6-7 times out of 10 it’s vinyl , other percent is stucco/drivet, maybe 1-5 % brick
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What region are you in WW? I imagine roofs vary in how much organic growth they accumulate.
How are you applying?
I average about 8 gal of bleach per house, never less than 5 gal per house. So that’s only 7-8 houses per drum. Not counting post treating, which I do some decent sized drives or roofs. It doesn’t take long to burn through a decent amount of bleach even DS houses. I always carry at least 50 gal on my trailer and I still get nervous if I don’t have at least full drum in reserve.
How much are you using per house and what’s your average size house?
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Can you not find a place to put it in the shade? You maybe should build little shed over it. I have mine delivered in black drums, but they never see sunlight where I store them. Painting it black will work, but the black going to get it even hotter and heat no friend to SH.
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Best I can do for now is a spot that gets 2-4 hours of sun a day. I suppose a small enclosed covered area could work, that’s actually a pretty good idea.
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If I put your mix on that I’d be back 6 times to re apply. Unfortunately that’s a pretty tame roof for us also that’s an early season pic, it got worse as soon as it got muggy. If the gutters are tied in it’s off to the races.
That’s basicly a weak housewash mix directly applied. I wouldn’t waist my time putting that on a roof.
We are going thru 500-700 gallons a week right now. When we slow down in august it may be 300-450 a week. Very easy to hit those numbers when you clean 25-30 roofs a week. Plus almost every roof job has at least a house wash attched to it and most likely some concrete or a deck or fence.
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Why don’t you paint it with a coat of black, then a couple coats of white.
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We get 4 55 gallon drums of SH and a drum of Brown Stuff delivered every Tuesday. I keep them in a plastic shed from lowes. Small 110 ac unit keeps it cool. Ac is on thermostat cost me about 30 bucks a month to run it. Works well for us
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That’s a really good one. I already Have stone next to the garage too.
Those sheds aren’t cheap but does sound like a good solution.
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They run between 500-600 bucks but its keeps chemical out of the weather and locked up.
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I don’t know how people don’t be,isve you are using 300 gallons a month. We’ve been doing 600-700 a month…Drums delivered has been the cheapest and easiest. IBC tote they wanted a huge deposit and I’d need a forklift to unload it (gravel drive…no beuno on the electric pallet jack they carry)
Look for a shop, it would pay for itself in what you’d save in SH
When I was looking to get delivered to my house before I had a shop I got denied by 4 places because of there semi needed a circle drive
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I agree the drums easiest to deal with. Plus around here, once you get above the drums, they want you to have containment area, emergency wash station, etc and it limits your suppliers. Just not worth it to me.
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If you go with the drums do yourself a favor and buy a high quality siphon the cheap dont hold up.
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I think that plastic shed is probably the best idea. A cheaper option is you could build a 2x4 frame around it and cover with some of that white corrugated metal siding that they use on metal buildings. That stuff is pretty cheap at Menards. It would be light enough to slide back and off of it if you ever needed to. If it only gets 4 hours of sun a day you might be able to get by with some sections of privacy fence around the tote and not even mess with anything on the top.
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If you are going through it that quick I don’t see the need for a shed or air conditioning…
Paint the tote and put it in the mostly shaded area. It will be fine.
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Build a cover for the tote out of sheets of rigid insulation. You could make it as pretty or ugly as you like. But you could leave it in direct sunlight all day and only change the temp of the bleach one or two degrees.
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