I did a job last weekend for a restaurant here in town, cleaning their covered concrete patio. Typical restaurant stains, used degreaser in spots and just a normal HW mix on the rest. The concrete is roughly 2 years old and held up to my surface cleaner at 2750psi just fine.
Owner is thrilled with my work and wants a monthly contract (and then every 2 weeks in the spring/summer).
The current concrete isn’t showing any aggregate because it’s so new. Should I set the expectation that cleaning so often will begin to degrade the cream coat and eventually show aggregate? I dug through the archive and didn’t see any mention of it, but a lot of the contract cleaning pics seem to be in places where aggregate is already showing. What do y’all think?
If you’re cleaning it that often you probably don’t need to use a S.C. - Spray some degreaser, let it dwell and rinse off. That’s what we did at a Culver’s that we used to have, after a good initial cleaning.
Definitely don’t need to surface clean every month let alone 2 weeks, good quality degreaser will make light work of oily stains especially at that frequent schedule. Good account to have
Thanks! I’m pretty stoked, he’s well tied in with a lot of the breweries here in town (there’s about 40), definitely wouldn’t mind just filling my schedule with contracts.
Shouldn’t be an issue. Typical commercial restaurant concrete is much stronger. I did a few Cheddars for two years every two weeks with no issues. Heck I have surface cleaned commercial sidewalks a week after being poured.
@Jake_Lambert I’ve been doing a bunch of restaurants sidewalks monthly for a couple of years now and I’m with everyone else on this degreaser and a good rinse but even if you used a surface cleaner every time… exposing the aggregate wouldn’t happen overnight it would happen slowly.
