Down stream

It’s a backup and you will only be limited if you never reinvest. Are you spending 6k on equipment and nothing on insurance?

Get you a 5-6 gal hot-water machine, decent sized water tank, ds injector, couple of reels and go to work. Forget an xjet. Figure in about $500 for misc parts, spares, fittings, etc.

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@Patriotspwashing what will be so different about the downstream?

@Racer xjet can reach those tall points on houses with no ladder. What else shoots that high? Is there a way to Ds with high pressure tips

A m5ds nozzle hits the same distance as xjet nozzle except it uses low pressure. Plus you might want a shooter tip for extra windy days. No you can’t downstream with high pressure. You don’t need or want high pressure cleaning a house except maybe on a real rare occasion or like when you’re cleaning brick steps or something… Or you can get a jrod with a couple of soap nozzles and rinse nozzles.

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I just looked at that m5ds, looks great and cheaper. I meant high pressure Ds for fleet

I am not sure why you need to soap with high pressure. Your soap has a dwell time that does almost all of the work. You pretty much rinse after that

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Doesn’t car wash use soap with high pressure

You can’t be serious.

Legit question

I am assuming that they pull the soap using a lower psi, just like someone using an average pressure washer. When I run my car through the car wash, it always foams at a low psi. Then some soft scrubby slaps it and it pressure washe off. Then they blow dry it.

I was talking the manual ones. Just brainstorming bro

Watch it on YouTube and find out. I am sure almost everyone will agree that high pressure soaking is not the way to go or even makes any sense.

Most people that fleet wash apply soap at high pressure… I’m not the guy that can help you there. This other guy is definitely not the one either.

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Maybe using modified xjet?

This site may be of assistance
http://fleetwashacademy.com/

There is so much wrong in this thread I don’t know where to start. For starters there are two ways to get soap into the fluid stream. One is called upstreaming and the other one is downstreaming. What you need for heavy equipment, fleets and greasy oily concrete is to upstream your chemical. You would be creating a restriction on your pump until it creates a small vacuum and you would then pull soap from the other inlet port on the other side of your pump head. Heat and high PH soap upstreamed is what you need. And yes self serve car wash bays are upstreaming their chem!

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You are not very well versed in all aspects of exterior cleaning and the use of different methods and techniques

So high pressure soaping is a thing? I am not sure, but last time I checked a car wash was in the lower psi range. 1.2 to 1.9k which is considered pretty low for psi.

Okay, even so, if there is soap in the hose at 1,200-1,900k psi it didn’t get there by venturi it was upstreamed. Call it low psi all day if you want but 1,700 at the gun cleaning fleet is dancing right on the edge of too much

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