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    I know this may sound silly BUT is there a link or site,that can help you determine the specific species of wood out there. Reasoning is this, I recieved a call from a homeowner and she wanted the deck, fence cleaned but not stained yet. I looked at the fence and it seems to be Cedar( redish tint to it), it was not PT pine. I know different species of wood absorb stain differently.

    I have read post about Pine, Pt pine, Cedar, Western red cedar, douglas fir. Ipe, (what region is this mainly in), many different woods out there and I want to know the correct wood I am working on. Oh yeah, the Homeowner said, she wanted maybe a clear stain applied by fall. I educate her on the perils of a clear sealer versus a pigmented stain. May sell her on Wooddefender Rustic Oak. We see how she decides.

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    Shane,

    One more for you to ponder. When your just removing mildew and a weathered gray fence. I know you bleach it. Do you saturate the wood with the bleach and soap then rinse with the pwer.

    I was thinking could I apply a lite coat of say bleach soap, to remove mildew and not have to wait two or three day to stain because I did not Pw the fence therefore not saturating the wood or is this not a good Idea. Whats your thoughts?

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    Shane, is it possible to "Bleach" the color out of say "Cedar" or PT pine.

    I was testing an old skid and applied my percarbonate solution... cleaned it an also turned it somewhat black. I then rinse an nutralized it then rinsed again.

    I took 12% an adding 1 gallon of water = 6% now correct.

    I then applied it to the old skid and Whala it turned from an old dirty moldy skid to almost the color of a new skid. Will this process work on Pt Fence?

    What the mixture your using bleach/soap. I have studied all your post but never have seen any formula's mentioned. Trade Secrets?. I would really like to know more about your techniques if you care to share.

    Thanks for all the past post.... learning a lot this year.

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    Thanks to all that post. I figured that I was putting it on to heavy and this was causing it to run off.

    When your stripping a deck, spindles, floor, are you doing certain sections at a time?

    It appears it would be impossible to keep the entire deck, railings, runners and spindles "Wet " all at the same time. I might be asking some Silly questions here but I am determined to get this Staining Biz off to a correct start. Have deck staining coming up in about a week, if it ever stop raining long enough to complete it.

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    F-18

    Is there something you can add to the F-18 mixture that will make it "Cling" or to thicken it up to cling to vertical objects such as spindles, runners. I appears to be such a waste of product to have it to run off the surface like it does or am I doing something wrong here. Chime in here Bob. Did not get a chance to call you today. Hopefully tommorrow. I thank you and Beth for the quick response on my question.

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    To all wood vets.

    Question. Was testing my new F-18 that I purchased from Bob, I was attempting to strip and old skid that I was testing from a past stain test.

    I applied 2oz of F-18 to strip oil based stain... started to see some brown stain run. Cranked it up to 4oz and a little more came off. I was trying to see what the dwell time would be on the test skid. I remember a past post that stated spray chems.. let dwell 10-15 min.. due scratch test..

    Do you continue to keep the test area wet at all times?

    I came back into the house and hit Bobs site and noticed that I was to crank it up to 8-16 oz per gallon. Beth Chime in here and tell me your secret.

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    Sorry Beth.

    Let me clarify, I have started doing deck and I have purchased the Wooddefender st250 for fence staining. I was posing the question of the two products because I am going away from Espec product and looking to try different product that could help me excel in the deck rest / cleaning part of the business. I have heard good thing about Russ's and Bob products.

    For mold and mildew cleaning... No stain present... efc-38 or f-10

    For stripping stain off..... Efc-38 or hd80( if needed stronger stripper that efc-38) or bobs f18 that could perform both as a mild cleaner or as strong stripper?

    Degraffreed.

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    Anyone know what 30lbs of Russ efc-38 costs these days?

    I am trying to choose between Russ efc38- and hd 80 or Bobs f-10 and f18. I have added fence and deck staining to my pressure washing service.

    Any woods vets please give me your thoughts.

    I have my first wood sealing coming up this weekend.

    I was told by one person to just Bleach it, take off the light mildew and Mold. By doing this with a pump up sprayer, would eliminate soaking the deck and having to clean one day and come back after the deck is dry(1-2 days). By just bleaching it would not soak the wood and I could stain in a matter of hours. Sounds like a winner to me.

    Wood vets chime in here.

    P.S the deck is .3 yrs old and is made of pressure treated pine. Never been sealed.

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    Tim, I just went thru the same thing last month. Burner worked fine the one day it went out during a concrete cleaning. Here is what I did.

