Did a little flat work for one of our landscaping customers. The customer came out to chat a little. Great guy who used to do all this type of stuff around his home - he’s just getting a little older these days but he knows a thing or two. He was convinced that the sidewalk was not going to get much cleaner and wished me good luck lol.
EDIT: Used my house wash mix
Looks good. Did you use a surface cleaner or just the wand? If so, what tip?
Be sure to stick a lawn sign out there by the sidewalk if you have one.
Thanks Hydro! Surface cleaner on both
If you have to wand concrete (unless you’re doing edges the surface cleaner can’t reach) use a turbo or you’ll likely leave stripes.
Wow I had never even heard of a turbo nozzle before. Just looked it up and immediately ordered one. Thanks for the info!!
Hold up, they’re are about 15 different types and about a dozen of them suck. I use them every day but unless you are popping him or cleaning concrete stairs you probably didn’t need one. The won’t leave stripes with a wand because you shouldn’t be cleaning sidewalks with a wand
Cancel the order. I’ve used mine once in 8 years, lol
I knew you wouldn’t be far behind
I’m not sure there’s another option if he doesn’t have a surface cleaner…except to buy a surface cleaner. 
They all seem like throw aways even the expensive ones.
What are some good ones?
I use General pump YR series.
I use the same ones IBS mentioned and they’re probably the best I’ve ever used. I’ve rebuilt hundreds of turbos over the years and these are the only ones that I haven’t had to rebuild yet. Granted, I don’t use them often anymore but still.
I use my turbo for stair egdes and faces (risers) that the surface cleaner won’t get. I use turbos for retaining walls, but I get more use lately prepping basement walls for repainting. Those paint flakes go everywhere, it is dirty work, but I am a dirtyboy.
I use the PA turbos, reds mainly (I believe they are general pump, I don’t remember). IBS gave me the numbers so I could reorder them again (they went way up in price). I bought a blue but haven’t used it yet. You can clean a sidewalk really quickly with a turbo, probably faster than my SC, if you get the shuffle step right. I only use it on sidewalks around bilco doors or cracked broken areas.
I don’t use my turbo much, but usually it’s for stubborn vertical brick or lichens.
Had to go out and buy one a month or so ago because it was the best non-chem method recommended by the manufacturer to strip some over-application of concrete sealer…only thing we ever used one for.
Are these the ones you guys are talking about? What’s the “Size” difference mean? Looks like all the specs are the same besides that.
That is the orifice size.
oh. duh 
