Everyone please understand that, depending on the windex you are looking at, it is likely a 98% water product. They have name brand recognition, but it isn’t miracle stuff.
98% water, 1.0% IPA, 0.5% surfactant, 0.5% chelator.
Not much going on there
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I figured it was way to weak to do anything lol.
I’m telling you it works maybe only of you have hot water but it works
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You 2 fight nice.
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Haha no fight just a trick a old man taught me a long time ago
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Im guess i have really soft water in my location. When i wash a house the windows look amazing. I recently did a house for a lady that had huge windows. I wanted to take a pic to post on here but the pictures just dont show it well. Couldnt tell if they were up or down
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So all my soaps came in, along with my proportioning tips to go in the end of the draw tubes. Did some preliminary tests to figure out which tips to use.
One note on the plastic proportioning tips I got from Hydro-chem: they are 3/16” OD, not 1/4”. So you need to step down the end of the draw tube. I just shoved a small bit of 3/16” tubing into the end of the 1/4” soap lines to make up the difference.
I changed out the hose barb on my x-jet to 1/4”. Directly below that, is a 3-way poly valve from pressuretek.
For my first step, I’ll be mixing the Power Solve into SH in the place of my usual surfactant (I will probably do 2-3 oz per gal as opposed to my usual <1oz/gal of elemonator). I will start out with a beige tip that produces around a 20:1 draw rate on my 5.5 machine.
[Then rinse]
Second step will be the M-37. I will start out with a white tip for approximately 55:1 draw rate, and will bump up to a larger tip depending on results.
In other news, the job has been approved and booked for next week. Hoping to complete the two buildings in 3 days. Somewhere around 430 windows to clean. My dad will be subbing for me as my ground guy.
Had to get supplemental insurance to cover the additional height in the lift. Up front cost for that was about $800, but can cancel at any time after the job is done and get around $500 of it back.
Chems from HydroChem (which included the m37, power solve, and a “free” (had to pay freight, of course) fiver of film fighter to try out, plus the proportioning tips, came to about $250.
I won’t share the price I got for the job, but I’ll just say that it’s equivalent to two pretty good weeks for me.
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Awesome @Infinity. I love your detail. Take plenty of pics,which I know you will.
Hydrochems only draw back is the shipping cost of HAZ materials. I buy mine in bulk up to 32, 6 gal buckets of concentrate on 1 pallet for the same price.
If you get in a pinch, they will ship non hazardous materials via UPS way cheaper.
Good luck,And keep us in the loop Mr Alex…
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I pick these up at Boatner enterprise in poplar bluff MO.
Has hose barb to fit super snugg into 1/4 " poly line. Also a SS strainer basket comes with it to screw on the end,Which I never use. Comes with all the same size ID and colored tip as yours but OD is 1/4" .
$20 US , @anon37135677,lol
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That’s $26.49 CAD…
Not including shipping. Add 13% tax if it was sold here…
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Progress update: we’re more than halfway done with the project, and will hopefully finish on schedule this afternoon. The windows are coming out better than I expected them to. The two stepping process is working brilliantly. I’ve stuck with the two proportioning tips that I picked out during my initial testing.
The facilities maintenance department has kept one of their guys in the lift with me to operate it while I focus on cleaning the windows. I can only imagine how much time this has saved me over the last two days. I’m able to wash in a drive-by fashion, only really stopping the lift for the final rinse of each window.
Here’s a little snippet of my first time up in the lift. That’s my dad on the ground in the hi-viz, managing my hose. This kind of project would be nearly impossible without a ground guy doing that.
The view here really is something else.
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Good deal man, I’m glad to see your project coming to a close out there. I swear if you run over Dad, Mom’s going to have your butt. What caused the reason to run hose crossing the lifts path? I’m just imaging hose length between the lift and the building and everything between the two. I’m sure there was a reason for that???
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Poor planning. We had worked in the other direction first, and when we turned the boom around, we realized the hose was in the wrong spot. We got it straightened out after we finished that section.
Once we got our bearings, all my dad really had to do was try and keep the hose from snagging on trees and corners of walls.
Rats, stay safe and stay vigilant up there!
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Thanks!
The job has not been without its snafu’s. I’ve sprayed at least two people so far, because the windows are near impossible to see if they’re open or closed (until I see a figure through the upper sash closing it). Maintenance is taking full responsibility for making sure they’re all closed before I get to them. But that doesn’t stop people from missing them somehow.
Yesterday morning, I hooked up to a hot water tap by accident. Then when we moved the hose an hour or so later, we found another hot water tap. Both were inside the kitchen, so not too surprising. Because I’m using a buffer tank, the temperature change was gradual, and the water wasn’t extremely hot. So I’m really hoping a pump rebuild is not in my near future 
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You’re good most seals are good up to 140-160 degrees on the inlet. I bet they cleaned up better with the somewhat hot water.
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I’m sure they did. And I definitely looked cooler doing it, with that bit of steam coming off the building 
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Yeah well maybe one day I’ll show you how to spin up your very own Texas steam nator
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