This is the same as the bleach sprayer. One is about 15 and the other is 20. Couldn’t see what the difference was so I called chapin. They said they are the same, one is available online in their store and the other isn’t. Both are listed on the zon, so I don’t know why they would do that. Anyway, it isn’t the greatest but it works and when it dies it is cheap to replace. I use it for spot treating things like a little lichen on the edge of a sidewalk that didn’t come out while running the SC or rinsing. You’ve been there, do a black piece of concrete and after a pass you see the junk that wasn’t visible and didn’t come up with the HW mix pre wet.
I break one every couple of months and I’m just a part timer.
The problem I’ve found with all the pump sprayers is in the trigger. The “bleach” sprayers just have viton o-rings. That does nothing for the steel spring in the trigger. You have to rinse them out after each use, no matter whether it’s a bleach sprayer or not. For small touch-ups, I prefer using a spray bottle. It’s easier to just unscrew the sprayer and pump a few squirts of water through it when you’re done. I’ve tried the Zep for bleach, Ecolab for bleach, and currently using the Harbor freight one. The issue I have with all of them is the cap breaking easily. But, at around $5-6 each, not a big deal to go through one a month or so.
I would say it’s my favorite pump sprayer. Fan and stream tip. Stream can hit 2nd story gutter (with no wind). I never rinse it out and it usually lasts a month or more with every day use. One of my favorite “tools”. Quality has gone down over the past 5 years though.
I hated tossing the wand, tubing, and plastic container when it was usually the trigger that went bad.
So I started looking for just the trigger.
Every place I found it was basically the same price as buying the whole unit.
Finally found a place that sold them for $8.
Not a huge savings but I do it more for ease and for fun. When a trigger goes bad, I can swap it out pretty quickly and don’t have to mess with putting a new sprayer together or pouring the SH into the new container.
Just had a trigger go bad yesterday. Took me less than a minute and saved $8. Plus the footprint of the trigger is a lot smaller than carrying a new sprayer with you.
So odd, I haven’t had any issues (yet, now that I said this) with the trigger. My pumps and tanks and nozzles go bad. I keep parts from my bad ones on the shelf, makes swaps easier. Took a new one off the shelf the other day and it wouldn’t hold pressure. Read a lot of reviews with this same experience.
Interesting, I don’t use spray bottles for anything other than my test kit and in my house for my mixed household cleaners. I love the trigger on the zep bleach one, holds like a quart, and it shoots pretty far.
Trigger is usually my issue. Occasionally the pump. Sometimes the nozzle. And then at the beginning of the year I had the smallest of pinprick holes occur in the tank. Never seen that before.
