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Does Wood tux have a temperature guide for application? The high is getting to be around 55 or 60 around here and a low of 36-40 or so in the mornings. Thanks, Nick

You're lucky, no spindles.. Why bleach and not a precarb? I know the dirty on bleach for wood is that it breaks down the wood fibers, but as far as I know the jury is still out on that. Anybody know for sure? Precarb followed by Citralic is quite a bit more expensive than Wally world bleach. Looks good, Nick

I've got 275 ft. and wouldn't be caught without it!! I quick connect this big reel to the machine on the trailer and also have a 100 ft reel I can attach for closer jobs because you don't want to squish your reel or melt your hose half reeled up on a big reel for close jobs. With a big machine, the pressure drop is almost not noticeable, and mine's 16hp hot hydrotek. Nick

How are you going to vent the burner out of the van? I wanted to do that with my truck and a camper shell but instead put it on a trailer so I can use my truck for other stuff. Nick

The only drawback I see on that is it sounds like you have both your pressure washing hose and x-jet hose strung out all around the house to be reeled up later. I have a hard enought time keeping my 25 feet of x-jet hose free of my PW hose. I find it really easy to jump my 20 gal dolly off the trailer, throw a few jugs of bleach and soap in with a little water and drag it around the house at most half full. Pop it back on the trailer, roll up 25 feet of x-jet and my PW hose and I'm done. You can get the dolly with the tank about anywhere (envirospec, watercannon) Nick

I received a homemade banana cream pie one time. This lady schoolteacher was in the process of painting her house and I did the prewash. She saw my ladder leg levelers and was amazed, so I went and got a contracters discount for a set for her 40 ft. ladder before she painted. It was one hell of a pie too!!

I have a 20 gal tank on a dolly that I drag around with the x-jet. I use it wide open without proportioners and yes, I do believe it's 2 parts water to one chemical. I use Emulsifier plus from envirospec with bleach, diluted 1 part water to 1 part bleach before x-jetting. This is all you need to watch all the junk disinigrate before your eyes in a few minutes. After you learn it, houses are the fastest money makers around. Getting a house job is like winning the lottery with an x-jet. Nick

I'm glad you put Jessica Simpson over Condoleeza Rice!!

uhhggggggg- sucks for them, you and everybody that goes to the park

Being a 10 year old in a 22 year old's body, I tried putting some granulated pool chlorine with some dot 3 brake fluid. Nothing... I tried some 6 percent bleach and got some wicked bubbling and some heat. Maybe I need to get some better chlorine or something. What's the recipe doolittle? Nick

I personally tested out an electric anti-animal fence around a homeowners garden. The kind that pops. It really wasn't too bad, although the neighbors might have thought I was crazy. Nick

That is definitely surface oxidation. I have run into it several times here in MO and when you break the oxidation by accident, all of it has got to go. It's a pain in the butt... It's not a bad bet to go back, educate them on vinyl oxidation and try to match it the best you can, at an "I told you so" price.

OUCH, glad you didn't get pulled over!

I've got a perfect 93 chevy 1500, 350 ci that runs like a top with 83 thousand miles on it. I pull a single axle with a hot hydrotek and a tank and some other stuff on it, camper shell, 2 ladders, and the back always full of something. It pulls just fine. I have seen a Ford 150 pull a PW trailer about twice the size of mine too- works just fine. Overkill is ok though as long as you're having fun doing it. I used to be a Ford man until I bought this used Chevy, I'll never go back, except maybe a diesel. Nick

Oh yeah, dropping a paint scraper from three stories onto my buddies head... Nobody ever really ducks when you say "DUCK" these days.

Cutting my own hand with my pressure washer spray while on a 28 foot ladder comes to mind..... right between the pointer and thumb. That sucked for about a week of pressure washing. Nick

cool rails and spindles! Not your average deck. Is that EFC? P.S. I haven't had work to do in about a week here in Missouri. I think everybody has closed up their pocket books for the year. I have an ad for deck restoration in the paper (professional services) that goes to 50,000 people or so. Might be time to hit the streets with some flyers. Word has it that everybody is seeing slow times around here for some reason or another. I'm probably going to use my business degree to its fullest with another job and continue part time during the warm months pressure cleaning. Here's some pics from my alma mater project using eacochem SafeRestore on limestone.

I wish I ran into more decks over 1000 ft 2!! I use the pump up for citralic because it seems like it doesn't take that much to do its work and only requires a few pumps for most of the size of decks that I do ( < 1000 sq ft). One filling and about 1/2 hour will usually get it done because their is hardly any wasted overspray with citralic. Now volume for EFC is different, I have a shurflo setup for that. Nick

If you're used to a bigger machine, you might find this one severely underpowered. Any psi will work for any job in my experience, it just depends on how much control and experience you have. The bigger machines (at least 11 hp) work best if you're looking to save some time. You could probably pick up a new wand for this machine if it was worth it and use different flow tips. Sam's Club Special for a grand will kick this one's butt. Nick

Agreed, I use Shurflo for the EFC while a pump up is waiting with Citralic already dissolved. I good pump sprayer as a backup is necessary in my opinion. A sealer cloud applied with airless is the cloud of doom. Nick

Try prosoco.com or eacochem.com. I'm leaning toward eacochem because their saferestore is some really cool stuff but more expensive at $75 per 5 gallons. It works awesome though on a bunch of stuff, including brick (according to their manual). I'm pretty gung-ho about this stuff because it kicked butt on a limestone restoration project I anticipated to take a few days and only took me 8 hours. See if they make a brick sealer to keep water out. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to stone sealers. Nick

Wait for Rod n' Beth for that one because the I don't know if the components are chemical resistant, but if all else fails and you don't have a shurflo setup with viton seals, a good ol' pump sprayer works even for a big deck. You don't want to get too far ahead of yourself on stripping a big deck anyways, the chemical way ahead will dry out before you get there. Next season I will get a decker for the staining process. I haven't even used one and I'm convinced it's the best way to go as opposed to airless's cloud of doom or brushing and rolling. If the decker can't do that, they should make one that can!! Nick

Hey Rod n' Beth, on the picture of the 2-tone Ipe and pressure treated, were the spindles pressure treated and the posts and rails ipe? It looks like the everything but the spindles and latice is one color. If so, how did you acomplish that? If you brushed everything separately it had to take forever. I personally would probably not take a job like that unless I was making at least 50 an hour to do it, seems like too much work!! Nick

Looks good. How do you apply it and where do you get it? Nick

I've used the sherwin williams waterborned solid deckscapes on several applications, and it covers very well in two coats, very easy to apply. I haven't tried cabot solids, but me and a helper put on about 50 gallons of deckscapes this summer with a brush and roller on an apartment complex's decks, so you could say I have some experience with it. I would like to see a comparison between cabot's and deckscapes longevity sometime though for solids.