Timo

Pump up. Dip brush in it. We downstreamed it straight onto a three story gutter once.

I hope you like shellfish Connor because now that you've graduated high school the world has just become your oyster. You got a good thing going on there. You've come to the right place. Some of the deepest institutional based cleaning knowledge in the world is contained within this board. The very first thing that you must do: Listen, then follow these instructions very carefully. Fill out your signature. Got it? Good. You'll get along better here, plus it's the rules. Big guy - perfect surface cleaner for an 8 gpm pump. Will not work with 4. Unless you walk standing still. Hang on to it but don't carry it around in your trailer. Yes, you do lose a bit of pressure in hose length. That's okay though because before you know it, you'll have a 5.6 gallon machine to run your operation with. Carry fifty gallons of water in your tank. First thing on the job, say hello to the client and hook up your hose to their spigot. By the time you get everything setup, you'll have enough water in the tank to get started. Plus, you can bypass your PW'r back to the float tank so it won't burn up when you let off the trigger for a while. Roof cleaning. You're not going to do any tomorrow so start reading up on them now. Take your time, you'll get there. Hollar back. (after you get your signature up of course)

We downstream 12% cut in half with water, with Simple Cherry added. So if you get weaker bleach, use less water.

Water hoses are for flower beds. On your day off. Electric pump - not enough agitation. I, like you, am often looking for something else. I think i may have found it. Eight gallons a minute to soap with. Ten gallons a minute to rinse with. No nozzle switching. No rinsing with a twenty tip and pretending to be soft-washing while your shoulder muscles scream. I like it.

Labor for learning is a good thing. I don't know any roof cleaners in Delaware. L4L is best practiced a few hours from home.

Here's your system. Super size the thumbnail to see the contents of the kit. Add the "Pump In A Box" upgrade and we'll even take care of the wiring! - PUMP KITS Add the pump in box option. Add accumulator. Stay off your roof. Save a life. Your own. Do not underprice roof cleaning. Ever. There are two price schedules in roof cleaning. Regular price or free. Let me know what you need help with. Tim (I added the "o" at registration because I didn't think that the forum would give me "Tim").

Rick is a home owner. I cleaned a motel roof with a pump up sprayer last week. With my favorite EaCo go to chem. You don't need big fancy equipment if you have patience. Are you going to walk the roof Rick or spray from the gutter? On edit: Rick, you appear to want to do things properly. If that is the case, please find the link that shows that the manufacturer of your shingles approves the use of the ingredients found in applestuff. The ARMA has prescribed cleaning products. Check with them for detergent.

Find 1,000 psi at the top. Follow that column down until you find 4 gpm. Go to the left column to see that an 8 tip gives you what you want.

Hi again Rick, If you are going to downstream bleach onto something and walk away, you are going to have problems. If you intend to rinse whatever you soak in bleach then you'll also be rinsing the bleach application apparatus. Check out the pressure washer model that Russ recently posted up here. It seemed like pretty substantial unit. And Russ can answer any question that you can imagine.

Guy is right. A minimum is just another tool in the box. You decide how to use it. Our minimum is $385.00 this year. But if you're a widow lady living in a single wide that the park management is hounding about washing, I will find a way around the minimum. The minimum can and does help save a lot of time looking at dead end jobs.

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Think of the injector as a T. It has an in, that gets a coupler. It has an out, that gets a plug. The third leg of the T is a 1/4" hose barb. Stick a piece of hose on there with a filter on the end to get placed in your soap bucket. This assumes that your washer has a plug on it where you quick connect your hose. Connect your coupler on the in end of the injector to the plug on the PW'r. Connect your high pressure hose to the plug on the injector. You could plumb the injector in line with out plugs and couplers but it takes too long to change it when it quits working, so we always carry a spare ready to plug and play. Not every direct drive pump will pull from a tank. Make sure that your water level is higher than your pump head and use a 1" line from the buffer tank to the pump intake. Do whatever you can to arrange it so that the intake hose goes straight into the intake without restrictions or 90's. Post up pics of areas you have questions about. Hollar back.

