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How do you wash a bus? Well, there are many types of buses such
as: School Buses, Charter Buses, Church Buses, Shuttle Buses,
Military Buses, Greyhound Type Buses and there are the buses that
do tours, custom, gigantic buses that are really plush. The
fronts of the buses always have lots of bugs and they are hard to
clean. But generally they are not as hard to clean as the sides.
And the greyhound style buses are hard to clean because they have
those little ripples in the skin. Every time you hit another
bodyline it is hard to get it clean. What you have to do is soap
from the bodyline down by hand with a mit. There is no other way
to do it. You can try brushing it sideways, but that is just not
going to be as easy as you think.

Some of the buses that work for the cities have advertising on
them. When you are cleaning the advertising you want to make sure
you do not blast it at too close a range or use too much harsh
soap on it because you will discolor their advertising and that
makes them upset. The stainless steel part of the bottom of some
buses is really hard to clean, so what you need to do is go back
and forth and hand soap it. You have to really watch this part
because you get a little corner and you will miss a spot. It
really shows up every time you miss any little spot on a bus, so
you are going to have to hand soap the sides and brush the backs
and you are going to have to use a little extra chemical
cleaners. And pay extra special attention to what you are doing.
The fronts are rather easy. However you are going to have to
rinse and dry off every single window. What a pain in the neck.
Even if you are using de-ionized water, when you spray the top of
a bus it usually has soot and things like that that roll back
down and get on the windows. If you do not rinse and dry the
windows this will leave water streaks.

Ok, let’s generalize about buses. I don’t care if it is school
buses, shuttle buses or tour buses, you are going to have to dry
the windows. There is just no other way around drying the
windows. There are RTD buses, Metro buses, the kind of buses
rapid transit systems use, town transportation buses, county
buses and city buses. With all of these you have to dry the
windows and you pretty much have to do a good job on them because
people ride in them and those people look out the windows.

The wheels need to be cleaned. This is something people always
look at. If you are going to miss wheels, miss them on the
driver’s side not on the passenger’s side because the passenger’s
side is where the passengers get in. That has to be the cleanest
side. So, make sure if you are going to miss a spot, miss it on
the driver’s side, not on the passenger’s side. School buses, you
know, obviously the windows leak. So do not spray exactly,
directly at the windows, ok? Be careful with that. Just be smart
about it. Charter buses, you are going to have to clean that
inside back bathroom area. It is not that hard to clean, use a
little window cleaner and wipe it up real quick. There are lots
of big flat surfaces on buses. If you pay attention to the
ripples and the bodylines and you hand soap the bottoms of them
they will come off perfect every single time. This is what is
important.

Washing Limousines (Exteriors)

Limousines, how do you wash a limousine? Well, if you do it in
the sun you better do the sunny side first. And be careful
because you are going to water spot the vehicle. A lot of
limousines have vinyl tops. You may not have to soap the vinyl
top. All you have to do is spray it with water and dry it off.
Use a separate towel on the top to make sure any excess vinyl
dressing from a previous cleaning is on only one towel. Make sure
you don’t use that towel to clean the windows. Make sure you
always do the whitewalls and you clean in those rims on those
limousines. You are going to have to spray the whitewalls and you
are going to have to spray the rims. You may want to spray them
at the same time and then come back and blast the rims when you
are wetting the vehicle on your initial rinse. You may want to do
limos one at a time. There might be a lot of chrome on a
limousine. Even if there is not that much chrome, on the chrome
that is there, you want it to shine. You better make sure your
towels are dry when you are drying a limousine. You want to make
sure the windows are done well. Go over them after the wash with
window cleaner. There just cannot be any excuses. It is a big,
black vehicle and it has got to be done right.

Limousines (Interior)

Fragrance, in the interiors of limousines is a very sensitive
issue. Go light on fragrance or use none at all. Be very careful
with fragrance. If the customer complains about the fragrance,
you could lose a contract. Vacuuming is a little different in
limousines. You have a big area. It is kind of like vacuuming a
living room. So have the right attachment for your vacuum
cleaner. Inside windows on limousines, be careful. There are
counters and little areas where they have the wet bars. You have
to wipe all of that stuff off on the inside of the limousines. If
there are spots in the carpet you are going to have to clean them
with your carpet spot remover. You have to kind of walk on your
knees. You do not want your feet touching the carpet in the
limousine. You are just going to put more spots inside, because
remember, it takes a little more water to wash a limousine so you
have a greater chance of tracking mud inside.