    I did all those test the Russ mentioned. but my was the regulator on the side of my engine. I guess it went bad and was not suppling the right amount of DC volts to my power switch. I burned up two relays until Delco help me thru it. Take it to a PW dealer and have them check the regulator. I had mine done at the hardware store here in GA that service pwers. Good luck.

    JayCam Pressure Wash

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    Thank Celeste my thought exactly. Just one more for all of you to think over.

    How in the hell can you run away from the alter and lie to the police. and get a book and movie deal out of it? Georgia run away bride, that all over the news here and nationally. This goes to show that it is some sick people out here.

    I said it before and I will say it again,controversy bring income.

    I will bet anyone here 100.00 that Micheal Jackson will be back on top in 6 months,

    Any takers? People love controversy. Oh by the way have anyone turned on the news and all that was being reported was Good Stuff. NOPE. the first 10 minutes is all about who was shot, raped, killed, identity theft. Any body here seen any report of the pressure washer that posted here for cleaning the siding and cutting the grass of the elderly couple who were hopitalized, free of charge. Hell no, nobody wants to see that. It does not bring in RATINGS. So we can sit back and let thing happen or you can try and change things. Like making sure you supervise you kids sleep overs. Sorry about the attitude. I am just sick and tired of individuals acting like they live on another planet and seem not to understand why CELEBRITIES GO TO COURT AND WALK AWAY WITH THERE FREEDOM.

    For those who are still in the dark..... Its called MILLIONS IN THE BANK.

    STOP BIEING SURPRISED EVERYTIME A CELEB WALKS FREE. Move to the city and you wont be so sheltered..

    Degraffreed

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    I use it all the time on my house jobs fir gutters. I just used it today and the stuff is great. I also use limolene for e-spec and it also work good. So I stock both. I recently had an issue with my heater unit. It was down for about a month. Delco people took care of me. Thanks Delco, also as I could not use my burner, I went back to using th PP and it was a job saver. Use it but use it wisely. I hear it will take paint of the gutters, I have not experienced it but have read it from these post.

    Degraffreed

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    I agree with Ryan, I to have a 9-5, that I have been doing for about 18 years. I love the distribution industry. It is never the same thing. I also like the SALARY and benefits. I would like to one day MAYBE go full time. I treat my business like a business and come to think of it, I have not paid myself in over a year. I continue to reinvest my profits into more equipment, better chems and I just invested some earnings into equiptment for new fence staining and decks from Wooddefender out of Texas. Spent two days in Texas last month. If this goes good. I will sell my Rig for Powerwashing. Alot more money in staining. For any newbies looking into staining and sealing. Contact Brent or Todd from Standard paints out of Mansfield, Tx. Class act guys. Never tried to be pushy salemans or tried to sell me anything. Offer the 1 day fences staining and I was sold on the OJT. Look at there site. WWW.Wooddefender.com

    Any one in the Atlanta area need fences stained.?

    Degraffreed.

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    First, of all. We do not know if he was molesting these young boys. Yeah, he is a little weird, I will admit. But lets not jump to conclusion that molestation was going on here.

    I know all that post here seems to be very intelligent, so lets be open minded here. You can not always believe what the press says or do. There was so much more important issues going on in the U.S and the media seemed to be overly engrossed in what Micheal was doing. People have there opinions and I am okay with that. What I finally realize in these high profile celebrity is your freedom is based on the amount of representation you can afford.

    After the world was split on the OJ case all minority was happy that he was acquitted, even though many believed he was involved somewhat. What we was happy about was the fact that HE BEAT THE SYSTEM ,JUST LIKE THOSE THAT HAVE MONEY CAN DO. For all the Kobes, blakes, OJ's and the Ken lays of the world, Enrons, WorldComs and these other corporate robbers of the middleclass. Where is all the hoopla about the indivisuals making millions and the little guys walk away with nothing.

    So, who cares if Micheal walked, what we should be questioning is why these parents continue to let there children sleep over Micheals house? I can tell you why? FOR A FUTURE PAYCHECK AND A COMFORTABLE RETIREMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS WAKE UP AND SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS. SUPERSTARS= PAYCHECKS.

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    Classic, I used powerhouse for about 3 months from Sunbrite. I works really good, then I read so much about Citraclean and had the chance run out of Powerhouse and thought I would give it a try. I used it per Steve formula and I am a beliver that it is good as everone here says. I was on vacation and was heading back to GA and stop in Smyrna, Steves place and met him face to face. He is an incredible guy. Very knowlegable and very friendly. I bought 10 more gallons and now I stock it as my housewash. I was amaze that it cleans gutter streaks also. Go ahead and give it a try.

    DeGraffreed

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    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.

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    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

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    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:

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