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What are the home market value? I have seen homes that have 60-80% mold on them and the homeowners seems not to care. I find this especially in home in the ATl market of 100,000-160000. Can not understand this concept. DeGraffreed.

Can any vet give me some advice. I went to change my pump oil from my TS2021 at the drain plug and I believe Delco put loctite on the plug. I used my socket and my cresent wrench to not avail. I decide to use a small pipe wrench and Boy did I chew that plug up. Now my question is as follows: 1. How do I get the plug out to change my pump oil? Any tricks of the trade? 2. Do they make a siphon pump small enough to drain oil from the top oil filler( where the oil dip stick is), so that I may siphon oil this way? 3. Run machine for 10-15 min to let oil thin a little and try to siphon with a small 1/4 hose. Or is oil viscosity to thick to accomplish this? I am in need of a change. About 30 hours past maintence. DeGraffreed:lgsick:

Thanks to all that posted. Needless to say I had a hell of a weekend. 1. I had three job to do. One driveway, two residentials. When I arrived on the driveway job, I noticed after I was ready to get started, the burner did not work. So we proceded to clean the driveway with no heat. No big deal here. 2. First residential, no heat means no gutter brightning. Had to brush gutters that were completly black. Man, I have respect for you guys that wash with no hot water. I have never cleaned without hot water available to me. We brushed those gutters about 1 hour and still could see the black streaks. We went ahead a clean what we could and told the homeowner that we had some equiptment issues and would come back once we to care of the issue. Long story short, It was the relay. Delco people overnighted me a new and improved relay coversion kit. Now that is customer service! So to all you that clean without HEAT my hats off to you. Next time my heat goes out, I am calling it a day. Degraffreed

Have anyone out there installed a car remote starter to your PWer? I am thinking of maybe installing one of these in order not always having to walk back and forth to start and stop the unit. I have not by-passed to my tank yet. If someone is going to ask me this question. The guy at the car shop said it can be done. Any thoughs good or bad. Hit me. DeGraffreed

Could someone who has some understanding of the mechanic of the coil housing area help me out here. Last week I was doing a house wash and I noticed a puddle under my rear trailer area. I went and looked to find the leak and I noticed that small drips of water was coming from under my coil housing area. If I am not mistaken, the coil housing unit consist of the coil only. No fittings inside that could vibrate loose, or break. The coil is serpintine is form. Could I be getting condensation inside the housing from run hot the rinsing cold. My unit is a trailer mounted Delco rk41 for those who needs a little more info to help diagnose the problem. I am pretty familar with the other components of my unit. Just not the coil area. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Degraffreed

Well, I know it not due to freezing, It has stop leaking, so I am going with the condensation theory. No further issues. DeGraffreed

Did any of you know that there is a 1 day school for newbies wanting to learn deck staining and fence staining for a very nice price. Go to the website www.wooddefender.com and contact Todd. Nice guy and he is very informative. I will be heading to Tx soon. Degraffreed.

Thanks to all that posted. I am waiting on the status of the bids. Hope to get this job. Will keep all posted. DeGraffreed

Balazs, Thanks for taking my call and all the helpfull info that you so gratiously gave me. I will see how it turns out. DeGraffreed

Trichter, I was looking for the same thing about a month ago, Go to home depot or lowes and purchase Blue 2" pool discharge hose get it in about 16ft in length. This length is adequate for diverting driveway cleaning water into the grass. I have not been afraid of enforcement since I built these dams. I think the cost was about $20.00. Degraffreed Call me if you need more info 678-480-0123 cell

I called Delco last week and the tech said it was condensation but is there REALLY that much condensation inside the housing. Or Per Russ's suggestion that it may be a leaking nipple. I have posted a pic of my Rig in the Gallery, to view my set up I may have to take the Smoke stack and the adapter then the housing shell to get in there. I do not want to do all that if it just condensation. I will place a towel or bucket under the housing and monitor it this weekend. Degraffreed

Lou, thanks for the compliment. I am just over my first year in the Biz and did better than expected for the first year. I ask alot of question BECAUSE I am a perfectionist and I care about what I do. I could just go out and clean, seal a deck with a pumpup sprayer BUT I will not proceed in staining and sealing decks until I get a good understanding of wood restoration process. I turn down about six calls a week down just because I am not confident I can give the customer the quality that I think they should receive. I will continue to learn on my deck until that happens. May head to Smyrna,TN for a few days this coming month. Degraffreed

