TEACHING MY TEENAGERS HOW TO COMMERCIAL PRESSURE WASH AND TROUBLESHOOT COMMON PROBLEMS

a key to all this pressure washing stuff welcome to my life Welcome to My Life yeah on the bright side yeah this music here became my only life think I'm going crazy I'm not in my right mind on the bright side yeah yeah hey yeah one they got that brand new B way way hometown asking in my rich repetition from my chest that's a been seeing more behind the frame future feel the sh thinking ain't nobody feel the way I do but someone got to feel on the bright side yeah this music here my only Lifeline think I'm going crazy I'm not in my right mind yeah welcome to my life Welcome to My Life yeah Welcome to My Life welcome to my life yeah welcome to my life Welcome to My today mik J is going to take on pressure washing the Chick-fil-A store by himself he's helped me a bunch Colin's helped me a bunch Gavin's helped me a bunch but today I'm going to turn it over to them let him kind of figure it out uh he's done it a little bit but he's never taken the lead on it so today I want him to take the lead I want him to do everything from preparing the trailer preparing the chemical hauling it over there doing it all I'm going to kind of observe but I'm not really going to do anything I just want to see if he can do it all of course I'm going to step in before he tears up equipment or messes up the store can't have that happening so he's going about to go do the big commercial job by himself well actually Colin's going to help him but he's in charge all right let's see how he does [Music] [Music] [Music] hey hey [Music] hey hey hey [Music] [Music] hey so far they've got the water hooked up they've got the buffer tank filled we did have an issue I didn't get on camera the buffer tank shut off valve wasn't shutting off so it was overflowing so I stepped him to help him there but than that I'm trying really not to do much and say much but he was on the other side of the building when I saw it overflowing so I stepped in to stop more of a mess so what he was just doing just then you saw in the video he was mixing up the chemical putting that out in a stronger concentrate and that 5 gallon bucket it's not diluted as much so he was putting on the heavy traffic areas where there's a lot of grease a lot of foot traffic around the doorways uh the dumpster pad the drive-thru um some where the cars are stopping and and spilling some oil even so that's what he was doing with the bucket the next thing he'll be doing is the bigger bucket which we'll use for downstreaming but the downstream is going to dilute the chemical a lot more so that's why we're trying to get a little extra strong concentrate on the heavy areas so he's mixing up that now and he'll be downstreaming [Music] shortly well unfortunately we do have a leak and it's a pretty significant leak so we're probably going to have to fix it before we can do any pressure washing it's part of it man there's always something going wrong always a bushing that's gone bad or a seal that's broken toen or something to cause a leak so let see if we can fix it oh is that an O-ring ah dang it busted o-ring that's the culprit right there it's just got corroded I guess chemical over time thankfully I learned to always have Replacements the little quick connects they tend to go bad so hopefully that was the problem just bad o ring in it so we're going to try this other one that I had in there I can't tell if that's a new one or used I think it's an old one cuz there's no o-ring in it going to try it out anyway put little tlon tape on it all right well that one didn't work as you saw because we do think it was actually missing an O-ring which Micah didn't think there was one in there but it looked like yeah he told me that but it looks brand new but I guess there is an o-ring missing out of it so I guess at some point I used it and burst it I need to label it I think I can put just a new o-ring in that one so we found another one again good to have spare parts so hopefully this one will work Moment of Truth once again let's pray this works oh yeah look at that it's not moving kind of out of options at this point we got to get on it welcome well I didn't get it on camera but Micah was connecting this spray wand to put the soap application down to the ball valve and he didn't have it completely Seated on right well when you turn the pressure on if you don't have the ball valve the quick connect on tight it'll burst he just burst the O-ring out of another quick valve so he's back to fix that always make sure your quick connects are good and tight and on properly before you apply that pressure or you're going to burst them [Music] hey hey [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] think you did a good job no all right [Music] col Colin you got to move that hose out of the way [Music] hey [Music] [Music] hey he [Music] [Music] hey so I was trying to show some of the areas that he'd missed again either he was going too fast it was a really heavy soiled area cos didn't get enough chemical down the first time or again just needs a double pass and so there was some misses there so I had him go back over those misses cuz again we want to do as best job as we can we're not going to get everything cuz concrete is porous meaning that it it absorbs so some of this stuff's going to be below surface level and we can only get surface level uh which most up is surface level but oil and some of that stuff seeps down and it's just more of a permanent stain so we're trying to get as much as we can some of that I knew we could get off some maybe just didn't get enough chemical down so he'll make a note of that next time to put maybe a little bit more chemical down just has to