1st and 2nd Paver job. This thread was one of many I referenced so thanks y’all. I’ll get a flame weeder when the right customer comes along lol
They had some concerts on the property of a museum. Now they need to clean up the pavers they’re leaving a mess on. They called for a quote today but need it done wednesday (in 2 days). Which means i would have to change jobs around in the schedule. Which means pricing accordingly. But:
When pavers have soft sand between them, that would come out if using surface cleaner or pressure tips, and you don’t want to take the sand out, can you just apply a hot mix and rinse it off? Then apply something like Simple Green for possible greasy stuff? And rinse it off?
It’s pavers and asphalt with food/beverage stains mostly. Around 4% ?
Does this make sense if you see the pictures? Would results be acceptable?
All the stuff and equipment that’s there will be removed tomorrow.
Thanks.
I’d try it with surface cleaner first. Because of the way the spray shoots pretty much straight down, you usually don’t get a big loss out of the cracks. Reason with broken mortar joints in walks and stuff, nearly always better to use SC. Try it at about 2000psi. Be a lot quicker than soft washing. Heat will help with it. What little does come out, when you’re rinsing you can wash most of it back in joints, just like you’re wet sanding pavers.
I imagined all the sand blowing out. Thank you i appreciate it.
It may blow out some, but use your m5ds nozzle set on medium wide spray to rinse and most will go right back in. See how they’re spraying in this video Try it on a section. If it doesn’t work for you then you can soft wash it. But I’d just use a degreaser added to your normal hw mix. Degreaser mixed at hw level won’t hurt asphalt - keep your heat under 150 on asphalt if you use.
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If you blow out a whole more than what you see in video then go to plan B. I clean a lot of pavers in the city here that are loose sand filled, though not as big cracks as you have and it blows out a little, but 98% of it goes right back in when I rinse.
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Now that’s a nifty trick…Trident won’t teach you that one 
One other thing, carry your blower with you. Let it dry and then blow lightly off.
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Actually Mike Kilgore, who was the big SEK guy , now trident in FL has a wet sanding video out too. but it’s long.
Yeah, that was as much sarcasm as anything. I think Trident seems to be as solid a company as they come.