Boy, am I confused. Use Bleach.. do not use bleach. Use sodium percarb .. Dont use sodium percarb. I used bleach and dawn in the first few decks I did and the results.. compared to the before, was good. Then started reading post and was told percarb was the way to go. Then purchased 40lbs of percarb from Espec and seem to do the job but not the final finished looked I wanted,compared to Beth, Rods and some others. I know there is a learning curve and I am fine with that. I then do some test steps, as mentioned in previous post and the the result were mediocre. I read what Russell say about the structure, chemistry and products to use to get the results I am looking for. Now I am wondering is there REALLY a difference in his product line, compared to what I am using now? Does his line have ingredients that retains the "Oils, Fats " in the wood? Maybe this is what is not LEFT in the wood when I do my process. He could be correct in his statement that I could be " Burning " the oils out of the wood. I will figure this out one way or another. Thanks for all the posts. I will not let this end until I succeed on the results I am looking for. Beth, I have tried to post pic in the threads.. and it comes back as file to large. How can I decrease the files size and could you explain the process in laymans term? I am a not that computer savy as some. I will send the pics of the test step at that time. DeGraffreed

Russell, Do you send out sample or test kits. I would love to try your products? Do you have a distributor in the Atlanta area? Also, I just use a percabonate to strip/clean then use a Oxylic brightner BUT as Beth posted, I did not rinse off. I was told that I could leave it on the wood wet, from Sunbrite rep. I will have to look into your product line. Never heard anyone say that wood had "Fats, Oils and Sugars" in them. This is way I continue to learn this business. Thanks for your input. I will get with you soon. DeGraffreed

CCPC, What kind of respirator do you suggest. Lowe/HD type with the triangle filter cartridge. Any particular kind. Let me understand this, use respirator on housewashing when using 12% or if your using

This question is for all my X-jetters doing housewashing. On a typical( if there is such a thing) home, with light mold/ mildew on it. Approx. 1500 square ft two story, all vynil siding. How many gallon of chems would you use to clean a home of this size? Mixture consist of 12% sh and your favorite soap detergent? I guess gpm is needed here also. 3000 psi and 5 gpm if you need all the variables..to make your decision. five gallons Ten gallons 15 gallons DeGraffreed

Wait one here. I was wondering if those slight headache that I experience after washing homes for a few hours per day could be a result of the 12.5% chlorine that I am constantly using. If what I am reading from the post, is that this ( inhalation) could be bad for you? My headache seem to go away after I am done with a home. If what I am reading is true, could I just use one of those white dust mask that I use when I cut grass to cut done on the sneezing bout I have after cutting grass. Would these work? I have four house washes this weekend and maybe If I am going to be in this long term, I better do something about covering my nose. I use a hardhat with a full face clear shield to keep the chlorine out of my face and eyes. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Degraffreed

Mike, When you use a foamer, do you have to use the foamer attachment or can you use a regular spray wand with qc tips. I have never seen a "foamer" DeGraffreed.

Squirt, Do you perfer Citracleen over Epecs D-limolene? Have you used D-limeolene from them since they are close to you? Does Citracleen have a Butyl based degreaser in it to help with gutter cleaning? I am thinking of purchasing some items from Steve soon. Fill me in if you can. Degraffreed

Jeff, I got your call. My thoughts exactly. Just was wondering if I was wasting chems vs decreasing labor. You help answer my question. Jeff, Why so much SH in your formula?. Whats your Gpm? Mine is 5gpm and I use about 1gallon of 12% and 1 gallon of powerhouse, xjet with biege orfice, I think its 13:1 could be wrong on that one. I am always looking a ways to decrease labor hours. Againg thanks for the call. DeGraffreed

Hey Ryan, That would not be in your New Home, would it? Who is afraid of ghost? My grandfather always said " Do not be afraid of the Dead, Its that Living ones that will do harm to ya". DeGraffreed Degraffreed

Are any contractors using the Flexible berms for wather recovery?. If not what are you using to contain water? DeGraffreed

Allan, That is the site. I could not remember it earlier. Thanks for you picture and your response, I went out last night to HD and purchased my discharge hose and man, I was amazed at how it worked. I made a 10 ft section and a 6 ft section. Ran the vac/pump and it work flawlessly. Again thank you for the picture and your responses, you saved me about $380.00. If your ever in the Atlanta area, I owe you lunch. Degraffreed

These flexible berms are triangle in shape and made of foam material. Was having issues with posting website addresse. Degraffreed

Beth, How do you measure wood moisture before sealing takes place? Jlite moisture meter or ph paper. Does it make a difference? DeGraffreed