Pre treating before pressure washing
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In this video we're going to go over why pre-treating before pressure washing is important.
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Looks great. Seems like common sense that the longer you let the solution set, the less lines and lanes are a problem 😊 no rushing to do a bad grimey job here 😊😊
Thank you!
Indeed, there is some truth to that statement. However, it's important to note that certain types of surface cleaners and or tips can indeed leave lines behind during pressure washing. Additionally, concrete surfaces can become etched, which can also result in visible lines. While you might already be aware of this, I thought it would be helpful to share this information with others who may come across the comments. 😊
Did I miss the part wehre you told us what to use on the pre treat? The title of the video. Or is that a secret?
🤦 It's certainly not a secret, and I'll make sure to include the specific chemicals and their percentages used in our videos moving forward. My goal is to provide valuable content for you and others interested in the pressure washing industry. In this particular video, we treated the concrete with Sodium Hypochlorite (SH) and a detergent known as Apple Wash.
Nice video. Quick question, are you using the customers water source? I saw that you have a big tank on your trailer, so do you arrive at the customers property with that already filled with water?
I was gonna ask this myself
They still use the customer water. The pressure washer he is using is probably 8GPM and the house cannot pump 8GPM to the pressure washer. He is probably running the customer water to the tank.
Good question. I do apologize i am just now answering. It has been a very busy season for us. Below is a link to another video i mad regarding water use. Check it out. If you have any other questions please let me know. I promise it won't take 7 months to respond this time.
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Yes this is correct!
Michael, great video. I like to pre and post treat. Is that SC an 8gpm? Are the houses in your area able to pull 8 gpm or are you tanking it?
One thing is is get rid of that music! 😂😂
Thank you and thanks for watching! Honestly I wouldn't recommend post treating as it is ineffective and can be a waste of chemical. Save you chemical and your money! The surface cleaner is called The Big Guy and is rated for 8 gpm. In our area keeping up with water varies. We usually try to keep at least 250 gallons in the buffer tank ensure we keep up. Yeah lol the music was supposed to gradually start playing.
Good work
Thank you!!!
Please tell me what you use to spray the SH with! Im tired of the pump sprayer!
Thanks for watching and I know the feeling. You would want to invest into a soft wash maching.
Click the link below to see the difference between a pressure washer and a soft wash machine.
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Nice. Finally you explained what others just don't. What is your pre treatment SH ratio? 3%? Also do you use a detergent? Also do you post treat? If not why not? Also seemed like you ignored some small oil stains? Did you ignore them on purpose?
Thanks, @ketoman! On this driveway, I used 3.5%SH and 2.5% detergent. I basically use apple wash as my detergent for everything, even roofs. I also do not post treat with sh, due to the fact that sh breaks down into salt and oxygen after a period of time and can possibly damage the surface of the concrete.
I also charge for removing oil stains, rust stains, etc, and the customer didn't care about having them removed.
@@15centpressurewashing52 Thx for the info, so for post treatment no SH, how can i still do an effect post treatment ?
Nice work man!
What is the chemical you use to pre treatment 🤔
Thank you @abramacost6515! To help eliminate mold I used SH.
Great video! What kind of soft wash set up are you running?
Thank you! I am glad you liked it! The rig in the video has a 7 gpm water dragon soft wash pump with the power wash store pro proportioner. I also want to thank you for subscribing! =)
If youre using bleach, wouldnt that kill any grass or plants? Im new to pressure washing so im curiousxon how its not killing anything else
You water down the areas and plants. Diluting the chemical.
Great question! The video below should be of help. If you have any other questions please let me know!
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What chemical do you use to pre-treat and post-treat concrete? Do you sell these products?
We use SH ( sodium hypochlorite) for treating concrete. At the moment we do not sell these products. I would call any local chemical companies near you to see if they sell these type of products.
Do you batch mix or use a proportioner?
