I don’t know but id call one to see
Nope. Definitely not going away. Pay your deductible or pay a refinisher. Fix it fast.
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Yeah… what in the world are you doing with zero tips in your surface cleaner?! They don’t even come with zero tips in them.
Smooth finish like a basement or garage floor could probably be polished, but I don’t think you can do much with a broom finish.
Try to pass it off as ‘Art Deco’. Yikes.
I don’t suppose there’s a way to sand down concrete?
There is concrete grinders. The use them to peal off years of paint on commercial store fronts.
Would not be right to do that to a customers driveway though.
Possibly the most rediculous thing i have read on this forum.
A close second.
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Some of the stainless steel surface cleaners with wheels at Northern Tool come standard with zero degree tips. Not saying you got it there but you can tell by how thin your lines with your passes that they’re zero degree tips. Couple that with a 4/4 on brand new concrete…time to call your insurance agent. You do have insurance right?
Oh i did, no change in leaderboard.
And i have always read 1 year cure, 18 months safer on concrete. Hopefully its the OPs driveway, but im guessing not??? Hopefully problem is taken care of properly and others can learn from this post (including myself).
Looks like that driveway has been awesomewashed
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I already hated Northern Tool, but even they can’t be this stupid. Any surface cleaner with zero degree tips standard would be too ridiculous to explain. I’m not putting it past them that they screwed up somewhere, but I highly doubt it was on purpose.
@Sam10 if your surface cleaner came with zero degree tips I’d call an attorney.
They dont.
NT SC come with 2 sets of tips
@Sam10
That does not look to me like two Zero degree tips spinning at around 2000RPM. Possibly one of the tips is 90* to the bar. the tips need to be lined up with the bar. It just looks to me like one tip may have actually been correct or close, and the other was not. Either way, your in a mess…
I’m not calling out NT…I’ve gotten some stuff there over the years including my first GP Hammerhead about 6 years ago. That was when I heard about their smaller stainless SC with wheels having zero degree tips. Nothing I confirmed myself…back then I didn’t even know about tips for different machines…just figured all tips that come with a SC will work with any PW. But a newbie wouldn’t know that though. It could be the tips turned perpendicular to the bar. But that driveway is a mess.
I was under the impression it is his own driveway. But I would literally take the chance and texture it all, you wont be out anything additional but time. See what you could make of it. Ive scratched the crap out of my driveway scooting large 1000lb axles around, and you couldnt tell where the scratches are in a year. So take that donut.
That there reponse explains exactly why your advice continues to be “etch it more”.
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I had to edit your post @Redjess. Got flagged.
Although the phrase *** donut made me laugh. Then I thought of a hemorrhoid donut. Then laughed again.
Donut is a good dude. And he’s right… further damaging other damage is pretty silly. The thought made me exclaim “Yo Crypes!”
Just fix it. It’s the only way you have of salvaging any credibility as a pressure washing contractor. If you don’t fix it. You take a steaming dump on your credibility AND ours.
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In other derailing news… Today, I’m washing a 9500 SF mansion with a regulation size basketball court, 9 garage doors, and a Porsche in the driveway with a high school parking pass on the mirror.
The homeowner has been vacuuming her own house all day and I’m still confused about it.
This mansion has its own mud dauber mansions. Legitimately the biggest mud dauber nests I’ve ever seen. Even the bugs here are fancy.
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