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probably because the water ratio is too high when downstreamed to get the concentration of chems on the surface to be cleaned.....but thats a guess on my part

ditto...... sunbrite also has a cheaper (cheaper AND less expensive) model for I think $35.00

Ive thought about that, I just have a lot of oxalic yet to go.....thnx

and allowing the injector to draw the chem out of the chem tank (jug, pail, whatever)

I did, but Im not wiping an entire house :) Ill stick with the wet wax from RPC. as far as the question, are you seeing the white on the windows too? for me, after I think Ive rinsed enough, I rinse more......could be soap, are you using powder (mix on site) house wash chems?

if the customer just wants it "clear" I assume they just want it to look like new wood again. do they know it will just turn gray again? there is no UV protection in clear sealer? Im sure you told them that, so I just typed that for nothing :) ........they can hire you to just clean the gray every year or 2 and they can keep the natural look, so lets look at this, its year old PTP, just a clean job and its BIG......if you take your time, be careful and pick up the phone if you have questions, dont let the size intimidate you, its just 4 smaller sized decks put together on one property.....no biggie. work in sections and dont beat on the wood. I say this because it really seems like you want to do this and not be talked out of the job.

if its not super windy I dont have many problems with the stripper, just rubber gloves (most of the time) and rubber boots, but Ill wear safety glasses minimum......its the damn oxalic that gets me, as soon as I spray just a little and I feel it in my lungs, cough cough then think "dumbass, you forgot the respirator" then I gotta go back to the truck and get it...faceshield, gloves, boots and a rain suit for ox if its windy or Im underneath spraying upwards..... the stripper just "tingles" a bit on my skin, but the ox is brutal to me......last year I did some undersides that were just crazy, I hate spraying chems up on a deck.

I agree Shane, what the HECK were your Texans thinking? well, at least you can figure you'll have the first pick again next year... :)

NBA-who cares? NHL-whats that? didnt they lockout or something (who cares?)

we're having a huge rally-march in chicago tomorrow....it will be interesting, but its gonna rain on them..... booo hoooo :(

yea, that is downstreaming (as Alan said, I also assume your using a soap tip (the black one) to allow the injector to draw the chems)....... 4gpm with a 3600psi pump, my guess would be your ratio is 12:1.... hope this helps

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according to the sports medicine/orthopedic I saw, if there is pain in the elbow, or the inside of forearm, near the inside of the elbow joint, the problem is the biceps tendon. curling it up causes mild pain, but if you have your arm already bent with palm upwards, and there is a quick impact to the hand (as if catching something heavy from above) the tendon, already injured, will tear away..... short of surgery, the only thing that works to repair the damage is rest, ibuprofin, and stop doing whatever it is that is causing the pain. the pressure cuffs that put pressure on the tendon, make it feel better, but he said its false security because more damage can be done as the pain is less but it hasnt healed at all...... as far as gripping goes, I have the same problem which flared it up worse when doing pullups for our semi annual swat physical. pullups with body weight plus all of our full gear adds about 80 more pounds....gripping, hanging from the bar made the tendons that much more inflamed........(this incident is what finally prompted the visit to the DR)

the brush I use on an pole is a yellow car wash brush that I got from an auto parts store.....its big, 2 angles and its soft.....since its for car washing, it holds a lot of liquid.......works great. it was sold with a short flow thru pole that would be hooked up to a garden hose, I just unscrewed it from that silly short pole and put it on my long extension pole.

make sure to keep the siding wet while using any of the "serious" gutter cleaners....... I use gutter shock and I usually brush it after dipping it into a bucket of mix, saves me a lot of chem this way.....I never have xjetted gutter cleaner, im a wuss like that, as I dont xjet deck chems or acids either.....spooks me out a bit too much many "many" of my gutters come clean with my houewash mix, I'll even drag my big fluffy brush across them while the housewash mix is on there and they usually come out beautiful without even taking the gutter chems off the rig

Ill make it even easier. take a 5 gallon pail, put 4 gallons of water in it, dump 1 gallon of chlorine (pool chlorine, either 10% or 12%), a small squirt of dawn dishsoap........mix well, apply, dwell a little bit, rinse off....... had a real nasty one last year (the pics may still be on here somewhere), stripper didnt touch it (made a mess is about it) and it laughed at the percarb....the above mix will remove it.... good luck :)

if its "tennis elbow", its the biceps tendon.....both of mine are shot from my regular job and lifting......hurts like hell, sometimes its worse than others, went to the orthopedic (which is a record for me, I dont do doctors but this was unbearable) I use the "3rd hand" rubber wedge and attach it to the gun itself.....I often use a dual lance, so I throttle it down and just let the water continue to flow while Im doing whatever else.......which allows me not to have to get on that trigger all the time and keeps the water in the pump from heating up as it keeps running onto the lawn

that sounds pretty darn good........its a dirty world jeff, and I think your gonna clean it ALL :cool: long live the KING

Blade..........

for wood work I built a cart sprayer with a shurflo, battery and all the goodies, I wired a marine switch (waterproof) into the electrical system, poly sprayer for chems and an adjustable gun for sealer from sunbrite......works great. also have another sprayer, which I bought used from a former woodie in IL, which has a poly tank, maybe 15-20 gallon, which is plumbed to another shurflo...... I have yet to use it, but I changed the plumbing around so I can now QC from the tank and drop a feed hose into a fiver and bypass the tank. I dont really know what to use it for, (the price was too darn good to pass it up) except as a backup as my main shurflo blew a switch in it last year and I was stuck for a day or 2.... I guess I could mix up a huge batch of oxalic, but I dont want it on the trailer all the time in case of a mishap....rather the powder if that happens than 15 gallons already mixed....... that would be ugly

I dont do roofs, (although there are a few around here that can use it), but on houses I do like Ken said, one side at a time. water all the vegitation around the perimeter and the windows first. I did something different on the house that I posted the pics of in the gallery section. I soaped up with the M5, attached to a dual lance, shut off the ball valve on the xjet hose, rinsed the windows immediatley, popped off the xjet, popped in a 40, throttled the wand to the soap (dump tip) and watered all the plants while the soap dwelled.....wasnt hot out but I was up on the chlorine quite a bit.....

that monster will take you 2 weeks to seal........ :cool:

you guessed right.....sand it and 40 grit might not get it done

great info guys.... thanks who makes the best water based product, in your experience, and/or opinion?

Thats really neat guys, nice job....... do you guys get ANY wind in NC? I'd like to try something like that (especially if I ever want any cedar shake gigs) but I think I'd get sealer all over the state of Illinois and parts of Indiana :)