Do I need a license to start a pressure washing business in Indiana?

Pressure washing doesn't carry the kind of state licensing a stylist or a firearms dealer does. What it does carry, in a lot of towns, is rules about where the wash water goes — soaps, grease and paint chips running into a storm drain are somebody's business, and that somebody is usually the city's stormwater or utility department. One call before you buy the machine, not after.

The rest is business, not paperwork: registered name, insurance you can prove, a machine that isn't the box-store toy, and a way to take a card in a driveway. Around here the work is genuinely underserved — houses, barns, concrete, fleets — and the outfits that win it are the ones that answer the phone and show up when they said.

A barn raising builds that side: the name and the .com, the site with booking, the LLC at the halfway gate, cards, card payments switched on at the top. Your machine stays your own — the barn never buys tools, so nobody else ever owns a piece of your shop.

Builders, not lawyers — check the wash-water rules with your city and confirm anything trade-specific with the state.