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    Matt look into working with a local professional for a season , go to seminars / trade shows and take notes , See the Equipment in action , Your already in the right place asking the right questions , remember with a trade you can take it any where , before , during and after college . Save your money and get a 5.6 gal hot water unit , you will be banging out those drive ways . :-)

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    Have you found any independent group of people that have any long term success using a known non-successful product? It's okay with me if you wish to go and discover a new way to clean roofs. It's okay with me if you are the one to finally make it successful. It's fine with me if you first post that discovery right here.

     

    What is not okay with me is for you to come on a national forum, a place of learning, and begin to denigrate the very successful use of a completely safe product, Sodium Hypochlorite. A product that, when used as recommended by individuals trained in the proper use of it, is completely safe and effective. It's in your drinking water, It's what cleans your babies diapers and it is absolutely safe to use. Go share your dislike for it somewhere else.

     "The industry guidelines seem to have everyone backing away from SH. States are starting to get very aggressive from cleaning chemicals that are not green to our environment" are your words and they are in error.

     

    Do not allow your refusal to get trained and educated in a product as an excuse to bad mouth its use by others.

     

    This is not a drill. This is a rebuttal of mis-information.

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    I agree totally , before slinging false information around , please do some more research ,( don't believe everything AC soft wash tells you )

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    John you are sounding like a prima Donna with a hair across your ass who cares what kind of rig this guy has ?worry about YOUR business ,not every sub par rig out there , most of us started our business with a lot less than that rig .( I had a SW portable 3500 ) Just because a guy doesn't go to all the round tables , or have the best rig on the street doesn't make him a low baller .not knowing all the facts on someone ( or there rig ) and spouting off about it is a little pre mature on your end . Yes you have been a great help on all the boards and at functions ( round tables ) but its time to take a step back and reflect and remember when you were a newbie . Maybe it will humble you .:)

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    Nice to see ya back ole buddy , great chatting with you today , great chems great service great guy I'm glad I never switched , was bummed when you left the biz . Welcome back Steve , time for a northeast round table we need to educate more Yankees

    :)

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    Blasting your mixture on the roof is the easy part and capturing it as it drains from the gutters isn't rocket science but it can get a little tricky. The part I'm always most careful with is the overspray when sprayinng the edges of the roof or the peaks. Careful with the peaks because that chemical will go sailing right over the other side of the house and land right on the ______________. Fill in the blank with grass, deck, restored 1965 Jaguar XKE, or award winning roses imported from the remote island if Tisjajik.

    Had that happen today, nailed the sky lights on the other side of house and slate walkway .

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    ..or it could be others just like you who have the same question and want to know what the answer is. One can never know and it doesn't matter the views one gets but the responses that count.

    Members have learned to answer only when they are confident they have a good solution. Even then, no one is obligated to answer, remember, this is all voluntary.

    As far as what ends up in the drains is up to chemical reaction and/or what becomes of the mixture. Take for example, sodium hydroxide and oxalic acid, combined they form a salt and are not longer the reactive components they once were.

    Now, don't take that in any way as an excuse that it is okay to let that run down a drain or that I would advocate it either. But, it is important that you understand the by-products of your process.

    Your concern about what enters the drains is a good start to increasing your knowledge about chemicals you will use, the surfaces they will be used on and how to work safely in our environment without causing pollution as a result.

    If you need further assistance on the chemical aspects, there is a link in the library here on TGS to a chemical reactivity worksheet that will help you to anticipate what will become of a vast library of chemicals that we normally use and their combinations outcome...good bad or indifferent.

    Rod!~

    Rod thanks for the Info on the library and thank you Larry for the reclain info .

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    Talk with Larry Hinkley at Delco. They have filter booms and drain dams for this purpose and the answers to your questions.

    Their ad is at the top of the forum, click it for more information.

    Rod!~

    Thanks Rod I sent Larry a e-mail , I can't understand why Ive had over 54 views on another board but one reply , are contractors not sure of the right answer ? or just don't care ? Either way we need to get educated on this reclaim stuff , that storm drain dumps into a river with trophy trout fishing , I don't want to be eating a oxalic trout do any of you ??

