned off in the winter. For the reasons you state above, I choose not to. I have long distances plus huge hills to go up and down. I pay enough now in tires and brakes.

 

[steve_64]

Just back from Bob Evans. Hour and a half round trip. $225

That's the way you do it!

 

[steve_64]

The cost of carrying water is made up in time not messing with their tap. And not having to have an onboard softener or worry about rusty water ruining pumps or cleaning filters.

Or Browning fabrics.

 

[Cleanworks]

The cost of carrying water is made up in time not messing with their tap. And not having to have an onboard softener or worry about rusty water ruining pumps or cleaning filters.

Or Browning fabrics.

If you have rusty water coming out of the taps, you should move. More likely you will been cleaning with stagnant water left in your tank over the weekend.

 

[steve_64]

If you have rusty water coming out of the taps, you should move. More likely you will been cleaning with stagnant water left in your tank over the weekend.

Haha my water has been rated best in Michigan but I'm on city water. My lines are good.

But I've been in homes on city water but have bad pipes. Lots of wells around here too.

I've never had water sour in my tank. Not enough air getting to it and it doesn't sit long enough.

Try again.

 

[Cleanworks]

Not trying to do anything but point out that there many ways to do something and there is no right or wrong. You do what's practical for you at the time.

 

[steve_64]

Just giving ya a hard time. Now it's Gennys turn!

 

[Cleanworks]

Just giving ya a hard time. Now it's Gennys turn!

I want to comment but Genny's just too nice.

 

[Bruce Humphrey]

I knew that would get a rise out of someone. I've had customers show me where to hook up and I thank them for letting me know where it is, never give them the eyebrow stare. Like Steve , if I need to come back to the shop between jobs to dump or refill I'm able to. On commercial I always hook up.

 

[BIG WOOD]

They make water tanks for TM’s
Something to consider
Idiots

Now that I’ve got the room and proper setup to hold one, I’m considering getting that this year for the crappy apartments that don’t have easy access

 

[Nomad74]

Now that I’ve got the room and proper setup to hold one, I’m considering getting that this year for the crappy apartments that don’t have easy access

I have room and two water tanks sitting in my backyard. I still don't carry. More room for gallons of P-Lyme

 

[steve_64]

They don't do you any good in the yard.

But I suppose it's not as much of an issue where you live.

I browned some carpet in my early bane days because of rusty water. Since then I always get my water from a reliable source, home.

I know some guys who had on board softners but still had the same issues of Browning.

 

[Nomad74]

They don't do you any good in the yard.

But I suppose it's not as much of an issue where you live.

I browned some carpet in my early bane days because of rusty water. Since then I always get my water from a reliable source, home.

I know some guys who had on board softners but still had the same issues of Browning.

That's why I use acid rinse now. When I was newish I had an office with CGD blue carpet. I got called back because it had browned out. The customer described it as a thin layer of rust everywhere. I felt sick. My buddy Ivan gave me a gallon of acid rinse and that corrected the carpet. That was a good lesson for me. An added benefit is the rinse leaves the carpet soft and fuzzy, like my belly.

 

[steve_64]

I was mixing my emulsifier in the tank so I never ran an acid rinse.

So glad I've moved on. I owe mirf a debt of gratitude. And this board.