If you don’t know there is a heatwave (has been in Texas) and it is moving up north. Be careful, drink fluids, watch yourself and your coworkers/employees.
If you do decks then I don’t need to remind you that it is normally 10 degrees hotter on the deck (or more).
I was doing a deck yesterday and the heat was just radiating off it, I made multiple trips to the shade, drank almost 2 gallons of fluid, was completely soaked with sweat, and that was just getting my equipment out of the truck
Seriously, saving an hour isn’t worth a stroke. Take a break, get in the AC in the truck for 10 minutes if you have to grind on.
One guys .02.
I don’t know how you guys/gals in Texas do it on 110 degree days, gotta be a 0500-0900 day.
I’ve been curious, how do you wash a house on a 110 degree day with sun. Does that cold water crack glass with an extreme temp change? Maybe your water isn’t as cold as ours, mine is like 50 - 60 degrees coming out of the hose bib. Some of the water mains are at least 6-7 feet deep in the ground.
Glass is pretty tough, you’re not going to crack it unless it’s already damaged, then you could make it much worse. Just happened to my car yesterday. Apparently I got a stone chip that I didn’t see on the edge of the windshield early morning going to work. It sat all day in the 90+ heat and when I came out there was a 2ft long crack!
Thermal stress/thermal shock. Auto glass is a little different than window glass, especially something like a bay window. I wouldn’t use a sliding glass door as a comparison, I think, but am not 100 percent sure, that they have tempered/safety glass in them too. I deal with a lot of older homes that don’t have the newer argon filled double pane windows. They don’t handle shock as well.
That’s the funny thing about old glass though, it has survived this long, seems like it gets stronger with age. That being said I don’t mess with it any more.
Remember, it’s going through buffer, so if it’s 100 outside, buffer water may be 80, then through pump, that’s warm and thru hose that’s lying in 100 deg grass. Plus the inside of glass probably 75 or less, so the glass not all that much different… I’ve never worried about in the summer, worry about it more when I’m washing with 120 deg heat in winter when it’s 35-40 deg outside. But probably same differences in reverse. Never had a problem w/ either.
@qons , Been good my friend, washing our lil rear ends off , we’re contracted out to wash around 1600 truck n trailers a month now, give or take.
How have you been MR Mike ?
I miss it over here ,So calm and relaxing , FB is a , drama drama on a daily
@Hotshot, that’s awesome! And, man, that’s a huge number of trucks!
Been doing well. Staying busy. Actually, I cut back some this year intentionally so as to not be running around 24/7. Less money, but a wise choice.
, drama drama on a daily