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    I have a commercial job to bid cedar shake siding with cedar shake roof (dutch colonial style over a (covered ) brick walkway . concrete and pavement every where- no grassy surfaces . the customer wants it stripped and brightened , it has a old coat of semi trans oil , now I know I have to reclaim , what is the proper way to do this ?? cover storm drain , recover water ,filter through what kind of filter ?? I have acess to a sanitary sewer dump drain where a friend dumps his camper waste ?? is this workable ?? Thanks for the help Im a newbie , at reclaim and want to do it right . Ive posted this on other boards lots of looks with only one answer .Someone must of run into this sort of thing .

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    Remember , quality , service , neatness, politeness, manners, the white glove treatment , and you can call your prices , I am higher priced than most companies around, but am refered by happy customers all the time, Call you customers back the same day , show up for estimates and look and talk professional then do professionalwork and you will never have to worry about low ballers again I show people that i am pasionate about what I do for a living and will probly see the again at a later date at the park ,church or store and want happy customers ..Educate the consumer about the industry and lowballers,. by the way I work alone with a Landa 6.5gal per min hot water machine and kick butt.

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    I dont know why painters cant just stick with painting. I get request all the time to do painting and I have some cards in my wallet of a local painter I deal with and pass the jobs on to her.

    Well Don, many good painters wash there houses before they paint to remove all dirt and mildew so the paint job lasts, they add the price into the paint job when they get a week of rain and can't paint they wash more houses , it is another service they can make money on to make up for rain outs, I went full time in the washing buisness just for that reason , I got married and started a family and couldn't afford any rain days, I needed steady work , so I specialized in low pressure roof cleaning , powerwashing, and gutter cleaning ,thats mostly all I do I only paint for one local developer/landlord and sub out most of that.. Most customers no the difference between a painting contractor van, and a washing contractor with a 18 ft fully lettered enclosed rig .

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    Are there specific reason for the re-growth? i.e. lots of tree coverage, gutter problem, or a poorly draining yard? I'm sure you've looked at this, but sometimes there's not enough sun or breeze and too much water and shade?

    Bruno I've checked all those possible problems, I also thought it may be a moisture problem from the inside out ,the weird thing is the growth isn't uniform ,for instance the south side of the garage (plenty of sun)isn't insulated or heated and on the left side of the window there is mildew right side none , this house was painted 2 years ago the customer said it was washed well I have found some mildew under the paint in places, my guess is the painter did a half arse job(diluted mix) washing the place and didn't get all the mildew off . I've seen painters using rental 2 gal per min machines downstreaming from a clorox bottle @ 10-1.After washing with the mildew check I had the customer keep the empty bottle and date it I signed it and applied my buisness card if this junk comes back were going to get the Pitsburg rep out and do a full FREE evaluation on the house ..

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    Here is a click to the patent. From what I read it says "dilute with bleach"

    http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4806263.html

    So I see oxidizer,some type of butyl compound and some type of thickening agent and surfactants. Sounds like my housewash (any everyone else's).

    Zapp, is this your first time using a housewash detergent? If not, did you achieve superior results with this product versus your normal solution? Did you add bleach to this product?...water?

    Far from my first time using a house wash mix/ detergent ,I was asked to try the mildew check because this house has a regrowth problem. I washed this home last spring ,by mid August I recieved a callback checked it out (full of mildew already)and re did the job (NO CHARGE) well I received a call 2 weeks ago same problem full of mildew again I was baffled I washed this house with my usuall mix 12% , citra clean ,rinse aid and foamer been using this mix for years no problems, well the home owner saw this Mildew check stuff , Mix as directed with bleach pump it on and rinse 20 minutes later with a garden hose , supposed to leave a film that retards future mildew growth , well it looks spotless lets hope for the customer it works.. I still prefer my mix , but for problem houses this may be the answer. Anyone else having problems with mildew coming back extra fast.??

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    Walking on 12/12 pitch roofs - and one guy doing it with snow on it? That's just plain crazy, I have done a few roofs myself - and I don't consider 12 pitch rooves to be walkable. Do what I do, put a hook-over on your ladder, hook it over the ridge and then work from that ladder. then climb to the ridge to move it around. You can't walk a 12 pitch roof, especially if it's wet - no way.

    -Dan

    Thats the exact way I do all my roofs that aren't walkable great profit margin on those 12 pitches, now a 12 pitch cedar roof thats a different story...

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    Had a customer request a wash using mildew check by Pitsburg Paints, I applied with a sureflow setup and rinsed with garden hose, easy enough, great results , this stuff is expensive though $20 per gal I used 6gals, anyone know whats in this stuff ??can we get this stuff in bulk ??

    62 views and noone knows anything about this stuff ???

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