Fence job question

I have a question that I have wondering about. When doing fences, you have one side that faces your customer and one that faces their neighbor. When cleaning, does the other side get affected at all? I would think at least some of the chems would leak through to the other side. Does that ever present a problem? Or do you just do your customer’s side and not worry about the other? I haven’t ventured into fences yet, but would be worried that I’d mess up the neighbor’s side and end up having to do it as well.

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IDK what the neighbors side looked like before service as you can see from pics I did the post side of the fence. However when I returned to nail in the one picket a week later from the picket side I can honestly say it looked pretty much like the before shot. Dark grey and green. I will say that when I finished my work on initial service date I didn’t think the fence would clean up much as it was still kinda dark in some spots and I turbo nozzled some green algae spots to no avail. After the week past I returned and this was the result. It looked amazing.

Yeah I think that’s how I will run a fence clean job on my next bout. The pump up sprayer has its place and long lines of fencing isn’t it.

That’s moving pretty good. How bad was the fence and what mix were you using? Assume with the 4gpm you were pulling about a 10-1 ratio, so did you shoot it with straight SH? 1% will clean most pretty darn good.

What pump up sprayers you guys use ? I have bad experience with them

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Here’s the before and after on one run of the fence. DS 3 Gal SH (12.5%) two Gal water and pre-wet the fence, 5 min dwell and then rinse. It’s all but eliminated furring except where the sprinklers have already compromised the wood. Staining it on Monday with semi-transparent Sable Brown. Doing the pergola too.

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When cleaning you will sometimes get clean spots around the knots on the other side. The bigger issue is when staining because that will definitely come through the knots (knot holes) on the other side. It’s really only an issue if you are doing one side of a new fence because if I am to clean them they are usually pretty dark with UV and mold so it doesn’t show up very much. They can hire me to do their side too though, their choice.

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The green algae will disappear as the SH finishes it’s work. Never use turbo on fence, you might get away with it once or twice but eventually you will be building fence…

Looks good, what psi did you rinse with? That’s strong results for basically a hw mix. It looks like it had been stained before, but hard to tell from pic.

It was stained when built about 6 yrs ago, for rinsing I’m using the pressure tip on the JRod on the 8 GPM machine. Embarrassingly I don’t know what the number is but it’s a lot less than the 85 white tip. The only reason I’m using the 8 GPM is because I have a fuel issue with the 5 GPM and can’t leave the trailer at the shop long enough to get it diagnosed (it’s EFI) because I have too much work to do. The 8 really puts out too much water for fences if they don’t have good drainage. My helper wets them down and applies the SH then I come behind him and rinse but I started doing them this way a couple of months ago by myself using the 5 GPM. It’s much faster than anything I’ve used before and using less chems and lower pressure maintains the condition of them wood better too.

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That fence sure looks like. Great job! If you would, post a picture after you stain it. I enjoy looking at the pictures of the work you do.

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Very nice. Would you treat a deck the same way as a fence?

I’ll post pics when it is done. Started today but the wind picked up and shut me down. As for the deck, it would depend on what if anything was on it to begin with. If it’s an oil based stain then basically the same thing but weaker mix because everything pools on horizontal surface whereas it runs down the fence. If it has been done with a water based product that get into Sodium Hydroxide and brighteners so a different process. I don’t do many decks so there are lots better people to ask about them.

Finally figured out how to upload this picture…I think.

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Amazing results

Not gonna lie…this made my day when I saw it.

Two years later!!! Gotta be a record!!! :joy:

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Same hahaha I laughed at the 2 year gap. Never stop learning

Someone liked it and I realized I had never posted the after pic so I figured what the heck…

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Wow. This is old. And man have I come a long way since.

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