Several years ago Eric took a job at Nations Rent, an equipment rental company. Working there, he was able to occasionally bring home the equipment and practice with it. Eventually he started bringing home pressure washers and cleaning our house, deck, and fence with them. As customers started coming in the store asking to rent a pressure washer, Eric would try to help them understand how to use it. Eventually most of them just asked him to come to their home and do it for them.
This went on for a few years and we never thought anything of it. Eric was just happy to help them out.
A while back, we attended a family members wedding were Eric and my cousin's husband Harvey started talking about Harvey's business. Harvey owns Wingate Hydro Systems, a pressure washing and roof cleaning business. Harvey kept telling Eric that there was money to be made and with his experience, he could do it! So Eric gets super pumped but me...I was skeptical. "Power Washing?", I said. "Um, that does not sound like a profitable starter business". I have always been an entrepreneur at heart so I decided that we could at least give it a try.
We did some further research and found the all of the BBS and forums. I was blown away! We just THOUGHT Eric had a little bit of experience...! One week later, we began purchasing our equipment, researching chemicals, and practicing techniques. I went crazy cleaning out the extra room in the house for the office, creating our marketing materials, researching forums, listing us in online directories, researching forums and.... did I mention researching forums?? LOL.
In 2008, we landed our biggest job yet. An 11 building apartment complex with 3 stories, and 67 breezeways. It took us 1 week to complete the job just before their inspection. The health official pulled Wayne, one of our guys, to the side and asked to take a pic of the surface cleaner. The official told Wayne that in his 5 years of inspecting the place, it had never been so clean. Needless to say, the complex passed with flying colors and we officially knew that well, this was going to work!
Sorry so long, but can you tell that I love this business?!:yes:
So, I guess that it was a little of both- We found PW and PW found us too!