When we first started we batched mix until we could invest into a proportioner. The proportioner and electronic ball valve for down streaming are one of the best investments that can be made once set up. It saves a lot of time and chemical. It aslo helps us provide a faster service for our customers.
Awesome video I’m extremely knew and I was wondering with your 3.5% Sh how do you do the ratio in your tank is it like 1:1 (gallon:gallon)? Love the video!
If you are talking about down streaming pre-treatment meaning spraying chemicals and water both sourced to your gun from separate intakes, you can't exceed a strength of 2%. If your chemical tank is 100% bleach you will still only get a max. of 2% because your water to chemical ratio when down streaming is 4 to 1. You have to manually soft wash using a pump spray to exceed 2% bleach strength. Hope this helps
@@everythingperrycameron9431 Whaat about x-jet 1.6:1 how would you do the math for that??
@@LeoXploresit’s just whatever (percent of sh you’re using 10 or 12.5%) times x = 3.5 (desired percent)
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I’m frustrated . You show us that PRE-CLEANING IS EFFECTIVE but unless I missed it You don’t show us HOW?
So here goes..
1. What % SH DO YOU USE?
2. What tools do you use to get that %?
3. What Powerwasher do you use?
4. Do you use a chemical down stream injector steamer and what lance and nozzle do you use..
Sorry I need to know exactly HOW I MIGHT APPLY THE SH.
Please explain in simple terms exactly HOW and as if you were explaining it to a child with no knowledge whatsoever.
That’s what a good teacher does and they leave nothing out. Nothing.
You can call it
Pretreating Concrete For Dummies..
Because I am a Dummy.
Sorry
leaning is effective
Please understand that I am not trying to be rude but this channel is not for hypocrite content creators. I am always more than willing to answer questions even when people are being rude, but we all have to have a line. I think you should take you own advice and click on your link /video below about "Lawn Care For Beginners" There's not one video on your channel that showed anybody how to do anything. I put a lot of hard work into my videos hoping to help others and always appreciate positive criticism, but your criticism was not positive sir! #washsquad101
Heres your link
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Thanks so much im citing this video for my ISU
You're welcome! Thank you for watching! I hope our other videos can help!
You should show how much and what you used to treat the concrete.
Thank you! We will start mentioning the percentages used in our videos. We used 4%-5% depending on growth. This percentage is typical for mold growth within concrete.
Please always tell us newbees the percentage of your pre treatment.
Thank you! I will definitely try to make sure that we mention this in our videos.
What chemicals do you use to pretreat? And the ratio you use it's always talked about but never shown
Thank you for your question and bringing this to my attention. I will be sure to start providing our mix ratios in our videos. We used 4%-5% depending on growth. This percentage is typical for mold growth within concrete.
You're asking the man to give up his secret sauce recipe😂
Great job
Thank you and thank you for watching.
Excelente trabajo
Y muchas felicidades en 2024
Thank you
Great video, Michael.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
So what did you pretreatment it with?
SH (Sodium Hyphoclorite) and detergent.
If there is a video youd like for us to create, please watch our latest short and comment what youd like it to be!
@@15centpressurewashing52 thank you
That looks like absolute crap! ;p Nah, I'm just kidding. Looks great. You don't do any post-treating? Also, have you ever used a really strong mix of SH with a pump-up sprayer inside? I'm curious how it would work compared to the mold-killing chemical I bought which is probably a lower strength bleach to be honest. I have a spot in the deepest back room in my underground basement that started getting black mold in an area after the neighbor's gutter disconnected at their downspout in between our houses, which was creating pools of water every time it rained and it found it's way through the wall in an unfinished room. The chemical I bought was expensive, but it didn't really seem to do much. I'm wondering if I hit it with 8 to 10% really quick and get out of there before it starts releasing toxic gases when it's attacked and come back a week or so later after the SH smell dissipates if you think I'd have more luck. And do you think the smell would come up to the first floor? I'm not gonna hold you responsible if it did lol. Just looking for some advice.
