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    If you're not proficient with a voltage meter or the layout of a hot water machine, do yourself a favor and take it to a shop before you cost yourself more money.

    Pressure switch, t-stat, igniter, burner switch, relay all come into play. If you're not sure what is what and how to check it, you can't be talked through it on the computer.

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    Here is one, Just out, Mustang introduces the NEW Shelby 500 Mustang....

    They bolted on a new Eaton TVS Series 2300 supercharger (the same supercharger GM uses on LSA and LS9 engines) to the 5.8-liter mill. Add in a larger cooling fan, a higher-flowing intercooler pump, and a larger intercooler heat exchanger, and you get the GT500's 650 hp and 600 lb-ft of torque, and a top speed north of 200 mph. !

    Only thing better than the Shelby, would be the Ford GT-40. But I'm a Mustang kinda Guy, so I'd go Shelby.

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    Why not buy 2 (8) gpm units and hook them together or just run them separately? Will this be a hot water set-up? Running 16 gpm you're going to have to move up in hose diameter, 1/2" or more. Weight & cost will be a factor.

    You can clean concrete just as effectively with 2500-3000 psi at those gpm's, why 4k?

    I would have to say you'd need to run 50-60 hp may be less with a diesel. I'd go with the Udor gkc pumps

    Should be a pretty cool project though.

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    Come and gone Buddy. My Sister & I had my visit planed out pretty good then she gets called for jury duty the whole week.

    So I washed her house & stripped & stained her deck. Guess it was a working vacation:) While I was in the area I was asked to wash a couple of houses, so that paid for the trip.

    Maybe next time.

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    Good call Rod. I thought that because these are hot water machines they would have a buffer tank.

    Buffer tanks are plumbed so water doesn't continually bypass through your pump causing heat build up. With a buffer tank water bypasses to the tank and lower temp water is pulled to the pump from the tank.

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    This is why there are pressure relief valves or pop off valves on hot water PW's. It just happens and I'm not sure you can do anything about this, unless you just cut the burner off and run some cold water through the system. Once off the gun and burner cuts off the water is "Trapped" behind the unloader in the coil. Water in the coil absorbs the left over heat of the metal coils and will raise the water temp in the coil. Most coils are sch. 80 pipe which is heavy duty and takes a lot of psi to burst them. If the temp does get to high, the thermal relief or pop off valve will open and pressure is relieved from the system.

    For the record I've been using hot water skids for 5 years and have never had a problem.

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    David, 6k for a 3k rig? Yea a little high. Why the rush? Winter is almost here, can't make money with a pressure washer when it's freezing. Slow Down, Take Your Time. Between now and Spring you could be putting together a "Killer Business Plan". So that when you start in the Spring you come out like "Gang Busters".

    There will be plenty of good used equipment on the market soon. Again search ebay & craigslist.

    Good Luck!

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    13 hp.honda 4.0 gpm,heated and 225 gal tank.And have been to the school of hard knocks there as far as underbuying and paying for it later.

    Will you make money with a push mower or large cut zero turn mower?

    Same example for the equipment you are looking at. It's a push mower.

    You want at least a machine that will put out 5 to 6 gpm. This doesn't sound like a big difference but in pressure washing it is. 325 tank & at least a 12 ft duel axle trailer. This is the basic stile rig I started with 5 years ago, and moved up from there.

    Good Luck!

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  25. Posted · Edited by Guy B · Report reply

    This is a quote from Chris Chappel in another thread. This is what really scares & pisses me off the most. This is what can and will happen when Municipalities start calling around to other Municipalities for further information on how to handle this situation. Leaches & Vultures descend on the Contractor to suck the profit from their Business and in most cases put them out of Business. There are no provisions to help protect the PW Contractor, only ways of sucking every bit of money from his pocket.

    Are the people and Organizations that have shopped these BMP's around to blame??? If they do nothing to protect the Contractor from this beyond the BMP I say....Yes You Are!!! You knew this was going to happen because it already happened in your area. You will be responsible for every Contractor that is put out of Business

    Where are the BMP's for the parking decks, dirty building & sidewalks, restaurants, etc. that says they Must have they're property cleaned For The Health & Safety Of The Public & The Children! Don't you care about that?

    Yea I played the Kid Card.

    Here's the quote.

    "I agree with a lot of you out there, there is a lot of mis-information and lies out there and that was a huge part of the problem there in Houston.

    They wanted you to get registered with the city, haul hazardous waste (without informing you that you need to have a CDL, D.O.T. approved Tank and vehicle to haul the waste, Placards to show what is being hauled, the necessary information and insurance, get registered with the D.O.T. for hauling hazardous waste, and a lot more!), they wanted you to haul the wash water across town and fill out manifests and pay for each manifest for each job no later than 4 days from the time the job is completed and pay for the wash water to be disposed of (never found out from the city what the rate per load or gallon cost to be disposed of), pay a monthly or yearly fee to be registered with the city (yearly fee was over $450 per year) and if you are hauling wash water that vehicle had to be registered also. There is more to this but you can get an idea of the hoops they wanted you to jump through just to work there."

    Again I say...I don't have a problem with the BMP, I have a problem with all the Crap that will come with it.

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