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The Side Hustle Show

525: $3k a Month Pressure Washing Houses

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Starting a pressure washing business may be a great seasonal side hustle opportunity. These types of blue collar businesses tend to have low startup costs and you may already have the skills and equipment you need to get started. Full Show Notes: How to Start a Pressure Washing Business Get Your Personalized Side Hustle Show Playlist

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0:00.0

Scott was one of her pressure washing and you can make three or four thousand dollars in a month pretty easily

0:05.3

I went down the route of kind of having the the leanest start up as possible

0:09.5

So I went and bought a used pressure washer for like a hundred dollars some hose and other you know little accessories

0:15.3

So I think I might have spent like a total of maybe three hundred dollars in order to get started and then made a real simple

0:21.3

Facebook page kind of shared it with my friends and a few days later started having a few people reach out and say hey

0:27.0

I have this house, you know people. I don't even know and so the the first house that we did

0:32.9

I think I charged two hundred dollars for it and I had really no idea what I was doing

0:38.1

I've only maybe pressure washed you know my own house at that time and a few other things you learn a lot of things

0:43.3

You don't know that you don't know as far as like, you know

0:46.0

How do I price things out like do I write it on a piece of paper?

0:50.0

There's just so many things you don't know at first

0:51.8

But we did that house it took us way longer than it should have

0:55.3

But it was you know, we almost got all the money we originally put in the business back out because it was we put maybe

1:00.4

300 into it and got 200 on the first job

1:02.7

So that definitely felt like a success, but at the same time it was a challenge just to kind of get your foot in the door

1:07.9

The first first one

1:09.9

What's up? What's up Nick? Oh, Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because your income doesn't have to end when your work day does

1:16.5

Today, I've got a quick hit episode for you on the low startup cost simple local and

1:23.0

Just plain satisfying business of pressure washing if I needed a way to make money quickly

1:28.7

This one would definitely be on my short list stick around in this episode to hear how Scott bids his jobs

1:33.8

How he got his first customers and the savvy way he markets the service ready. Well, let's do it

1:42.3

So yeah, hourly rate maybe not that great on that first job, but super quick validation to say okay

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