I got my mix ready last night for today. It is cold out this morning, I may soon have to make the mix in the morning with hot water...which means I gotta get up earlier,not happy. Does anyone do anything different for the cold mornings...Hank? Brian?
Liberty SoftWash said
Sep 23, 2013
When it get cold here we always use hot water. We have a hot water machine so it pretty easy to make a mix up.
waxman18324 said
Sep 23, 2013
Regardless of the time of year we prepare our mix on site. This is made clear to each customer during our initial meeting. I keep my bulk SH in an insulated wood shed. Since I'm up at 0'dark thirty every morning I transfer my chemical from bulk to our truck tank before the birds are up. Since we are a family run operation it's easy to start later when it warms up a little. Majority of our work is vacation homes/weekend retreats and our work is completed while the customer is not home.
Hank
Ed Thompson said
Sep 23, 2013
There are catalysts you can add to heat up the sh. AC has openly mentioned this product that can be bought from Leslie Pools, or most other pool supplies. I am not at liberty to mention the product but you can search the Soft Wash Systems forum. Try searching Leslie Pools on AC's forum. The stuff really does work. I've cleaned roofs well below 32 degrees (I don't suggest trying this). You just have to make sure you keep everything wet or you can get a white film (removable, not permanent).
Liberty SoftWash said
Sep 23, 2013
We use it in our mix as well.
Art O said
Sep 23, 2013
All this give me an Idea. Wrap a 55 gallon drum with a Hot water tank Blanket. Strape it to a hand truck and add a pump . Fill with Hot water and Pixtals and you are good to go
-- Edited by Art O on Monday 23rd of September 2013 08:14:04 PM
Art O said
Sep 24, 2013
AC put some in his mix at the Jersey event. He was calling it Pixtals or something like that. I kind of figuered it was that other stuff.
Liberty SoftWash said
Sep 24, 2013
AC calls it Pixie dust.
Patrick G said
Sep 24, 2013
I finish by the second week of Novemeber, I guess I'll just have to get up early then sleep late all winter to make up for it....unless Art treats to Breakfast!
Liberty SoftWash said
Sep 24, 2013
If Art is buying I am there.
waxman18324 said
Sep 24, 2013
The forecast for tomorrow morning is frost up here.
Hank
Liberty SoftWash said
Sep 24, 2013
Frost is a bad word Hank. Keep it up there for a couple more months.
waxman18324 said
Sep 24, 2013
Eric,
I'll try brother. It might just be a bit beyond my control. We have a roof cleaning, house wash, gutter brightening and a deck to do tomorrow. I'm concerned with the gutter brightening but we'll get it done.
Hank
Liberty SoftWash said
Sep 24, 2013
I think it will warm up nice tomorrow.
Brian C Jackson said
Sep 24, 2013
there was snow on top of Mt. Washington this morning.
Capital Roof Wash said
Sep 24, 2013
waxman18324 wrote:
The forecast for tomorrow morning is frost up here.
Hank
Believe it or not, we get quite a bit of morning frost up here in northern Florida (Dec, Jan, Feb). It melts by mid morning and we can still clean roofs and siding. The siding cleans up like normal but the roofs take a loooong time to see any sort of results. There have been a few times that I had to wait about 1 1/2 hours to see if I needed to touch up any areas.
waxman18324 said
Sep 24, 2013
At 5am it was 31 degrees. Chilly Willy.
Hank
Ed Thompson said
Sep 24, 2013
waxman18324 wrote:
Eric,
I'll try brother. It might just be a bit beyond my control. We have a roof cleaning, house wash, gutter brightening and a deck to do tomorrow. I'm concerned with the gutter brightening but we'll get it done.
Hank
I hear ya Hank. When it's cold we try not to even mention gutter brightening. If they know that it requires warm temps for gutter whitening they may put it off until the spring. If it's unavoidable I try to get 'er done at the peak heat of the day.
gutterdog said
Sep 24, 2013
Here is a trick I heard to warm up the gutters for scrubbing. Run some hot water in the gutter first.
