GAPainter

I figured out my answer, sorry for waste of space

The siding was painted(grey color) hardie board. The windows were actually fairly clean once done not to mention she called in a window cleaner afterwards. She said she just did that out of habit. She also added her driveway , sidewalks and exterior tile floors. The concrete is sealed and I really havent messed with flat work. Any advice for the concrete (tire marks and Pine needle stains) and the tile floor? I'll add pics this eveing.

The siding is hardy board and it was not there prior to the house wash.

I washed a house for a customer last saturday. It was not very dirty so I used a weak solution of 1.5 gallons 6%, 10oz simple cherry, 4 0z F13, meguiars car wash(mistake?) and a splash of dawn mixed in a 5er. When I got to almost the last side of the house, I soaped it down. It started thundering, lightning and raining. I was rushing to get it rinsed down so I could get out of the lightning. I went back yesterday and now there is a white residue in patches on that side of the house? I would guess I didn't rinse well enough. What can I do to remove this? At this point, she has had her windows cleaned sincde I left. She hasn't noticed it or atleast said anything. Will rewashing that side and brushing remove it, or am I painting that side of the house? I should mention I applied with and M5. Thank You for the advice.

poor homeowner. you put a crack in their driveway. :P It is just more noticeable when clean, but you did a great job on cleaning it right up.

I realize that the black tip is not an 0040. I bought an 0040 from PT. My apologies if I made it sound as if I thought they were the same. Cajun, The washer was not surging and I did check the direction of the arrows. The arrows were right. I came home and searched to make sure it wasn't something stupid(which I guess it still could be) before I posted about it. I will try a different gun and probably shorten my draw hose. Thanks again for your input guys.

I have a 12 gpm gun in my shopping cart, just waiting to decide if I want to order other items before I send payment. I just bought an m5 xjet and now I am already looking to order again. any recommendations on a dual lance? I had searched and saw where that could be an answer to my problem. I suppose they are cheap enough to just try it out? Out of curiosity, how long should my downstream injector hose be? I think I probably had to long of a hose. I appreciate all of the advice and will now try them out. I certainly hope to get a handle on downstreaming over the xjet. The x jet did work very well, just not the route I want to take most of the time. I have a 7500 sqft house with 3 decks coming up. Last time I did this house was with ladders and a pump up. It took me 10 hours with a helper. I am so ready to not go that route anymore. I also have a 9000sqft house to price. The market that I am trying to work in is pretty much houses of this size so I really need to come up with a better system. I underpriced this house last year. I guess I will do it for about the same with a small markup and hopefully it will go alot faster. I know it will bc I will use the xjet and a lot of chemicals before I use a pumpup sprayer again if I don't have the downstreaming down by then

I will definitely look into another gun. I am just using the stock one at this time. Anything else that I should look into? I have been wanting to get another gun anyways. The one that I currently have is very tiresome on my hands. Thx for the advice Thad.

I bought a high draw chem injector from pressure tek rated for 3-5gpm a month or so ago. I tried it out about 2 weeks ago with not much success. I was running 150ft of hose on a 13hp 3800 psi 4 gpm machine(direct drive). I got it to draw if i turned down the pressure all the way(which is about what you are supposed to do?). I tried using a 0040 tip, black chem tip. Even with the 0040 tip i would only shoot maybe 10-15 ft. I decided to buy an m5 xjet(which I did). I used it yesterday and I thought it was a real PITA. The hose kept coming out of the bucket, having to move the bucket LOTS of chem and remixing. I do realize I could mix more at a time, put on a cart, and fix it to where the hose won't come out of the bucket. It did do a good job cleaning and I much prefer it to ladders and a pumpup. I would like to give the downstreaming another shot and maybe even another shot after that instead of hauling buckets Do any of you have any advice as to what the problem might be or if I just need to do something different? Any suggestions are much appreciated.

For those of you who deal with Ipe, Do you always do a full sand job? If so what kind of sqft/hr can you cover?

I am ashamed to say I have washed one working with another guy with pump ups ladders and water hoses. I also worked for a guy before that wanted me to carry a gallon bucket up a ladder with a rag and hand wash it then rinse. I just told him to kiss my .......

CWF! Very much kidding.What kind of life are you getting out of AC on Ipe and is it a 1 coat finish for Ipe? If I remember correctly , Jake said 1 coat is all I should do for Ipe.

I am not offended in the slightest. I am here to learn and appreciate every piece of information that I can gather. I would be interested to know what you are using on Ipe this year. I am not sure if that is not something you like to talk about? Thanks, keith

I figured I would need to do something with the bottoms of the rails where it mounts to the decking. Is it really not necessary? I plan on having 3 pump ups. Two pump ups for stripper(myself and a helper) and one for citralic to start behind me while I am washing.

I wish I could only do decks with no rails. Honestly a lot of the decks around here are painted rails or wrought iron with maybe an Ipe cap or something. I am not looking forward to stripping rails although once I have a system I guess it will be alright.