Something That Sets You Apart and Costs Nothing: Keep it Clean

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Here, I purposely hooked up a vacuum that was too small to the big machine to show the heavier particles you can get spitting out. This can also happen when running with a canvas bag that is too full.
Here, I purposely hooked up a vacuum that was too small to the big machine to show the heavier particles you can get spitting out. This can also happen when running with a canvas bag that is too full.

Ep36 Low Country

Three years ago we were parked on the street doing a beach house one block off the ocean and a guy pulled up on his bike between our box van and the house and said, “Where’s the owner of this company?” From his tone, I was wondering what he was about to complain about, but I stuck my head out anyway and told him I was one of the owners. He said he needed us to come down to his house to give him a price for doing his floors. It turns out he had hired another company, and they told him he should stop into one of their job sites to see their work. When he did, the job site was a mess, there was a worker standing smoking outside where the smoke was going right into the house, and when he looked in the van, it was a giant heap of tools—like they had just been thrown into the van. He told us, “If they don’t care about their tools, they won’t care about my house.” We put him on the schedule as soon as we had an opening—six months later.

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