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    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.

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    Thanks Tim.

    I had a feeling you might recommend that pump for my situation. I actually bought most my PW accessories from Bob already, and I enjoyed doing business with him.

    And I hear you about staying off the roof. Like I said, I'm all about safety, and I'm not a fan of heights!

    Hagerstown is not too far away. Do you have any buddies doing business in Delaware? I'd gladly volunteer some man hours for a chance to learn a few things.

    Rick

    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.

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    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").

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  9. Posted · Edited by Timo
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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.

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    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.

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    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.

  16. Posted · Edited by Timo · Report reply

    Timo, thanks for the quick response. I actually looked at this NorthStar Professional Series Pressure Washer — 4000 PSI, 3.5 GPM from Northern Tools last year, but everything I've been reading states that GPM is much more important than PSI, so I figured the two models I listed above must be better since they both have 4 GPM vs the NorthStar's 3.5 GPM (for approx the same price... the Dewalt is actually $300 less).

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    and I kinda figured this would be a little bigger than what I needed, but I want a quality unit that will last, and I've learned that it's normally better to have to much than not enough. I'm aware of the potential damage from excessive PSI, but is there any other drawbacks from having a larger unit?

    Thanks Again!

    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.

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    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.

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    Hi,

    I am about to begin shopping this week for all my equipment for my 6 x 12 single axle open trailer. This will be my first season so I am trying to be smart about my initial outgoing costs. I have a used 11hp honda washer but need still some sort of roof washing system. Thinking of a fatboy delevan system from pressure tek.Will this system work on out moss covered roofs up in BC.,Canada or are they ideal for down south? Also got a good lead on cox reels so will be getting 2 of them. Thinking a 225 horizontal leg tank -more for looks than anything plus a 65 roof tank and a 25 g house chem tank will do?

    have my website just about finished and cards,logo uniform all good to go... but the details I would be interested to hear from experienced guys are Such as 1' or 3/4 for garden hoses...150 or 200 '? 1 or 2 wire pressure hoses and what lengths on them? the fatboy bandit is not something I should even think about? Will those roof systems work up here in Vancouver? whisper classic a good starter surface cleaner? You get the idea...

    I one day hope to get a 6 x 12 aluminum duallie trailer from express custom and want a 5.5-6 gpm power washer and all the bells and whistles but that is my goal 3-4 years down the road. For now I want to have a professional image (with 3rd party liability insurance and wcb) and do the work well and in an efficient manner and to start building a name slowly for myself. ;)

    Any advice sooner than later much appreciated...

    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.

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    No...not back in the military - Corrections. He gets to beat up on thugs in prison :)

    Charlie - thanks! He's meeting with her this week.

    If my tenure in the big house is any indication . . . He'll fight more with the administration.

    The convicts usually operate with a code of honor that isn't always found in the ivory tower.

    There really is honor amoungst thieves.

    I wish him well and I wished him a Happy Birthday too.

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    Let me rephrase my question -- on a brick home, would you charge the same price for cleaning just the eaves as you would for cleaning the entire house?

    For example, in this video Bob is only washing the trim...would this be priced the same as washing the entire house?

    Low pressure high volume chemical pump spraying - YouTube

    The price to do a basic wash on a vinyl house is the same as to detail the eaves and brighten the gutters on a brick house. On the brick house, the level of service includes a detailed gutter scrub which is not included in the basic vinyl wash.

    I will wash whatever the client is willing to pay for, but I do have few standards. I do not charge anything to wash the brick if I am hired to only wash the eaves. However, I charge enough for the eave wash that I don't mind rinsing off the brick. :)

    It feels funny to have spent more time typing this response than I have spent talking to customers about this issue over the last several years.

    Is it really an issue for you or are you just curious?

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