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I've been using a 15:1 proportioner and mixing my local chems 4gal bleach to 1 gal chems. Works good, but I'd like a better performing "soap". Hence, I'm strongly considering a to change to citracleen. Now for my problem, most recipes I've seen for Citracleen call for 1/2-1 gal CC to 1 gal bleach. That will whack my ratios pretty bad and cause me to back to no proportioner. I really don't want to do that because a 15gal bucket stinks to lug about. Can I mix the citracleen mix kit into 1/2-1/4 the water and use it in 1/4 the recommended amount? If not, any comments as to why that might assist my quest for lighter buckets?

For those who have wondered what would happen if you plumbed two pressure washers together... It works fine. At least with two pressure unloaders. I plumbed together a 4gpm and a 5.5gpm machine into 1 bad a** machine putting out ~8gpm. Total cost, 88c for a 3/8" tee and three QC's I had laying around. The results: - Need two hands to hold the gun. - Rinses concrete like a firehose. - No increase in distance with a #9 & #13 xjet, but creates ALOT larger mist/fog cone.

Now that I have a hot water rig, diesel oil is a new concern for my business. Since I am anticipating 3-4gph of usage (based on comments posted here), fuel cost is a real concern. Has anyone here tried burning biodiesel and/or filtered waste vegtable oil in their burners? Since both are being used successfully in auto engines, it seems that it would a no brainer for a simple external combtion system like a burner. And, it would be a very low cost ($0.00-0.75/gallon) alternative to gas station diesel. Combined with diesel vehicles, a busy operation could save 100's to 1000's of dollars a month on fuel expenses. Even if it only adds 5% to the bottom line it would seem to warrant the effort required. And as a commercial venture, there may even be some sort of greenie tax credit hiding out there. Here's one link to someone actually producing biodiesel in volume for daily use: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor4.html Many more interesting links at the bottom.

Too much brake fluid is a bad thing. Try 2tbsp chlorine & 1/2 tsp brake fluid. Stay clear, it burns like a road flare and puts off toxic fumes.

Every spent some serious time in wilderness? I don't mean in a state park, or a 5 mile hike, or a 1200 acre hunting plot. I'm talking out in the woods where becoming something's lunch is a real possibility, and no one would even hear your scream. Becoming invisible is not as hard as it might seem. In fact, being lost and dying of exposure is the #1 cause of death amongst outdoorsmen. And rescuers generally know where they started, when they were last seen, and which direction they were headed. And let's not forget that they WANT to be found. FWIW, Eric Rudolph stayed hidden for about 5 years here in the good 'ole USofA no more than about 20 miles from a busy tourist town.

Aww cut the crap. Everyone here knows YOU did it. Imus was about to go public with the Hillary/Jeff/Bill love triangle and you guys blew it up to divert attention away from yourselves.

That's about 5 gallons too much. Shoot for 0.75-1% bleach TTW. Sounds like you used no proportioner? If so, use 1 gallon bleach, 1 gallon soap, 3 gallons water.

Finished product looks great! Ironically, C.A.T.O. is the rocket/pilot moniker for an utter disaster. Literally, it means: Catastrophe At Take Off Sorry to hear it worked out that way...

It doesn't even have to be that complicated. Even this board has forums that are only open/visible to moderators. There's even a special super-secret forum where the illuminati gather to discuss what a jacka** I am.

I voted for "Members Bulletin Board open partially to non members". 1. Members need a private area to discuss issues, hash out dirty laundry, and just generally have a benefit that is not available to non-members. 2. Open to non-members: Who wants to join an org they know nothing about? Newbies register, participate in the BBS, gain knowledge, and then realize that there is a benefit and that they are only getting part of that benefit.

I'll leave the bleach/mix debate to others, but if you are having to pressure off after a soap and dwell, you need to check your mix. Were it not for the ill effects of not rinsing (glass, plants, chalking), 90% of houses need no rinsing, much less pressure, after a soap and dwell.

