Well I got pretty lucky last month and had a few of last years commercial contracts call back for service. This one is for the military. I got this gig from doing 3 smaller gigs for them last year. While doing those jobs they let me look over two buildings that were under construction and said they would want them cleaned next year. These buildings were supposed to be completed in June and that never happened. I washed off the gig figuring typical government bloat holding things back. I get the call last month and it was a god send. It seemed like every bill in the world was due last month on the same dam day and it drove me insane. Besides the wife was home in Romania visiting family which made my nighttime, shall we say BORING!! lol.I won’t tell you what I’m getting for this job but it has allowed me to take off for the winter if I want to, take a real vacation if I want to and still have money left over for next season. Two helpers on site getting paid $15 per hour with a time frame completion bonus of $200 each. I hired this guy who is an ex union glazer. This guy is 50 years old and ran that boom like nothing. He was also pretty good with cleaning the windows. He got the whole side of this wing done in 3 1/2 hours, all three floors. This is an outside only cleaning and was my goldmine lol. And they are happy to pay because of the service they received last year. Did not even blink an eye when it came to price.
Nice gig Ray! Congrats.
Congrats.
I love the Genie Lifts. Best ever!
Well done Ray !
Good for you Ray!
You deserve it, you work hard.
Now you can afford to come to Reno in January!
If this is a maintenance cleaning, why aren’t you using a WFP?
I would love to go into the winter with a gig like this…nice!
You and me both.
Well it’s not a maintainence clean. They were cleaned by the contractor who installed them. So there is no construction crap on them. But there are a lot of the windows that are scratched to all hell. OLD CASTLE GLASS!! There was a small piece of silicone on the glass instead of razoring it off. I got my finger nail under it and pulled some of it off. I could not believe it, it pulled out a small piece of glass. I got the project manager and showed him. I explained that all the glass is crap and even though they signed a wavier we will not be using any razors on the glass at all. He understood and agreed that the amount of scratches that are there now are too much. No need for more.
I pick and choose my battles with the WFP. I will be using the pole on one of the smaller buildings but for this one I wanted to get face to face. No real reason, sometimes I just get this feeling that using a WFP is not going to cut it. Sometimes it bites me in the butt as the pole would have worked wonders. The price of this job is so large I was also a little nervous that if I spent 3 days working they would freak out. This is a 5 figure gig so I figured I could spend the $1000.00 for the lifts. Nice thing is that we no longer need the sizzor, so that is going to save me some $$$.
Not that it matters but every dollor saved is money for beer if I hit reno. lol. If I was to go to reno I would have to stop at the sheriffs office lol. The wife wants to hit the beach for a vaca. I hate the beach but I don’t want to go anyplace cold. Ah well see, where I end up. I should screw with her head and take her to Amish country in PA lol.
They do make delicious pies…that’s a definite plus.
And finely-crafted furniture!
Yes and let’s not forget the electric fireplaces minus the fireplace. lol. You know I really might go there now. I went as a child and loved it. I know my wife freaked out the first time she saw a hasidic jew here. See in her country there are basiclly romanians and gypsies. Not much else. She was so courious about their clothes and life style etc. Heck the first time she saw a african american in person was when she got off the plane to come here. So taking her to see amish people will surly get me a ton of questions I’ll have to look up online to answer. Should make for some interesting trip. We’ll see.
About the job. I’ll tell you this. I was very upset the last two days we had a lot of rain. Nothing like looking out into a parking lot at two man lifts that I am paying for and can’t use. lol.
We have Amish and Mennonite communities here. The bakery is awesome!
Man I have to say about this job and my helper. My helper is a girl, she is 19 yrs old. I met her through my last employee who washed out. The first time I shook her hand I knew she was going to be a good worker. She grips like a man lol. She has really shown herself to be a STELLAR worker this week. Taking charge of this guy when needed. I did not tell her to watch this guy or anything. She is just watching the job and making sure everything I can’t see looks great. Anyway yesterday she wanted to learn how to drive the lifts. I was not able to be on site today so she was in charge. I took these pictures yesterday of her driving the lift. NO FEAR lol. Oh BTW she is the best window cleaner I have had to date. Very detail oriented and yes boys, she can fan lol. Only bad thing is, she is a cute little girl so every morning there is DRAMA!!! lol. Her cell phone broke so I bought her a new lg evny as a bonus. She got it this morning and cried lol.
HEY Iif I’m not mistaken I think I know where that building is 
Nice bro
That is sweet. My old Boss would have made us ladder all that. 
