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fitz, if upstreaming saved me a ton of time and a pump cost's $300. I would weigh out the benifit's to cost's and put a spare pump on my truck. I think you should invest in a 5 hp roller pump. The kind chem lawn,lawn doc,ect...use. Also talk to JT PaintWash about SHOOTER TIP'S BEFORE YOU DO ANY UPSTREAMING.

your pump is a positive displacement pump. This mean's it will pump [use 5 gpm as a exsample] 5 gpm. Now when you add the chem to the BEFORE THE PUMP[upstremin g] You are adding chem to the water and pumping 5 gpm. At this point 5 gpm is comeing out of the tip. You can upstream 100% chem if you wanted too. Just fill your tank with whatever you want to shoot. The up-streamer work's under LOW PRESSURE and you have a 3/4 inc or 1/2 inc inlet from the garden hose to the pump to get a draw. This amount of unrestricted flow will typically get a better draw rate then a DOWN-STREAMER. Now here is the part that confuse's people. When your pump is pushing 5 gpm and drawing in[downstreaming] chem [let's say 5 to 1] then in 1 min. Six gallon's per min is comeing out of the tip. 5 gpm from the pump and adding 1 gpm of downstream chem. thus giveing 5 to 1. Upstreaming your adding 1 gal chem to 4 gal of water and shooting 5 gpm from the tip. So UPSTREAMING WILL PUT MORE CHEM ON THEN DOWNSTREAMING. A lot of thing's can effect your downstreamer. it has a very small orafice. The langth of high pressure line. Thickness of the chem[amount of solid's]. Distance of chem tank from the downstreamer[you can get friction loss in the chem line] Up-streaming can cause problem's in your metal part's and has a lot of drawback's also. Ideally, a sep. pump for chem's or a TRUE 2 step wash unit[duel line's] is the best way to go. shur-flo roller pump ect..... cost's more,more equipment to buy,fix,replace,ect.... more to drag around,need multiable chem tank's,ect.... best downstreamer ive seen-X-JET drawback, carrying chem to wand.

i have been upstreaming diffrent truck wash's for 3 year's. If i had a cat pump it would'nt bother me to upstream bleach but i have a AR and dont trust it for bleach. because the soap dosent sit inside the pump or coil very long[allway's moveing] and it's flushed out everytime i shut down my unit. I dont have any problem's. The soap keep's my coil from rusting.

was because my helper kept walking on the tarp then walking on the un-tarped cement. Made me crazy. i'll use the blue tarp under the cloth tarp next time. I did'nt have that much sealer leaking to go through the cloth. Just some drip's. Drip's on plastic make a puddel. Not on cloth.

i used cabbott's semi last month to do a cape cod. they requested no spraying. i used stain pad's. They also req. 2 coat's. 2 coat's of semi is = to a solid, in my opinion. Do you have to use cabbott's primer first? if your going to use a pump-up you better strain the stain. I would use my shur-flo before a pump-up. use cloth type drop cloth's not plastic.

i spray the house cleaner on first. Then when it's wet with that chem i clean the gutter's. Rinse from gutter's down. no problem's with clean streak's. If GZ work's so well, why not use it to wash the whole house. just deluite it more as a whole house wash.

just went full time im dead in the water. rain is killing me. lowballer's are killing me im going to go to school to get retrainned in a new line of work. either HVAC or electrician. going to the union hall on friday.

QUAT'S It has been used in the commericial swimming pool buissness for a long time. It is also a preserivitive that was once sprayed on your fruit's and veggie's to keep them from getting moldy in transit. That site show's the use of it because they cant use bleach where they mfg. food stuff's. Do a google search on [spelling not good] quatamary amonia salt's ive often thought that this could make on heck of a roof cleaner.

they could have used a cast pipe to route the wire's and now that pipe is rusting.

good post on why you test every deck before quoteing. Go to home depot and get paint stripper [not water based] roll it on and let it bubble up. zinnzer should make an additive that can be mixed with any finnish. It's warrenteed not to grow mold for 3 year's.

7 to 1 i get better then that downstreaming or upstreaming Anyone ever try SHOOTER TIP'S and a downstreamer? I will report next week.

you can see from the close-up of the pic that 2 diffrent contractor's have poured the diffrent slab's. Whatever the prob is, im betting it's not the first time one of the slab's has been poured.

GOOP The purple stuff i can fix darn near anything with that stuff home depot in the paint dept.

