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You asked for a critique and thoughts on your mess. You got them and didn’t like them. A lot of us here actually do this for a living. We can’t leave property dirty like in your after pic and lie and say it’s rot. Metal gutters don’t rot. A professional isn’t going to roll equipment around someone’s property. Especially some homemade sprayer cobbled together with galvanized fittings and a brass manifold that no insurance audit would ever sign off on. You aren’t going to patent that junk. You couldn’t afford to if you are only making $140 an hour with it 
Don’t get upset when folks call out your foolishness. It’s like the Farmer’s insurance jingle, we know a lot because we’ve seen a lot.
I asked for advice on a better way for my situation where I can’t haul large units or tanks or hose reels. I don’t have a truck dedicated to only soft washing. The only responses I got was that I need a real system. Obviously none of you read what I said. I see the type of guys in here, so I’m out.
No you didn’t. Read what you wrote. I don’t care that you’re here and stupid, but you don’t need to be here and lie.
You didn’t ask for advice on a better way for your situation. You asked for thoughts on your soft wash system and why nobody else did it like you.
You expected us to be in awe of your process and that we wanted to be first in line after you got your patent and started manufacturing them. I replied to you multiple times in a respectful manner on why no professional does it like you and never would. You just didn’t want to hear it. All you want to hear is that you have a million dollar idea. You should thank us for saving you tens of thousands of dollars. You likely wouldn’t get a patent anyways.
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This is not what most guys on here will condone, but here is a set up that doesn’t require a buffer tank, doesn’t have hose reels, and doesn’t have a “large unit”. (See photos below) I can strip it completely off the truck, other than the vinyl decals on the doors, in about 15 minutes if I decide I need my truck bed for something. It isn’t the most professional looking set up out there, but it is working for me and it is allowing me to meet/exceed my customers’ expectations. This is a low overhead set up. It’s not $200 low overhead, but for less than $1k that’s everything in the bed of the truck. I’m still in the tweaking phases of things that’s why I have wood blocks for the engine to mount on, but it allows me to experiment with what works and doesn’t work for me quickly and easily. You asked for criticism, and why people don’t do it the way you do and you got it. It may not be what you really wanted to hear, but those are the questions you presented. I hope you change your mind on leaving as there really is a ton of extremely useful information on this forum. And it is okay to do things differently from the mainstream. If it works for you and makes you money then who cares what others think. Stick around and you’ll only add to what knowledge you obviously already have since you’ve been doing this for several years now. Best of luck whichever way you choose to go.
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What about something like that. Most houses have up to 100psi , just add garden hose . https://www.amazon.com/Chapin-International-G362-Professional-Translucent/dp/B00UER1S2I/ref=asc_df_B00UER1S2I/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198092304429&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1431421148184281059&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvd
I started out with that sprayer… doesn’t really spray high enough to clean much. If you wanted real low budget I’d just scrap the tag off one of those 30 second cleaners from Home Depot and refill that with sh. Ur in business for $20 and can clean houses all day
@Nickski you seem to have this juggling act between being a “small guy without a truck just making do with what he has to feed himself” and being this “entrepreneur with secret pumps and patents and $140/hour money printing machine”. The hard truth is you think we’re idiots for spending so much money on truck and trailer mounted units but you haven’t quite grasped the idea of how this business works in “reality”. Your idea is whack, don’t pursue it, donate the future research and development money to a charity it will help someone else a lot more than anyone washing a home.
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If you made something small enough that a homeowner with a Toyota Camry could fit it in the back of his trunk you might be on to something for your do good homeowners. The fact is it doesn’t have a place amongst industry professionals.
If he’s making $140 per hour with a piece of equipment that costs less than $200, why’s he care what we think and why come on here looking for advice on some nebulous piece of equipment he can’t even show us.
After all the replies I think this was his original question.
