I’m currently buying cleaners from home depot, I’m looking for a reliable eco and green friendly cleaner that is up to date with todays market, and health conscious customers?
Its all in your sales pitch if you ask me. Someone can find an issue with any cleaner you choose. I choose what works for me and sell the customer on the safety or environmental impact as I SEE IT IF THEY ASK. Given dilution rates and such, its hard for anyone to know more than the guy mixing it and using it. Assuming you know some basic science.
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What are you trying to clean?
For house, roof, fence, stone and concrete cleaning the best peer-reviewed, manufacturer approved, tested and recommended chemical is sodium hypoclorite, otherwise known as chlorine, or on the forum as SH
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SH is environmentally friendly… its green
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Envirobiocleaner and the f9 products.
Im cleaning a home 2200sq ft, normally I use SH with a pump sprayer. Its my first season and its smooth so far, I want to hear what other guys are using brand wise, so i can upgrade next year around.
You have a power washer, why are you using a pump sprayer? Even if you have a cheap 2gpm machine go buy you a car wash foamed off amazon for $15 and a few 1 liter water bottles.
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How many houses have you cleaned this way? With pump sprayer
just 2 homes it wasn’t very effective but the dirt was light on the home and came right off
Maybe your business slogan could be
“I got 99 problems but a pump up ain’t one”
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Better than a super soaker! I would remain concerned with getting quality equipment and learning the basics first. Then go down the path you choose ie going green. Chlorine becomes harmless after some air and uv light hits it. Its green enough. Nothing comes close to the cost efficiency of chlorine.
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Ugh. What does green friendly mean? Something that doesn’t cause algal blooms? Not injurious to invertebrates? Doesn’t cause cancer in humans? Not tested on animals? Not contributing to deforestation in Costa Rica? Low VOC? Not derived from petroleum? I dunno.
You can use products with green sounding names like Simple Green and EnviroBioCleaner. Those MUST be green, right?
You can use products with ingredients that sound like food like citric acid and vinegar. Hey, if people eat it, it can’t be that bad.
You can write up a lot of BS like this:
As far as I’m concerned, if it doesn’t kill the plants and you don’t flush it down the sewer into a waterway, it’s probably fine.
Read up on d-limonene. That’s about as green as you can get and it works like crazy.
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You can contact Sta-Clean Cleaning Contractor
Sorry I missed this one guys.
Green: Could be the color, Simple green is not eco friendly and people thought it was for years!
Green: Eco-friendly, doesn’t contain harmful things to people, plants, or animals.
How do you know…well I will say that there are many products on the market that have confusing lingo on the bottle. They may have a picture of the earth, or call it Eco-House wash, but it could all be misleading, you need to read the bottle.
The Easiest way to identify actual eco products are by the Safer choice logo or the Green Seal logo being on the bottle. That’s not to say other cleaners that don’t have this aren’t eco but they could just be feeding you a line of bs. If you see these logos they have been evaluated and deemed safe by scientists who have the complete formula and know it’s “safe”
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Nothing wrong with using a pump sprayer as I did as well when I started. If your not going to downstream and I don’t either than do yourself a big favor and get a xjet m5.
