This is Under Pressure, a podcast where we dive into the untold stories of entrepreneurs and business owners who have conquered adversity to achieve greatness. And now, here's your host, Nick Staton. 

Welcome to episode three. I have today, David Revis. He's out of Louisiana. He owns, uh, Rhino exterior or Rhino blast exterior pressure washing. And he also is owner or co-owner of wash bros, which is a, uh, pressure washing store located in their area. 

Nic Staton

Yeah. 

David Rivas

Mandeville Mandeville. 

Nic Staton

Yeah. Mandeville, Louisiana. 

David Rivas

Okay.

The North Shore.

That's what's up. I'm going to ask you some questions today and just kind of go over a few things and find out how you started your business and stuff like that. Gotcha. Tell us a little bit about your background, first off.

Born and raised in Metairie, Louisiana. Dad died when I was eight. cancer, alcoholism. 47. I'm 46. I'll be 47 this year. So if I make it past my day, we're good. You know, about say about two months after my dad passed, my mom wanted to test her faith. I was we're all in Catholic schools. We went on a Catholic Catholic sabbatical. to Yugoslavia, Medjugorje. And in Medjugorje, so we flew to New York, got on double-decker plane, casino up top, flew 20 hours to a place I had no idea where the hell I was going. Medjugorje is a town where a certain set of people were supposedly able to see the Virgin Mary. So we went over there, got off the plane. I looked at my mom. The guys were walking around with machine guns and shit. I was like, you know, mama, where are you taking me? So we went through these little towns and we saw you could, you know, like if you we got home, we took pictures of Virgin Mary. We had little blemishes on the corner of the pictures. My rosary turned iridescent. My first communion cross, it was silver. I got home, it was gold. Some weird shit. So we did that. And my mom got sued for my dad. My dad had a big printing company, Rivas Business Forums. He was one of the largest ones in the Gulf States. He was telling everybody, be ready. Digital's coming. And when it comes, it's gonna hit hard. We still have all his little letters. Anyway, Dad's out of the family sued mom for the business and winded up getting it because of the last name. They got the camp in Kokodri, way down in the bottom of the boot, way at like the like the little finger like the little toenails of the of the state of Louisiana. And my mom just got the house in Metairie, big old big old house. My dad wanted uh they wanted six children. They had my brother, my two brothers, the way they wanted to, and then they had a miscarriage between my second brother and my sister, and then there was two in between my sister and me. We're seven years apart, so I'm the baby. I'm the, I was breakfast in bed, basically. That's how, that's 1977 I was born, October 4th, 1977. So, And then dad, like I said, he died in 85, 86. I was roughly eight, nine, somewhere around there. And we, in 1993, mom put the house up on the market because it was just me and her, everybody else was a lot older. So they were like going into college and all that in the eighties. when my dad passed away, going to LSU. And so this big old house, she didn't need it. So we moved to Mandeville, Louisiana, across the pond. And basically, I was 17, 16, 17. Didn't have a pot to piss in. I was rugged. I missed New Orleans. I came to a new place. I hated it. Went from Catholic school to public school. I dropped out of school. and went straight into the workforce. I've been in my whole background up until Washington was construction. I did a little bit of counter sales and my mom bought a shipping company, packaging mail. We turned it into the shipping post and kind of wanted to do a family thing. And my brother Steve, the second one, he's the one that actually started running. We opened another location in Covington about 10 miles north and kind of where you stayed a little bit. you know, for the event, you came down for the gas station, right? Anyway, we did that. I think they sold them in Oh, eight. So the good thing about that was I was able to get counter sales. Because I never done ever since that job. It's always been construction framing houses of uh wood floors i did uh sanding and finishing two nail downs for five years and you know i'm not a i'm not a very fit person anymore as we know i'm not i'm not nick you know i ain't gonna post a picture of my big ass body but uh no anyway um i used to box i was a i was a big fighter i was a street fighter back in the day we didn't pull out guns we fought um i was very angry as as growing up Um, I did have some trouble with the law when I first moved over here. I got hemmed up and, uh, my whole entire twenties, I was locked up, not locked up, but like I was this, this system had me squeezed. Right. So, um, uh, in 20, uh, in, uh, 2000, I had my son, he's 24, um, became a father. Uh, I was in a lot of shit at that time. my whole life went like it was, uh, you know, going to possibly do this X amount of time. I was able to talk to the judge at my hearing and said, all I want to do is be a father to my son, period. Let me be a father, my son, just because of my, my, my little bull, y'all want to throw me under the jail. I tell you what, give me five extra years on my sentence. Just let me be out and be a father to my son. I lost my dad when I was eight. That's all I need. Just, I don't care what I got to go through to get it. I'm going to get it. And I did it. Okay. I finally got off of my paper in oh eight. Um, and then I met Lacey in 2005. Her kids were 13, 12, seven and four or five. And mine was about to make six. They're now 31. 30, 25, 24, 21. And we had five grandbabies. And I love every single one of them. And I couldn't ask for a better life at all. So I don't have any of my family. They're all gone. My siblings, we don't talk that much. Me and my sister are closer than any of them. The other ones are just, we just, it's just too different where we're, it's always been like that. So basically, yeah, it's basically just Lacey's family in 2005, 18 years ago opened me. Her dad didn't like me at first. I didn't have doctor or attorney or a lawyer of the blah, blah, blah. But me, me and, uh, me and grandpa Sandy, we, uh, we, we kicking it, you know what I'm saying? He's got the utmost respect because I did take on four children, you know, I was 28 years old. I didn't have a pot to piss in. I mean, it was right after Katrina. I didn't, my whole world was still spinning. I was still trying to farm away. So kind of how, how I got where I am now. Um, a little bit of it.

