Everybody take a deep breath… 
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He’s being realistic. On a given day I may be using 1 day old SH or 2 week old SH. I normally use a 10% # just to make simple. We’re talking cleaning here, not the classroom. If I’m doing a roof and and want a 3% mix and I use 12.5% and then I might have a 3.2% mix. Or I could just use common sense and put in a gal or 2 less if I know for sure I’ve got a hot batch. It may be 3.1%, who cares. We’re cleaning stuff here, not building the space shuttle.
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I know. I just didn’t like his post about how the guys question was pissing him off. Why even open the thread to make a comment like that. He comes in a couple months ago and he’s talking like he owns the place. I’m sure he knows his stuff, but his comment pissed me off. So I attacked his math. Lol
I don’t understand why anyone gets worked up over a question. Old or not. If you don’t like it, then I would suggest moving on to the next thread instead of stopping by to belittle someone over it. It’s something to talk about regardless. What else is there to talk about? What someone’s business card looks like?
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Holy moly @roofer you install 300 to 400 a year, that’s a bloody good effort. Over here it’s about 30k for a roof and it takes a crew a few days to install so unless it’s much different in your neck of the woods you must be rolling in the dollars!!
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2014 we did 230. Half were new construction. I’ve chased hail from Atlanta to Phoenix over the years. I don’t do so many any more. Yeah, power washing will never compete with hail damage roofing. Multi billion dollar industry all paid by insurance companies. My partner in Dubuque is still going strong, he did about 9 million last year.
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I’ve got an old injury I’ve been dealing with lately. Fell off a roof in 2001 and crushed my heel. It’s hard for me to walk many roofs anymore. It’s why I’m looking at pressure washing and roof cleaning. I still do some and sub some, but it’s a struggle.
300 a square is about the going rate around me for a one layer Walker. When you sell hail damaged roofs, your usually selling siding, fascia, window wraps, etc to go along with it though.
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For someone who thinks it’s so bad here compared to other forums, you sure spend a ton of time here and you’ve been one of the primary beneficiaries of the wealth of knowledge here. Why spend so much time here if it’s so bad? You’ve created 85 topics, 99% of them questions, often stuff that could be found elsewhere including Google.
You’ve received more help on here in the last 6 months than probably anyone else. Some of you guys don’t realize but a lot of us are slammed. And in the 8-9 hours we’re not working we come on here some and try to give input but we also field numerous calls and texts during the day from people, many from this forum, needing help and we do the best we can.
So yes sometimes we can be a little snarky because we really don’t have time for trolls, idiots or snowflakes (which is your pending category in my mind at the moment). If @B16bri had altered his original post to the one he made later in here saying he had searched and still didn’t quite get it, then the resulting conversation would probably have been much different… You guys don’t know it, but having someone like @Diamond_Soft_Wash in this forum would be a huge help for many of you with his knowledge and background. He’s forgotten more about roof cleaning than 99% of the people in the industry even know and has been running a decent sized business for years.
Enough rambling by me, it’s 2:30 am and it’s another long day tomorrow. All I’m saying is you’re not the one to be on here casting stones.
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@roofer yes you may have pin pointed the math to an exact number but my whole point is you dont have to. The way I broke it down was for simplicity for the new guys and the guys looking to start roof cleaning. If you clean roofs you should not be using anything less then 10% sh.
Have you cleaned a roof yet?
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what makes you think that? Cleaned lots of roofs. As a factory certified contractor, I’m looking into cleaning roofs under warranty for Certainteed
Becuase of your comment with your injury. You said your looking in roof cleaning and power washing.
I wasn’t criticizing your methods, just your calculations… But yeah, you’re right, it’s minor fluctuations that don’t really mean much
Exactly.
I’ve roofed for 18 years after the injury, it’s just harder as I get older and my arthritis in my ankle and foot get worse
I would hate to see someone getting ready to make a roof mix and have a calculator in hand trying to nail the exact gallons and ounces they need for bleach and water.
Looking to something a bit easier
Well fortunately this is really trainable. You can hire someone teach them and then all you have to do is run the business. You just need a really good lead tech and a decent ground guy
roof mixes are simple but its a little different adding your downstream ratio into it. Simple either way, but not for some
