Soft wash metering and surfactant preferences

Chemical/Chemistry
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What’s your preferred surfactant while using a metering system?

  1. Metering type: Pro-P, ProMixAlot, homegrown, or other?

  2. Surfactant: elemonator, clingon, applewash, etc?

  3. Mix ratio: 4:1, 1 gal surfactant to 4 gal water, etc

  4. Substrate: ?

  5. Settings: water, sh, surfactant?

2

I have a metering system from Brian at Midwest. He’s on here. It has the GF metering valves.

  • I’m currently running Clingon but have been considering trying something different.
  • I typically run my soap valve at 20-40% depending on what I’m cleaning.
3

I have the same system as @SurfaceMedic. I use apple wash unless I’m doing roofs then I use cherry snotmenade. it depends on what I’m washing as to what I have the soap set on

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Try slo mo

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I’ve heard it’s good. I try not to do too many roofs if I can help it. snotmenade seems to be a good all around soap. I’ve used it in lieu of elemonator and it did well. once I use up the elemonator I have I’ll probably just use cherry snotmenade for downstreaming and roofs. I like apple wash for stucco and f9 double eagle and ebc for a degreaser. other than f9 barc that’s pretty much all I use

6

Do you dilute the surfactant? What ratio?

@SurfaceMedic @Kps0410

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Snotmenade i don’t. One gallon of apple wash makes five gallons of soap.

8

Half a gallon in a 55 gallon drum of slo mo is all you need I pump sh out of same barrel for house wash and roof wash

9

DS or dedicated pump? Metering?

10

Ds for house dedicated pump for roof

11

Do you have a porportioner?

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No I only batch mix. Just the way I was taught

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I don’t dilute. Just dial it up or down depending on what I’m cleaning. I have a 5 gallon soap tank and I haven’t added to it in forever and get good soap when using. It doesnt use much with the metering system.

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Also uses less bleach. I only used 25 gallons of sh post treating 25k feet of parking lot today

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What used less bleach? Apple wash or your metering system?

I’ve been post treating by force feeding my ds injector with a 1gpm 12v. It’s so much faster not having to drag around both hoses. Right now it’s hooked up to a toggle switch but I plan on setting it up remote eventually. I know it won’t last forever but it’s like $30.

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The metering system uses less sh. I went from doing stucco at 2% to concrete at 3 to 4 %

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