M5 is way easier to use than a j rod. I first bout the xjet, thought it was awsome until some guys here recomended downstreaming. Will never go to Xjetting. Do not miss hauling buckets, dropping them and burning grass. Now its a 5 gallon bucket at the trailer with straight SH (no mixing) with a few squirts of dawn soap and apply chemical and rinse. The key is: the hotter/sunnier it is the smaller areas you do (as to no let chemicals bake in sun) and rinse, rinse and rinse. And the few minutes (should not be more than 2-3 mins depending on size/distance of house) to go back to trailer and take out dipstick beats hauling around a heavy bucket of sauce.
And if you have a helper/spotter he cant take out dipstick out of sauce and start/stop your machine
Thatâs exactly what we did today, my wife pulled the hose from the bucket when I needed to rinse.
BTW small radios work great for that.
As @anon37135677 pointed out to me, only use the low pressure nozzles for rinsing. The shooter will reach three stories. I do however use all four depending on what Iâm doing, just not rinsing vinyl.
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See the issue that i find is that when you start having employees thats when issues that never arised when we did the work ourselves start happening. And one thing ive learned from this forum and other, from people WAY WAY WAY smarter than me is this:
The more knobs, valves, steps you have your employees do, the more chances for mistakes happen. That why they said it always better to have KISS method: KEEP IT SIMPLE STUART
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Its called training. Yes you will always have employee mistakes but you also need to train and grow from the mistakes. Being an owner operator will limit your earning potential big time.
I know from first hand experience. The first full yr I had employees I doubled my numbers from the previous yr.
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You can remove oxidation with the rinse tips. Youâll never remove oxidation with the soap tips. It happened to me one time and I learned my lesson. The rinse tips blow too much air anyway so it takes longer when youâre rinsing around mulch or trees because the higher pressure rinse tips will blow the mulch onto the house or cut and blow leaves onto the house. So it saves you a lot of time rinsing and detailing a house using soap tips to rinse.
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Youâll also get less âbleedersâ with the soap tips
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Interestingly when I was rinsing a house today I got my tip an inch from the siding to get some grass clippings off and the pressure even from the m5ds tip caused like 3 bleeders to dump dirt out of the weepholes. I usually rinse a few feet back but I realized today how much less bleeders I get now compared to 2 years ago using those high pressure rinse tips.
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