Thank you for watching. Honestly you beat bet would be to reach out to a crawlspace company as this is a different type of cleaning. I am also sure if you use any bleach the smell will make it to the 1st and 2nd story. This is one of the reasons crawlspace companys use organic mold killing solutions. I hope this helps.
To asnwer your other question, no we do not post treat. After about 10 minutes sh turns into a type of salt and depending on the aurface can be currosive.
How are you suppose to get over a 1-2% mix while downstreaming I just put that clear tube in a bucket and it goes through my pump. I know that only puts out a 1-2% though. Would I need a blend manifold thing? I have a 8 gal and a 4 gal.
Thank you for your question! To provide a post treatment you would need to use a soft wash machine and either batch mix or have a proportioner installed. You could also use a pump sprayer if needed. Downstreaming does not provide an hot enough mix for pre-treating.
The video below may be of some help.
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I want to pre treat with 3-4 percentages, but how will I go about that without going around killing ppl’s vegetation, just lots of water? Or like higher percentage for a brick home, just water?
If you are using anything above a 1.5% and are not down streaming you have to apply a bleach neutraliser to the plants before hand and post treat with water
Drenching vegetation in water can work at times depending on how fragile the vegetation is. I would recommend looking into SH Neutralizers instead of using water if you are wanting to provide professional exterior cleaning services. Also you want to keep from as much over spray/runoff as possible. Certain soaps mixtures and nozzles can help with this. If you have any other questions just let me know.
Thank you for your question. The video below should have an answer for you. If you have any other questions, please let me know.
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Yes, This is correct! #washsquad
What did you charge customer?
Would u say downstream injector is cheapest way to spread the pre treatment while being slightly more efficient then a pump sprayer ???
Thank you for your question! To provide a post treatment you would need to use a soft wash machine and either batch mix or have a proportioner installed. You could also use a pump sprayer if needed. Downstreaming does not provide an hot enough mix for pre-treating.
The video below may be of some help.
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Bro, music came in at the wrong time bro
Ohhh Snapp lol! Thank you! It was supposed to gradually start playing.
I thought it was his cellphone ringing!
What do u use for pre & post treatment?
Thanks for asking. We use Sodium Hypochlorite (SH), and special detergents. It is rare that we would ever post treat as it is not needed.
lol is the intro music loud enough
I think it may have been a little to loud lol!
what did you use for precleaning and what is that line around the top of your mouth were you hitting a bong
We did not provide any pre cleaning with this service. We did pre-treat prior to pressure washing, though. If you could, please do not make comments as you did, or you can be blocked from the 15cent channel. Thank you!
@@15centpressurewashing52 well hell, feel free to block me, I say what I say and I dont give a dam if you like it or not . and dont care if I see any more of your content .so you can shove it .
where did you buy your push washer and what name brand is it?
Are you asking about the surface cleaner or the pressure washer?
@@15centpressurewashing52 surface cleaner
What pre treatment solution do you use, im new to this buisness
Concrete that has mold growth we usually use sodium hypochlorite (SH)
Dope!
Thank you and thank you for watching. If there is a video youd like us to create, whatch our latest short and comment what youd like it to be!
Bro to u have to go to 3% on post treat would a 1.5_2% do the job ????
It really depends on what your cleaning and how bad ot is.
What strain you roll with? I need some
Thanks for your comment @colonialfiend! What do you mean by strain lol?
I noticed you use a red hose when you were pre treating and Grey when you surface cleaned. Any reason why?. I'm new to pressure washing
Thanks for your question, @ajohnnyboi21! The Grey house is connected the the pressure washer and the red hose is connected to the soft wash machine we use to pre-treat with.
Great question! Yes, the red hose used for pretreating is a soft washing hose and the grey hose is our pressure washing hose. They are two different types of hoses connected to two different machines. If your not sure about the difference between the two the video below should help.
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Did you post treat too ?
No, we do not recommend post treating as it is a waste of chemicals. After 10 minutes, sh turns into a type of salt, and if left on concrete, it can become corrosive.
