I’m with you man. I started with a 12 volt pump for chemical delivery and now have a diaphragm system. The pressurewasher is strictly for rinsing and surface cleaning. I love the control we have with a separate chemical delivery system. Downstreaming didn’t work well for me and I’m glad it didn’t. If one particular house is much dirtier than normal, I can just add a gallon of bleach and not have to reapply a bunch of times. Downstreaming, your just stuck spraying the damn house 6 times, lol.
What size water tanks do you have for these types of jobs?
I have a 325 gallon water tank and then I have a hose reel filled with about 250’ of good quality garden hose and I have it plumbed into the water tank so all I have to do is pull off some hose up to a faucet, screw it and open up the faucet and it keeps my tank full. I’ve attached a picture of my water tank and the hose reel.
Awesome rig! Do you find that a lot of commercial locations have a water source? And if it doesn’t, do you just fill your tank prior to getting to the job?
Thanks, a lot of trial and error went into that trailer. I’ve only had one job that didn’t have water. It was a big parking lot on an office building that was empty and we had to haul water. I went out and bought 4 big totes and put them on another trailer, filled them up and hauled them to the job site. To finish the job we had to fill all of them up twice. On all the other jobs we could find water faucets. Sometimes we have to run 3-400’ of garden hose. One thing you can do is go to a close home or business and give them $50 or so to hook up to their water. I;m also going to look into getting a meter for fire hydrants. I have read that some folks do that.
Interesting. I just assumed that most commercial sites wouldn’t have an accessible water supply. That’s good to know.