So how'd you, uh, become to start your, your business with, with Rhino?

So in, uh, in 2000, uh, in 2001, I had a toothache. and or 2002 and I had a toothache and I met my dentist on the emergency he was fresh out of fresh out the the thing he was uh renting an operatory like a you know a dental room from another dentist and that's kind of how they do it when they start getting and then they start building their clientele Well, I met him, I was a big, I hate needles and, you know, all that shit. So he gave me a Xanax. Well, he gave me stuff for my tooth. And so anyway, you know, when I went to go get the tooth yanked or filled or what, I can't remember. He gave me a little Valium Xanax to kind of calm me down. When he first met me, he was like, you're a little high strung, brother. I was like, you don't even know, bro. But I hate doctors and I hate needles and I hate all that shit. just I don't even want to feel it if I tell you I can't turn the gas up even more I mean like let's do this like anyway so so I went um so that's I met him well in 2000 I did floors for about four years five years in and out and in 2009 I was I went from flooring to door knocking selling AT&T U-verse and that's when U-verse was becoming launching big in about the 08, 09 era down here in Baton Rouge, whatever, whatever. And I was looking on my lead sheet and I saw William Graham, that's Dr. Graham. And I called Lacey and I was like, hey, is it really? She's like, yeah, his wife's name is Melissa. I was like, oh yeah, that's the name on here. So knock on the door, things led to another thing. I became his maintenance guy. So the first day we went to Baton Rouge, he bought an analog building, he was just starting Like he built his first big building, right? So he was going to take his puzzle piece that you like to say and start to widen his thing, right? So he bought an analog. We went the first day, started ripping it, like the landscaping out in the back and all this bullshit. Second day, he said, meet me at the shop, at the sheds. You ever pressure washed?" I said, no. So in 2009, my second day on the job, he had a 4F4, Mighty M, semi-commercial, belt drive, a Mighty M 20-inch, and an old, original X-Jet. So out the gate, I was already chemically washing. So I don't even know how to pressure wash, Nick. I really don't. I mean, I don't know. I know how to surface clean, I know how to hit brick, I know how to hit soft stucco, I know how to do stuff like that. So that's kind of how I started in 2009. We did that till 2012 and my mom died January 26, 2012. Lacey and I got married July 14, 2012 in Grand Isle, Louisiana, down in my brother's camp. And shortly right after that, me and him, we just, more doctors were buying in and I was making, I was only making 800 bucks a week. I was on salary, I was making $3,200 a month. And I was taking care, at this point, in three years of being in his business, I was taking care of five different properties. We did headquarter building, so I was washing these things yearly. for for years, for three years. So I was taking care of his dad's house, his house, blah, blah, blah. Didn't know anything about a tape. I learned something about tape and outlets. My third, my third, my third wash with him. So I've always taped outlets from 2010, I think. So that's basically once it kind of, you know, we separated. I went to Started bouncing around. I did landscaping. I was, uh, bounced around for about six months. I had no idea what the hell my next move was. And sure enough, I found a little window cleaning gig. I started doing route work in 2014, uh, 13, 14 and October of 2014 is when I came home and told Lacey, we're going to start a washing business. And, uh, yeah. This October will be 10 years.

