Some shots we did on the last cleaning

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Here are some shots we did on our last Garage Cleaning. The picture of the stalls.... we cleaned one of the six or so stalls, then let them dry so that our clients could compare after the area was dry. You can see the oil stain is just about gone.
 

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You should try using a hotter pressure washer to clean concrete with, I hardly saw any steam coming from the surface cleaner.:p
 
Squirtgun said:
Please tell me the 3rd pic is after the first pass and you went back over the area to get the cross hatch pattern left by the surface cleaner.
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That was just a quick pass. The zebra strip is always removed. As you can see, that was with a 0 degree nozzle at 4,500 psi with the heat confirmed by gauge on the surface cleaner to 245 degrees. We do not go past 265 degrees due to the hose can't handle it. The hose starts to melt.

We also keep it at 265 or less for safety reasons. We was advised by several engineers that 300 degrees under high pressure could be a problem that we may want to avoid.
 
Some of you have asked what is the pressure at the wand when we achieve 300 degrees?

Though our rig can hit 300 degrees, we have only done it a few times. Its hard to explain, but, it's like the hose gets very light, I mean lighter than if there was no water in the line. The pressure drops from 4500 psi to 2700 psi, and the wand is so light, it almost feels as if it could fly upwards like a helium balloon floating to the ceiling in a room.

At that temperature, gum does not melt off the cement, it actually turns to a puff of smoke. There is little effort at best, to work the wand. A 6 GPM, the wand feels lighter than one of those cheap "Made in China" specials that they sell at Walmart for $79.00.

Though we can achieve the 300 degree mark, for safety reasons, we choose to keep our wands on the ground at 265 degrees or less.
 
Thank BA ! You know on that day, someone thought a car was on fire and they called in a 2 alarm fire. We had two hook and ladder trucks and a couple of smaller engines. About 20 or so firemen.

Ended costing us $500 for the false alarm. Now we have to report that we will be cleaning in the garage from X:XX time to X:XX time and that steam may be misconstrued as smoke from a fire.
 
Jim@Garagecleaning said:
Some of you have asked what is the pressure at the wand when we achieve 300 degrees?

Though our rig can hit 300 degrees, we have only done it a few times. Its hard to explain, but, it's like the hose gets very light, I mean lighter than if there was no water in the line. The pressure drops from 4500 psi to 2700 psi, and the wand is so light, it almost feels as if it could fly upwards like a helium balloon floating to the ceiling in a room.

At that temperature, gum does not melt off the cement, it actually turns to a puff of smoke. There is little effort at best, to work the wand. A 6 GPM, the wand feels lighter than one of those cheap "Made in China" specials that they sell at Walmart for $79.00.

Though we can achieve the 300 degree mark, for safety reasons, we choose to keep our wands on the ground at 265 degrees or less.
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This is the biggest load of crap I have ever heard.

Over the past year and a half we have been hitting the 300 range often. We run it for as long as 5-10 minutes then full flow till it gets down closer to 225 then bring it back up again.

It's a little scary knowing the temp and worrying about orings popping, but the gun getting lighter and the hose melting is a load of crap.

How much more BS did we get from this guy?

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Yeah and apparently in the 3 years since he is now able to hit 350 degrees with 6-9 gpm everyday every minute.
 
It isn't cal OSHA or EPA required.

So the question Tony, is from what you remember, did gum disappear in a puff of smoke when Jim was using his machine at the DMV in Vegas?
 
Scott Stone said:
It isn't cal OSHA or EPA required.

So the question Tony, is from what you remember, did gum disappear in a puff of smoke when Jim was using his machine at the DMV in Vegas?
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The only puff of smoke I saw was coming out of Jim right before he had the best meal of his life and went to sleep in ten minutes.

Inside joke...

You've seen the videos. It didn't clean gum as well as 200 degrees

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The reason that I asked is because I remembered you, Ron, and others telling me that he had problems getting the gum up with his super machine, yet he carries on like there was no problem at all. He even tried to make me look stupid, but Michael pulled the post.
 
Just know that if you post in disagreement with him or question him or anybody else at the community bbs it will be pulled. It's a highly censored bbs and basically no disagreements allowed. That is my opinion.
 
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