Cleaning concrete w/o pressure

Cool. I’ve seen it. Will give it a try.

I’m trying to break into to commercial end. How do you go about prospecting those fast food places?

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For me, I was cleaning the windows first and the DM asked me about it.

I would treat it like any storefront- just walk in and leave a card with a price, or some sort of brochure or postcard. Ask for DM’s contact info, that is key since they are usually the decieion makers, not the GM of the store.

Ive read that McD’s and Taco Bell pay. Mine are Wendy’s. 6 stores on weekly schedule, 6 stores on Quarterly. Price Quarterly same as initial cleans.

This was one month since last cleaning:

I was going to start a thread on this because still seem to be leaving lines from my surface cleaner and having to go over a few times on semi rough spots.

What about water run off on commercial projects? Do you have to do containment or any sort or water recycling?

90% of the problems people have with their surface cleaner it’s that it’s too big for the gpm they’re running or the nozzles are the wrong size for the gpm. What size surface cleaner and what’s the number printed on your nozzles?

Actually, we’re going to do this an easier way.

If your surface cleaner is rated for 4 GPM and you’re running a 3.5 GPM machine the nozzles are wrong. Instead of spraying out water it’s just kind of projectile vomiting out water.

If your surface cleaner is rated for an 8 gallon a minute machine and you are running a 5 gpm machine the surface cleaner is too big for your machine.

If your machine is 4 gallons per minute multiply that by 4 and you should probably not be using anything much larger than a 16, may be a 20 inch surface cleaner max if you wanna take it slow, but the nozzles are probably still wrong.

Well currently I’m using a deco 5.5 gpm heated machine 3500 psi with a 18" whisper wash on rollers. Its done pretty good for the most part but I’m not happy with the lines its tracing on the outsides of the cleaner. Doesn’t seem like it should be leaving those.

Are you using a filter? If you’re downstreaming with the same hoses and there’s some funky corrosion in them there could be build up in your nozzles. Not really sure a surface cleaner is designed to throw water, especially concentrated in a beam powerful enough to clean, outside of the surface cleaner.

I’m imagining that wonky eyed football player in waterboy.

Nozzles do wear over time, water is an abrasive not a lubricant. Or you may need to take the swivel apart and clean it…

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The Facebook button doesnt work on your website. It goes back to your website.

picture would help

I will attempt to get another picture next driveway I do, it’s not on the actual outside of the surface cleaner it’s the circular path of the surface cleaner leaving marks on the left and right side when I’m cleaning. I will get a picture and think youfor the website notice

My machine is 5.5 gpm and I really feel like I have to walk really slow with my 20" cleaner. What’s the ideal nozzle size for that setup?

#2.5 if there are only 2 nozzles unless they make a #2.75. Not really sure.

I have no clue why that’s huge. Lol

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Lol. I gotta pop them out and see what they are. I haven’t done any large flatwork so I’ve just dealt with it. But I’m going out this week looking for some commercial so I just probably address the issue.