Nice. So you basically probably started that. Can you explain to us, I guess, why you started it a little bit? Because it sounds like you kind of started it because you really were just like all over the place and someone kind of showed you a little bit of.

Yeah. So so, you know, being in the construction background, framing houses and doing stuff like that, you never really saw the finished product. So when I got into wood floors, you always saw the finished product because you were making sure that product was finished. So I knew that I wanted to find something that I carried through. So like washing is the same way. You come, it's dirty, you clean it, you see the smiles on the face, you fix the problems, any mess ups, you take care of it, you give them customer satisfaction, customer relations. And it was just, I knew it was something that I could grab a hold on to, and I can even learn and help other people in the future. Because once again, I came out out the womb of washing, chemically washing. So You know, so basically, I guess that's kind of kind of what drove me to take care of this. And so I did sub out work for 2017. I dropped a window cleaning company. And at that time, I wasn't full blast with Rhino. So I had a appease my wife, right? Have a good check. I mean, I made good money, I made like 14. So I took my 800 and I was making 12 to 14 because I was making 40% of what I was doing. But I had routes in Baton Rouge, Houma, New Orleans. So the most stops I ever did for storefront restaurants, I think was in Baton Rouge in 2015, I hit 31 stops. Wow. Yeah. 31 stops in one day. And that payday to me was, I want to say $750 on that amount of total windows. And to me, I'm like, hell, man, shit. I was working two weeks and barely even see $600. I did that in a day. Come on, we could do this. And then that's kind of when I came home and I was like, Lacey, it's I got to get back into the washing. Hold on to my coattails. Let's do this. So we did that until 2017. And then I picked up another one. So I was doing three of them. Right. I was doing flawless finish window cleaning rhino blast. And I picked up another one for Dr. Windows. Right. So rhino. Sorry. flawless, it was just too much. And I couldn't, I didn't want that. I didn't need that hustle anymore because Rhino was already starting to, starting to climb. So I didn't chase that. So I said, thank y'all, you know, for the last three years, it's time for me to move on. So 2017 to March of 18, I worked with Dr. Windows and we basically split it down the middle. Uh, I did all his washing and then I did, you know, so I gave him, three days to me, three days to RhinoBlast, and then one day to my wife. So I basically took, and then that's kind of what happened in March. I told him I'm done, we're done, and it's been basically all me since 2008, 2018, sorry.

That's what's up. That's a cool. That sounds really good.

Oh, I had to appease Lacey and you met my wife. So yeah, you know, she, she, she was she she wishes that we would have just hit the floor running and I'd be a lot further. And look, it doesn't matter, Nick, how you do it, as long as you fucking do it, man. Like, you know me, I'm a trials and tribulation guys. And you see me post a lot of that in these groups. I'm all about trials and tribulations. For me to go pay somebody to teach me to do some, I just, I don't see it.

Don't learn that way. I don't learn from somebody telling me what to do. I learned from, from, from seeing it. I'm a visual learner and then I need to do it and then I need to mess up. And then when I mess up, then I'm going to learn from that mistake.

