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I love the ones who cry "what do you mean 500.00 to clean my roof, Joe down the street got his cleaned for 400.00 last month"

You ask to see the invoice, and 9 times out of 10 you will see a 400.00 roof cleaning, but they charged 250.00 for a 125.00 house wash, then charged 125.00 for a 75.00 driveway wash!

It is very common here in Tampa to low ball the roof cleaning. but sock it to the customer on everything else. Some call it "Upselling", some call it bait and switch.

sweetwaterfish · Guest

We pulled a 12 inch "adult pleasure device" out of a downspout from a student housing complex.

Roof Cleaning New Jersey · Jul 9, 2012

I love when people ask for a breakdown of the quote. Ok....Roof $525, House $250, gutter cleaning $100. Total $875.00 + tx. Then they tell you " let's just go with the gutters for now". No problem ma'am/sir, that'll be $275.00 +tx. They tend to find that quite the conspiracy.

Roof Cleaning New Jersey · Jul 9, 2012

sweetwaterfish wrote:
We pulled a 12 inch "adult pleasure device" out of a downspout from a student housing complex.

You pulled the remote control for my TV? I don't get it...?

Kleen Roof and Exterior Cleaning · Jul 9, 2012

That must be another one of them animals people in florida let go after they buy them. Darn Florida people. Those are pet mice they sell in New York.

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You would not believe some stuff I have seen out cleaning roofs!

I am up in Tampa, and we don't have there here, YET.

But they are coming up from South Florida, and spreading all over.

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Then, we have the Lizards, and I have seen them here in Tampa.

One day, we were out cleaning roofs in a community with several retention ponds (man made lakes)

We saw a giant green Lizard with a chest on it like a Pit Bull. It was easily 5 feet long. We called animal control, but it took off before they got there.

Check these Florida invasive lizards out, and watch how fast it attacks a Dog!

Jul 9, 2012

Wow! That's nuts. That thing can move!

gutterdog · Jul 9, 2012

I was waiting to see that lizzard bite the girl! Glad it didnt!

jbugg424 · Guest

Chris,

What are you trying to do in this forum, scare your competition away! Pythons, lizards, alligators, man what is next? A contractor needs full armor to live down in FL. Man!

-- Edited by jbugg424 on Monday 9th of July 2012 07:39:53 PM

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Roof Cleaning Palm Harbor FL 727 543 3276 wrote:
Wow! That's nuts. That thing can move!

Yes, they sure can move! I HOPE there are none of these invasive lizards living up on roofs, in super gutters for instance.

They have 4 legs vs our 2 legs, and have much better traction on a steep roof then we do.

Roger · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

I think I'll just stay up north here. The occasional bear or raccoon- no snakes - gators -or lizards !!!

Art O · Guest

Nasty little sucker, Isn't it

Ugly Shingles LLC · Jul 10, 2012

Roger wrote:
I think I'll just stay up north here. The occasional bear or raccoon- no snakes - gators -or lizards !!!

Amen to that!

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Art O wrote:
Nasty little sucker, Isn't it

They are all over South Florida, and Tampa will be seeing more and more of them. They can climb, and I just worry about running into one cleaning gutters, or a roof.

Imagine one is in a gutter, and you start spraying the non pressure cleaning chemicals. The run off hits the gutter, and one of these highly pissed off suckers puts 2 and 2 together, and figures out YOU did it.

They come after you on a steep roof, and they have 4 legs, you only have 2.

If one comes after me, I will spray it with the chemical, hope for the best.

jbugg424 · Guest

The only time I will clean gutters is when I'm cleaning a roof! No one wants to pay for them otherwise. I figure if I have to get on the roof anyways, I may as well offer the gutters as an add on. The bottom line is, how much! Sometimes to get the whole deal, the roof, the house, and the gutters, you have to give them a break or they won't go for it!

jbugg424 · Guest

Thanks Chris! Maybe I won't be moving to FL ! Wow! Nasty little critters down south! I still look forward to working the whole year instead of 6 mos! Man that really sucks when you own a pressure washing business in MN!

jbugg424 · Guest

Roger,

What do you do in the winter time? Do you plow, or just twirl your thumbs waiting for spring? In 2010-11 when we had all that snow, I did some Ice dams! Man was that good money!

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jbugg424 wrote:
The only time I will clean gutters is when I'm cleaning a roof! No one wants to pay for them otherwise. I figure if I have to get on the roof anyways, I may as well offer the gutters as an add on. The bottom line is, how much! Sometimes to get the whole deal, the roof, the house, and the gutters, you have to give them a break or they won't go for it!

Well, down here, people need to have their gutters cleaned. If you click here, you can see we have a gutter cleaning page on our website.

Our minumum charge to clean gutters is 150.00, and a lot of the time we can do a whole house for that, it depends.

It is very competitive here in Tampa, and we always try to give our customers the best deal we can, and stay in business.

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