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In this next video of the Pest Control Productivity Tips series, Andrew Greess details the next three secrets. Labor is the largest expense of any company and productivity from your labor force is essential. For a pest control or landscape company much of the productivity lies within the techs hands. Many of the issues they see are avoidable. […]

We touched on this topic in our sixth video in this seminar, the importance of filter placement. We have a few other videos covering the same idea with different equipment parts. It’s clearly something we can’t stress enough – DESIGN MATTERS!  Think through all your steps: How will I clean this?, How will we repair this? A few minutes of […]

It all comes back to design. Bad design will take away time from you and waste it on complicated repairs. O-rings need to be replaced. They are worked and worked some more. Swivel, turn, coat in chemical, repeat. It’s just a small piece of rubber or silicone that will wear out and it’s an easy fix.  In another shining example of “bad […]

I’m not an expert but... We’ve all seen these commercials that has a person acting like an expert and when questioned on their authority they essentially say “I’m not an expert, but I stayed in this hotel!”  Sometimes we see sprayers/rigs that look like someone walking down the street was asked and allowed to design it. Don’t take advice […]

Time to clean the filter on your backpack sprayer! No worries just reach down into the main tank and grab that filter... ERH wait! They want you to put your hand into where there was just harsh lawn and pest control chemicals?! That is some of the bizarre design flaws we’ve actually seen on  professional spray equipment.  What hap […]

Let's talk about how you can potentially design your problems away. American graphic designer, Milton Glaser, once said “There are three responses to a piece of design – Yes, no and WOW!” We sure have seen our share of WOW designs. Most of the time our WOW’s are followed by “why would you do that?” In our industry we need to be able to reach our […]

Bob Marley sang, “You can fool some people sometime, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” You might be fooled into thinking a few spot welds keeping your 100 pound hose reel suspended above your engine and pump will hold. But we know better. Eventually the normal wear and tear, thumping and bumping down roads, hot and cold temperatur […]

Pest Control Equipment - Don't Wait for ProblemsOur pest control equipment repair shop sees all sort of problems, every day.The pest equipment issues that really surprise me are the ones that are totally avoidable. So many big problems can be avoided if the problem was dealt with when it was small. Check out this short spray equipmen […]

We solve lots of power spray hose problems in our spray equipment repair shop.  Many of these problems could have been anticipated and avoided.  A quick inspection of your pest control spray hose can reveal potential problems.  The bad hose can be eliminated before it fails.  Spray hose repair is fast and easy. […]

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 […]