What pump are you using?

You simply can not go wrong doing the right thing.

Not everyone that calls is a customer. Ask them what their siding manufacturer recommends for cleaning because every Vinyl Siding Institute memo I've read about cleaning recommends bleach. Age and solar exposure cause oxidation. Cleaning with bleach removes the dirt and leaves behind freshly washed but still oxidized siding.

Done. X2. (my phone liked it also).

At this point you need three things; a quarter, a hand with a thumb, and an eyeball to determine if it's heads or tails. If there is no difference in the warranty - you checked for PP and Dewalt, right?, if there is no difference in the pumps or unloaders, if there is no difference in the attention to detail of the clerk that takes your money, then there is no difference. Except that which you perceive. Go with the one that makes you happy. Or flip for it. Or go with the Pressure Pro and make me happy. You really have done your homework and will be well served by any one of the three mentioned.

It really does come down to the pump. Of the six Pw's I own, only one has a cat pump. Most are AR or General. Study the pumps of the two that you have decided to pick from. Warranty first. The unloader is also important. Select the model with a replaceable unloader vs. built in to the head unloader if given a choice. With that, I'd probably be partial to the PressurePro unit.

The drawbacks are that SAMs sells stuff to make you think that you're getting the real deal. Nothing wrong with that for their intended audience. The unit with the cat pump will still be pumping water after you've replaced the pump a time or two on the dressed up dime store unit. The SAMs unit may put out a bit more water, but the cat pump will put it out longer. The cat pump will still have parts availability long after no resource even lists the pump, much less parts, for the SAMs pump. Although most pros would judge the Northern Tool units as inadequate for commercial purposes, the NT professional units are far superior to the big box units. The box store unit will impress your neighbor when he sees it. The cat pump will impress you when it just keeps on making pressure, year after year. I am not a good one to counsel you about water volumne as the current "small" unit on my trailer is eight gallons per minute. When we ran the 3.2 gpm NT unit it was hooked to another unit rated at 3.5 for a total of 6+ gpm.

I don't think that you can get 4k psi at 4gpm with an 11 or 13 hp engine. Nor do you need 4k at home. It is usually best to buy the one with the best service department, but in the absence of that, purchase the one with the best replacement/refund policy. Either unit certainly seems more than adequate for home use. The PP did have 50' listed as hose So perhaps it is complete. One other place to look may be Northern tool. I have a five or six year old year old 3.2 gpm from there with a cat pump that was used as a back up until last year.

Don't use pvc fittings to make a manifold out of if you're also going to use that area as a step. Been there. Broke that.

19x25 = 475 square feet. IF there was two lengths of rail at 19' and one length at 22', that would total 60 lineal feet. Each lineal foot gets charged as seven square feet in my calculations. 60 lin. feet times 7 equals 420 square feet. Throw in just a couple of steps and I can see how a 19x25 deck equal 900 square feet on the calcometer. Hey, it could happen, right?

Big unger pole works for me. Up to three stories. Wear eye protection and keep your mouth shut. Amazon.com: Telescopic Extension Pole, 30': Home Improvement

Bob Has decent ones. Our local napa carries a nice thick brush with the fuzzy ends.

Fatboy is fine. Babyboy or 5800 is better for a new guy. Less waste, less dead landscaping, more money for advertising. The magic is in the mix. Pumps don't kill moss, mix kills moss. Get the 1/2" hose unless bob offers a 3/8" option. 3/4" hose is plenty big for supply. Put mean green hose on your list so that you'll have something to look forward to when it's time to upgrade. One hundred feet with the same for backup. One wire pressure hose. The thin cheap stuff that doesn't last forever, or weigh ten pounds a foot. Two hundred feet. One piece. The whisper wash classic is a fine piece. Buy a cheaper one and spend the difference on advertising. Have fun. Keep a pair of dry shoes and clean socks in the truck.