Pressure Washing and Trash Can Cleaning

What It Is

Pressure wash residential driveways, patios, and building exteriors, then add a simple upsell while already on-site: offer to clean the customer's outdoor trash cans for an extra $20 to $30 per can, since the water, cleaning solution, and equipment are already there.

The Pitch

Zaback cites a personal acquaintance, a former financial advisor with no industry background, who started with a trailer, water tank, hose, and surface cleaner, and crossed $100,000 in his best single month four years in. He frames the U.S. pressure washing industry as a $1.2 billion market across 32,000-plus companies with consistent, non-seasonal demand, and notes average residential jobs run $400 to $1,000.

Who It’s Best For

Someone willing to start with used or basic equipment and build a route, then compound revenue per stop by bundling in the trash-can upsell rather than driving to new jobs for incremental income.

The Truth (as we see it)

The $100,000-month example is a specific person Zaback knows personally, a real but individual result rather than a typical outcome, and it came after four years of operating, not immediately. The trash-can upsell math (an extra $40-60 per stop) is a straightforward, independently testable idea regardless of how the broader pressure-washing business performs.

Our assessment, based on the video and what’s typical across similar videos. We don’t independently verify income claims or prices.