It was kind of a joke, but apparently no one got it. Dave Ramsey is a radio talk show host/personal finance counselor (www.DaveRamsey.com). His mantra is "Get out of debt". Anyway, when people get deeply into debt and are trying to dig out of the hole, you need cash fast. And one of the fastest ways to create additional cash flow is to get rid of a financed car and buy a much cheaper car for cash. The net effect is to kill the car payment and regain $3-400 in cash flow pretty quickly. Anyway, since 75% of the people who calls his show are deeply in debt and most of those have a car payment (or 2), "sell the freakin' car" is said about 10x a day. So when you said "MUST SELL NOW- RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!", I replied "Dave Ramsey?!?". Anyone who listens to Dave a lot would probably have found it really funny. Also, if anyone here is just starting the Dave plan, they would probably have recognized a very subtle clue that I have been where they are and that I am open to talk about it. Kind of like a not-so-secret handshake.

Wait until they hotlink to you. They get the pic, and you pay for the bandwidth everytime it is displayed!

That alters the pic geometry. Just turn off javascript or view source to get the original unaltered file.

That's another scam hitting our there. I WENT AFTER a site I found plagarizing about 10 of my articles. The cooperated and led me to a broker selling ready made sites complete with my content. $399 and you are online. We shut them down hard, but the point was the rip-off brokers do exist.

Probably me. Actually it was more than Beth & Rod, it was several peoples pics. No foul intended, I just did a search for c:\*.jpg and copied 'em all to a big folder. Never considered the internet cache files, pictures in the /temp folder I had enhanced and printed out for my guys (more below), etc. All in all, I think it was about 3-4 pics out of 20. Bottom line, mistakes happen so start nice. If it's a mistake, they will have 'em down in 15 minutes. If not, get out the ugly stick. Philip *enhanced and printed out for my guys - To answer the Question, no I do not send TGS links to my guys. It's bad enough that they already think they can quit and start up tomorrow without me handing them this gold mine as a tool. I print pics and discuss what I see right, what I see wrong, etc.

Dave Ramsey?!?

Yep, just like you can tell someone who tried to cut their own hair. :)

Fairly certain as I checked the verbage and links after I posted. I won't bother to repost it as I wouldn't want to "stir the pot" any more.

Why was my post on this topic deleted?!?

Doug, I disagree. Around here Home Depot farms that work out to a pro. Even the one with the big tool rental store that has a 1/2 dozen any employee could grab at any time. Wanna guess why they farm it out? So it doesn't take forever and look like crap...

BTW, if Fronty is still reading this; I'm not trying to do a sales job on you, but make the point that you cannot dig a swimming pool with a teaspoon. And the home centers like lowes make a living marketing teaspoons to would be pool owners. I was deadly serious about people like you being my best customers. Obviously, you are smart or you wouldn't be here. And obviously you're not cheap, because you just dropped $300 on a cleaning tool. Once you have done this a few times, damaged a few things, and seen first hand the labor and expense involved, you will have a new appreciation for why people who own PWers still hire pros. You mentioned that your unit used alot of chemicals? That's another reason it pays to hire it out. To do the job right does take alot of chemicals. Once you back out the chems, the price of a professional cleaning isn't nearly as expensive as it seems. FWIW, because of a career change I got out of the business this spring and sold all my equipment. In the future, I will be calling on a local pro to do my own house. Why? The right tools are too expensive to keep laying around for an annual cleaning and the HD stuff is a waste of money. You asked how home depot can keep selling PW'ers? Because every year there are new home owners who haven't bought one.

Adrian's a great guy. He will be sorely missed here in Atl. Yep, sold it all. As for surface cleaner sizing, I find that about 5" per gpm is the upper limit of usefulness.

A 2500/2.3 machine won't spin a surface cleaner... Well, it might spin an 8"er with 1.0 nozzles...

Assuming this is a HO: No matter what the guy at HD told you, you're not set up to do a house unless it's a one story. Your chem injector will not draw at a useful rate unless you use 12.5% bleach, which you cannot buy at HD. If your house is one story, you would do better with a garden sprayer and some good chems. And if the word "ladder" entered into your thought process at any time, you do not understand how to clean a house and you are begging to get hurt and/or cause damage to your home. You can do your driveway, buy it'll take you a full 10 hour day for a normal drive. For that same driveway, I'll charge about $200. If $200 is worth 10 hours of hard labor, press on. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but it's the truth. My best customers are people who just dropped $3-500 on a bigbox pressure washer. They called a pro and realized that they could buy a HD unit for what I wanted. The bought one, took it home, and realized that their machine and skills were inadequate to clean such a large project. Then they called me and almost NEVER complain the price. I LOVE to see a new HD pressure washer in the garage when I run a quote. Quick and easy sale. Sadly, I think you just wasted $300...