go slower and be a little bit more thorough so far so good he's doing a pretty good job it's taking obviously a good bit longer than normal but again I'm trying to let him do as much as he can without interfering without stepping in they're getting close to done this is the back stretch pretty good job for the first time taking the lead [Applause] so workout right there all right job's done so what are some things you learned today taking the lead if you have a person who sucks at doing your line it's way harder now you know how I felt those times I'm frustrated with y'all when I'm trying to go and y'all are not doing the line quick enough you got to taste of your own medicine I'm sure there's more that you learned the chemical yeah that's the first time you did chemical you obviously could see at the end there was some areas that still had black stains or grease marks so next time you need to make sure that you get a little more chemical down maybe spread it a little more evenly versus just dumping a pile down or if you dump a pile down you need to get the brush and brush it in good into other areas I call the snail Trail the trash Trail like you noticed that didn't get up good because you didn't really get much chemical down on it and obviously some areas you had to go back over a second time I'm going to use the analogy of it's like cutting in grass when you just miss a couple spots right you you just kind of either going too fast or you don't overlap enough or sometimes you just got to do a double pass because it's extra thick and it just takes a double pass another thing that I think you could improve on is giving coling more Direction when you clean the mats for instance then you picked them up and carried them over Colin could have done that while you kept going or you carry the mat let him go you'll just learn to be more efficient by utilizing your helper a little bit more just taking the initiative and you know Colin will learn as he does it more like you haven't done it quite as as much I was telling you this when we were out there instead of being more of a reactor like just kind of reacting to what Mike is doing you need to be thinking ahead okay well he's coming this direction so I need to go ahead and move the line and get him ready for the next portion where okay we're done with this I can go ahead and move the Surface Cleaner over just kind of be thinking ahead that's what I've been working with Gavin on for the last couple times and he's gotten better at it versus just reacting he's being a more proactive helps everybody go a lot quicker you're not getting paid by the hour getting paid by the job but you want to do a really good job so you need to be thorough you need to get it as clean as possible but overall I thought you did a good job taking the lead I had to hop in a few times for few few different things so next time you think you can do it without me even there at all it probably won't look that good well I wouldn't be so much worried about that I mean you just need to make sure you go back over it but when issues arise cuz we had two things pop up one the shut off float I mean I would have been able to fix o-ring I knew was something but you wouldn't have known him immediately would you I mean you saw it leaking would you have realized oh if I take this part off when I took okay if I would have realized to take it off I would have known what to do from there a key to all this pressure washing stuff A lot of times it comes down to those little O-rings somewhere those Quick Connect valves they don't last a whole long time even the ball valves that we use they don't last a whole long time cuz just I mean you're running chemical through them so they're going to get a little corroded and just the wear and tear the pressure of the water but I mean Le happen and that float valve for whatever reason I can't seem to get the knot on it tight enough and the float valve will come untight and therefore the water will overflow and that's what happened that one time but kind of glad those two things happen because those happen every once in a while and now you got to see firsthand how to how to correct them in case I'm not around and you can fix it again the other thing that going to happen is the wand or the Surface Cleaner those quick connects are going to go bad something's going to happen it's going to burst a seal it won't stay connected and it's going to shoot water everywhere and you'll just have to take those off as well and do the same exact thing remember I was using both wands I don't know if it's a quick connect on that oh yeah the turbo yeah I need I think no both ones they like they were leaking out a little bit when I was just using them leaking out whenever I wasn't holding the trigger pressure was building up in the valve and it was spraying water out on me yeah we may just need to retighten up the some of the fittings with the Teflon tape all right well good job goal is to get him where he can go do this on his own I mean it's good little business heck can do it full-time maybe this summer maybe he'll take it on and go do his own thing go find jobs projects cuz we got the big stuff man we got the big commercial cleaners so going and finding some of these big commercial projects uh surface cleaning concrete whether that be restaurants drive-throughs businesses driveways just anything with big big concrete that's the equipment that we have those are the projects we want all right guys well he did good proud of him col will eventually take the helm and we'll teach him how to lead one of these days all right guys we hit in the next Vlog subscribe my man mer Squad let's go let's Go's shout out to the boys Welcome to my life Welcome to My Life