Motor/belt driven surface machine vs. Typical water driven.
Why hasn’t the everyday Powerwashing concrete cleaning jumped into the 21st century yet? Water driven surface machines are the norm. You buy a 24" surface machine it will run you aprox in the $600 range with some brands being more expensive and other brands maybe a few bucks cheaper.
Why don’t we see belt driven surface machines of all different sizes being used? I now have 2 belt driven surface machines that clean much faster then the 6 water driven ones by far.
Both of these machines are setup to handle extremely hard concrete such as parking garages where 1 pass or 2 at most the surface is cleaned.
For residential because the tips are angled into the surface being cleaned and the bar is belt driven to the same direction there most likely to cause zebra striping as well as the water driven machines do.
A milder approach would be to build a surface machine where the tips are pointed straight down so the cleaning would be more even. Since these bars are spinning at a fast pace with more force being added in because where not talking spinning away from the surface being cleaned like what today’s surface machines are basically doing, the bars should most likely be made with the angle needed for the cleaning with residential ones having tips point straight down to cause very little zebra striping. Since these are much more powerful type surface machines you can do most commercial type cleaning with these bars as well. Garage cleaning you want the most impacting force you can use to clean at a much faster pace.
Knowing that these type of machines clean 2 to 3 times faster and sometimes 4x if not more then why aren’t they produced to the mass market here?
If someone doesn’t start producing these soon then this may be the one time I consider heading towards the manufacturing end by designing some prototypes that aren’t to expensive if they were massed produced. Wishful thinking…possibly… But when you think about it and you clean alot of concrete it makes you think that the water driven surface machine should go the way of the push blade lawnmower.
Thoughts??
