How many feet do you clean a day?

The most we have cleaned is about 78,000 square feet per surface cleaner in 6 hours, not counting pillars, walls, rinsing or filtering.

By wand, our guys cannot hold on the wand too long due to the intense heat. About an hour or so of cleaning inch by inch... with wand a few inches from surface ( Pressure washing )... not yard by yard with the spray of the wand hitting the surface at knee high ( Power washing ). 8,000 ft in 2 hours. I myself can only last 30 - 40 minutes by wand. It's not the heat, but the constant pressure that the wand produces at 5 k. Some of you that may have 8 GPM at 4,000 would know what I mean. The volume of water mixed with the pressure is a killer to the user by wand. Of course, me being out of shape doesn't help, but I try my hand at the wand at least once every month.
 
Yesterday I cleaned a 20,000 sq.ft. culdesac covered and caked in mud from new construction in about 2 1/2 hours with a single wand.

It was way too muddy to clean it that fast with a surface cleaner, since surface cleaners don't rinse and push the mud away. It was faster just to hit it one time with a wand then having to go over it once with the surface cleaner and again with a wand to rinse.

I joined my 8gpm @ 3500psi and 5gpm @ 4000psi together and used a 1525 nozzle to produce 13gpm @ 2000 psi at the nozzle. Good work out.
 
Jim@Garagecleaning said:
The most we have cleaned is about 78,000 square feet per surface cleaner in 6 hours, not counting pillars, walls, rinsing or filtering.

By wand, our guys cannot hold on the wand too long due to the intense heat. About an hour or so of cleaning inch by inch... with wand a few inches from surface ( Pressure washing )... not yard by yard with the spray of the wand hitting the surface at knee high ( Power washing ). 8,000 ft in 2 hours. I myself can only last 30 - 40 minutes by wand. It's not the heat, but the constant pressure that the wand produces at 5 k. Some of you that may have 8 GPM at 4,000 would know what I mean. The volume of water mixed with the pressure is a killer to the user by wand. Of course, me being out of shape doesn't help, but I try my hand at the wand at least once every month.
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I have to wonder why you keep making comments like this as if no one but you or your crew know a freakin thing about pressure washing.
To be honest I'm fed up with the condescending attitude you seem to have toward those of us with rigs that by most standards are considered quality equipment capable of handling just about any work thrown at it.
I personally don't wash concrete from knee high and don't know anyone else on these BBS's that does either.


Your rig is impressive,but face facts it was designed for a specific use and wouldn't be the most practical thing to use on the types of work many of us do.

It's just about time you realized that those of us who clean concrete daily might have a clue as to how to get the job done and done right.
 
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