I sprayed down a white painted trellis with 1.5% SH that was next to a porch and made sure to wet everything down except for a big nice black front door. The home owner texted me these pictures and I am wondering if this is something I can clean off, and if so how.
I feel like it’s probably just a hand up, sorry my bad situation and the door needs to be repainted but I thought i’d ask how I would go about cleaning it if that was even possible. Thanks.
Since you’re looking at repainting it, you could go hit it with your house wash mix at around 1%. You have nothing to lose.
I’d pre-wet the door.
Apply 1%
Dwell a couple minutes
Rinse
If that didn’t work, then I’d wipe down the door and dry it. And apply 1% without pre-wetting.
This is because you have nothing to lose.
Also, this is where pre pics are worth gold. It would tell you right away if it was you or not. Probably is based on your admission and the spray pattern. But still always nice to know for sure with pre pics. Takes an extra minute and has saved me a few times when I wasn’t sure or the customer wasn’t sure.
Not sure what the trellis was made of but if it was vinyl, that’s too high a % to use.
That is a crappy paint job on that door. Having said that, you made the spots. Do what qons said. I’d try soap and water and a rag.
I don’t know if you painted before, but since I am procrastinating on doing work in the yard I will give you a whole bunch of unsolicited advice.
If you have to paint it, take off hardware, sand it lightly (i wouldn’t fix that crappy previous job with all those brush marks), wipe it down, recoat, let it dry, replace hardware, done. Depending on temps/humidity/sun and your experience, 1-2 hours including enough dry time to replace hardware (drier than tacky or the paint is coming off). I would call it dry enough time (you can even bring a blower to accelerate the drying)
Equipment needed
1 (probably) philips screwdriver (long handle)
2 sheets 120 grit sandpaper
1 3 inch angle brush (I personally like it better for the fake roundover part, but a flat would work).
A rag to wipe down the door
Another damp rag for paint (or clean the one you used)
**** A thick/heavyweight dropcloth for under the door while it is open and being painted****
A small block of wood, putty knife, or some other object to jam into the doorframe to keep it from closing while working on it.
Fan is optional, not on while painting.
And of course a quart of black paint (i’d lower the sheen to satin, but they might insist on semi).
It’s been a humbling weekend for me.
The home owner just texted me pictures of his pool cover. It’s obviously dried SH. Is this going to be as easy as rehydrating, agitating, and pumping the water off the top or am I going to have to buy a new pool cover too?
It would be pretty tough to ruin a pool cover with SH, they are pretty impervious to chemicals in general. I say this as a guy who helps his buddies pool business often. It is possible to ruin them, just like homeowners do by using too many chems and letting it dry.
What kind of pool is it? I’ve never seen a cover like that. Most in grounds have 3 types of covers; solar, safety, leaf/mesh. If it is is an above ground or semi below grade, those round pool tarps are about 24 bucks, more or less. That looks like a ton of dried SH if that is what it is, way higher than HW mix.
You need to walk around the property and LOOK at it before rolling up the hoses. Rinsing isn’t just for S&G’s, and the only time you can possibly over rinse is when you seeing it rising past your ankles. Everything I wash gets rinsed, and everything near what I washed normally gets a rinsing. Anything I really don’t want to get touched gets covered in plastic or taped or moved.
Good luck to you.
Edit: If it is an oval above ground, those tarps are a bit more, but I wouldn’t be paying over $100.
Just for reference, when I got started I took a pool that we were tearing down. I dosed it all in 3% SH, caps, rails, stairs, cover, let it sit for 15 min baking in the sun. Rinsed it all down pretty good and they were all fine. I have been using a rail section from an above ground pool to mix up my chems in my 5 gal bucket or pump ups for about 5 years, still has paint on it. But I rinse it after use, every time.
Helpful advice for sure.
