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CALLING IN THE BIG GUNS power washing vendor, Pressure Washing Systems, are doing their part to curb the spread by disinfecting State Street’s sidewalks, trash cans, and other infrastructure in the public way,” Michael Edwards, CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE President and CEO, recently stated in a release. “Throughout my decades in downtown management, I have never experienced a public health situation like COVID-19. Chicago Loop Alliance was lucky enough to work with Pressure Washing Systems on power washing and then disinfecting State Street in downtown Chicago…Because of Pressure Washing Systems’ expertise in emergency response, we were able to mitigate the risk of pedestrians picking up the virus from the street’s infrastructure and furniture.” Edwards added, “The Loop has seen 70-percent declines in pedestrian activity compared to this time in 2019…But there are still essential workers on the street, and our priority is their safety.” Pressure Washing Systems offers a wide range of services to the Chicago Metropolitan Area, southern Wisconsin, northwest Indiana, and Los Angeles, Calif., regions. Over the past 31 years in business, the company has experience with similar situations to COVID-19, including cleaning and disinfecting one million square feet of space in Houston, Texas, to prevent the spread of SARS, as well as various flood cleanups in Chicago. According to a CLA release, Pressure Washing Systems used a quaternary disinfectant cleaner called QuatSan, effective at killing a variety of bacteria and viruses, including COVID-19. The cleaner follows CDC guidelines and is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)- approved product. Bill Mologousis, President of Pressure Washing Systems, said crews worked with the environment in mind. “We’re not just allowing this wastewater that’s generated from these cleaning Pressure Washing Systems, are doing their part to curb the spread by disinfecting State Street’s sidewalks, trash cans, and other infrastructure in the public way, operations to enter the storm sewer system and maybe create an environmental impact,” Mologousis stated in the CLA release. “We’re not just pressure washing; it’s really an environmental cleaning process. Anyone can pressure wash this into the sewer; not many companies have equipment that will prevent it from going into the sewer system.” A NICHE IN TIME Beyond traditional pressure wash, new opportunities also exist for operators to expand services in to new niche areas that can be both profitable and help to ease the crisis. The consensus seems to be that America’s obsession with cleanliness will be a permanent social shift. Pressure wash operators are certainly well positioned to re-channel their resources and technical skills to certain aspects of interior cleaning, specifically, sanitizing businesses, to meet that market need. In addition, and importantly from a consumer perspective, certifying businesses as properly sanitized for customer use could well be a wave of the future. That’s because consumers now want peace of mind that a business is clean and the ability of a business to prove that cleanliness to customers could become paramount to remaining in business. The Daytona Beach News-Journal recently pondered just how paranoid post-coronavirus America will be as it returns to public places. The conclusion appears to be very paranoid and vigilant. The newspaper also profiled a Sarasota pressure washer’s savvy expansion of services aimed at ensuring that public trust. John Cloud runs Gorilla Kleen pressure washing, a good sized operation with clients ranging from the municipality he lives in (pressure washing public exteriors) to the Ringling College and Ed Smith Stadium, spring training home of the Baltimore Orioles. Cloud told the News-Journal he’s always offered sanitization services but that they were seldom requested prior to the recent pandemic. Now, by contrast, he said, he’s essentially doing as much sanitization as exterior cleaning for his clients, and purports that an important psychological principal is leading that growth in his niche business. “I’m printing stickers that go on the door that say this area was sanitized with this chemical shown to be effective, and we show the date,” Cloud stated. “From an optics standpoint, if I’m an employee or a customer, I’d be happy to see that…I think the establishment or business would be saying to the public, hey, we care about taking that extra step for public safety.” continued ... 26 | PRESSURE WASH NEWS | VOL. 2, NO. 3 | SUMMER 2020
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