Understood. I tried to add some relevent info without repeating too much. Again, great idea.
Great post Mark. Post us up some pics when you get a chance.
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Referring to comments derailing this post. Which most of us are great at doing 
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So you are charging $500 to clean a 10x10 deck?? My goodness, MDA1775!
Thatās for stripping not just cleaning.
Heās the wood guru when it comes to restoration. He does some amazing work. Iāve learned a ton from him. As much as Iāve made from his advice I probably ought to start giving him a stipend.
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Thatās stripping cleaning and staining. That said every deal you, I or anyone else makes with a customer is a mutually agreed to job and price. I bid a job last week for a double and single set of cedar garage doors, 20 ft of fence facing the street and I upsold them on some AC overflow rust removal. A buddy of mine bid the job at 545.00, I bid it at 875.00. I got the job. My local reputation is pretty good.
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@Racer, thanks for getting this thread together! Tons of awesome info here and super easy to navigate.
@Racer and @MDA1775 I had one question I donāt think I saw though: Iāve noticed that we sometimes struggle with furring on the spindles. Do you do anything in particular to mitigate that? No issues with floors, poles, or steps. Just spindles.
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What tip are you using and at what pressure? Are you cleaning then top to bottom? Hitting them on a 45* angle cleaning two sides at once. How close are you getting?
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Smaller surface areas with edges are more challenging. I tend to do what Firefighter4hire suggested in that I hit them from the side to give myself a larger surface area. That said whenever you hit wood at an angle your much more likely to break fibers and cause furring or toothpicks if you are not careful. I you hit them as square as you can it will help but itās also a lot slower so you kind of have to pick your poisen. I donāt know what tip you are using but I will often go to my JROD āpressureā tip for my 8 GPM machine and use it on my 5.6. Drops the pressure quite a bit and I mount it straight to the quick connect on the gun for more control.
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We use a 40 tip and dial the pressure way down, hit about 10-12" away. Do you normally hit them with a lighter solution?
Define way down
Why not use the proper orfice nozzle to bring you to the proper psi instead? So much easier that way.
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Thatās why I wanted him to define it. I assuming he is already doing it that way at least I hope so
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We stick to 1000psi on our wood cleanings and have great results.
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Iāve always just adjusted the unloader, do you have a better way? We use about 1200 or so. I donāt think our issue is the amount of pressure, the spindles seem to start to fur up before we put any pressure on them.
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Iāve always just adjusted the unloader, what would you suggest?
Use the nozzle chart to see which orfice gives you 1000psi. Buy that nozzle. Much easier than playing with your unloader and takes the guess work out of it.
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I never touch my unloader after setting it. I use a size 13 and 20 orifice which brings the psi to approx 1700 and 1000 psi on my 8 gpm. At least thatās what the psi chart says. The 1000 psi nozzle is my go to.
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Just to make sure Iām tracking with you guys, if we have 4 gpm machines (donāt knock me, I know everyone wants the 8 gpm machines) we should be using size 8ās for 1000 psi?
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