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    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

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    I have always been told not to water your grass during the day because you can cause it to burn. I do not know if this is true or not. Could that also be a cause? It kinda made sense to me because your skin burns more when you are in the water because of the magnifing effect. Could the same be true for grass if it is too short and you water it in direct sunlight?

    Just trying to throw something else out there.

    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¢

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