How residential, commercial, strata and recurring maintenance work differ — and the difference between being a person who pressure cleans and building a pressure-cleaning company.
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Homeowners. Jobs of $200 to $3,000, decided in days, paid immediately, won on trust and photos. This is where you start because the sales cycle is short and you can knock on the door.
Businesses, factories, shopping centres, clubs. Jobs of $1,000 to $50,000, decided in weeks or months, paid on 30-day terms, won on paperwork and reliability. Better money, slower, needs insurance and documentation.
Apartment and townhouse complexes. One contact controls several buildings. Decisions go through a committee, so it is slow to start and very sticky once you are in.
The same customer, on a schedule, forever. Windows every one to three months, gutters every three to six, exterior washes every six to twelve. This is the part that makes the business worth something.
Owner doing everything → owner plus a helper → a small crew → multiple crews → sales and operations separated → commercial contracts and recurring maintenance. Each stage has a different job for you personally.
Not the end state. The next one. Then read the module that gets you there.
Nearly everyone who starts a pressure cleaning business starts the same way: buy a machine, print some flyers, undercut the guy on Facebook, work weekends. Two years later they are busy, tired, and earning slightly less than they would have as an employee — because they built a job with worse hours and no super.
The difference between a job and a business is one number: profit per hour of your time, and whether that number survives when you are not the one holding the wand.
Most beginners obsess over the first, ignore the second, and never calculate the third. That is why the $150 driveway feels fine right up until you total the year.
A solo operator running the system in this course should be clearing $120–$165 an hour of on-site time on residential work, and building toward $8,000–$12,000 months by month six to nine. A two-crew operation runs $30K–$45K months at a 20–30% net margin once wages, super and vehicles are paid.
Do not buy equipment yet. Pick the suburb, pick the service you will lead with, and set the revenue target. Everything downstream — which machine, which chemicals, which ads — is decided by those three answers.
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