The Maintenance Shop – Handyman Services

Yesterday wasn’t too bad of a day.  We managed to finish all the sprinkler blowouts we had as of yesterday morning in the Boise 83705 except for 4 we couldn’t do because of system issues.  It was short-lived, though.  When I got back to my office I found 4 new ones in the Boise 83705 […]

We spent the entire day in Avimor after I did a sprinkler blowout in Horseshoe Bend.  It went somewhat smooth and we completed 50 sprinkler blowouts.  I forgot that our AT&T cell phones do not work in  Avimor, so navigating was a big problem as well as updating our online list of places we were […]

We didn’t quite finish Eagle on Monday as we planned.  We had two rigs there, and both of us ran into problems with several sprinkler systems.  Five we went to will need major repairs before they can be blown out.  Unfortunately with our workload, we can’t do repairs during sprinkler blowouts.  In fact, we do […]

Well yesterday was a sprinkler blowout disaster.  Early in my blowout route my motorized reel decided to throw it’s chain when there was still about 125 feet of hose out on the ground.  I called my assistant Jesse to leave his route to help me get the chain back on well enough to roll up […]

We had two machines working in the Boise 83704 on Saturday, but with the large amount of blowouts we had to do in the area we couldn’t finish.  I found more requests in the area when I got back to my office, so we are at 33 finished with 22 to do.  No worries if […]

We cleaned up our current list in three zip codes yesterday.  The 83702, 83703, and 83716.  There were a few in one area we couldn’t do because we could not find the sprinkler main.  Of course when I got back to my office I found new ones that came in from the same area.  We […]

Going to keep this short and sweet for today.  Too dang tired to do much else.  I have discovered it is a lot harder working with two machines and building routes, extra paperwork, more billing, etc. Today we will be cleaning up stragglers in the Boise 83716, 83702, 83703, and also working in the Boise […]

Sorry folks, no route maps today.  Ran out of time.  There’s is a LOT that goes into the daily activity of sprinkler blowouts, and it doesn’t end when the blowouts are done for the day.  It is quite common to be up until 3:00 a.m. every day preparing for the next day that starts at […]

Yesterday was quite the mess with trying to get one of our machines working in the pouring rain, and then sprinkler blowouts on top of that in the rain.  We get wet every day while doing our job, but the rain was a pain. Today Jesse will be running one rig covering the area of […]

POST UPDATE: Our compressor on Route 3 is down.  Took a crap right in the middle of a blowout.  I will get Route 3 on the schedule again for tomorrow. (Wednesday)  I will send out another text reminder tonight. I am personally on Route 1, but haven’t made it out yet with trying to get […]