Art O said
Dec 2, 2013
Warm week go to work.
Zach Maynard said
Dec 2, 2013
This is not a service I am to keen on, I would just rather sell it as a gutter clean and use bleach during a house wash. They still come out good, they just have the striping still.
Art O said
Dec 2, 2013
I still like the F13. I mix small batches at a time, 5 gallon goes a long way.
waxman18324 said
Dec 2, 2013
It was 43 up here today and we did a roof and house cleaning for a real estate investor that we have done work for in the past.
The photos will be in the promotional posts later tonight.
Hank
Art O said
Dec 2, 2013
waxman18324 wrote:
It was 43 up here today and we did a roof and house cleaning for a real estate investor that we have done work for in the past.
The photos will be in the promotional posts later tonight.
Hank
Hank when you do your promo Face Book and Google + bang it
waxman18324 said
Dec 2, 2013
Art O wrote:
waxman18324 wrote:
It was 43 up here today and we did a roof and house cleaning for a real estate investor that we have done work for in the past.
The photos will be in the promotional posts later tonight.
Hank
Hank when you do your promo Face Book and Google + bang it
OK.
Art O said
Dec 2, 2013
waxman18324 wrote:
Art O wrote:
waxman18324 wrote:
It was 43 up here today and we did a roof and house cleaning for a real estate investor that we have done work for in the past.
The photos will be in the promotional posts later tonight.
Hank
Hank when you do your promo Face Book and Google + bang it
OK.
We have Twitter Too!
Liberty SoftWash Lisa said
Dec 2, 2013
We were cleaning a slate roof in 45 degree weather here today.
lkendall said
Dec 2, 2013
We got 2 jobs done today, got up to about 50! Supposed to be 50 tomorrow also but the rock-fish are here so...
I got my mix ready last night for today. It is cold out this morning, I may soon have to make the mix in the morning with hot water...which means I gotta get up earlier,not happy. Does anyone do anything different for the cold mornings...Hank? Brian?
Regardless of the time of year we prepare our mix on site. This is made clear to each customer during our initial meeting. I keep my bulk SH in an insulated wood shed. Since I'm up at 0'dark thirty every morning I transfer my chemical from bulk to our truck tank before the birds are up. Since we are a family run operation it's easy to start later when it warms up a little. Majority of our work is vacation homes/weekend retreats and our work is completed while the customer is not home.
Hank
All this give me an Idea. Wrap a 55 gallon drum with a Hot water tank Blanket. Strape it to a hand truck and add a pump . Fill with Hot water and Pixtals and you are good to go
-- Edited by Art O on Monday 23rd of September 2013 08:14:04 PM
I finish by the second week of Novemeber, I guess I'll just have to get up early then sleep late all winter to make up for it....unless Art treats to Breakfast!
The forecast for tomorrow morning is frost up here.
Hank
Eric,
I'll try brother. It might just be a bit beyond my control. We have a roof cleaning, house wash, gutter brightening and a deck to do tomorrow. I'm concerned with the gutter brightening but we'll get it done.
Hank
there was snow on top of Mt. Washington this morning.
Believe it or not, we get quite a bit of morning frost up here in northern Florida (Dec, Jan, Feb). It melts by mid morning and we can still clean roofs and siding. The siding cleans up like normal but the roofs take a loooong time to see any sort of results. There have been a few times that I had to wait about 1 1/2 hours to see if I needed to touch up any areas.
Hank
I hear ya Hank. When it's cold we try not to even mention gutter brightening. If they know that it requires warm temps for gutter whitening they may put it off until the spring. If it's unavoidable I try to get 'er done at the peak heat of the day.
It was 43 up here today and we did a roof and house cleaning for a real estate investor that we have done work for in the past.
The photos will be in the promotional posts later tonight.
Hank
Hank when you do your promo Face Book and Google + bang it
Dees is da stuff mon....works great.
We use a similar product too but, not on slate.