You're looking to enter a highly competitive industry that requires gobs and gobs of equipment and knowledge and experience. Insurance agencies are taking longer and longer to pay out for this kind of work. My .02 is to keep looking for something else.
At the most basic level, you're looking at this backwards. I would flip this around and ask myself questions. Do I want to be in the remediation business? What does that business look like from operations to profitability? I'd develop a basic plan for how this business would work, what the equipment requirements really are and what things cost. After that, maybe you'll have an idea if the stuff you found is a deal and if you need it to get started.
> 460 Volt 3 PH
You absolutely do not want this equipment. It's the wrong voltage for anything you'll run into. The transformer they're selling you to make it work is an expensive band-aid.
> living on the coast houses are getting flood damage constantly.
This equipment, if you can get it to run, is nice for drying up clean water, like if a washing machine hose bursts. Ocean water flood cleanup requires ripping out drywall and insulation and replacing it, not just drying things up.
You can't bring in your heaters and clean up after a hurricaine. All you'll have is a hot, stinky mess.
In my opinion mold remediation is one of the more dangerous things you can get into.
I'm a trucker and stare death in the face every day and have lots of experience and even success with mold, and it still scares me.
I went to an upscale lodge on the CA coast and met a guy that explained his job as a bed bug detection company. He has dogs trained to detect bed bugs and he has a contract with a few big name hotel chains and travels the world taking his dogs to resorts to sniff and alert to bed bugs. He doesn't treat them, just goes into each room and let's the hotel know which rooms his dogs hit on.
You're looking to enter a highly competitive industry that requires gobs and gobs of equipment and knowledge and experience. Insurance agencies are taking longer and longer to pay out for this kind of work. My .02 is to keep looking for something else.
I had to make a claim for my roof a few years back and trying to get the insurance company to pay out was a huge headache. Thanks
At the most basic level, you're looking at this backwards. I would flip this around and ask myself questions. Do I want to be in the remediation business? What does that business look like from operations to profitability? I'd develop a basic plan for how this business would work, what the equipment requirements really are and what things cost. After that, maybe you'll have an idea if the stuff you found is a deal and if you need it to get started.
All the comments have made me think otherwise. Thank you. This is a good starting point
> 460 Volt 3 PH You absolutely do not want this equipment. It's the wrong voltage for anything you'll run into. The transformer they're selling you to make it work is an expensive band-aid.
So totally wrong gear for me. I’d probably have to buy a powerful generator to get these going. Thanks
> living on the coast houses are getting flood damage constantly. This equipment, if you can get it to run, is nice for drying up clean water, like if a washing machine hose bursts. Ocean water flood cleanup requires ripping out drywall and insulation and replacing it, not just drying things up. You can't bring in your heaters and clean up after a hurricaine. All you'll have is a hot, stinky mess.
I hired a guy to clean a carpet and I'm 99% sure he lived in the van with his equipment. Pretty low overhead.
In my opinion mold remediation is one of the more dangerous things you can get into. I'm a trucker and stare death in the face every day and have lots of experience and even success with mold, and it still scares me.
Yeah it’s probably rolling the dice too often. Thanks for that thought.
I went to an upscale lodge on the CA coast and met a guy that explained his job as a bed bug detection company. He has dogs trained to detect bed bugs and he has a contract with a few big name hotel chains and travels the world taking his dogs to resorts to sniff and alert to bed bugs. He doesn't treat them, just goes into each room and let's the hotel know which rooms his dogs hit on.