The Importance of Pressure Washing Gas Stations

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If you’re the owner of a gas station, you know how gasoline, oil, and other petroleum-based products can leave unsightly stains. A filthy appearance of your business is a deterrent to business. Those driving by, looking to fill up are searching for brightly lit, clean gas stations. If a gas station looks dirty, drivers will go to your competitor.

It’s important that you keep your gas station sparkling clean at all times. The best way to keep it clean is to hire one of the many pressure washing companies that specialize in pressure washing gas stations.

It’s important that the pressure washing companies you are looking at have the proper equipment and cleaning solutions. The equipment must have the strength and capacity to remove dirt, gook, and grime from concrete and asphalt driveways. In addition, the equipment and cleaning solution must be gentle enough not to remove the paint off any metal siding or concrete block walls.

The first thing drivers will see when they pull onto the station’s property is the roadway surface. Gasoline spills from when the tanker offloads gas into the tanks is a common occurrence. Even though the spill is negligible, stains remain. The same holds true for drivers adding oil, transmission fluid or coolant to their cars.

They will spill some fluid onto the concrete or asphalt. This happens every day and over time, the stains become large and project a filthy appearance. As well, stains pose a slip and fall hazard for those walking in the vicinity of the pumps. The best solution is to bring in professional, certified power washing companies that know everything about pressure washing gasoline stations.

The pressure washing contractor will use hot water pressure hoses and nozzles connected to a tank, mounted on a trailer. Specially formulated cleaning solutions will emulsify petroleum-based products, drawing them out of the entranceway.

Cleaning the roadway, the building exterior, and the pump islands are not an easy task. It requires the professional, certified contractor to have the proper equipment, cleaning solutions and accessories to get the job done right the first time.

Different material surfaces need different solutions and different nozzle applicators. There are cleaners, cleansers, foamers, degreasers, and stripers. Certain nozzles are used on windows and pumps to avoid damaging electronic equipment at the pumps and from high pressure cracking the building’s windows.

Gas station owners should not limit pressure washing gas stations to just the roadway surface and pump island. A clean gas station attracts business. It brings cars in for fill-ups and people inside to the convenience store to buy cigarettes, beer, soda, chips and all other types of items. The building, the windows, the dumpster, the exhaust fan hoods all need to be cleaned periodically. Clean up your pumps and you’ll clean up at the register!

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