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Partner Profile TSS Facility Services, Inc.

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TSS Facility Services, Inc. (TSS) was established in 1986 by Kenny Battiato with a very personal approach to business; knocking on doors and providing unparalleled customer service to build and maintain relationships. Today, this hands-on approach and customer-centric philosophy has fueled TSS into a successful and respected facility service company. Even through their extraordinary growth and market leadership position, Kenny’s core philosophy has never wavered…”to treat every property like it’s his own.”

Today, TSS has become a proven leader in the industry by offering a superior level of service to over 700 clients ― providing a broad range of services to national and local accounts, institutional and corporate clients for over 30 years. Their services include parking lot sweeping, broom sweeping, construction work, pressure washing, snow removal, commercial and facility cleaning services.

The TSS reputation has been earned by building a reputation for integrity, reliability and trust. They take great satisfaction in building relationships with their customers by listening to their concerns, understanding their needs and making good on our promises. Every employee feels that they are part of the team and makes it their business to exceed expectations and deliver excellent service.

TSS Facilities Services is located in Union, NJ and covers Northern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, representing area codes 201, 973, 845 and 718. TSS has been a part of the 1-800-SWEEPER family since 2019. Please welcome Kenny and his team to our organization.

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SE Louisiana’s Sweeping and Exterior Maintenance Professionals

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Power Sweep Services

David Powell, Kenner, LA

Power Sweep Services, LLC is a locally owned and operated company that keeps quality and customer service at the top of their priorities. Since Power Sweep Services began in 2005, business has increased each year along with the range of services that are provided. Owned and led by David Powell, they provide services to SE Louisiana and surrounding areas. Power Sweep Services pride themselves on their reputation for providing the exterior maintenance services wanted by their customers.

“We have added a number of services in order to better serve our new and existing customers,” says owner, David Powell.

“We quickly learned that our sweeping customers would prefer working with one capable company on all of their exterior maintenance needs. In the years since we began back in 2005, we have strived to become that type of full-service company.”

Communication is a key factor in our quality.

Along with providing a wide variety of exterior maintenance services, Power Sweep Services, LLC ensures an extremely responsive line of communication with all of their existing and potential customers.

“The one thing that we have always made sure throughout the years is to remain responsive to our customers,” says Powell.

“We always make a point to return phone calls and emails the same day they are received. We have had situations where a customer has requested an emergency clean up in the middle of the night. We were there to take the call when it came in and provide immediate service to our customer.”

Power Sweep Services not only provides sweeping services but also line striping pressure washing and graffiti removal.

We are glad to have David a part of the 1-800-SWEEPER organization.

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Partner Profile: Sweep Masters, Moss Point, MS

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We’re profiling one of our newer members, Cheryl Meyer, owner of Sweep Masters in Moss Point, MS. Cheryl is an Affiliate Member of 1-800-SWEEPER.

Cheryl started in the sweeping business working for Don Odom, then original founding owner of Sweep Masters, in 2003 as Don’s secretary. About six months into Cheryl’s employment, Don called her in the middle of the night to help sweep parking lots. A lot of his employees had quit all at once and he needed her help. Cheryl states,  “I started learning to drive a sweeper truck that night, and I’ve been in the sweeper business now since I was 23 years old. I continued helping on the routes until Don eventually got more employees, and I went back to my secretarial job in the office. He’d call me occasionally and say, “Do you want to learn to do some construction sweeping?” Or, he’d teach me other stuff sweeper truck drivers need to learn. Eventually, I learned it all and I started training new hires.”

Cheryl would eventually buy into the business in 2005, became president in 2015, and in August of 2019 became sole owner, because Don had to retire early due to illness. Today, they have 10 employees, plus Meyer. Sweep Masters had been operating two offices, one in Biloxi, MS and the other in Theodore, AL. They purchased a building in Moss Point, MS that’s much bigger and is in the middle of their service area, and they’ve streamlined operations by moving their whole operation into the Moss Point location.

Sweep Masters serves a 65-mile radius. That may seem like a big distance to cover, but the area is not very dense with shopping centers. Being on the Coastline, they go 65 miles east and west, but only 10 miles north (and south, in Alabama).

Meyer has grown the business over the years and provides quality power sweeping and property maintenance services. Quality, professionalism, and excellent customer service are traits Don Odom started, and even though he is no longer with us, those traits are still the framework that Sweep Masters runs on today.

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Welcome New 1-800-SWEEPER Partner: Tim Toler, Clean Sweep Lot Services, Indianapolis, IN  

We’d like to welcome Tim Toler of Clean Sweep Lot Services in Indianapolis to the 1-800-SWEEPER family. Tim makes a great addition our organization and we’re glad to have him.

From starting with a broom and a wheelbarrow, Tim Toler has grown his company a long way. For eight years Tim Toler, now president of Clean Sweep Lot Service, Inc., did outside maintenance for a developer. Noticing that a store in the area wasn’t keeping its lot clean, Toler contacted the manager, who put him in contact with the management company. He not only got a contract to do that property, but nine others managed by the same firm.

For a couple years, Toler and his son continued to clean the properties by hand, all while continuing with his full-time day job. Coupled with starting to go to church on a regular basis, he says he came to the realization that there was enough money in other people’s trash to quit his regular job and go full time with sweeping.

Deciding that if he was going to have truck payments then he’d just as well have a new sweeper, Toler went out on a limb and bought a new Schwarze 347-I. After having walked lots for many years in his work for the developer, with sparing use of a Tennant sweeper — walking the soles off many pairs of shoes in the process — the overnight transition was enormous.

At first, he found himself still spending four to five hours on a property that previously took eight but now should be done in about three. Even then, one property manager simply could not be made happy. “However, I came to a realization,” Toler says, “that my time had to be worth much more than $10 an hour. That was the beginning of figuring out my actual costs and the pricing that needed to go with it.”

Toler credits his company’s growth with providing a good end product for his customer and always doing whatever he says he’ll do, period. That has brought him both growth and a high degree of customer loyalty.

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