Yeah. Cause you could tell me five that I could tell by, I get, I get, I could tell my employees 5,000 fucking times until you, do it, you're going to go, oh, yeah, he's been telling me that.

So what's been the hardest part of the business so far?

All right, so the saying, you know, in this industry, they say, you know, you want to be 60, 40, 70, 30. the higher number being commercial. And over the last two years, we've been gaining that track as you've been gaining that track. You know what I'm saying? So, uh, the hardest part for us is it wasn't much like, cause I'm not cheap, right? So we might put out a lot of bids and I went a good bit and I'm just not running around doing 300s all day long. I'm just not gonna do that. You know what I'm saying? My startup is in between three and 350. I base that on the hour, hour and a half of what it's gonna take me to do it, that type of thing. I wanna say the hardest thing has been, actually, it's kind of been the contract work. Last year was our worst year in the past five years. Last year was bad. It took me a few years not to get political, but- You had a lot of ups and downs too. Kind of feel that Joe Obama crunch. A lot of people watching the 401s, their retirements, they're very frugal with the money now. When you find those customers that are willing to pay, Just remember they were willing to pay then. Remember when you're going to do them again, give them a little cut. It's okay to give them a cut. Because, I mean, the house I've been doing for eight years, I just did them last Wednesday. Eight years in the running. Never batted a nine. I do his fishing camp. and all that other stuff. So, uh, but I always gave back, you know what I'm saying? So I'd have to say more or less, it was the commercial, um, been pretty hard and then trucks going down and not having enough capital to fix said truck. Um, last year was that year. So, um, and it's funny because in October I had no truck and now I have three, right?

It happens that way. You know, you'll, you'll, you'll get a lot of, a lot of jobs and stuff like that. That'll come in and then out of nowhere, it'll get kind of dead and you'll get in your head and you're like, what, what am I doing wrong? But realistically, it's kind of like, you probably need a break right now. More jobs are going to come along. Same thing with all the trucks that break down and stuff like that. I'm learning that, that curve too, just to. let it go and let it be and just pay for it, keep moving. You might be broke, you know, a little bit paying for some of that stuff at times, but at the same time, you gotta keep going.

Keep going, yeah. And I mean, like, hey baby, I'm on a Zoom call. She's putting all the, she's getting all the toys and stuff, stuff that we wanna put on the street. And so, so they just think, cause they're going to drive. They're going to literally drive through here in a little while. This place is going to be crazy and people are going to be stopping it. I got, I got, uh, so they come out right in front of your house and everything like that. They get a cup. Tell Nick. Hello, Lacey. She's up and early. I'm on a, I'm on his podcast. Hey, Um, yeah, they get up early. Lacey, the town is just retarded. Um, so yeah, like I was showing you, they just, they just going to come, you know, the signs are everywhere and people are just going to come through and rummage through the shit, take it, whatever they don't. I'll just bag it up, trash it and whatever. But I got an oven out there. I got a microwave. It all works.

So they come by and grab, grab the things or whatever to take the stuff. Correct. Oh, okay. And now I'm, and now I get it. I thought it was just like a parade or whatever. Okay.

It's an Easter thing. It's a town garage sale. It's at the last town garage sale. Yes. A beta Springs has a town garage.

Everybody's set something outside and people just drive by whatever.

Yeah. We're putting a sign on, on this, say it's free. Take it. It's y'all's.

It'll be going in seconds.

It'll be gone in seconds. Yeah. Um, so yeah, stay inconsistent. Um, and having capital is bigger, you know, that's what I'm in the middle of doing right now is trying to build up the business.

Um, The business credit side, because once you get the business credit side, uh, going, then you can actually start putting all your vehicles and stuff like that into the business name, uh, and get a business line of credit. And that business line of credit will help you when you're, when you come into tight pinches like this, where whether it's, uh, paying employees because you're on net pays or things breaking down or whatever, but you know, that you, you, you have the work coming in that can pay for it. So you might as well just go to that credit line. That's what I'm in the middle of getting done because I find the hardest thing right now is capital. It is because I'm mostly all commercial. I don't really do residential. I do residential here and there. And most of my residentials from the roofers and stuff like that. So all my, all my payments are, you know, net fourteens, net thirties, net sixties. Some of those commercial guys we've had such good relationships with that. We basically go ahead and put in my invoices two weeks before we ever show up to the job so that we're not waiting as long.

