Garage floor cleaning?

[PrimaDonna]

The salt and dirt from the roads are leaving some serious problems on garage floors. Anyone offering garage floor cleaning? Price by the sq. ft. or by the bay?

We are going to offer this as a special/promo. Will will promote on our Facebook page, but will ask every home owner if they want is to do it while we are there and offer a good rate to do it as an add on. We are already there, and won't use any product, just water.

Here is a video and some photos of us doing our shop today.

 

[PrimaDonna]

 

[hogjowl]

Products, procedures and pressure used please.

 

[dgardner]

That's with plain water, no chemicals? Nice.

 

[PrimaDonna]

No products used, just water. Used the turbo/spinner attached to truck mount. I'll have to check with John about the water temp and pressure and get back to you.

 

[clean image]

I would use chems.
concrete going to tear up teflon much quicker

depending if floor was power troweled, or psi concrete, or many other variables as well as use will determine results.

great pics

 

[hogjowl]

Look. We don't care what color your tool is, or if it matches the hoses and is color coordinated with the flowers in the flower beds. If you are going to post here, you need to know things like psi and water temperature.

Sheese!!! ig:

 

[PrimaDonna]

Don't get your panties in a bunch, Marty. Operations and tech stuff is not my domain. I leave that stuff to John.

Pressure was 900 PSI, temp around 230 degrees.

 

[hogjowl]

And it got that oil out of the concrete with NO chemicals?

Did your husband just tell you that so you'd get back in the kitchen and finish supper?

 

[dgardner]

Meg, do you guys do fresh water rinse on carpets or was there maybe some extraction detergent in the solution?

 

[Lee Stockwell]

We've cleaned a lot of concrete. Even a minimal amount of detergent will help a lot. Jason, and I believe Justin too, did several shopping center and Kroger frontages.

 

[GeneMiller]

i do them. easy to do and an easy up sale. prespray and then rinse with water. i never do them if they are painted because it will pop the paint. epoxy seems to take it just fine. 1100 psi. that must just be tire black cause oils not coming out.

gene

 

[hogjowl]

I lurk in a Power Washing board and they have a way of getting the oil out. When I get around to it, I'll ask how.

 

[Steve Toburen]

The salt and dirt from the roads are leaving some serious problems on garage floors. Anyone offering garage floor cleaning? Price by the sq. ft. or by the bay?

Great idea, Meg. Even though I'm a bit hurt. I'm starting to think you are not poring over every QuickTIP I send out...

For example, over a year ago I sent out this TIP on adding on garage floor renovation while you are there cleaning their carpets. It has some product and pricing suggestions.

Steve

PS The QuickTIP also links to a video of Big Billy Yeadon cleaning concrete. It isn't nearly as dramatic as your video, Meg.

 

[royalkid]

no chemicals? huh? Oil doesn't come off with just water.

 

[Nate The Great]

no chemicals? huh? Oil doesn't come off with just water.

Looks good... I'd probably pre-spray with a grease/oil cutting detergent and dwell time... Just water will only get you so far...

 

[knoxclean]

I remember seeing a video Bill Yeadon made for garage floor cleaning and I also think Jon Don has a product for that as well.

 

[PrimaDonna]

And it got that oil out of the concrete with NO chemicals?

Believe it or not it's not oil. That is all the dirt and road salt that stuck to the wheels/underside of the car and then melted and pooled on the floor.

We aren't opposed to using products, but we just hit this with water to see what kind of results we could get with just water. If we want to offer this as a quick add on at a decent price, we can just clean with water to remove the salt and soil (only). If there clients have oil etc that they want us to get more aggressive with, then we can upsell a deeper cleaning.

 

[Desk Jockey]

That explains the amazing results with water.

Those pictures will really draw attention!

 

[Shane Deubell]

Looks awesome, nice way to pick up some extra $$.

 

[hogjowl]

I'm going to have a hard time selling road salt removal.

 

[J Scott W]

I'm going to have a hard time selling road salt removal.

You could move your operation to Boston. Plenty of road salt there.

 

[hogjowl]

And miss all this heat and humidity?

No way!

 

[GeneMiller]

I'm going to have a hard time selling road salt removal.

They way I sell it is by wiping the floor with a white rag. Here's where all the dirts coming mam. No wonder you carpets are so dirty.

Gene

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Don't TELL them!

Keep that a secret and you can clean their whole house later this spring.

 

[kingjoelking]

i charge $75 a bay.

 

[Mikey P]

a bargain. when can you start Joel?

 

[jwfoulk12]

I have a customer that I clean his main upper garage about 4 times per year. Its an epoxied floor, probably 1200 sq ft. His lower garage gets done 1-2 times per year and is all ceramic tile. Oddly enough I've never cleaned any carpet in his house except for one time when he had a pipe burst.

 

[steve_64]

i just did one wednesday for $90. used some old degreaser i had laying aroung and ran it through the tank on the 175.

tried using stripping pads but they didnt hold up long so i just used an old pad driver i picked up in the fall with a bunch of other stuff. it may actually be a brush, it has pretty long stiff white bristles but it had a pad stuck to it when i got it.

then i just mopped it all up with a brown out solution. came out pretty good.

its the second one ive done this way.

 

[kingjoelking]

a bargain. when can you start Joel?

Trip charge might be a bit high though.