Monday, April 18, 2022
Driveway Cleaning
Cleaning a driveway is a nightmare for some people and it might be an opportunity for someone trying to take advantage of homeowners like you, especially when H.O.A. kiss your… with a letter with a cap “VIOLATION NOTICE”. Living in an H.O.A. subdivision, for sure, none of the homeowners could escape complaining about a driveway even though it is swept and there is none of debris at all. So, to break down this circle of complaining, we must work together. If you could take care of yourself without hiring anyone to do for you and then everyone does the same, I’m sure H.O.A. having no chance to send out complained letters because they figure they could not get any benefit from that. Usually, as I know, when you receive ads at your front door or in a mailbox, then sooner or later you will get a complaint if you don’t hire someone to do it. Do they have a connection to each other? I cannot tell but I can assume that yes, it is… Okay, forget about that, let’s go to learn how to do it.
Here are some tips for you to save your pockets. Some of these tips I got from my dad and then from that, I figured out others.
To save money for not hiring people to do, you have to do your own. Of course, you have to do some labors but these labors could help your health because it is an opportunity for you to have an excuse to exercise. You might be tired after doing the work; you might fall asleep. If you fall asleep, go to get a nap; after that, you will feel much better. If you have an ache after taking a nap, you can take a Tylenol or Advil and next day, your body will be back to normal.
Next, to save money on water use and time, you need to check the weather in your area. Look for closure when it will rain. Prepare and ready for the action. Right after the rain stops or slows down, do your job. You can wear a raincoat if you choose to do it in the slowing rain to prevent sickness. Why do you need to wait for the rain? Because, after raining, the surface of the driveway is partially cleaned and the water might be absorbed into the concrete, you save some water to get it wet before doing the work. Also, the driveway surface is softer and easier for you to do than the dried one. The rain makes things be done faster, easier and saves more time, money and water (especially if you have to pay more and more if you use more water in that month). This technique is also helping for the future of water preservation too.
Okay, I know I talk too much about saving.
How to clean a driveway???
- Weather. Check to see when it will have some rain.
- Prepare. You need a brush with a long handle, a bottle of dish soap, a container and yourself. When the rain stops, mix the soap with hot water in a container.
- Cleaning. Deep a brush into the mixture container and then start brushing. Usually, I start brushing at heavy dirty pots first and then others and back to tough dirty ones or stubborn pots. You don’t have to do it fast, just take time, do slowly and slowly like you are practicing Tai Chi*** and then you have less chance of aching.
- After brushing all areas of your driveway, you can leave it like that for sometimes to make the soap deep down to the concrete. Usually, I pull out a garden hose spraying water to clean soap away and stubborn dirty pots in the evening.
- You will see some change after cleaning but more visualized cleans of your driveway by next day and after the next couple rains.
Done. You have a clean driveway without paying a lot of money. Usually, I use probably about a dollar of soap and with minimal water. If you hire someone to do for you, especially the commercial, they use a lot of water because for the safety of their employees and/or themselves, the money they have to pay if their employees need medical attention plus work related liable insurances… They must do it on dry days. Also, they want the job to be done fast. Also, you hear noise because of their commercial machines. Not stopping there, like I just said that they want the work to be done faster, they must use a lot of chlorine. You will smell the chlorine plus the odor of the mixing of chlorine and dirt in the next couple days. The odor of the combination of chlorine, dirt, concrete/cement is so nasty, and it can give you nausea and headache. I know, some of you don’t care about those problems because you are an AC person, but, think about your neighbors, outdoor people, kids who are living close by your property… I’m sure you will breathe some unpleasant perfume mixture through the fan of your AC bringing into your house, but you don’t notice or acknowledge that. Not only that, but your driveway might also get damaged in the future due to…
I must confess, I got a little ache around my shoulder and my back but in return, I got my belly better… and eat anything I want without being afraid of getting fat. I did take a nap when getting inside after spending time hanging out in the front doing this and that, chit chatting with my neighbors… Most of the time, I choose not to take counter pain medicine instead of taking a hot bath and some medicated oil massaging around my joints. I did take a Tylenol one time. It makes me feel great the next day, like nothing happened to my body yesterday.
See you next post.
VNN, Monday, April 18, 2022, 3 P.M.
*** I have never practiced Tai Chi; I saw a quick performance somewhere through the video.
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