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jlpressure

jlpressure

JL Pressure Washing
Whats everyone using for their housewash/building mix? Have you used other mixes and what do you find the best and why

Vinyl and most surfaces I'm just useing my Apple blossum Dawn & 12%

stucco/dryvit I use 12% & Simple Cherry (PT) or I use Citra Clean (RPC)

I'll use the SC or CC on other surfaces if they are real dirty & grimey, but if its basically mold & mildew, just the dawn works for a basic house wash for me

Any good before & after pics you want to show?

Jeff
 
House washing is not my specialty Jeff.
But the many house washers I have met here in Tampa use Bleach and TSP.
Gotta keep the TSP down to sensible amounts because it is so powerful.
Many add a little Borax to the mix to keep it clean longer, and also offer some Insect protection!

Basically, watered down Apple Sauce, LOL
 
jlpressure said:
Whats everyone using for their housewash/building mix? Have you used other mixes and what do you find the best and why

Vinyl and most surfaces I'm just useing my Apple blossum Dawn & 12%

stucco/dryvit I use 12% & Simple Cherry (PT) or I use Citra Clean (RPC)

I'll use the SC or CC on other surfaces if they are real dirty & grimey, but if its basically mold & mildew, just the dawn works for a basic house wash for me

Any good before & after pics you want to show?

Jeff
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i was going to try the dawn with 12% but i saw on the label not to mix with bleach. i have used other soaps but i feel they weaken the 12%, not letting it penetrate properly.
 
MIKE FP said:
i was going to try the dawn with 12% but i saw on the label not to mix with bleach. i have used other soaps but i feel they weaken the 12%, not letting it penetrate properly.
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Mike some of the dawns do give off a strong, not so nice odor, blue dawn I dont like and wont use at all. The Apple Blossum Dawn concentrate, is just fine, its like its totally different from the blue

I dont tell anyone they should use Dawn, but it does work just fine on vinyl and most surfaces here in SC
 
Apple Roof Cleaning said:
House washing is not my specialty Jeff.
But the many house washers I have met here in Tampa use Bleach and TSP.
Gotta keep the TSP down to sensible amounts because it is so powerful.
Many add a little Borax to the mix to keep it clean longer, and also offer some Insect protection!

Basically, watered down Apple Sauce, LOL
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Insect protection??? what do you mean Chris

I would think from what you have said about TSP, you might have problems with windows
 
jlpressure said:
Mike some of the dawns do give off a strong, not so nice odor, blue dawn I dont like and wont use at all. The Apple Blossum Dawn concentrate, is just fine, its like its totally different from the blue

I dont tell anyone they should use Dawn, but it does work just fine on vinyl and most surfaces here in SC
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im wondering why the label says not to mix with bleach:confused:
 
There are several different formulas of Dawn.
DEFINITELY do not mix Ultra with bleach.
If you can find non-Ultra blue original it works OK. Jeff and Don like Apple Blossom scent.
If you want to know why not to mix with bleach put a quart of 12% in a bucket and give it a squirt. The fumes will kill you and the bleach.
 
Speck_Chaser said:
There are several different formulas of Dawn.
DEFINITELY do not mix Ultra with bleach.
If you can find non-Ultra blue original it works OK. Jeff and Don like Apple Blossom scent.
If you want to know why not to mix with bleach put a quart of 12% in a bucket and give it a squirt. The fumes will kill you and the bleach.
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thanks for the info.
 
RPC Citracleen, 12%, foamer, & rinse aid. Works well on just about everything. I have used Power House from Sun Brite in the past as well.

Mike
 
some of the dawn not all of them say do not mix with bleach because it has amonia in it
 
reef said:
1 gallon CHL
4 Gallon H2O
16 oz SC

Then DS
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David that only gives about .5% ttw. Do you have to reapply very often?
If not I need to cut mine back a little bit.
Thanks David
 
Yes at times, but we seem to get houses with a lot of plants. So I go weak at first, that way if it does the job I save chems.
 
David I agree with going as weak as you can to do the job but there is a point of diminishing return where you can actually leave mold spores alive (they'll stick up high on the horizontal creases of siding) 1.5% is about the right number for killing action, relative speed, and minimized damage risk to vegetation.
 
ok now im confused, i just started using 12% i have no propotioner in my m5, how do i get 2% in a 5ver? i thought 1 gal of 12% divided by 4 gal of h20 was 3%?
 
mario said:
ok now im confused, i just started using 12% i have no propotioner in my m5, how do i get 2% in a 5ver? i thought 1 gal of 12% divided by 4 gal of h20 was 3%?
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1 gal of 12% in a 5'r will give you 2.5%. Divide 12.5 by 5.
Multiply by the # gals of 12.5 you put in.
X-jet will pull 50% chems, so your getting 1.25 TTW.
David was DS so there's a difference.
 
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