Okay. Yeah. Right, right, right, right, right.

So that's another thing that you could possibly talk to them or whatever and be like, you know, Hey, um, is there any way that we could put our invoice in like a week or two early? And sometimes they'll say no. And sometimes they'll say yes, because it just, they just have a certain time period that they're allowed to pay out. But if they get it early, then you actually get your money when you're done with your job.

When you're done washing. Yeah, the St. Anthony one that I'll be doing them. That's these retirement home. They kind of piece the property together, which is fine. Right. Go and do it in phases or not. And we did a one big building with all the balconies back in November. And they called last week and we got them on a schedule for the 11th and 12th. because that's the only time I had my guide, my little spider monkey that'll ladder up three stories, harness up over the rails, and get all these balconies detailed for me. So I couldn't, I tried it my first year, five years ago, and my short ass couldn't get my, I couldn't get my leg over the fucking rail. they had to let me through the building man to get out dude i couldn't get down the ladder so i had to find my little spider monkey to get up there and he does it right um he ropes off he's you know i just go ahead of him and he comes right behind me and starts detailing the third story and the second story i pretty much get all the second story washed from the ground But the third story is the harder one, because you've got the sopifacient gutters and all that stuff in the front of the balcony. So I just water rinse the hell out of all the windows and everything from the ground, and then I spit it up there, and then I do everything I can do, and then he just goes up there and touches up what needs to be touched up. But they're like that too. It's usually a two-week payout.

Uh, how are you dealing with managing with your mindset?

Oh, I mean, a lot of things have been going on this year and last year. Uh, no, that I've been in the business longer than five years. I'm not folding nothing up. Even when times get crunchy. Um, I have a great, uh, backer, my wife, I couldn't do this without her. She's the one that keeps me head focused and she knows when I'm on a mission, I'm going to stay on that mission until we complete that mission. She's a workhorse. She does a lot of stuff around here that I can't get to and help her and we feed off of each other. and having that back support and, you know, being being in free, you know, not having any not have any kids here. And we get the small those those five. And I just it's just my mindset is I got to do it because I'm not getting any younger. Right. And I'm probably won't ever get out the truck, Nick, to be honest with you. I don't see that in my future. I love washing. I don't ever want to not wash, but I do wear too many hats. And right now Lacey is we're building a different style of system. and that's where our mindset is right now. I'm letting her do what she needs to do on that back ass end to get us to that next level to where we're not like looking at a couple of weeks and going okay we have such and such so my X amount of bills a month they're paid for and then we got there you know trying to map it all out and we're just trying to get to that point to where We don't have to do that and we have that oh shit money but when oh shit actually happens and that's what happened last year is a lot of my oh shit money had to go to the other truck when the truck went down so it was like i'm glad i had it but.

It's it kind of broke me, you know, and then if I didn't balance cards the way that I did, I don't think I would really get by as much as I do, just for the fact that there's a lot of times that, you know, those trucks cost a shit ton of money, like seven grand, 10 grand. It's a thousand dollars just about every time it goes into the shop.

So, I mean, yeah, yeah. And that's it. Piles up, man. Yeah, it does. You know, I mean, This new truck, I need to do a lot of front end work, you know, and get it road ready. But I knew that. And, you know, it is what it is.

How are you dealing with being under pressure?

