How are you handling maintenance and downtime on your pressure washing equipment?

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I am curious how other exterior cleaning contractors are keeping their setups running smoothly throughout the season. When you get a pump failure, unloader issue, or engine breakdown right in the middle of a busy week, do you handle all the repairs yourself in-house, or do you take your gear to a local shop to get back on the job faster?

Also, how many hours are you running your hot water skids or main units before doing a full oil and filter change? Curious to hear what maintenance routines are working best for you guys to prevent unexpected downtime in the field.

servicehomepro · Answer

travisshepherd​&nbsp;Not the person to weigh in on oil change intervals or unloader repairs, that's outside my expertise, but I'm curious about something adjacent to your question. When a pump failure or engine breakdown happens mid-week and throws off your schedule, how are you currently handling the client side of that, are you calling each affected client individually to reschedule, or is there something automatic that goes out?I ask because equipment downtime is one thing, but the ripple effect (rescheduling, keeping clients from feeling ignored, not losing the day's revenue to silence) is often the bigger hidden cost. How others in the field handle that part

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How are you handling maintenance and downtime on your pressure washing equipment?

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