If you are on the job and a stiff wind comes through your truck or trailer, chances are you will have cellulose fibers land in flower beds and on your customer’s lawns. When hoses are not properly tightened at the output, they can create a real mess as well. Also, hoses, when they are cleared out due to clogs, can spill cellulose all over.
Do not assume that cellulose is an organic product that will dissolve away quickly. When it rains, cellulose can create matts that will hurt lawns and vegetation. Much of the cellulose on the market can kill a lawn for at least one year.
Also, it is good etiquette to leave a customer’s home, inside and out, as clean (or cleaner) than when you arrive. The following are some items you should carry with you to help clean up the mess that will inevitably happen! All these can be stored and carried in a 55 gallon waste can. So make room for one in your truck or trailer.
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- Have a sturdy 55 gallon trash can. This can hold all of the tools and bags.
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- Always carry 55 gallon heavy duty trash bags.
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- A grain shovel can pick up mounds of cellulose, quickly.
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- A broom like this or a whisk broom is very helpful when you have a generously-sized dustpan that will close when lifted up.
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- These cordless blowers make life a whole lot easier. These are delicate enough to use in flower beds and powerful enough to blow the cellulose fibers out of the blades of grass.
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- A lawn/leaf rake can get down deep into the grass to make sure it is clean.
