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    Mike,

    Try citric acid. You can buy it online at the Chemistry Store for ~ $94 per 50 lbs. which includes shipping. 6 oz./gal., blow it on and walk away if you are using RS. It's food grade, you can drink it if thirsty, and does not harm anything, including yourself. Does sting if it gets in the eyes, but it tastes like lemon.

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

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    Anyone seen that new flood Restora product that is used to give siding that sheen again?

    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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    Oh you mean the NHL playoffs are on now??Jsut let me know when the Stanley cup is then i watch..:D

    I'm still in shock over the NFl draft...:lgtear:

    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... :)

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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)

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    Tropical,

    You say you use a fluffy brush, what exactly do you use. I am using a small quicky brush from Home Depot and am thinking that perhaps that is not getting enough chem on the gutters or the aluminum facia and most of it is dripping off on the way up.

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    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.

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    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

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    I did a deck cleaning (3 stories of dark stained decks) last friday. I went back today to see how it looked and almost got sick. The algae was still there pretty heavy. I used rpc 143 house helper (disodium percabonate) to clean the decks let dwell about 15 minutes. Can anyone tell what I might have done wrong or what I should use to get it off.

    thanks dan

    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 :)

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    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

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    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

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    When doing a house wash or roof cleaning how do you go back and forth spraying off the plants around the house? especially with a one man business? spraying a roof then come down and spray plants and then go back up to roof? how do you stop the flow of chemical through the wand to be able to spray plants with clean water and then start right back at cleaning? thanks guys!

    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.....

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    That looks real good Barry!!! personaly I wouldn't want my patio that color, but "to each his own"......

    Have you done many of these? If not, or if you recall, were you a bit nervous putting a color on someones cement? gimme a heads up on the process, please.....is it a pretty straight forward process?

    again, that looks sweet, nice work

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