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Apple Roof Cleaning said:
Remove the link ?
Not on your life, LOL

I even still have Bob Williamson's link there, and he and I have gone round and round, LOL

Business is business, and a recriprocal link is good for BOTH parties.

And, while Bob Williamson and I have had our words, he is w/o a doubt competent to clean a roof.

I would have no hesitation referring a customer to him who was too far away from me.

Your link is safe, unless you direct me to remove it.
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Well, like way too many say..."to skin a cat".

Hey, I've done roofs both ways, I prefer one over the other, but I've learned not to persistantly preach my method over others.

Take care folks,

MERRY Christmas.
 
gks72 said:
Well, like way too many say..."to skin a cat".

Hey, I've done roofs both ways, I prefer one over the other, but I've learned not to persistantly preach my method over others.

Take care folks,

MERRY Christmas.
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Happy Holidays to you also. I was curious as to what other methods of roof cleaning you tried, John Blue, Shurflo, x-jets, or high flow - low chem (softwashing). I appreciate your input on this thread. I'm not criticizing you in any way, I have different methods than most myself.
 
russ s said:
i just dont see leaving it myself seems like the custommer would be more satisfied with immediate results but there are drawbacks i know ,like granule loss from excessive rinsing ect......
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What are you using to rinse with, Russ?
 
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Hahaha!
 
russ s said:
not paying attention to ron or thad !!!! hahahaha


tim ,i rinse with a chem tip but i use the pressure washer to do it with and i keep the tip around 24 to 30 inches off the surface,what about you ???
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I rinse with the same hose I apply with, this allows me to always have enough flow and pressure to rinse efficiently.
 
taselton2 said:
I rinse with the same hose I apply with, this allows me to always have enough flow and pressure to rinse efficiently.
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Russ, I wanted to clarify something. I use a garden nozzle to apply/rinse, so I don't have to change anything but a valve at the pump to rinse with fresh water. I run two garden hoses into my pump for a fresh water supply. I have tested the flows off houses all over Tallahassee, most "in town" homes flow about 8gpms on one hose and about 12gpms on two hoses. Because my pump raises the pressure it allows me to rinse with that good flow at 200-300ft of hose. I hope this makes more sense. I have done a lot of real tests to see what works best for me. Flow, Flow, Flow with some moderate pressure, never more than 150 for roofs & houses.
 
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I've stated before on another board my results on different methods.

ARMA method....killed my grass...yeah I didn't thoroughly flush drip area prior to treatment.

Two versions of my current method...got it clean.....no dead grass..(had freezer but had issuess so salad available....

Just fits my business plan for me...you all do nice workl
 
taselton2 said:
Russ, I wanted to clarify something. I use a garden nozzle to apply/rinse, so I don't have to change anything but a valve at the pump to rinse with fresh water. I run two garden hoses into my pump for a fresh water supply. I have tested the flows off houses all over Tallahassee, most "in town" homes flow about 8gpms on one hose and about 12gpms on two hoses. Because my pump raises the pressure it allows me to rinse with that good flow at 200-300ft of hose. I hope this makes more sense. I have done a lot of real tests to see what works best for me. Flow, Flow, Flow with some moderate pressure, never more than 150 for roofs & houses.
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That's a good way to do it, since you already have the hoses out for watering during the process anyway!

I saw one inexperienced roof cleaner working alone.
He had a garden hose filling a rinse tank, while he was up spraying.
Stuff was running down off the roof.

He just kept on cleaning, got done, and started to rinse.

3 days later, death was everywhere.

The mix kills plants two ways.
By celluar degeneration, and by sodium poisoning.

The cellular degeneration is caused by contact with the chlorine, and is prevented by tarping/watering the plants.

Sodium poisoning is cured by dilution.

Dilution is the solution.

You always have Two issues when rinsing.

The first is to get the leftover mix off the roof, in case of a light rain afterwards.

The second is to make sure that the rinsed mix is also rinsed well down past the root line of the plants.

This means that once the roof is rinsed, another rinse trip along each side of the house is a good idea.

You can never rinse "too well", but you can easily rinse "not good enough".



A "quickie" rinse can sometimes do more harm then good.
 
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