Rinse off pavers shopping centre

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Hi team,
My names steve, i have a pressure cleaning bussiness in Australia for roughly 4 years now.

We have recently been cleaning pavers at a local shopping centre. The pavers arent that dirty as we do them once a month. Problem i have is once we got acid down and rinsed over sand comes thru the pavers. Not alot but as its a large area it all adds ups. And being a very long narrow pathway its a pain in the ■■■ to move all the sand down the end. I have a 4000psi - 17 litres per min machine. Ive used a turbo tip and the standard tips that come with machine… Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks

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Gday Steve,
Where abouts are u located? I’m in Darwin N.T.

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Hey mate.

Im about 2hrs south of perth in WA bud

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Another Aussie :+1:t2:

…another Steve :open_mouth:

Welcome aboard!

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I know the area, lived In Mandurah for 10 years.
Have u got a surface cleaner? They work better on pavers , sand comes out of cracks but gets redistributed back in.
Also is there any reason in particular that u are using acid?

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Ozzy ozzy ozzy haha

Good too meet yas. Im actually moving most of my business to manduarh.

Already surface cleaned the area. I use a light acid to take away all the sticky stuff (drinks and food stuff that stained pavers) as i dont have a hot water machine. So the sand thar comes thru is taking up so much time.

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Is it sand from the pavers surface or sand from the cracks?

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Little bit of both. Its that heavy black and yellow sand

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I’ve been there. It’s a pain and takes twice as long to rinse. It’s just builds up and gets harder to shift.

What I did was…and people hate these things, but it works so fast!

I got one of these:

https://www.totaltools.com.au/100344-saber-water-broom-wbroom?gclid=CjwKCAiAhp_jBRAxEiwAXbniXUwfWGiqCSp-YFYDrTqwvX4vxTR9mtsAvJMAL4Ez2JyitmVBYUU6uxoChlAQAvD_BwE

If you’re doing it regularly, you will appreciate it.

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Can you not sweep it back into cracks or blow it? Like you were doing a paver job.

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It’s wet sludge. If it dries to be able to brush, it dries into the clean surface too.

That’s if we are talking about the same thing - soft pavers. There’s a lot in Australia, red, yellow etc.

You can also rinse with the black tip at low pressure, it’s pushes it better and rinses too without spraying up.

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Next time you are there send a picture thru, I’m having trouble picturing the problem.

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Hey racer,
Its a huge area and we do it after hours at night so it takes far to long to come close to drying.

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With the black tip great amount of water flow. Just too low pressure. Was kinda thinking of something like the black tip with more water volume and pressure in one.

Ill aend thru some pics when im there next.

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Ok, maybe its silly but, vacuum it up?

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Its wet sludge sand on a huge area and i dont want to spend thousands on a vac machine

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I think this is what he’s dealing with. Pavers can be a pain, we spend more time rinsing than cleaning. I don’t know why but this type of sand sludges up and is harder to move. It looks horrible if it dries on the surface. We use multiple machines and have someone rinsing nonstop and it still takes forever.

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Welcome aboard mate. I was just in the outback yesterday. It was Outback Steakhouse though lol. I just wanted to sound like an Australian for a second and confuse some people. Welcome to the board.

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I sure wish they would bring back the pork tenderloin medallions. Use to go there just for that lol!

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I was just thinking shop vac.