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Pressure Washing Tips Explained By Professional

Posted on by Jackie Rose

Winter is rolling through Canada but the warm weather and sunshine will soon be back. Us here at ca1dmat.org hope you’re already done your 2022 winter preparation. In the meantime, lets get prepared for the end of winter too. Because there isn’t a better time to clean up your residence and pressure wash the deck and driveway than when winter comes to a close and the fine weather rolls back in.

We have a special treat for you today, none other than a list of pressure washing tips so you can clean the exterior of your house like a professional.

Tips for Quality Pressure Washing

  1. Wear rubber boots and rain gear, including latex or rubber gloves. Being in rain gear while pressure washing will make you less hesitant to get wet, and will allow you to not have to worry about back spray, resulting in more confident work. This also results in finishing jobs faster if you don’t fear getting wet, as the rain gear will keep you dry.
  2. Spend money on a good pressure washer. If you get the cheapest pressure washer in the store, hoping to save money, you might end up losing in the long run because you’ll be spending much more time pressure washing than you have to. This is because cheap pressure washing machines typically have lower or limited Psi than quality machines. They also tend to break easily after use. It doesn’t hurt to get a warranty when you spend more on a quality pressure washer, so you can make full use of it without worrying about what happens if it breaks.
  3. Don’t pressure wash your roof shingles. Moss doesn’t grow everywhere in Canada, but on Vancouver Island it grows all over the place, even on roofs. This leaves homeowners inclined to pressure wash their roofs, thinking it’ll be fine. But what actually happens, because roof shingles aren’t designed to be pressure washed, that you can easily cause damage to your roof, by cleaning off the surface layer of your shingles and lifting them up, making leaks in your attic. If you’re going to clean your roof yourself rather than hire roof cleaners, you should scrub the moss off by hand, using bristles and gloves.
  4. Take your time to get all the hidden spots. When pressure washing your own home, you may be inclined to take short cuts and only power clean the spots visible to the eye from the road. This means you’ll miss behind the garbage bins, you’ll miss spots under the deck, on the sides of the patio, the backside of fences, under planters, etc. If you’re going to do this, you might as well do it right. That’s how pressure washing pros get repeat customers, by leaving no spots overlooked. It might only take you 20 extra minutes to pressure wash those hidden spots, and when you walk passed them in the summer you’ll be glad you worked the extra mile to do it right, like a professional.

We hope you enjoyed and learned from this list of pressure washing advice. To get these tips, we’ve interviewed someone that’s been providing pressure washing Victoria BC services for many years, and he gave us these insider secrets. Now, you should feel confident knowing you can pressure wash like a real pro.

Will Home Services Be Replaced By Drones and Robots in 20 Years?

Posted on by Jackie Rose

Imagine it’s twenty years in the future, we’re in the year 2041 and you need a new retaining wall installed by stone mason. This home service, among many others, might be served by robots rather than humans. Imagine it!

You call up the company and a robot voice answers, “What can we help you with?”

You answer, “I’d like a cost estimate for a retaining wall.”

The robot books a time and a week later shows up to knock on your door. It may look cute, it may be ghastly, but it’s been specifically designed by scientists to be adept at stone masonry, and since it works for free of course your local stone masonry company bought it. The same would be for your local appliance repair or roofing company. Robots everywhere, doing your landscaping, your aquarium cleaning, etc.

But then there’s a scarier thought: What if all those local human-run businesses were replaced by robots too, government controlled or something! Instead of calling a company like Roofing Victoria for a shingle repair, you might be using an app to summon a robot from a major corporation. Think of it!

In a free market, whoever is the company to have a line of robotic home service experts first will be able to dominate the market, not just locally but nationally or internationally as drones from the hub base could fly in all the materials and robots to get any job done in a fraction of the time and cost it would take small, human-run businesses today.

But maybe this isn’t such a scary thought, depending on your outlook. I actually doubt something like this would happen in the next twenty years, but maybe the next few hundred years for sure. If it does happen, it’ll be sad to remember all the historical humans who were once masters of their crafts, helping other humans.

What do you think? Let me know because I’d love to chat about it.

Thank you for visiting.

