Yup. Thats the one. Hope it works out well for you. If you notice any significant difference between the two products please let me know.
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I will for sure. I donāt plan on doing many awnings. I donāt advertise for it and honestly wasnāt prepared for the job. I lease my new shop from him and he says he tries to use people who lease from him. Thanks for taking the time man. Maybe it will save someone in the future from making the same mistake.
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Awnings are easy money. 
I love awnings.
@Trav1111 see above. @rusty and @Clean1 are talking about winsol and thereās a pic.
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Thanks! Should have read my unread posts before I asked. Haha.
No worries. Thanks for bookmarking my post.
Do you and @rusty have an unger brush and an extension pole? Pretty crucial gear for awnings. Soap them in small sections and scrub with the soft unger to create a āfoamā on top. Hit again with mix. Scrub again. Should rinse moss and algae and the whole mess right off.
Letās say you split one awning into 3 sections. You can soap and scrub the second section with your second pass of soap on the first section. Scrub both together. Rinse the first section. Hit the second section and third with soap. Scrub 2 and 3. Rinse section two and hit 3 again. Like an assembly line.
Rinse the inside of the awnings to flush dirt out of the frames so you donāt run into an issue like Rusty did. 20ā of awning should take 30-45 minutes. Easyyyy money.
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I have the Unger brush and pole. Wasnāt any problem getting to it. A lot of my issue for time was that I was afraid to use too hot of a mix on top of not having the Winsol. Once I started using a little hotter mix it went pretty fast. These awnings were 8 feet long a piece spaced evenly along a 250ā building. It took me about 4 hours. The first hour was wasted due to not using a strong enough mix. It didnāt touch it. These were a very coarse fabric, it seems a lot are a smoother material then this?
Awnings only come clean with a super strong mix if they have algae and mildew streaks like yours had. I usually x-jet them without a proportioner. But I did a test spot on an awning with straight 12.5% and it didnāt fade the color one bit. Doesnāt matter the texture.
If theyāre really mossy and thereās some stubborn moss on it I usually blast it with the zero degree soap tip and it pops them right off.
If the UV has lightened the color, which is pretty easy to tell, DO NOT WASH THEM. Lol. If UV has broken down the coating and faded them SH Iām confident is no good at all. If theyāre still bright like the ones above hit em strong. Rinse them well.
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I have a 24ā quickie brand pole and brush that I picked up from menards because I needed something last minute. Iāve seen you talking about the unger gear and will pick it up in the near future.
Your method makes sense. I look forward to knocking some of these out.
The unger is soft and has a rubber bumper around it to keep cavemen like me from damaging anything. Really nice. I couldnāt find it on the windowcleaningresource.com store, but hereās the one from Amazon
They sell the unger brush at Home Depot
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Thatās where I got all mine, but they apparently havenāt restocked since I bought them all last year. Or they stopped carrying them here locally.
I have seen Unger stuff at Home Depot. This one is already on the way. Haha.
Anything that can keep me from being more of a klutz than I already am, Iām all about.
Where did you get your Unger extension pole?
Does it clean off lichens from the fabric? And mold or just the dirt?
It works for mold and lichen but I always add sh when thereās organic growth. Its bleach stable.
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I talked to the Winsol rep today and without saying it exactly told me not to use the two in one. But to always use the deep clean for cleaning and to use the Awning Guard 690+ for fabric awnings or Awning Armor for vinyl awnings to protect them. Iāll post a few pictures of the literature I picked up and her contact info. She said to call or email her with pictures anytime. Maybe it can help someone out in the future.
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