Will ANYTHING get this stuff clean? I have had my heart broken several times I’ve come up against it. Will heat? Is there a process that will cllean this. I have applied SH before AND after surface cleaning with a 4k 4gmp PW. Does anyone have any advice? @Innocentbystander, what do YOU do when you come upon this stuff with pebbles in the aggregate? How about it @Racer, is there a formula that will clean this crap? @squidskc, Brodie, you (or anyone else) have a solution, or should I just run like h%ll.
WOW! OK, I’ll give it a try… maybe. I walked away when her well couldn’t sustain the water volume I needed. Maybe I’ll give her a call. Just won a $1000 HA job that starts tomorrow. About 70 windows, and that’s the easy part. I bid it out at $1200, and he gave me the choice of taking the job for $1000 or he’d get another estimate from the other HA Pro that had been given the lead. I decided to take the job. I can use the money, but I’ve also invested in this EDDM, and most were supposed to go out today. There’s a LOT of surface cleaning, and soffits and a pergola:
I’ve never actually seen one of these sealed and as bad as they get I’d venture a guess that they don’t get sealed. If you don’t chip old concrete with 3000 psi you’re probably not going to do much damage to this stuff.
Great job George! Keep up the good work. Keep learning and hustling. I’m not a particularly religious person, but I do believe there’s a God and it looks like you’re doing your best to make good on the life he gave ya!
I wouldn’t worry about losing the $200. If you do a bang up job and the customer likes ya the $1000 gigs will turn into gigs like these. (The $10950 job is good for two years. I’ll do it again same time next year and close the year out with another $11k). Keep it up!
Bingo. @MrSparkleVA supply and demand. Positive, sellable differences increase your demand. There’s 8 days of work in those numbers. If you’re doing $1000 a day solo you’re definitely rocking it.
Not a big deal, but most folks who know me call me Rowdy or my name is Brodie. You can call me either, but your spellings of my name are starting to confuse even me. Lol
They should be sealed every 2-3 years but not that many people do it because it can be costly to do. You really can do a bunch of damage if the aggregate is loose but it’s pretty easy to see if that’s the case with the naked eye. On the other hand they super nice to clean when they are sealed with an acrylic. The surface cleaner just glides over the concrete and the dirty water just floats away.
I did a demo for a guys pool where it was so loose it was flying everywhere. Lessons were learned that day. I took @Innocentbystander advice and walked away lol.
What do you use to seal it? We have a lot of exposed aggregate here in TX. I clean them but have not offered sealing. I did see a pretty good you tube where a guy applied Trinic sealer with a pump up and it looked good. No idea how to price it either. Thanks for any input. Mark
