Hey Darren…that’s the way Tim always comes across. I wouldn’t read anything into it. He is just trying to help steer you down the right path.
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It’s hard to interpret sometimes when there is no tone of voice.
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To be honest with you, I don’t know what to believe from any of the organizations that exist. I am recently new and do not know about the past history of any of the organizations. Just looking on as a newbie it appears that there is a power struggle in the industry. Several organizations that have a greater interest in gaining control of the industry instead of promoting the industry and its contractors.
I had a really difficult time deciding which organization could best help my business and which one was most deserving of my membership dollars.
I have met a lot of great people on all the message boards and in the end we joined PWRA, because we felt there was a genuine interest in the Association helping it members. The members here are wonderful and it has been a great experience so far.
If you mix 5 gals at a time (~one house wash) you won’t need tow worry about it going bad. And if it does go bad all you need to do is add a little more SH to get it going again. If you did mix in bulk it would last about three days. Simply Cherry will also boost the cleaning power of the bleach when they are mixed properly.
Bob’s eliminator stuff is great and will not degrade the SH BUT there is nothing wrong with the simple cherry so don’t get rid of it…
Thanks all, I appreciate the input. I guess I’ll use what I have and then change to something like the Eliminator. Going back to my injector, if it is a 20% and not 20-1, should I add water to my bleach mix?
Your first post in this thread featured the following sentence.
Their mixture is 3 gallons of bleach, 2 gallons water and 10 oz of simple cherry (again with a 10-1 downstream)
So yes, you will have to add water to bleach.
Someone else first suggested that perhaps your injector was not 20/1 so an actual test of your injector flow rates would be in order. Is your equipment set up to wash now? (It’s 15 here this morning).
Styles, it all depends on what strength of SH you want to hit the wall. For me, 1% strength hitting the siding is nice. I have a 20% injector. So, working backward, the mix in my bucket that the injector is drawing from has to be 5% strength. (Since 20% of 5% will result in 1% - my target strength)
But my SH that I buy from the store is 12.5% - much more than 5%. So yes, I have to dilute it with water: 2 parts SH, 3 parts water. (Since two-fifths of 12.5% is 5%.)
I think your injector is a 20%, because I think I might have that same exact type. But be sure about it before you start spraying bleach everywhere. Maybe you’ll find out once you connect all your hoses, etc, that the injection rate is quite different! But it won’t matter, because now you have the math, you can figure out for yourself what your specific mix needs to be, based on your individual set-up.
Hope this helps.
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I called Southeastern today and what I was told is that the 20% injector, with my 200 ft of hose, actually draws 10-1. I used the mix today and everything cleaned up great!
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What Southeastern?
Southside! Sorry. Russ was a great help
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Step 1 get a high draw injector from bob at pressure tek.
Step 2 - buy simple cherry
Step 3- mix 5 gal water with a mayo jar or 2 full of simple cherry depending on the houses that day.
Step 4- Add 3-5 gal SH
Step 5- Soak house from bottom up let dwell (not dry)
Step 6- rinse top down
This is the way it’s done. Simple . Effective. Efficient. Profitable.
Simple Cherry is SH stable. Will be ok for a couple days. After you wash a couple hundred houses you will feel like a chemist knowing what you need before you even take the job based in the type of cleaning surface, ambient temperature, wind etc etc.
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Also. Keep a few high draw injectors with couplings new and ready to go. They sell repair kids but for 15$ switch to a new while injector when it fails on the job. (It’s not if but WHEN they fail). SH is very corrosive and it’s very easy to switch to a new injector and start washing again in 2 minutes. Don’t waste money in the rebuild kit etc. 15$ throw them away once a month and install a new one. You will always draw correct ratio.
Takes money to make money.
Pinch pennies… Waste dollars.
I’ve shared with you what it’s taken me years and lots of $$$$ to learn.
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