Getting into roof cleaning need suggestions please

The Roof Cleaning mix may be thought of as a chemical just trying to escape. It will find every leak/weakness in your system.
The less weaknesses you have, the better.
 
Prestige_Pressure said:
The only thing I use my chemical reel for is rolling up the 200' of hose. I bypass the reel and go from the pump straight to the chemical hose.
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You know, the more roof cleaners I talk with, the more I realize that those of us who have said good bye to hose reels are not alone:)
 
Ditto on the hose reel, we have not used a hose reel for roof cleaning in years as well. I even by pass my swivel now on my high pressure hose reels, I simply use a quick connect when I am done reeling in & out so no more leaking swivels. Plus I get to bypass the coil in the heater increasing my pressure when heat is not required.
 
The Cleaner said:
Ditto on the hose reel, we have not used a hose reel for roof cleaning in years as well. I even by pass my swivel now on my high pressure hose reels, I simply use a quick connect when I am done reeling in & out so no more leaking swivels. Plus I get to bypass the coil in the heater increasing my pressure when heat is not required.
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Nothing will ruin a flatbed truck, or a trailer, quite like the leaking Chlorine from a Hose Reel Swivel. That Chit waits till you are out on the boat all weekend to leak, so it can do it behind your back!
 
We just started making our own manifolds out of pipe fittings at Home Depot. They hold up about a year with rinsing and replace in .5 hours.

AC
 
How 'bout that powdered bleach! I figured I would see what all the fuss was about. Man I tried that stuff and it looked like a crop duster blew through or something. AC you said don't rinse, but that stuff turns the whole roof white. Do you filter out the sodium bicarbonate or what or just leave it that way? I just don't like delayed progress, you know.
 
outdoorprowash said:
How 'bout that powdered bleach! I figured I would see what all the fuss was about. Man I tried that stuff and it looked like a crop duster blew through or something. AC you said don't rinse, but that stuff turns the whole roof white. Do you filter out the sodium bicarbonate or what or just leave it that way? I just don't like delayed progress, you know.
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We will not have the powdered bleach on the market until prop next year. Many are using plain CH powder pool shock in the mean time. Yes it leaves residue but that is better than dead plants etc. Many are using an augmenting mixology that utilizes both SH and CH with Green Wash. That is working well. Keeps your load under USDOT limits by being able to use both.

AC
 
outdoorprowash said:
AC, what is max mix of CH per 5 gallons? 30oz maybe?
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We have field tested that in a 100 gallon tank 128 ounces of CH has the same cleaning power as 10 gallons of SH in that same tank. So to make a 1% bleach cleaning solution you will add 128 ounces of CH to 100 gallons of water. To make a 2% add 256 ounces of CH and so on and so on.

Use 68% CH pool shock that you can buy at local pool supplies. It will cause a residue that will easily rinse away on the next hard rain. Lighter solutions 1% and 2% usually dont leave a residue. Hopefully some time next year SoftWash Systems will offer a CH that wont have as bad a residue.

You can get all of these measurements at SoftWashSystems.com/page_mixology.htm and we have a video teaching module you can watch on Soft Wash Mixology at SoftWashSystems.com/page_softwash-certifications.htm

Thanks,

AC
 
I guess if your're in a drought like we are, waiting for rain wont work. So rinsing heavily would be suggested AC??????
 
outdoorprowash said:
How 'bout that powdered bleach! I figured I would see what all the fuss was about. Man I tried that stuff and it looked like a crop duster blew through or something. AC you said don't rinse, but that stuff turns the whole roof white. Do you filter out the sodium bicarbonate or what or just leave it that way? I just don't like delayed progress, you know.
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Several of us over at the Roof Cleaning Institute have experimented with Calcium Hypochlorite for cleaning roofs. If using it all by itself, it requires an immediate acid rinse to negate the film. This "sounds bad", however the acid completely neutralizes the chlorine in the calcium hypochlorite, making your solution "Green".
During the acid neutralization process, as the PH of the calcium hypochlorite roof cleaning solution is lowered, the killing power to bacteria and algae is increased 100 times, making SURE all Algae Spores on the roof are dead, dead, dead.
 
outdoorprowash said:
That sound darn cool Chris, I never felt inclined to try that. Do you have a link to the discussion?
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It is in our premium members only section, closed to the public. However,most of the Roof Cleaning Forum is open.
Google Chlorinated TSP, it is basically calcium hypochlorite and TSP combined, and used to clean beer brewing equipment. They always follow a cleaning with it with an acid rinse to prevent scale (the white chit) you saw left on the roof. I even know someone who uses a mild acid rinse or sodium thiosulfate to neutralize sodium hypochlorite after he cleans a roof. He steals a considerable amount of work over in West Palm Beach Florida on those multi million dollar homes with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of plants. He guarantees not to change the PH of the soil!
 
Rick2 said:
That's what I use for roofs...works great.
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We abandoned ALL Hose Reels for roof cleaning chemicals a few years ago, and have never looked back. I believe both my friends Nick and Kory here in the Tampa area have too. Our experience with hose reels and their swivels is they all leak or break. But remember, we are a well established Tampa Roof Cleaning Company and clean a considerable number of roofs, and about 1/2 of them are Tile. We clean roofs everyday w/o hose reels, and our pumps work better and shoot farther, because they are not restricted by small hose reel manifolds and swivels.
 
Doug Rucker said:
Call Paul Kassander at www.powerwashstore.com 855.351.9274. He has got a great 12V system that is very reasonably priced. Under $100.00 depending o what all options you get. I have been using it for a couple months now and love it. Especially the price on it.
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Under $100? I can't imagine what kind of system you could have gotten for that cheap. I'm assuming Doug forgot a zero.

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JDhomeservices said:
Under $100? I can't imagine what kind of system you could have gotten for that cheap. I'm assuming Doug forgot a zero.

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LOL, you caught that too Josh! We were up your way on NW 85th Terrace 34482 in Ocala on Friday! We cleaned one of those big 5000+ Sq Ft Tile Roofs in there.
So we are "Fat" with money right now, and will take a bunch of those "12 volt roof cleaning systems under 100.00" that Doug just "put on sale"
 
Apple Roof Cleaning said:
LOL, you caught that too Josh! We were up your way on NW 85th Terrace 34482 in Ocala on Friday! We cleaned one of those big 5000+ Sq Ft Tile Roofs in there.
So we are "Fat" with money right now, and will take a bunch of those "12 volt roof cleaning systems under 100.00" that Doug just "put on sale"
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Sounds like the house farm area. Lots of money over there. I just talked to another roof cleaner in my area. Nice guy, but he said he only charges about $375 for washing tile roofs on big houses in gated communities. That includes washing with bleach and TSP, rinsing, washing with second coat, then rinsing again. All that with a little Sureflow pump. Sounds like it would take all day!
 
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