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That's all fine and well, but my only experience with him here are basically "should have bought my stuff" and the handful of posts I looked at from him were basically "buy my stuff". I only searched his user name and looked at his profile topics before making this post to see if I could quickly find helpful informational post before making that comment, but a quick search didn't not find anything other than sales type comments. Yes, he is pushing ready seal and doing so in a typical salesperson fashion. You are correct that he may present himself in a totally different fashion in person, but if you are going to try and sell your products through this medium, this is not the way to go about it. As for not finding it in box stores, while that is true, I have yet to find A/C and Bakers in a store (even paint stores) either as I have looked to avoid having to order it in.

Tracy, The only contact that I have had with you now is 2 pms from you and now this reply all vaguely pitching your product. You have now excluded yourself from ever receiving an order of any kind from me. I also would like no further pms or replys from you in my topics since all they are, are sales posts.

I don't have a formula, I just look at the prebuilt units. It seems the 4gpm usually have a 13hp, 6gpm 18hp, and 8gpm 24hp gas engines. Based on knowing the torque numbers of these and yours you can probably be close enough.

If you haven't ordered parts check these places. http://www.pressuretek.com/ http://shop.powerwashstore.com/main.sc http://shop.pressurewasherky.us/main.sc

What do we do, wait till summer and not work all spring? Weather was only 30% chance which relates to its not going to rain, at least always has until this time.

Didn't realize that. Last time I looked them up online I thought they were about $150.00.

I got lucky, no water spots. I still need to invest in a moisture meter. Haven't started doing enough decks yet to warrant getting one.

Thanks Beth. That's the answer I was hoping for. How long after can I wait to recoat? Everything is wet this morning, with possible chances of rain today and tomorrow,

What kind of mess am I in for tomorrow? Finished the second coat of A/C stain on a customer deck late this evening then about an hour or so later it rained enough to wet about my home deck about 80% then stopped. Now about an hour/half after that, its starting to sprinkle again. Thanks for any input on what to expect and how to fix it.

Yup, you're over thinking it. Not in any particular order: http://www.pressuretek.com/ http://shop.pressurewasherky.us/main.sc http://powerwashstore.com/

Beth, Just getting into staining I do not have a known amount of time for these projects to go by. Until last year I only cleaned decks, never stained. The handful I did last year I had talked to Shane on and he would give me a close estimate to what it would take him to do (time, and what kind of prep), then I would factor in 30-50% more time for me to accomplish and work out the price from there so I would make money on the job but not overcharge the customer for my learning curve. Rod, I do factor a lot of that stuff in already as that is what I do with house washing. When I started doing that I kinda of shot from the hip on pricing until I learned how long some of the different style houses were going to take and how much travel time is involved. I may have to do the same with the deck pricing, but it seems like I have a lot higher chance of being off on the estimates do to having a lot things to use up time that may not have been accounted for.

It's vinyl siding. What percentage do you usually build into costs for everything except the stain?

How would you go about tackling this. It's a clean and recoat. I did one last year that was similar but wasn't as high and didn't have the patio below, just rock. I used a ladder to climb over the rail so I would not have to go through the home and it was all very light carpet. I applied the stain by brush to help with drips and running. That one took about a total of 3 hours on site in 2 trips to clean and stain. How much extra would you get for taping and plastic of all the lower area?

When I got back into house washing a couple years ago the guys I was working with were using the Limonene and E-Plus. It was ridiculous how long and how much effort it was taking to remove all the organic growth on the houses. After the 3rd house I was done with it. I switched to Simple Cherry, then when it was released mid last year switched to Elemonator both in a 12.5% SH mix. The houses instantly started being cleaned easier and looked better. I have found the Limonene does a decent job on the fleets I wash. There are only 2 reasons I have found for people trying to avoid the use of SH. 1, they do not understand it (which can be solved with research), or 2, they are trying to sell you a chemical and the only way they can do it is by bashing the only thing that truly works.

Nothing yet. It's for a city agency so I don't expect anything until it becomes a rush job. So if you have an suggestions I still open to hearing them.