Hey brother good work, just curious what gun are you using.
Thanks, @Isvtec405! Are you wanting to know what soft wash gun I was using in the video?
How do you remove oil stains
I would recommend Hot Stain remover. Below is a link for specs. Have you tried any other chemicals? if so what did you try using?
Is that a soft wash machine u are using to pre treat?
Yes, you are correct!
Do you also post treat?
It is rare that we will apply a post treatment to concrete as this is not necessary. Once it rains the post treatment will wash away. Waste of product.
Appreciate this heaps brotha 🤙🏾 just getting started in the business as a side gig and want to make sure i do proper work. This video was well put together thank you 🙏🏾
Thank you so much! I am glad to hear it was of help! If you have any ideas of a video you'd like us to create, please let me know. I am trying to get a list of recommended videos together to better help our viewers.
What is the pretreatment chemical used?
Good question. In this video we used Sodium hypochlorite (SH) , our special detergent and EBC to treat the concrete! This process kills mold and mold spores. If other substances are needing cleaned out of concrete other processes / chemicals may need to be used.
If you have any other questions about exterior cleaning, please feel free to ask!
What chemical used for pre-treatment?
Sh
😀 Thank you for your comment!
@sweetvuvuzela4634 makes a valid point. Pre-treatment typically involves the use of sodium hypochlorite (SH) and surfactants. If you don't mind my asking, are you currently involved in pressure washing, or are you considering starting your own venture in this field?
How do you charge? by hour?
Most of are jobs are rated by the hour.
Never. Forget to SAY ONCE IT brown your mold, Is gone
Thanks for you comment @davidryba3303!
Except that SH is now all in the grass.... Post treat instead and you can keep it off the grass
Thank you for your comment, @jetskirehab750! When pre-treating, we control the spray/overspray to where it does not get on the grass. If we were to pressure wash then post treat, we would have to pressure wash again to relive the dead mold/spores that were left behind from pressure washing the first time! We definitely don't want to make a job take 2x as long as it should. There are times when concrete has terrible mold growth and requires surface cleaning, then treating the area and pressure washing again.
Also if the wind is bad and overspray can not be controlled, this is when biodegradable sh neutralizers come in to keep from damaging any vegitation.
@@15centpressurewashing52 the SH goes into the grass when you surface clean. When you post treat you leave it and don’t touch it and it never makes it to the grass.
@@jetskirehab750 pre wet surrounding grass, when uou surface clean you are diluting the pre treat lix by a lot, then u have to rinse which dilutes even more, grass is fine especially if its only a downstream mix, IF u go stronger, still pre wet grass and take precautions, nothing bad will happen if you are careful and diligent
Good video except for that loud and annoying music makes it hard to hear you.
Thank you, and I apologize for the loud music! It was an editing error.
You run SH through the surface cleaner?
Thank you for your question! The SH is applied through the soft wash machine (pre-treatment).
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Nice!
If you want to kill the mold...POST TREAT...much more effective at killing mold spores than pretreating.
When needed we will do both!
Most of that is black algae not mold.
Do you specialize in exterior cleaning? If so, what is your business name? I'd like to check you guys out!
The video would have been so much better without the music.
Yes, this has been a pretry big request from subscribers. Thank you for watching and helping to improve our chanell. We will start making our videos without the back ground music.
Oh Lord, learn to Edit better. Don't be playing music when you're talking. And for the love of God, don't blast it either. You can adjust the volume of the audio tracks within the video.
Chill man, feedbacks always helpful but you don’t have to act like a dick about it.
Were all human and we all make mistakes. This is how we learn and get better at what we do. When I posted this video I was very busy and somehow still got the video live hoping that it would be of some help to someone and that it was.
Learn how to make a compliment Sandwich.
Was that response really necessary?…projecting your wife’s trash cooch on a pressure washing video, be better.
Wow good 1st try but why play that stupud loud high pitch crap? You talk like you are talking to school kids. Grow up