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Spray professionals should use the slower time at the end of the year to ensure their equipment is in tip-top shape for the coming year. These tasks need to be done anyway. Do them when business is slow and when they won’t negatively impact your customers and schedule. Inspections. Use slow periods to perform thorough inspections of vehicles, p […]

You spend a lot of money for your Birchmeier pest control sprayer. You also spend a lot of time and effort getting your customers. What you don't want is downtime to prevent you from servicing your customer. It is important to keep your Birchmeier running smoothly. At Qspray, we recommend keeping a few important repair parts on hand so that i […]

Birchmeier Backbacks have been built with exceptional quality for the demanding professional. They are undeniably the most reliable professional backpack sprayer on the market. Each  professional sprayer backpack has a stainless steel frame, impact resistant plastic tanks, with external pump. With the external pump, there are less issues […]

Additional policies and procedures to reduce downtime, missed appointments and equipment repair expense are: Assign equipment to specific employees and hold them responsible. Any piece of equipment assigned to an individual will have fewer problems and less downtime than equipment that multiple employees use. Equipment left in a common […]

That spray wand is not a crowbar. This sounds obvious, but it’s not. Ensure technicians are using equipment correctly for its intended use. Many technicians seem to think a spray wand also serves to open cabinets and gates and move obstacles out of the way. This will definitely destroy a spray wand. Ensure employees are well trained on all equipmen […]

Additional risk for spray professionals comes during the winter. Deep freeze conditions can cause considerable damage to pest control spray equipment. Some of the most expensive parts are most at risk of freeze damage. Water can freeze in lines, and the ice can damage pumps, spray guns, line strainers (filters) and hand sprayers. In addition to the […]

If it’s critical, back it up! Have you ever lost an important computer file you needed immediately? Everyone has experienced this situation. Hopefully, we learn from our mistakes and start backing up our critical files. Spray professionals have the same issue with their spray equipment. Companies rely heavily on spray equipment, yet in many case […]

Spray equipment breakdowns can wreak havoc on schedules, impact customers and hinder company profitability. Yet, with planning, some downtime can be avoided. Here’s one simple tip: Keep easy-to-replace parts in each truck so minor repairs can be completed in the field. A repair in the field avoids a trip to the repair shop and enables the techni […]

Do not over pressurize. Pressure is good. Without it, most power and manual sprayers won’t work. But too much pressure decreases sprayer life. Here’s an interesting observation. When we build a new gas-powered pest spray rig, we install it, test it and send it out at 75 to 100 psi. When spray rigs come into our shop for service, the rigs are oft […]

Many spray-equipment problems we see are significantly worse than they should to be. In too many instances, spray techs ignore problems with the hope they’ll go away. As a business mentor once told me, hope isn’t a strategy. Much like the slow drip of your kitchen faucet, spray equipment problems always get worse. They don’t get better, and th […]