SH House Wash Mix Question?

Rapid HotClean said:
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Jeff, that's an Awesome post!
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I second that one, Ted! He always hits it.

As for chemicals. I need 25 gallons of SH(and I don't do roofs yet), a gallon of Elemonator, a gallon of OneRestore, a pump up sprayer full of oxalic, EBC or good degreaser, and a gallon of gutter zap or purple power for gutter streaks, on my truck at all times. Anything else that I need, I'll determine after an estimate. Running out of cleaner is not an option. Chisel out your wallet and get what you need for the job and then some.
 
Ralph Q said:
I second that one, Ted! He always hits it.

As for chemicals. I need 25 gallons of SH(and I don't do roofs yet), a gallon of Elemonator, a gallon of OneRestore, a pump up sprayer full of oxalic, EBC or good degreaser, and a gallon of gutter zap or purple power for gutter streaks, on my truck at all times. Anything else that I need, I'll determine after an estimate. Running out of cleaner is not an option. Chisel out your wallet and get what you need for the job and then some.
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Ralph, another great post - this is why PWI rocks!

I always try to have extra chems onboard because you never know when a neighbor is going to come over with a request. Although that's not as significant this time of the year because of the shorter days, which suck.
 
Rapid HotClean said:
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Ralph, another great post - this is why PWI rocks!

I always try to have extra chems onboard because you never know when a neighbor is going to come over with a request. Although that's not as significant this time of the year because of the shorter days, which suck.
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I concur with you Ted!

As for me i try to get my hands on the strongest SH (12.5) i can get locally

You could always weaken it whether DS'ing or adding more water with an X

Just my 2 cents

Great posts here by all!!
 
al9226 said:
Sodium hydroxide added to your mix may help, but if you mix it strong you have to be careful around painted surfaces.


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Just discovered that home depots deck cleaning mix, and the all purpose stuff in the blue jug, is sodium metasilicate, that bumps up the SH too. They had a special on it a couple of weeks ago. One jug and a quart of deck cleaner for $9.99. Thats two gallons of concentrated sodium metasilicate! I added it too my xjet jug the other day for acorn stains and they just vanished in one minute!
Home depots deck cleaning mix used to be oxalic acid along time ago. I used it as a brightener back then.
 
Hay Ralph, that's funny,...that' what I do also,...look at a product and then look at the chemical makeup,Ha,Ha,...I remember seeing deck cleaners made from oxalic,.but not lately. Years and Years ago before I had a Univar account, I would buy Roebics drain cleaner for my Sodium Hydroxide,..came in beads,..even buying it that way was cost effective.

Sodium Metasilicate is a great soap builder,.. and you're right,.. it gives bleach better cleaning power.

Jeff
 
Ralph and Jeff, would adding Sodium Metasilicate to my current housewash mix of eLemonator and SH be a good idea?

I'm new to the power washing business and I've got a lot to learn about the various chems and being able to asses different surfaces and knowing exactly what Chen mix to use. Threads such as this have been extremely helpful.
 
This is a good time for a reminder,...Don't over complicate this work,..it's not that difficult. Adding soaps and detergents to soaps and detergents just makes for more rinsing and the potential of making it too strong and possibly causing issues with whatever you're cleaning.

*It's fun to play and come up with "your own ideas",..but in reality, trying to improve on an already good mix is counter productive in most cases,..use this board to your advantage and go with tried and true methods that are readily available on here.

Jeff
 
Jeff, thanks for advice. I'm not wanting to over complicated things, but always looking for the more effective methods. Making the switch to eLemonator made a huge difference in the quality and speed of my house washing.
 
You need to make up your mind as to whether you are in the business of pressure washing or industrial chemistry. If you use off the shelf products and you use them to the manufactures spec's if anything goes wrong you have a come back on them. If you have made up your own cocktail of this and that and it strips the anodising of someone's window frames or something like that then Standby for a shit storm and as you know people in the US love to sue the asses of anyone at any time for any reason. Another thing you need to consider is your own health. If you a brewing up a cocktail and it fumes up in your face and burns the cornea's off your eyeballs where are you going to be???? JMHO.
 
WASH-IT H.B. said:
You need to make up your mind as to whether you are in the business of pressure washing or industrial chemistry. If you use off the shelf products and you use them to the manufactures spec's if anything goes wrong you have a come back on them. If you have made up your own cocktail of this and that and it strips the anodising of someone's window frames or something like that then Standby for a shit storm and as you know people in the US love to sue the asses of anyone at any time for any reason. Another thing you need to consider is your own health. If you a brewing up a cocktail and it fumes up in your face and burns the cornea's off your eyeballs where are you going to be???? JMHO.
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Where are you going to be? You are going to be blind or very visually impaired. I definitely understand your point and I think it's a good one. I may be going off-topic a little bit but my point is whatever you use weather home made or off-the-shelf you need to understand what you are using how it may affect your health and how it may affect the services you are dealing with.

I don't wash houses anymore but I saw someone earlier mentioned adding sodium hydroxide into a house wash mix I think. That just really sounds like a bad idea to me. I'm sure if it is not superstrong it won't really have an effect on things but mix up some sodium hydroxide and drop a piece of aluminum for oil in it and see what happens.
 
pinpointdan said:
Where are you going to be? You are going to be blind or very visually impaired. I definitely understand your point and I think it's a good one. I may be going off-topic a little bit but my point is whatever you use weather home made or off-the-shelf you need to understand what you are using how it may affect your health and how it may affect the services you are dealing with.

I don't wash houses anymore but I saw someone earlier mentioned adding sodium hydroxide into a house wash mix I think. That just really sounds like a bad idea to me. I'm sure if it is not superstrong it won't really have an effect on things but mix up some sodium hydroxide and drop a piece of aluminum for oil in it and see what happens.
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I think that was sodium metasilicate. Same difference, still not needed in a house wash mix(unless specially formulated by a chemist).
 
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