Not a bad idea. 2 feet may be more like it though. My tail will drag that corrugated bottom. Actually, considered getting a big wheel cart, and sitting on it all the way through. Would miss all the spider webs hanging down that way.
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I do that pretty often. Nothing too it.
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I’m finding several things that aren’t my “cup of tea” as I’m getting older. I used to be the first one to volunteer for anything. Now if it involves heights or tight spaces I’m finding myself shying away. Funny how that happens
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Here’s a short vid from that pipe washout. Seriously sounded like a jet priming every time you hit the trigger.https://youtu.be/TNweWgQTCOA
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That job looked like a pain lol would you do it again?
Yep. The pipe repair sales rep asked if it was ok to recommend me to other pipe repair companies. Told him to go right ahead. It’s kind of a niche market, so you can pretty much set the price. They do make a self-propelled type of surface cleaner that sprays outwards instead of down like a typical surface cleaner, but it’s ridiculously expensive and is made overseas to order. Next time, I know to at least build small carts with big wheels, like yard carts, and mount seats to them. That way you don’t have to bend over the whole time. I’ve toyed with the idea of welding an adjustable height frame with a sc swivel in it to a cart of some sort. Different spray bars for different pipe sizes, and have the tips spray towards the walls, but in just enough of an angle to spin at a slower than regular sc speed. Just pull it through and be done.
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That would be pretty sweet. Send the grunt through one time with a cable, hook cable to winch, and then even make the grunt push the winch button while you’re sipping iced tea in a lawn chair under an umbrella. If it’s a real long culvert I’m sure you could rig up some kind of coiler using a chainsaw or small engine and just use a rope instead of messing with a winch and cable.
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The “robots” you can buy pull themselves through by water pressure from 2 tips pointing backwards. You just feed it hose.
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“Day tuker jibs”
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10’ tall white shrimp boots in front of a south Louisiana visitor center.
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Cleaned a house earlier this spring and the client had inquired over the phone about me also washing some trees next to her front porch. I assumed they were fake or some artsy things. Nope. They were real, live, palmetto trees that had green on the sides of them from the ground all the way up about 8-ft or so to where the canopy was. The customer left shortly after I started the job otherwise I would of had her take a photo of me doing it. “Palmetto Power Wash” is in the name of my business, but never did I think I would actually be washing a palmetto tree. Actually, I cleaned five of them!
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So far, just a kids play house, came out like new.
I did a kids playhouse just the other day. It was one of those plastic ones and was covered in mildew just like the actual house I was there to clean. It came out well and when the customer did a final walk around with me they saw that it had been cleaned before I could mention it. They asked me what was the additional charge and without missing a beat I told them I thought that the play house was what I had originally quoted to clean, and that it cleaned up so quickly I felt that I had to do the two story home next to it pro bono just so that I could sleep well that night!
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I did it for an extra 25.
Great job! What did you use to clean them? Chemicals, software, pw? I have a few headstones I’m wanting to clean, but cantfind any info on it. Thanks, Ronda
I have been researching safe ways to clean headstones and monuments. I ran across this a couple times, so I thought I’d share it.
Harmful Cleaners and Cleaning Methods
When it comes to tombstone and monument cleaning, the most important thing about any liquid cleaning solution is ph neutral.
Bleach is at the top of the list as the number one harmful cleaner most used. Most who use it do because it’s cheap, kills germs and fungi, and it will bleach white a marble stone. Sounds good in theory, but very harmful. The makeup of bleach – The chemical compound formula for sodium hypochlorite is NaOCl. – reaction – Chlorine and sodium hydroxide will produce sodium hypochlorite Cl2 + 2NaOH = NaOCl + NaCl + H2O. Bleach is damaging do its sodium content. The damaging salt deposits left behind in the stone will break down the stones molecular structure from within.
There’s some good threads on here about cleaning monuments and headstones. Just gotta dig a little for them.
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I have been. I am also researching limestone, granite, and marble. Getting some great information. Thanks
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late to the party but i’ve cleaned one of those 
statues that was true to size to the ones in easter island
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