Too Many Electronics?

Posted on by Jackie Rose

Are there too many electronics in modern society? That’s the question we’ll be exploring today. Thanks for tuning in.

First of all, before I say everything cliché and progressive that you might expect, let me play devil’s advocate and defend electronics in modern society for a moment.

To capture the theme, answer this question for yourself: How different would coping with the COVID pandemic of 2020/21 would have been if we didn’t have electronics to work from home or keep us busy indoors?

Certainly, nearly a hundred years ago we could have used pen and paper combined with the mail and transport systems to work many intellectual jobs from home but without electronics many of us would be forced to leave the house and risk our health during a pandemic in order to work our jobs.

Now we also can’t deny the unfortunate aspects of tech-dependent generations taking over all of society’s responsibilities as Baby Boomers retire more and more each year. Indeed, I really mean “tech-dependent”. I know many young people who haven’t sent a physical letter in the mail their whole lives. In a case of having no electricity, these types of people would enter a chaotic state and might starve to death fairly quickly, as thanks to technology they have no hunting skills, no gardening skills and truly rely on electronics to survive. A hundred years ago, if you needed electronics to survive at a young age, you would be considered a fool and a coward of the highest degree.

Therefore, an easy solution to this problem would be to simply have summer camps for kids that focus on teaching them of the pioneer way of life. No electronics all summer! Kids who learn how to cook with a fire and live without electricity will have an upper-hand when they’re adults, so consider this if you’re a parent.

Last but most importantly for your own sake, answer this: “Do you rely on electronics to survive?”

An Appliance Repair Victoria BC Worker Speaks Out Against Woke Cancel Culture at Uvic

Posted on by Jackie Rose

Young girls and boys once dreamed of going to university where they can discuss freely their opinions and learn objective truths. But, today, poor children who see the disasters that have taken over campuses across North America would rather work typical jobs than go to post-secondary school because they’re disgusted by the woke rebels who are holding knowledge hostage today.

In Victoria BC, an appliance repairman is concerned for his daughter’s future. His daughter once dreamed of going to law school to defend freedom of speech in Canada. But at the University of Victoria, all of her friends from high school have turned into her enemies as they make fun of her on social media for having conservative views. Cancel culture has gotten so out of hand that they preach against bullying while bullying at the same time and they are too blinded by their own lies to see how uneducated their choices are. It’s ironic and sad that institutions that once bred educated peers now breeds woke justice warriors that would rather complain on social media than do any hard work for themselves.

Today, a worker from a company called The Appliance Repair Pro, that specializes in appliance repair Victoria BC services, spoke out against the University of Victoria (Uvic) for brainwashing several friends of the family this morning. To quote, they said: “My friend’s daughter was raised in a wealthy family and was treated well her whole life, but after one gender studies class at Uvic she now thinks she’s a victim and refuses to learn anything truthful about Canadian history because she thinks all of history is now a lie. I don’t know what teachers at Uvic told here, but this needs to stop right now.”

Moreover, most concerning of all, the worker/parent had this to say: “Now, my own daughter saw all this and refused to go to Uvic because of it. She refuses to go to any university that ‘disrespects the foundation of its own civilization.’ I love her for it, but I’m also sad because she now wants to follow in my foot steps and have a career in appliance repair rather than go to school. I really wish things were different, because I never dreamed my daughter would have the same boring job as me fixing appliances. She deserves better for how smart she is. She is the new justice warrior, in my opinion, calling for justice against woke cancel culture. Well, I guess she has that freedom to do as she pleases, and that’s what she’s trying to protect by doing this in first place.”

This is a wake up call to all parents who have kids who will be going to university in North America within the next few years. If you don’t want to risk your children becoming brainwashed, woke justice warriors, consider waiting will dangerous university ideologies are quelled before sending your kids away. If more people spread awareness about this, perhaps we can see universities going back to doing what they were designed to do by a couple of years. Right now, sending your kids to university would be a waste of money and would actually have the opposite of the intended effect. They won’t become educated, they’ll become brainwashed by professors who behave like religious fanatics. And we’re not afraid, unlike them, to admit the truth of this matter. So…

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