I do a lot of solo flatwork, covering at least 10,000sf a night. I go as slow and methodical as necessary and when wet it looks ok. Then the next day I notice stripes. I’ve seen the method where you wiggle the surface cleaner back and forth but that would make this work take forever plus its more strain on my arms after pulling the trigger for hours on end.
Pre/post treatment not having a huge effect. Wherever my lanes overlap it gets cleaner, making tje stripes. Doesn’t matter how slow I go, somehow the surface gets cleaner.
I’m using the 24" Hotsy cleaner with the 2 tips. I do have some the proper orifice size as well. Last night my wheel lost a bolt and sank on me. Fixed with some hex screws so its not the cause of the striping.
Would a 4 nozzle or 2 bar wide cleaner fix this? Again it’s not like im running a 4gpm. I got thr 8gpm for speed
What tips are you running? Four nozzle bar would probably help but I don’t run one on my 8gpm and never have striping issues but I do pre and post treat if it’s really dirty.
And the punches keep on coming. Any idea whats going on with my burner? Something is leaking out. Did a coil burst? I smelled the fluid but didn’t smell like diesel.
Humidity is high in DFW right now so you’ll see more condensate coming off the coil. Lick it to verify This same condensate is what kills coils. It soaks the insulation and it rusts from the outside in. It doesn’t rust from the inside out because rust can only continue in the presence of oxygen. I have a trick for it but it’s a bit advanced. The easy route is drilling weep holes in the bottom of the tank. Blow up through that hose running through your floor board. Maybe it’s clogged? That’s a condensate drain. That alone isn’t enough.
It looks like your overlaps are different sizes based on the varying widths of the clean strips in the photo. I just moved from 4 to 8 gals and have had the same thing happened. Did you say you post treat or just noticed after it dries?
If I cross cross the pattern, I don’t see the issue. If I post treat (even with ~1% concentration) I don’t see the issue.
To me - the 8 gal upgrade didn’t allow me to move faster just cover wider. HTH
So it’s just condensation around the coils? I didn’t think that would happen if they’re heated up.
Also any advice on the stripes? I’m doing each lane twice instead of creating a new one at the end of the first pass. Makes it take a lot longer.
Also “blow up through that hose running through the floorboard”? If you mean the tiny condensate drain, I thought diesel or whatever just weeped through it. So this thing isn’t wide enough to drain…whatever it is supposed to drain.
Not every foot of that coil is hot hot hot that’s where it’s going to sweat. And no, the underside of that coil tank needs to look like swiss cheese to allow it to drain off and not leave the insulation saturated day after day.
Yeah even with heat. I set it at 130 degrees for regular buffing. Just doing the push pull method. O can go pretty fast with the 8gpm knowing whatever is missed on the first pass will be cleaned on the second.
Anyone ever have a bunch of water pool by a door due to bad drainage? It was a small pond after buffing uphill. Was able to push it away buy always worried about flooding a place.
Any tips on fixing a stuck trigger on a surface cleaner? I took it apart and it has a sealed spring and ball assembly that I can’t unscrew. I pulled the pin and sprayed some wd40 which helped for a bit but not the cleaner sprays without me pulling the trigger again. Have to turn the ball valve off.