I'm doing it. Under pressure as in like when you find yourself under pressure with your business. I won't sit here and wallow. That if I'm not, if I don't have anything on that book, that the truck and the trailer is just going, it's driving. So I'll, especially when my Titan was wrapped, you know, I just unhooked the trailer and I would just, I'd go look, I'd go, I'd go pop some door hangers, put The first time ever, I mean, not the first time ever, first time in about four, five years, actually in December and November, when I was really slow, I was out there. I was out there just door hanging, door hanging, door hitting brand new neighborhoods. That's the ones you want to hit. Guys, I'm just letting you all know right now, hit those brand new neighborhoods. Don't go to the old sourpuss neighborhoods. The reason why those houses are dirty, they don't care. They're not don't waste your footsteps on dirty houses. Don't do it. You want clean houses because they don't ever want to see those houses get dirty. Period. I'm sorry. That's about it. That's about great.

That's some great Jim right there because I didn't even think about that really. Man, that's right there.

Think about it. So what we do is I'll go into one neighborhood and I'll do a two street run.

Yeah.

And I just mark it down. And in that following, maybe six months later, if I have some time, I'll go hit another street. Because if that call comes in, boom, they'll see the truck. And they'll go, oh, yeah, I did get the door hanger from that guy. Let's give him a call. He did such and such, blah, blah, blah. And we're talking about one-year-old houses.

That's what's up. There's a lot of those around here in our area. They're constantly putting up new houses. And I usually bypass those.

Yeah, well, when I first because I'm like, well, they're not dirty. Yeah, well, that's what I was telling when I first started doing door hangers about five, six years ago. I would just go to these shithole and then it just, it, it, it, I smacked myself in the head. I'm like, there's a reason why these houses are dirty. They don't care about their investment.

No, they don't. They care more about what's on their clothes or whatever it may be.

What car they're driving. Yeah. So I started hitting the newer neighborhoods and look, and I told Lacey a long time ago, as long as it may be 40% of those people take that hanger and throw it in a drawer. If the other 60, or 60-40, or 40-60, or however it works, throw them away, at least we're in somebody's drawer. They're gonna come in one day, they're gonna pull that drawer open, and we've had a bunch of people, like two years later, hey, yeah, you put a flyer on my door. And I'm like, what neighborhood? And I was like, man, that was in 2018, holy shit. Look at my wife. You have Mardi Gras, baby.

can't go away cause the kids play with it.

So I got to keep this has a date on it, but she's got to keep it for some reason. My wife is a hoarder. Yes, you are.

What's uh, what's been the best part so far?

Uh, the best part is doing it with my, my wife and uh, meeting beautiful, awesome people that want to, uh, you know, like Steven, you know, like me and Steven, you know, I'll give you a little background about that networking.

Uh, I said, I got to get him on next.

You got to get him on next. Um, networking is a, is a big thing. There's a few people in this area that I wouldn't touch with a 40 foot pole. Right. Right. Um, and look, I'm a love or hate me type of guy. Right. And it's okay. You, you, you don't have to like me. You don't have to love me. You don't have to, it's fine, whatever. Right. But there are some people that you could tell and then they just won't, they, they just, they, they just go down the same rabbit hole. Right. Right. Um, so like when me and Steven met, Steven basically had nobody and huh? Stephen basically had nobody. I didn't have I had my son in and out to help me. So then that's when we started networking. And we were doing some really big projects. And we just grown to be like brothers. And, you know, I've watched Vincenzo grow up. He was six months old when I met Stephen. He's six. Now he's got Franny. I get to watch her grow up. And then a little bit over two years ago, we started Wash Bros and building those, you know, networking, you know. I love going to the conventions and finally meeting people that I've talked to for many years. Lacey loves the conventions. Now she doesn't get up early in the morning like a lot of us and go, huh? Everyone knows that, she said. You can see Nick's laughing like, yeah, I'll do it. Bring it back. Where's Lacey? It's 11 o'clock. She's still hanging out in the bed. She'll come out around 12, 1 o'clock lunchtime. But networking has been really big and building customer relations, man. I have some really, really awesome, awesome customers. I mean, I couldn't do it without a lot of that repeat business, man. It's all about repeat business, man. God, if people can, like, you know how many times I hear, I can't remember who washed my house last, and I'm going, That means they didn't do their job. I mean, dude, it's literally an email every three months. Just throw some a spring here. Uh, we're falling back. We're a little, we have all that automated, wet, wild, wet, wild, red, all up in your customer's face. They'll never, how are you going to forget me, by the way, right?

