Thomas

This is amazing. Like a herd of sheep running from the big bad wolf. Only this wolf is teaching you how to hunt at the same time!

I love harry potter. I play a lot of mmorpg's that emulate that genre. The geeky side of me! I have had customers come out and say the roof cleaning method we use is magical! Cleanimous MAximous Gloecopsia!

Let them advertise what they want. The consumer will figuire out what is better for their roof. That is the beauty of our market imo. I recently was thrown a job from Apple Roof Cleaning. He just didnt have the time to mess with this lady. She was an internet educated roof cleaning shopper. Asking me questions about hydroxide based chems rac blah blah.... It is so easy selling roofs against these operations I cant even tell you. I love it when they spout one of those acronyms. Like taking candy from a baby. Glad they are around, ammunition for my gun.

plainpainter knows his shat. Savogran is the bomb diggity. If you cant get that look for tsp that is "average elemental phosporous content 7.3% in the form of phosphates".

I hope to own a rig like that someday. That is just badass brother! Would you consider a 5.5 gpm machine with a dedicated chem pump at 4gpm 80psi "softwashing"? I use 2510 to 2520 on my houses after I apply my mix.That cant be much more than 700 or 800 psi (2520)? I sometimes work with a buddy and he has a 17 gpm 400ish psi pump. The gpm is unreal but he applies chem with a flojet and rinses with the big pump. Seems like less labor about the same time to complete. Great idea with the Y! My little 5.5 was starved today on two houses. I can see the hose collapsing and my k7 was screaming in pain when I let off the trigger:( I would say 2-3 outta every 10 houses water is too low here in tampa.

Dont get me wrong, I'm not a jerk to them. I just cant clean roofs and have folks below that are not with me. One drop ...ya never know could blind someone or like I think it was rod saying you could set off someones ahsma. This morning I did a roof and the guy said his coy fish pond was worth 6 to 7k! I double duct taped and bagged the downspout that shoot right into a collection of rocks that cascade under a deck to the pond. About 4pm a shower came in(I live a few miles close) and I rushed back over to find him about to use a rerout tube. I had my tube with me. Not a drop in the bags :) I guess the shower passed?? I will sleep well tonight with the reroute tube in place I guess. But I wasn't going to rerout it. I think the bags are better but he is the bossman and thats what he wanted. We rerouted into a huge metal trough. This was a tough roof. I couldn't rerout and rinse because the area to reroute would have leached into or close to the pond. I think I made the correct choice. My juice was like glue....no rain!

Thats a bummer. Sometimes I kind of prefer they are not home on roofs because of how fast we are. They get into the I wish I could make xx in that mcuh time. Scheduling other work like tile work at the same time is wrong and would have set me off also. Good luck

I have a 5.5 gpm machine. 2520 is the best I can do without drawing..and if all the rings etc are just right it will draw. Why do you want to run chem through your hose reel? You will lose draw and corrode the shieeet out of your reel.

Kind of out of the area..not too far, but my pick would have to be kiawa island. I was a golf pro for 9 years and played many tournaments as a junior in the carolinas. Nothing can hold a candle to kiawa island. If you can make it down that far do it.

I get the linear of the house. Look at pitch, shingle/tile, color, gutters, plants, debris on roof, how high etc....I then have set prices per foot. Doghouses and second tiers are added on to base. I have used by the square on the roof and this is easier to explain and I can hit how much chem on the head with it, so it works for me. How do you do your roofs? People like to see me walk around with the wheel I feel.

Buy a wheel or learn how to figure square foot of roofs. I use a wheel. If you don't, you will be robbing yourself and other roof cleaners until you get teh hang of it. go to ARMA and read up on the correct chems to use. You could then come back here and everything you need to know is in the archives. Plus, some of the best in the biz hang out here and are not afraid to help if you research first. And always, always remember...homeowners dont like to or cant get on the slippery wet moldy slick roof and risk their lives. Some of us do just that everyday, risk our lives.

I do not do a lot of flat work. I have a buddy that does and he does exactly what Paul said. He will clean with the a hot no brainer real good and then he rinses with detergents and brightners like Paul said the next month he services the acct.

We just did a roof where someone did a demo over the garage. I guess he hit his gun and the chem passed over the garage. It took the paint off of the garage, now the guy has to repaint it. I have never messed up a garage door but lemme tell you I am tip toe'ng around them now. This was a standerd metal door. It was painted a lavender color. Just giving you a heads up:) guy lives in my hood and I pass by it everyday and it looks like crap.

We do not downstream. Like I said anyone can nuke an exterior with strong chem, rinse it and be out in a flash. I can tell with out any doubt (if the house has debris stuck on it, not just mold) if it has been just chem washed. Try using a 2510 tip or xx12...not high pressure at all, but enough to break wasps etc loose. I have seen many a exterior pissed down with strong chems after a roof wash(usually sold after the roof is done and they want to get in the truck). The quality of rinsing with a 2510 or 12 is obvious.

If everything is off...dishwasher, laundry etc, I have heard it is 7.3gpm. Around here most are good but my 5.5 machine has pulled the water line togethor before. I think you need a little pressure with mild chem. Mud gobbers and spider webs..all that crap needs some pressure but a good gpm to wash it off. I can easily spot a house that has been pissed down with 50/50 chlorine and hose. You cant get all the sticky bug stuff off and send half of the insect population around your home on a death stampede up the exterior to excape from the strong chloro. Only to die on the wall and create an even uglier mess. Look on the wood board that overhangs the fascia....how can you clean up in there well when you have strong love dripping all over you?? You need to hit with the pressure washer imo