I mean you’re getting into semantics here. When you wash a house you’re cleaning it regardless of the actual chemical processes taking place. And for the most part, washing a house consists of spraying bleach and rinsing it off.
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Also just no. You say bleach doesn’t clean it “bleaches”. What do you think “bleaching” something is doing??? If you bleach out a stain from a white tablecloth you cleaned it. I’m very confused about how you define “cleaning”.
Look up the definition of bleaching agents. When you bleach a stain, you have not cleaned it off. Ketchup stain for example. If you bleach the ketchup stain off a white shirt, you can’t see it anymore, but you have not removed what originally caused the stain. You have only bleached the ketchup. It’s still there. Make sense now? If you ONLY spray bleach on a house, you have not cleaned it. You now have a house with bleached algae on the siding. The surfactant coupled with rinsing is what cleans the bleached algae off the house. You bleach a driveway that was not properly cleaned to begin with, then it will return, regrow, and look much worse than before once it does, because the overlap lines, that are actually clean, will be extremely visible within a few months once the algae regrows. The bleach only kills what’s on the surface and bleaches it. It doesn’t lift off squat.
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Also, washing a house and washing concrete are 2 different scenarious. Doing a house like the driveway pictured above would be like rinsing a house with water, then spraying house wash mix, then leaving it. I can guarantee you it would not be clean, and you definitely wouldn’t have a repeat customer after the mold returns. There was still a significant amount of algae left on that driveway before just bleaching the top layer. The algae roots are still in that concrete, and the bleach probably didn’t reach a good bit of them, because of it’s molecular inability to permeate porous surfaces. You really should study up on the stuff a little bit so you can actually know what’s taking place when you wash stuff. Knowing the “semantics” of how things work like that has helped me win jobs over the cheaper guy. Really knowing the ins and outs of your livelihood is professionalism, not just pointless semantics.
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I think you’re being intentionally obtuse to prove your point. Yeah of course if you just spray bleach on a house and don’t rinse it, then it’s not going to come clean? I’m not really sure what you’re getting at here. It’s like saying they if you only pour dishwashing liquid in a bowl but don’t scrub it and rinse it then you’re not cleaning and it’s like, yeah no duh? Also I disagree that leaving lines and post treating isn’t proper cleaning. Everyone who cleans concrete regularly does it and in fact I would say that if you were to just blast off all the surface dirt and it “looks” great but you don’t post-treat, that would be improper cleaning and would lead to algae regrowth. My understanding is that the surface cleaning makes the concrete more susceptible to permeation.
This is true.
Bleach doesn’t clean. Fact.
The surface should be as clean as possible, then add post treatment.
If you want to bleach out mold (or algae if your prefer) and leave it there, just bleached, not washed off. Fine.
To each their own. We all don’t have to agree - but what you’re saying @pressureguy is cr@p…
“Also just no. You say bleach doesn’t clean it “bleaches”. What do you think “bleaching” something is doing???“
Nope.
“just blast off all the surface dirt and it “looks” great but you don’t post-treat,”
Nobody said don’t post treat. Ever.
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Don’t be. The longer the run, the faster the job. It’s still plenty cool, and nothing dried on me. It rinsed just fine, butr I’ll tell you what: I WILL watch your vid to see where I might be able to improve my game. HOWEVER, the end result was spectacular.
Stop it! We’re connected at the hip 'til one of us dies.
I had so much trouble holding that SC down when I switched out PWs to the 8GPM that I switched out tips several times, put a 90 degree fitting above the swivel to little or no avail and finally put a weight on it to hold it down. Now I just strap the hose across my shoulders to keep it down.
Nonetheless, I got no satisfaction nor could I tell the difference one tip from the other while going through this last January. If you all think that those stripes could be eliminated without a post-treat and with a different surface cleaner, I’m game. I’ll order the &^#$ thing tomorrow. THEN we’ll find out if the Hammerhead is the POS that @Innocentbystander says that it is.
You’d be well served to abandon pretreating in this area because of the storm drain ordinances that forbit the deposit of anything besides car wash soap. ALSO, pretreating can do damage to edges when the SC slings it out into the grass or other foliage. NO, I’ll stick with a wet surface, a surface cleaner, and a post treat.
As for the side-to-side cursory pass, it was just a test to discover it’s efficacy, and as you can see in the pictures, the side to side had little impact. NONETHELESS, I’m always looking to up my game, so any and all suggestions are appreciated, especially those by my teacher and friend. OK, I"LL WATCH YOUR *&#@^ VIDEO.
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Lol alright y’all start advertising your services as “vinyl surface disinfecting (since bleach inst technically a cleaning agent) and rinsing” and “porous surface growth removal” and get back to me on your sales numbers! Done with this pointless conversation.
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A lot of the homes I do have sodded yards and all are on hills. I really don’t feel comfortable going too strong on pre-treat until after I’ve flooded the sides with water from the surface cleaner and rinsing. Even post treating at 3% you have to be really careful some times.
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