You're not going to forget you, the personality and everything. They're going to remember that. And then they're going to remember the Rhino, you know, it's all in the face all the time.

Yeah. So I want to tell you that quick. Um, so how I got my name. So my dad was called Rhino. Okay. Okay. He was 5'11, 260 pounds. Supposedly hit like a rhino, was built like a ship, brick house. My brother, the oldest, was Rhino Junior. So in 2014, when bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, my head blew, the light bulb went, doop, I'm gonna start a business, it'll be fun. Yeah, it's got its perks, it's got its ups and downs. Anyway, so I went to my brother, And I asked him, you know, in memory of dad, I'm starting a washing business. Would you mind me using Rhino? And he said, absolutely. Go go right ahead. So I had Rhino. So he's like, what are we going to name the rest of us? I don't know. It'll come to me, whatever. So I was taking a shower one day and I used the Irish Spring Icy Blast soap and Rhino Blast and that's how Rhino Blast was created. That's cool as shit. And then we got we got my logo. She was doing BP spill claims back then. And her friend at the office was like, you know, she doodled and she kind of mocked up my logo and then we sent it to a logo company and they and then that's kind of how that happened.

Nice. That's what's up. This has been cool. Um, I would like to thank you for being on, uh, how can people reach out to you and find you on social media?

David Rivas, R I V as in Victor. Yes. Uh, As far as that's about it. And I don't know my Instagram. I don't even know Instagram. I don't know. No.

How do they find your store and stuff like that? So just in case, you know, if they were in the area of Louisiana and that, uh, and that, uh, well, it's wash bros.

We're in Mandeville, Louisiana, 39, 29 sweet C we're in the back of the building. We're right off of the interstate Mandeville beat exit, uh, wash bros, uh, la.com is the website. And yeah, we and that's that's one of the kind of cool things is we're down streamers, me and Steven. So. A lot of greenhorns come in there and they come and say, I want that, I want this, I want that. And I'm like, whoa, Game Wasabi, hold on. Let's start here and let's go to there. Don't overdo yourself. So we get them downstream and understand chemicals, understand that. And then once you get to the roof cleaning, bad stucco's or stuff that you need dedicated sauce, Right. Then you graduated to it. Don't just go full into it thinking you need it because not everything needs dedicated sauce.

And you know, I'm a firm believer about, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't always need it. Like a lot of times, even when I run my gas roof pump, I just have it down on very low.

Um, you know, it's barely, I know you're a big, I know you're a big slinger.

Yeah. I just love running that gas roof pump. I just, I haven't downstream in probably a couple of years. I have the downstream or on my truck, but I just don't use it. I don't know. I have that, uh, flow pro or whatever. Yeah.

Yeah.

I only got, I did use it on in a, in a crunch when my gas roof pump went down. Right. But, uh, it worked great. I mean, it did good, but I just use it for degreaser. I didn't use it for actually washing the house.

See, we like them because I could just send them in the back, service cleaner and all. And the only time I want to see you go to the truck is to get a little drink, or we rolling out. So rents. High pressure, service clean, rinse, soap, rinse, soap.

The same thing with the gas roof pump. I have all that on remotes and everything. So you never have a reason to go back to the truck.

You don't get the service clean. You got to run another hose, fool.

Yeah, you got to run another hose. That's the only thing. You got one hose. I have to have two or three out because I've got the water hose and I've got the ag hose and the pressure hose.

I'm a Jim Bird 2 boy.

All right. Appreciate it, Nick. Yes, sir. Well, guys, that's the end of episode three. Thank you all for coming on and go subscribe to our show on all the platforms. And thank you, David Rivas, for coming on today. It's been a pleasure. You have a wonderful day and go kick ass at that garage sale.

Yeah. Got two sacks to crawl. It's coming up at three o'clock.

All right, man.

Peace. Y'all have a good one. Thank you, Nick. Yes, sir.

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