Is anyone mixing SH w/F8 as routine for softwashing stucco or concrete surface cleaning? I’m thinking of doing it for some areas. I notice that I’m using both anyway on white paint to really get it super clean I see a noticeable difference when I go back with the F8 and even leave it on some areas as post treatment Also I bet it would work well on white tile roofs A lot of possibilities but generally I want to avoid a yellowish haze on the walls or white roofs when cleaning them.
Umm, that’s a horrible idea. That would make chlorine gas and would be very toxic. If you put it into any type of closed container (like a pump up with the handle screwed down) it could easily explode.
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I think Mike just saved his life…
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Be sure to take video when you do that. You should probably have a friend shoot the video since you may not be around.
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ok yeah that’s what I was going to do use a pump sprayer
LOL, a small grenade instead of a big one.
I keep a couple of 15 gal car boy containers handy for mixing up various things in, one being OX if I need it for a fence. Earlier in my career, I had done a fence a few days earlier and I had just a small section of roof to do, this was when we were all batch mixing. I knew not to mix acid with a base, so I had stuck my hose nozzle down into container and rinsed it a couple of times. So I’m pumping over SH into my container to make roof mix. Fortunately I was up getting something out of truck, but keeping an eye on container while it was filling. When it got about 2/3 full it started smoking. I’m like WTH, and then all of a sudden that sucker started jumping up and down on the trailer about a foot or so. I just knew it was getting ready to explode. I ran around to other side of trailer and stopped the flow of SH. After about 5-10 min it finally quit jumping around. Took me awhile to figure out what had happened. Turns out when I had rinsed out, I’d just laid it on side, stuck my hose nozzle at entrance and rinsed it. Well the spray only got about bottom 1/2 of container, so when the SH got up a little over 1/2 full the OX that had dried on the sides towards the top was enough to start the reaction. Couldn’t have been more than a miniscule amount of Ox in there dried on the sides.
Learned my lesson. Now we fill up about a 1/3, turn upside down and shake and do that several times to make sure we get any residue out.
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I’m going to have to figure it out I think I’ll get another pump sprayer just for F8 because rinsing out that powder gets all around the lid of the sprayer no wonder it was smoking
