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oh yeah, WHERE'S THE LOVE?

Well I just said good - bye Dan his on his way to Clear Water

You should stay away from harnesses as much as possible, at least I do. If it is something that you can not spray from a ladder or by walking it, you should rent a lift. Lifts are fairly cheap to rent, very very safe, you can add the cost in the job so its free, or add a little for your time and towing. It is a lot more professional using a lift over a harness, ohh yeah and IT'S SAFE!

I've got some comments about a few of the threads....

Here in Charleston, there is a large cleaning company that is a national franchise - on their coupons that get mailed out they have a picture of a guy "hydroblasting" a roof. That is a good marketing piece for me to use as I talk to prospective customers about no-pressure roof cleaning.

Wearing harnesses -- If I can trip and fall on the flat ground, there's a pretty good chance that it will eventually happen on a roof. I recently was on a 2 story apt complex that had a pretty flat roof - I was only blowing off debris and cleaning gutters but since I had to be at the edge of the roof much of the time, I wore a harness. It may have slowed me down a little, but I figure its better to be safe than sorry.