We cleaned a large warehouse and the north side came out beautiful. The west side has serious oxidation and since the walls were so high we had to use the shooter tip to rinse. In some areas you can see the blemishes and wand marks where oxidation came off. I just ordered a 5 gallon pail of BC Cleansol. Anyone have experience with this product? I saw a video where a guy demonstrated it on a house and it looks like it works without needing to brush, which is what I would like as the wall is over 300’ long and 30’ high! My hope is that I can downstream it and just rinse to even it all out. Is it really that simple?
It looks like somebody used a wand and pressure up close on that! Dang, were you watching your guys?
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Shooter tip did that?
Hell of a shooter tip. Whoever was using it was drunk too, lol…
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I have used Cleansol before, actually before everyone thought it was cool lol keep a bottle or 2 in my truck
But I’m not sure it would bring back stucco, it does good in non porous surfaces…
Looks like the wash was a little on the aggressive side
I was there at the end trying to help my tech finish it up. It was a mistake that shouldn’t of been made but it is what it is and now I need to make it right. @Kentucky1234 yes it was a shooter tip and no not drunk racer lol. @Chesebro would it hurt to try the cleansol? I need to do something because I am definitely not painting this whole wall. In my defense it Still looks way better than before considering the wall did have so much sun damage, lesson learned to set expectations better prior to beginning work like this
Another oxidation removal detergent to try is Kracken wash. They sell it here
Apparently it works slightly better than Cleansol
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I would say so, just apply it heavy… Don’t dilute it too much… spray bottom to top and let it dwell some… Of course with out letting it dry…
It works! Just never seen it done on Stucco
They didnt remove any oxidation…They etched the dryvit with too much pressure.
Call a painter, or invest in a spray gun and match the paint. Painting is the only way. BC Cleansol might make it worse…
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It’s not dryvit, it’s a metal wall with a painted/textured finish to make it look like stucco. It was a zero deg shooter tip from a decent distance, but clearly too close.
I called Eachochem and couldn’t get a straight answer on dilution. He said 4-1 but I don’t know if it’s supposed to be 4-1 mix then downstreamed 10-1 or put 4 gallons of water and one gallon of bc and run it thru the 12v pump?
Go heavy Sean, you can’t hurt it… If it works order as much as you need… I would image having to paint that wall would be a nice chunk of change
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Update. Went back on Saturday and did double applications of 10 to 1 ratio of cleansol BC. I actually upped it to 8-1 (after initial mix of 4:1 to get it ready) and I didn’t see the magical transformation of the oxidation getting removed. I’m wondering if I should just apply it way stronger by downstreaming it straight without mixing it 4:1? I actually only mixed it 2:1 because My bucket test showed a 20:1 downstream ratio. So I could make it about 3x stronger by not premixing the solution. Maybe this isn’t oxidation though? It’s so weird the north walls we did (30,000 Sf) look brand new! Below are some pics after the work we did sat. Also, we hit the whole again this time with a 3%sh mix as we saw some weird marks that looked like sh overspray cleaned better in a couple places but it didn’t change anything. I can’t get a handle on what this is! Some of it looks like wand pencil marks but others were already there…
Dang that’s a lot of paint
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So what your saying is nothing will fix this, except painting it? I am curious why this happened on this west wall but not on the north wall? We used the same procedure on all of it…
My guess is oxidation, wand marks rarely lie.
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Try gentle brushing with the bc cleansol
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The west side of my house is the only one with oxidation. That afternoon sun just blasts it all summer long.
To me it looks like that paint has taken a beating. Both from the sun and all the chems it’s recently been introduced to. I’m not an expert, and I don’t do any commercial stuff. But when you zoom in on this pic, that doesn’t look like healthy paint
Nothing to lose, downstream it straight out of the bottle in a section and see what happens. I think you’re too weak on the mix.
I will try that today!
If my finger doesn’t show powdery residue does that mean there is no oxidation? Of course this is after cleaning the wall 3 times with a 2-3% sh mix, so maybe it would of done that before we cleaned it but not anymore? Also, the paint is only 4 years old but is that long enough for oxidation to happen?
If ds straight doesn’t work and with brushing,
(being that my ds injector only pulls 18-1)should I consider 12v it and just dilute 10-1 right out of the pail? I might try all of those ways but I just want to make sure I don’t mess it up worse with way too hot of the bc cleansol mix. It says to dilute it 4:1 first then go 10:1. But it also says just use it undiluted if doing gutters. Thanks everyone really appreciate everyone’s help!
