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Coastal

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Looking for somebody with experience with 3+ story buildings.

I have a 3 story building covered in carbon. I have heard that limonene works well on carbon but has a bad effect on glass.

Any thoughts or comments regarding chemicals, equiptment, job costing, or things commonly overlooked with large projects like these would be greatly appreciated!

Also, I am currently on vacation in Telluride, CO., so if anyone near here wants to meet up for a brew or two give me a call at (727) 934-3400.
 
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I wash brick but usually nothing 3+ stories. I always rent boom lifts for my jobs. Even though I only go maybe 30 feet tops I rent 60 ft. lifts because then I can boom over things and the bigger tires on the 60 footer makes it easier to move in sand. Around here a 60 ft. lift costs $900 for 5 days. The only thing I have encountered on bigger jobs where you need a lift is the lift being in everyones way but that is on a construction site where there are many people doing different things. I use limonene for house washing and it does pretty good. The stuff about the "bad on glass" is don't let it dry on the glass but that goes for about any chemical. Is the building you need to clean downtown where it is hard to manuver a lift around the building? Another thing with washing tall buildings is the hose starts to get really heavy when you get up that high. You need to find a good system to tie it off. If you have your hose tied off and it comes lose with you being over 30 feet high it can yank the wand right out of your hand. Whem applying chemical it is hard to downstream chems since you will probably have so much hose. The back pressure from a couple hudred feet of hose can make your downstream not work. I use pump up sprayers for my brick acid. It is also nice to have your system set up with water tanks and your bypass going back to your tank. That way you don't have to go all the way down to shut your machine off if something came up and you stopped spraying for 5 minutes. Also if you are up that high you should put your rig where you can see the tanks from that high. I had it once where I was around the corner and my tanks ran dry. it takes a couple minutes to get lowered and get to your machine. Also too that was because I couldn't run a supply line to my tank. It would be different if you just let your tanks keep filling while you work. I had to bring my rig to the other side of the building to fill 4 times a day. It wasn't too much of a pain since the water coming from the hydrent was coming out at 35+ gallons a minute. I used a 3/4" hose and it would shoot a stream about 25 feet in the air. It is really hard to hold onto. You never want to let a hose that is shooting out that much per minute slip out of your hand. I hope I was able to be a little helpful. I have never washed tall buildings covered in carbon so I can't helo you with that. I just thought that since noone else responded I would try and add a little something.
 
If you can't pull chem through the downstreamer/injector buy an x-jet or modify the injector to quick couple onto your lance and bring the buckets up with you. Personally on soot I'd use a Flow jet or sureflo and count on using pretty strong mix of degreaser. If it dries on the windows it WILL ETCH THE GLASS.

Coastal I'm in Naples if you need help on this job e-mail me maybe we can work something out.Hopefully you're not local competition;)

John cleanitrightnow@aol.com
 
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