Finished this driveway but didn’t feel great about the mess I left in front of three houses. Tried to clean it up but really just spread it around. What can I do better so I don’t wind up with such a mess in the first place?
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I rinse carefully out to the street gutter and then rinse push the water down to the drain. In our area we have drains everywhere, it’s crazy….not sure where you’re at.
The drain was another four houses down, so I didn’t even make it half way there. I could’ve pushed it if it were the asphalt section of the street but I wasn’t able to push it very well with all the dips in these bricks with my 2.4 machine. Starting to see the need for an upgrade, really going to appreciate it.
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Yeah you need more GPM for sure….that will help. Have to use what you have at the moment, but try to upgrade to at least 5.5 but 8 gpm be great.
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Maybe could have sent the dirt into the grass? But I understand not wanting the SH in the grass areas but usually if you water the edges you’ll be plenty safe.
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You would have been better off taking a garden hose and nozzle to that mess, it would have been at least 8gpm.
What kind of psi was used?
015 nozzle on the surface cleaner which if I’m reading the charts correctly should put me between 1500-2000psi, but you probably mean on pushing the dirt down the street during my rinse which I just used my 0030 because I wasn’t even thinking of using pressure during that. Next time!
Wash it all into something that resembles a pile, then use a square-pointed shovel to scoop up majority of it. Put it in a 5-gal bucket, throw it in an inconspicuous area of the landscape or find a trash can. Rinse down what remains.
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Okay I was afraid a little cream might have been washed away from the looks of the runoff, but at that pressure no worries
This Calculator has me at 2500psi.
12 year old concrete. Attached before and after photos; am I correct that the cream was already gone? Could that top strip next to the garage pad still have cream?
Why are you putting in 1.2gpm…
2.4gpm with two nozzles so 1.2gpm with a 1.5 nozzle on each.
Oh I see what you did. I usually use the top one that determines nozzle size but that works too.
Is that a quick fix to this or somthing you do regularly instead of pushing it down a drain? Curious. Thanks.
In my area it depends on the neighborhood as to how often a drain may be near by, but often times the cars will park along the curbs in my local area and I’d have to be trying to wash the debris under the cars to the closest drain. Also, I’m not the biggest fan of the “Karen’s” of the neighborhood wondering why I’m washing debris/runoff down a drain - it just opens up an avenue of questions I don’t really want to spend time answering / trying to educate them on.
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Used your method today for cleaning up the dirt, was a bit easier as the water mostly stayed in the curb this time. Got about 2" in a 5 gallon bucket, story of my life. Also had these spots that freaked me out, wouldn’t wet and looked like they were going to be visible but saw your post about tire shine. They did go away once it dried.
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Having more lengths of hose and gpm is helpful because you can rinse a few houses down
if needed just my opinion as I’ve had to do that
