I thought a surface cleaner was a bad idea on tennis courts? It may not work on a floater but I had always thought about swapping out normal nozzles to ones with much lower pressure. Anyone like to share their experience?
There is a company that put a pressure washer on top of a surface cleaner and painted it all red to use mostly on tennis courts but had not perfected it 100% yet at the time they were promoting it. You can see the permanent overlap marks as it was drying on their pictures and website.
I have talked to others and we think that if you lower the pressure, use wider fan nozzles you might be able to clean tennis courts with no permanent damage.
There are pictures on the forums where guys did not do this and left permanent overlap marks, one guy went in different directions and made the place look like a chess board.
I know of a guy that removed a lot of the paint from a concrete tennis court (no asphalt or rubber compound there) and had to re-paint the whole court at his expense.
Here the city cleaned the tennis court at my son's school last year with a surface cleaner and there are permanent overlap marks on the surface.
Too many people out there don't think about the overlap marks on painted or coated surfaces and when they clean it causes permanent damage which can be avoided if they understand cleaning, pressure, and think about the coated surfaces or painted surfaces. You cannot use a lot of pressure on these types of surfaces.
I have cleaned them with a wand as I did not have enough nozzles to experiment with at the time, most of the guys here on the forums clean with wands so the surface is not hit with too much pressure. I am sure some guys have figured it out on how to use a surface cleaner on the tennis courts.