Rinse Question?

Pro-Wash GA

Pro-Wash GA

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I've been reading different opinion on rinsing roofs. Some like to rinse and some don't. When you rinse a roof, do you have an extra tank with clean water in addition to a tank with the chemicals in it, or do you bring your pressure washer along and rinse with it? Just curious.
 
Rance said:
We use a 65 Gal chem tank and have a 275 Gal water tank but we don't rinse roofs, only houses.
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Cool! Do you fill up your tanks at home or somewhere else? A friend of mine had tools to get water from a fire plug. He had a 500 gal tank that he used for log cabin restoration. We needed water one day and he stopped at a fire plug and filled it up. I think we asked the water company first before getting it. Its been about 4 years ago and I cant remember all the details.
 
I personally like to rinse the roofs that I do. Of course I get paid to do it. I have a 5.5 gpm Alkota. I usually put my roof mix in a 30 gallon tank. if I had a ton of them to do I would use my 125 gallon tank. I apply my roof mix with a shur-flo and rinse with the Alkota. I do not like to carry water with me so I always use the home owners water. unless of course they do not have water available,, but that is extremely rare.
 
Is there a difference in pool chlorine and the SH you buy at a chemical company? The pool chlorine is $4 a gallon and the 12.5% SH is $25 for 5 gallons? I saw an older post on here of a house that had bad looking white residue left over after it got washed and apparently the home owner had said that they use pool chlorine mixed with water. I'm just getting started with roof cleaning and sure don't need a disaster on my hands. I always thought pool chlorine and 12.5%SH were the same thing.
 
Still new to this but yes, 12.5% sh and pool chorine are the same thing, at least I've been treating it the same. I've rinsed all the roofs I've done the houses for except 1. It's been a hard sell for me even with a guaranteed return trip or 2 to reapply if necessary. The roof thing is still, IMHO, an education and then a sell, which has been tough to do with the no rinse policy I've been trying to institute. I've got a bunch of proposals out there for houses with roofs and the no rinse is stated clearly in the verbage so waiting to draw conclusions based on my latest round of potential work. I also explain that a rinse is adding a couple hours to the labor and it would be cheaper and more effective an eradication to let it sit until a couple good rain falls. Anyone have a good angle on how to sell the no rinse, I've tried to incorporate what I've read on here as far as the pros and cons for the clients but the jury is still out.
 
Two newbies back and forth discussion. Go to the roof forums and read read read and read some more. This is covered a thousand times.

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Pat Norman said:
Two newbies back and forth discussion. Go to the roof forums and read read read and read some more. This is covered a thousand times.

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Trust me I've been reading, reading, reading, and more reading. This forum is great as far as I concerned. That's how I came across the post that included a house with photos of the roof with white junk on it and in the post they claimed that it was washed with pool chlorine. So when I saw the post and the pics I got concerned. I've always felt that the 12.5 and chlorine were the same but after that older post I started to second guess it.
 
Pro-Wash GA said:
Trust me I've been reading, reading, reading, and more reading. This forum is great as far as I concerned. That's how I came across the post that included a house with photos of the roof with white junk on it and in the post they claimed that it was washed with pool chlorine. So when I saw the post and the pics I got concerned. I've always felt that the 12.5 and chlorine were the same but after that older post I started to second guess it.
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don't stress it. I think that the roof in the picture you saw was covered with powdered chlorine. Liquid sodium hypochlorite aka sh / pool shock / love / bleach is what you should use for your roofs. pool supply stores carry it and other places carry it also. It is easy and cheap to get in florida because of all the pools. when you get it from pool supply stores it should be 12.5%. but be prepared to pay full retail maybe up to 5 dollars a gallon. regular store bought bleach ( Clorox ) is only six percent.
 
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