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turns out that may be all it is, I had it confused with a reddish film that was all over machinery at a quarry years ago. Muratic was all that would take it off.

Hey everyone hope the season is going well for you! I just got a call from a cement plant about a residential house next door that complained about the limestone dust all over her deck and partly on her house. I have taken the dust off machinery years ago with muratic. Anyone have an idea what would take it off a wood deck and vinyl siding ?

I got mine all figured out, it has been rigged so many times by so many people you almost need to rewire everything. Last person who had it left a wire hanging out and it pinched in half when they closed up the transformer grounding it to the machines frame. It just so happened to be the ground wire, so it never gave them a problem. it needed to join up to the pressure switch.

Hey guys I was trying to diagnose a burner problem on an older machine I have and found out that the non black wire to the transformer came out from a wire nut and I am having trouble trying to locate where it fell out of. Not sure if it should go to the pressure switch ?

Sorry for the late reply, That sounds like the stuff.

Seems most of the residents in the HOA's areas are older rich retired folk or middle age business men who just hire out yard work and house chores. Of the 6 that I have done over there I have yet to see a lawnmower, yard tools or a shed for that matter. Usually just Maid service vehicles and landscapers during the week.

"Home owner association" they are mostly gated community's up here but they like everything more or less perfect. Grass cut every week, House exterior looking clean. You must ask permission or bring it up to the board before you do anything drastic to your home. Sometimes even your door color. I once got a friend in trouble by changing her door lock. The style did not fit the other door locks in the condo area.

Yea I told her it would lighten up. I even took along a picture of my gazebo with the same stain after 2 years showing it lighter. I did originally brighten with oxalic when I did the deck a few months ago. But I did not do anything other than slight pressure last week when I did a reclean to prep for sealing. Like I have mentioned it was a 20 year old deck that was never sealed before, but has been homeowner pwed a quite a few times. Some of the 2x4 floorboards had ruts almost a quarter inch in spots and cracks everywhere so I put her on heavy then back brushed it "looking back I should have sprayed". Went back and touched up spots yesterday and it is something I wish I didn't put my name on. sucks leaving a customer unhappy but she is ok with it.

Thanks guy's I am going to tell her to wait until if fully cures/ fall to see if it fades any, The deck looks like it was a home made job, looks ok just everything is 2x4 no deck boards.. Really don't want to strip it. charged about $500 for a clean and seal 350sf

oh I got the money. Just feel uncomfortable leaving a customer unhappy.

hey guy's Just finished up sealing the first deck of the season and the homeowner did what I dreaded would happen, they are unhappy with the stain color she picked out. Says the Semi-Transparent is not transparent enough for her and looks to solid. If I cant get her to live with it would it be better to strip A.S.A.P or to hold off until next year and let it cure and Fade/Fail. She picked out a oil based cil semi transparent cedar tone. Thanks

Lol Ron you bet I did. Did a quick test on my 10:1 and found out its more like 20:1 over 75ft, I filled up a 1 gallon jug with water, figured it would run empty once i filled up 2 5er's that should be 10:1 correct ? didn't turn out to that and i gave up after the 3rd 5ver. Ended up fitting my 25gallon sprayer with airline hose and quick connects, made a airline male to power washer female hose/gun adapter. When need be I can now use my 20ft extension wand fitted with 4gpm tips to spray chem up to 30-40 ft with hardly no over-spray. I needed a decent way for a drivit beach house with nowhere to put a lift. Turned out great. I would post some pic's but the only ones I have are imbedded in flash over on my website 2 gallons 10% sh, 20 gallons Dihydrogen monoxide, 3 gallons of whatever works for that situation. Still never tried 10-12% for a housewash mix other than drivit or understand how you can clean gutters/trim by softwashing without scrubbing. Have yet to find a Canadian distributor for simple cherry or gutter grenade to test it out. [h=3][/h]

Some sealers may be tricky to apply, I forget the brand name but it comes in orange metal 5vers, anyway once it seeps into the concrete it turns dark/wet looking. If you apply it with a roller and pan it can look inconsistent where you overlaps are if you are not carefull, the spot you start at looks darker and where you finish looks lighter making you feel it was applied to thin in some spots when it has just not seeped in enough yet. Once dry it looks great! If you were to reapply the sealer to try to make everything a consistent color by putting more here and there wile it is drying it will turn out looking horrible, covered in dark spots where multiple coats were applied. Once I only needed about a gallon out of a fiver to Finnish a driveway, once opened you have about 2 days to use it before that sealer goes bad. So I dropped it off at my parents place to use on there driveway over the weekend. Showed up the next day to put it on to find my stepdad did it himself with a 4 inch brush. There driveway looked like a 4inch wooden plank bowling lane for 4 years, beaded water awesome tho. 2 guys a pump-sprayer and back rolling with a 24inch roller worked out the quickest, Cut in around the building with a 4inch brush then have one person apply and one person roll it out even. Its been 5 years since I did them but we use to do a basic 2 car driveway 12x30 in 20 min once setup. When we did a city block downtown we used a paint sprayer. 3 sides were 8ftx250 one side was 34ftx250 took about 10 hours for 2 guys, 1 guy spraying and one guy switching buckets, yelling at people walking over the caution tape and moving the sprayer.

Try scraping down any thick mounds with a floor scraper, apply a heavy coat of fast acting stripper, let it dwell for a good bit, hour or so, then blast it with a roto and heat. Done it on fire damage brick/block from melted shutters and siding with a gel stripper from prosoco. Made a difference but did not come out 100% Not sure if it would work but you could try remelting it with a heat gun then hitting it with a roto tip & heat quickly before it hardens back up ? that may be to time consuming or may just harden as soon as the water hits it.

Weirdest thing Ive ever washed would be a homeless mans 10 speed bicycle years ago wile doing sidewalks downtown at 3am. $.50 cash