Residential / hot water

Newbie Questions
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Does anyone use hot water for residential?
If so, does this replace the need for chemical?

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We don’t. I know some people call and are convinced they need a “hot water wash”, because someone’s sister’s 3rd cousin knows a lot about it and told them they needed it… SH is what homes need, almost always.

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I do occasionally. Still use chemicals though you can use slightly less sometimes. All depends on what and how dirty what you’re washing is.

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I believe @Kentucky1234 does on driveways.

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IMO you should never not use any chemicals. Do you shower with just hot water, or do you use shampoo and soap?

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Man, I had to read that 3x until I got it right :rofl:

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I use heat but do pretreat, I just don’t post treat 95% of the time. I believe over 125-130 degrees you kill organics too. It just seems I go faster with hot water, cleans well too….

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I never didn’t not think it wasn’t easily hard to read :thinking:

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lol

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I use heat but do pretreat, I just don’t post treat 95% of the time. I believe over 125-130 degrees you kill organics too. It just seems I go faster with hot water, cleans well too….
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Kind of interested in this. It seems like if you’re doing commercial anyway you could save time & chemical on residential using the hot water machine.

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Yes, I do some commercial too so it made sense to me to have hot water available. I personally like having it for residential surfaces and as it gets cooler, longer season for me or at least another 4-6 weeks.

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You also make a good argument in favor of hot water based on the above analogy

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I promote warm water washes when it gets cooler. Never lose a quote to someone who doesn’t have. I just ask the customer, "You don’t wash your dishes with cold water do you? Game over.

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Except for you don’t wash your dishes in bleach either haha. And houses aren’t covered in grease like dishes. Hot water is definitely needed for greasy surfaces, but that’s it. Otherwise it’s just comfortable on the hands in cold weather, more equipment to maintain, and essentially a dishonest marketing tool.

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In cooler months it’s harder for the sh to work, takes longer to be effective…the warm water helps from my experience, speeds up the work and on real bad buildup it helps too. Is it a must, no but it does help. I use heat on majority of my flat work too….I like having it available myself, just my preference. Allows you too to tackle more commercial work.

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Mostly agreed, but I don’t begrudge anyone for marketing what they have. Is it needed, probably not…“dishonest”, I wouldn’t say that. I don’t think he’s upcharging them for hot water that isn’t really necessary, that would be dishonest IMO.

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The only problem with that racer is you’ll get them used to the hot water service and sweat your ■■■ off in summer when they remind you they wash there dishes with hot water in summer also lol.

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There’s no cold weather in my area. But there’s a lot of gas stations. :thinking:

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Ha, in the summer around here we have to use a chiller to keep the water from melting the vinyl off the house, lol.

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Dishonest may be taken stronger than intended…I think you explained what I meant with the rest of your reply. I’ve learned a ton from Racer and continue to.

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