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Spray Equipment Video Tips #1 - Clean Out That Tank for Easy Productivity This is a new feature. Quick video tips to help you with your landscape, weed control and pest control spray equipment. We want to help you: - Reduce Spray Equipment Downtime - Boost Spray Equipment Productivity - Extend Spray Equipment Life - Improve Spra […]

Dual Tank Termite Pretreat Sprayer we recently built for SOS Exterminating/Terminix. Terminix told us what they wanted in their termite pretreat sprayer and we built it.  With 1000 gallons and a monster diaphragm pump, this baby is built for making fast work of termite pretreats jobs.  This is important because the key to ma […]

We've all heard the saying "Don't put off to tomorrow that you can do today." It's true in all areas of life, but especially handy to remember when thinking about any equipment leaks. If it's leaking – it's bad. If it's leaking slow now, it's not going to stop – it will get worse. No matter if it's chemical, water, gas or oil – it shouldn […]

What is the actual  true cost of a shut off valve? Some would argue just $5 or $10 dollars. Some would argue maybe $100 to build a quality fitting with shut off valve. Andrew Greess, of Qspray, could argue that it could potentially cost you hundreds of dollars if you do it cheaply. Because the chances are you will have a leak or if you h […]

Literal wear is what is going to take out your hoses! Rubbing against the gate of a truck as its being wound. Does it bump against your reel just enough to cause enough friction to wear down the covering over time? Can your hose be snagged while driving? If you think you can answer yes to any of these scenarios then you'll likely lose a hose […]

Safety is free, don't use it sparingly. It's the law to use PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) while we are spraying on a job, but it's before the job starts in our trucks and after the job is done that we could always use some extra help remembering ways to stay healthy and safe. Clean equipment after leaks and other forms of contamination. Us […]

Great Pest Control Marketing Doesn't Have to Cost You a FortuneCheck out this great example from Kraft Heinz, which owns Country Time Lemonade.Someone in their marketing department read an article about a little kid's lemonade stand that got shut down by the local police because the kids didn't have a permit.  Kraft did a little research and f […]

It's not about how much equipment you are able to cram onto a truck. It was covered previously how a truck packed too tight can cause injuries. Again, we are going over how basics like layout of equipment on a spray truck can prevent injuries.  Making it so your tech has to climb over the motor to get to other equipment is jus […]

Prevention: the act of preventing; effectual hindrance. The key to prevention is the word EFFECTUAL. It has an effect, it does something to change the situation. As the boss, it's up to you to be the effectual hindrance in  preventing on the job injuries of your technicians. If what you do has no effect on the way their job is perfo […]

There are things we can do to avoid injuries and on the job accidents. Take a look at the back of your rig – Is there any glaring "accidents waiting to happen?" Or can you think of any small steps that could be taken to help avoid injury? Where is your pump motor exhaust blowing on – the edge of your truck where you might then lay your hand […]