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<\/a><\/p>\nYesterday I had Justin working in the 83642 and Jesse in the 83709.\u00a0 They made a pretty good dent in the areas, which makes it much more manageable now.\u00a0 There were a few they couldn’t get to because of either\u00a0 locked gates on Fallingbranch, or a German Shepherd on Mastiff that didn’t want Justin in the backyard.<\/p>\n
Today Jesse and I will both work in the 83709, and then on Saturday we will both work in the 83642.\u00a0 That will leave us just a little to get through on Sunday in both zip codes so we can either move on later Sunday, or fresh start on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
On Monday Justin and I will split our time between the 83713 and 83704, following the same pattern as before to get the numbers down, but this won’t take as long.\u00a0 The 83713 and 83704 have less combined than the 83709 did when we started our second pass.\u00a0 After those are complete we are going to make a run through the remaining of Boise, (02, 03, 05, 06, 12, 16)\u00a0 and then the 83714 before heading to Star, Kuna, Nampa, Caldwell, and Middleton.\u00a0 After that we circle around again to pick up any remaining around the valley and close down for the season<\/p>\n
I project having all blowouts complete that are currently showing by in a little more than two weeks.\u00a0 Of course saying this we will no doubt stimulate more cancellations, but we are still getting three times the new requests as we are cancellations.<\/p>\n
We are almost the only crew in town now still doing sprinkler blowouts,\u00a0 so I have actually given it some thought about renting a machine for a week.\u00a0 Most companies actually rent their machines and have turned them in by now because they either ran out of requests, or they are just tired of doing them.\u00a0 Sad, really, considering there aren’t enough technicians around to handle the workload as it is.\u00a0 If I was to rent one it would run almost $700 for a week, plus wages and fuel means around $250 per day in expenses.\u00a0 15 regular blowouts a day would be about $450, so as you can see, doesn’t leave much cushion there in a business perspective.<\/p>\n
Enough talk, time to get down to business.\u00a0 I am stil having some issues with our mass texting, so the notifications have been going out about 7 a.m. each day.\u00a0 We will surely get some last minute cancellations that didn’t send in the cancellation form, which means more work for me in the early, and then re-routing, billing those who chose not to comply, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Those things is part of what takes me so long to get out of my office in the morning.<\/p>\n
Below is the areas we will be working in today, including the area we will start in if there is any time after we finish our assigned routes.<\/p>\n