Power Washing and Roof Cleaning Forum

I've purposely slowed down some this year and I'm working by myself some and getting help here and there after 21yrs of washing. We always had a 200 gal water tank because with 3 guys going we had one applying, one rinsing and one pressure washing flat work. Our rinse pump is a 21gpm hypro and our washer was a TSF2021 8gpm so we needed lots of water. We hit the house with 2 3/4" lines for supply. A water tank on floats was a must on my rigs. I can see how a pickup truck rig without a pressure washer or a 4-5gpm washer can get away without a water tank. What I'm seeing these days is a lot of skid rigs with 2 tanks one for SH and one for mix. These are great setups for pickups and can easily be converted to use the proportioner. If you have or wanted to add a pressure washer simply supply it from the now converted water tank.

Paul is working on some pretty cool skids using the proportioner and the vertical space saving tanks that will be out soon. He is also looking more at the 110v booster pumps we have been using for years in our area. The booster pump is awesome for softwashing because you can use a simple garden hose nozzle to apply your solutions and then switch a 3way at the pump and start rinsing with the same 1/2" line effectively.

Baton Rouge Roof Cleaner wrote:

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Brett, it does not mix into your tank it mixes from your tanks. So you no longer need to make a mix. You still need two tanks because a water line from the house pushes water where the tank draws water at the same time it draws SH

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 Thank you Doug. I can get rid of at least one tank. I am looking forward to see this in action.

Brett, this is solid system that will help you save tons of time. We washed with it today on a stubborn older brick home under multiple live oak trees.

Erik, I think you might be missing where the time savings is at. You can have a water tank with a plunger stop installed. This way you just hook up your water to the truck and never look back. The tank keeps filling and when full it stops.

You have an SH tank, a water tank and a soap tank. Each drawing whats needed as set by you at the dials. No need to make a mix at all.

I see this as a massive time saver and money in my pocket. How many times have you sat back and watched the water slowly fill your mix tank?

I run two mix tanks now so it will actually allow me to carry one less tank but I need to put two Pro-portioners on my truck.

Baton Rouge Roof Cleaner wrote:

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Erik, I think you might be missing where the time savings is at. You can have a water tank with a plunger stop installed. This way you just hook up your water to the truck and never look back. The tank keeps filling and when full it stops.

You have an SH tank, a water tank and a soap tank. Each drawing whats needed as set by you at the dials. No need to make a mix at all.

I see this as a massive time saver and money in my pocket. How many times have you sat back and watched the water slowly fill your mix tank?

I run two mix tanks now so it will actually allow me to carry one less tank but I need to put two Pro-portioners on my truck.

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Doug, you and Tim have clarified this whole process. As I understand it, I can get rid of at least on tank, maybe two and give my truck a bit more room for other things.  So much of our work is at homes with wells. Watching the water trickle into tanks is sometimes a half hour waste of time! I am waiting to see how it works and how easy it will be to "dial in". A perfect time to make changes since winter is rebuild time for me.

ReNew Roof and Exterior cleaning wrote:

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I see that a lot of guys here use water boosters, as well as I. I use it to fill my tanks. At 20+gpm it only takes 5 minutes to fill a 100 gallon tank. Im not knocking the Proportioner, I think its a great idea. Then again, with my work load I have the time to make my own mix.

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The booster has a lot to do with the pressure/GPM it is getting from the house. If it is a well with a low GPM then it can only boost it just a little. If we go to a home with good GPM from city water it will do a great job.

The more I learn about this set up the more I like the time and efficiency factors!

Baton Rouge Roof Cleaner wrote:

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Art O wrote:

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Doug why would you need 2 ? Couldn't you just put a 3 way valve somewhere and switch back and forth

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 Hey Art, it's because there are two guys shooting at the same time. If I shoot the roof at 3% and someone else shoots the house at 1% we cant run on the same ProPortioner

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                                                                            OK spend the $3000, you need it 

Aselton wrote:

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Doug, you could just designate your current system to only one mix. Then you could use proportioner for all other mixes...

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 That would defeat the purpose. I already use two mix tanks and spend way too much time watching them fill.

If I don't like it....no worries......Ray knows where you live and I have lots of eggs.....:}

Baton Rouge Roof Cleaner wrote:

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If I don't like it....no worries......Ray knows where you live and I have lots of eggs.....:}

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 I'm not going anywhere buddy. I hope it helps you out above and beyond your expectations.

We have used booster pumps since 2003 for applying and rinsing. We went to rinsing with 10gpm hypros, then 15gpm and now 20gpm turned down to 13gpms at the nozzle (300' of 1/2") for 2 man. Boosters are great for one man systems because they sling solutions well above 12v capabilities and they can effectively rinse on 300' lines. We run 100-150' 10ga cords off the house and run a generator when no power is available. Washing in complete silence is nice. 12v application and booster rinse is a great 2 man silent combo as well.

-- Edited by Aselton on Sunday 27th of September 2015 09:00:26 AM

Super efficient, we were gonna build a second system for doing just that. I always felt that we were wasting time while we were roof washing. I am the rinse man and I followed the roof guy around the house. If we didn't have our concrete guy washing drive he could be applying house wash and I could rinse while going around spraying plants and grass mirroring the roof guy. I bought a reel and another pump, but our primary pump went down we never put it all together. There is always a more efficient way to maximize production, that is what brought about our Proportioner and mega rinse pump. Not to cut corners, but work smarter with excellent equipment. I'm very impressed with the advancements over the years on these forums. I wish we had them in the early 90's when I started, I could have saved a bunch of plants and some stressful growing pains...

-- Edited by Aselton on Sunday 27th of September 2015 08:34:22 PM

SH will definitely be the death of your booster pump. They have lasted a whole season for us before. You need to buy a quality pump and take care of it if you want it to last. We are currently using a Sta-Rite HPS7D-01, It's a S/S 3/4hp 115v . I put it on the truck in March and washed all day today with it off 100' of 10ga cord. I would only use 10ga cord because of the power loss at distance you don't want to run them hot. Running it off a generator is fine too, I just like the silence when it's just 1 man. The fact that you apply and immediately rinse with the pump is a huge plus for extending its life.

Show us a pic of how you have it plumbed please