When cleaning houses we’re only using like a .75% SH solution. That’s before we start rinsing the siding and dilute it down even more. You use more rinse water than soap water so that basically dilutes it down to almost nothing. I’ve yet to have a customer complain about using SH. I do get a few who ask if it’ll hurt their landscaping. I just tell them I first wet them down with clean water, soap the house, and then rinse them with clean water. I’ve yet to kill a plant.
As far as driveways you could get away without using SH but I still would. It’ll help even if you just downstream your house wash mix. Once you surface clean you dilute it down even more. If any customer complains after you explain that politely tell them to find somebody else because you only use the safest method that will effectively clean their property. If you didn’t use it you would feel like you’re doing them a disservice.
Well I’ll be using SH then. It does technically break down, and per Wikipedia, it’s been approved as safe in the UK and bleach can also be used an effective mouth rinse for treating gingivitis.
I’m going to use the mouthwash piece of info when talking to my customers. Bleach sorta feels like pitbulls; they just have a bad rap and not that harmful if you know what you’re doing.
Thanks again to all of you for your help! I spent a lot of time reading about bleach, lol. Knowledge is power.
Just run up to Costco and get the biggest bottle of Listerene you can get and then dump it out and use that as your chem tank ( with bleach in it of course)!
So I called Clorox this morning, and also found this really good answer from Clorox’s website:
I just wanted to know exactly what it does so I have the most complete answer for any customer, but mainly for myself. Having a PW company named “PureClean” doesn’t make sense if I’m using harmful stuff
I’d be more worried about my customers finding out I have a pesticide license rather than me using SH. If they’re worried about you using SH they’re going to think you’re the devil for spraying pesticides.
I thought it was kinda funny reading about bleach being used as a pesticide and as a weed killer, soil sterilizer, and in preschools. I didn’t realize bleach had a thousand uses.
That is horsecrap beyond belief… I was in restaurants for 27 years and Ecolab uses a Chlorine based sanitizer in their dish machines they put in restaurants everywhere!
I can’t even begin to tell you how many gallons of bleach I drank as a kid. We had passes to the pool every summer and I was there everyday. Now that I think about it I guess that means I drank gallons of my own pee too.
