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Offline plainpainter

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Trailer home wash
« on: August 13, 2007, 07:36:17 AM »
I got a call to wash a trailer home - so I went, and it seemed like trying to wash one big gutter.
I used my wild cherry house formula, now it did a pretty good job - but I didn't clean the aluminum siding
from the streaks as well as when I clean them from gutters.  Then it occured to me - that this is sort of in the domain of fleet washing with a whole different set of chems and techniques.  So what goes into washing an aluminum trailer home with the usual pine sap, alage, mildew, and streaks all over white aluminum?  I am very curious - as I think this could be lucrative business.

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Re: Trailer home wash
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2007, 08:11:43 AM »
Quote from: plainpainter on August 13, 2007, 07:36:17 AM
I am very curious - as I think this could be lucrative business.


Don't let me rain on your parade, but....
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Re: Trailer home wash
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2007, 09:15:18 AM »
The ONLY way you will make any money in trailers is if the park mandates that everyone get a clean up.  Then you can roll in and hit 40 in one day at $50-75/each.  I've been contacted a few times about such a project, but it's never materialized.  The biggest problem is that the manager/owner wanted to mandate the wash and then have me collect from each homeowner individually...

Do you really think a trailer park resident who didn't want their house washed to start with is going to pay someone with ZERO enforcement capability?  Run Forrest, Run... 
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Re: Trailer home wash
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2007, 09:50:40 AM »
A few months ago I did 60 trailers in a park.  The park owned them and wanted them cleaned.  Now they call me whenever someone moves out to clean it up.  I don't know about 40 in one day.  But you can hustle and get 10 in a day.  I got $100 each for them.  I was spraying off the roof too, NOT cleaning it, but just spraying off the pine needles and sticks.  Lot's of algae.  Wild cherry mix would work, or just downstream some 6%, is all it really took.  Afterwards, downstream some Mr.Clean and don't rinse it off.  This worked really good for me.  Don't forget that these things do have little tiny gutters all around.
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Offline RandyL

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Re: Trailer home wash
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2007, 12:23:38 PM »
Alot of the times when I was a aluminum sided trailer we will two step it like we do on trucks.  We use our aluminum brightner(sulfuric acid) and then go over the top with our fleet soap to neutralize it.  That generally will take care of the streaks. 

I don't have much experience with f-13 yet, but I would think that would take of the streaks too, but if the streaks are from the roof tar running down the side it can be a real pita.  And alot of times the customers in a trailer park don't want to have to pay what we would charge to have them removed.  So we just leave them.
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