Mark Gallison

Im looking at this as something I could set up with my staff and they could carry in any vehicle and not have some of the safaty and noise issues related to a big hot water PW unit... I hope Jon contacts me Im really curious about what he ahs to say..

We have gotten into the whole DI tucker pole cleaning gig.. Going to work towards having this division be one of our strongest and most profitable. We had a bracket fabricated to the front of our power washer rig to hold tanks , either DI or soft water bed. We hook up source water directly to the DI bed and use 200' garden hose to feed Tucker water fed poles. We have a 45' and a short 6' pole. The 45' er will reach to four floors. We hardly ever clean with any detergent just use the DI water. The agitation from the soft pole brush is usually all we need. We get about 1000 - 1200 gallons thru one tank before depletion so its a little costly per gallon but that’s made up in the time we save using the poles and not climbing up and down ladders. Some will say you can get more but a lot is determined by what the source water is. We measure source water condition and out put water and log and track gallons used with a water flow meter. Important to have a TDS (total dissolved solids) meter to monitor water quality as if bed is depleted windows will not dry streak free. Washing in direct sun is NIT an issue either.. People freak when they see us leaving water on the glass without squegeeing, but it dries streak free,. streaks are usually caused by dirt particle left behind from the water. With DI the water is almost 100% pure and therefore the water evaporates totally leaving nothing behind Our next step will be to purchase a RO (reverse osmosis) system and just polish with DI. For now this system works very well. DI water should not be run through pressure pump tho.. Soft metals do no like the pure water. Pole cost $489 for the 45' and under $200 for the short one. A few hundred ft of "unkinkable garden hose" and your off. With this set up we have been able to compete easily with any conventional window cleaner without lowballing. We make a good profit

FYI Of course, watering during the day isn’t a resource-wise practice. Much of the water is lost due to evaporation because of the heat of the day and because of the wind. Some belive that the water droplets magnify the suns light and can burn grass. simply not true .. just my 2¢

I see alot of you tap from fire hydrants. I have contacted a few city water dept when I needed water and they wont allow acsess. Theuy say they have problems when hydrants are used for lower gallon quantities as compared when the fire dept hooks up cause they will pull out several thousand gallons. Anyone else ever run into this?

I can definitely tell the difference between my 3.5 portable and my 4.0 trailer. Big diiff esp if your doing flatwork as far as Im concerned

We use Extenda wand, the upper end model with the button locks not the snap locks. Its a little heavy but much needed for some applications. We use a belt always for any job that needs the use of the wand for any length of time or its a killer