Yes, you need the distance but it come's down to DRAW RATE. That is the part i want to know about.

i have done my own teating on the orig x-jet and have come up with this. It work's like a old style carberator off your lawn mower. If the inlet ,1/4 inc draw line, is the main jet. Then that 1/4 inc can only let in so much chem. Go to a 3/8ths draw line and you can let in much more. less flow restriction. Go bigger and thier is not enuff flow from the GPM to get a good venturi effect to get a good draw. FITZ-if you get a min, please switch your old x-jet to the 3/8ths hose barb and line and retest. I would'nt mind getting another x-jet but im not going to spend that kind of money just to get rid of the removeable close range tip. Anyone want to sell their old one? i'll pay $40 each for them.

the painter's mit has a plastic liner in it. Your hand get's sweatty and the mit fall's off. Dont know if beth is talking about the roller that is made by sure line. It has 3 little roller's on a bent roller head. It is made to roll paint/stain onto spindle's and for painting pipe. It's about 3 inc long. It work's pretty good. Matt, use the zep spray bottle to get into tight space's. Has anyone tried a STAIN STICK from SEAR'S? It's one of those stick's that you fill with sealer then push on the handle to get the stain to come out the end. [el' cheapo hurracane brush] the nice feature about these[small job's] it the pad is made to get IN BETWEEN the deck's spaced board's. It was worth the $25

doing the math to figure the sq ft of railing hurt's my head. I now go by lin ft of railing. I hate TWP. I like aussie oil by cabot's[all cabot's really] and penofin red lable ready seal is not any shelve's, only mail order. If i got heavy into wood i would stock WOOD TUX and Ready seal. I only do 1 or 2 deck's a month. No matter how you add it up. It all come's down to makeing the sale and makeing a profit. Easy deck's get priced diffrent then hard one's. If i have to take a ladder off the truck, someone is going to pay more then if i dont need a ladder. Is the customer going to use me other surface cleaning's? This also change's the price. I stopped telling customer's HOW i got to the price. Just WHY i charge more then anyone else. 80% of good deck work is the railing

has anyone tried a STAIN STICK from sear's. It's the stupid type that the handle fill's with stain and you compress it to release the stain to the pad? Well i tried it because it has one specil part i needed. The pad is built skinny on one one end to get in between the decking board's without a brush. Im sure the hurricane brush is far far better but i was in a hurry. It was a 2 tone wrap around porch. Spraying would'nt have been worth the prep time. Fitz, ive been thinking of a plastic cone to be fitted over the nozzle of my shur-flo system to prevent overspray from stripper's. The less it's airborne the better. I think your on the right road.

it's 1 10,000th's of one horse power. Dont know where the heck i got that other number in my head.

pin head sized blak dot's that leave a brown residue when picked off. You mostly see this where the sun shines on soft wood mulch. True bark mulch's have less. Marble chip's have none. Shotgun fungus is the mulch industrie's biggest stumbleing block. If their were a cure they would have it. The mold spore shoot's out with 200,000 horse power and can shoot up to 250 ft. Ive seen it on the 3erd story gutter's and window's. Your homeowner's insurance will not cover damage by this mold. Removal of the mulch is reccomended as the ONLY cure. The faster you get it off the better off you are. I use a 40 deg tip and 200 deg water. I repaint painted surface's. Black mulch is the worst. It absorb's the heat and hold's it. Im doing a job where this is a major problem as we speak. The mulch was installed less then 45 day's ago. Landscaper wont remove or replace without chargeing.

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the problem with powder's that are not 100% active chem is the filler's. Each scoop could be diffrent. Only way to make sure it's all the same would be to use all the powder each time. Im sure the 1 lb bag's can be used and stay close each time. Then again you'll need to make sure it ALL desolves, each time. My best choice would be to get a black 25 gal drum and buy the 5 gal liquid drum's. Walk out and fill my drum with their chem and give back the 5 gal drum's. One stop shopping. p.s. in some state's carrying more then 5 gal of liquid chlorine would require you haveing a placquard.

i dont use allbrite. No reason just have not tried it. Holly crap $100 extra to wash the gutter's!!! I charge $100 extra to wash the INSIDES. Nothing extra for the outsides. Sodium hyd. is the key to cleaning the gutter's. Just add HD80 to your reg housewash and watch the black go bye bye. Dont let it dwell to long. I buy BROWN DERBY at $150 for a mix kit that makes 110 gal of concentrate. It's sod. hyd based. I put 2 gal of concentrate in a bucket with a lid and add 2 gal water. This will clean about 4 house's of gutter's and window trim. I bought the yellow exstension poll from home depot $35. Then a rounded head truck brush from e-spec. $22 brush it on[no scrubbing] and rinse with the x-jet. If i could get a extra $100 per house for gutter's i would make a cheap extendawand out of my home depot exstension pole and use a shur flo pump to push the chem up to the brush head. This is how the hurricane brush from sunbrite work's.

i thought 12.5 bleach was pool chlorine.[LIQUID] 65% is SHOCK.[POWDER] 100% IS SUPER SHOCK.[POWDER] Do either of you guy's add anything to get FOAM

if your going to BRUSH,then ive never come accross a gutter with factory finnish that wont come out like brand new by useing BROWN DERBY.[very little brushing] $150 for 110 gal. of concentrate. you cut it 50/50 for gutter's. that's about $1.50 per house. beat that. i also brush all the alum window trim and downspout's so maybe $3 per house.