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Foam question, for ANT

Ron Musgraves

Ron Musgraves

Exterior Restoration Specialist
Staff member
Foam question, for ANT


Is the caustic safe for the roofs? Is the primary cleaning caustic?

What degree is the caustic? Is there potential for permanent damage if you’re not rinsing and neutralizing the foam?
 
Hey Ron, I don't clean roofs as a practice, so I'd be the wrong one to ask. I simply rinse off what little bit may get in the roof while degreasing the fan. After I rinse, then I use BioClean to eat away at the grease that may have been there before I arrived. It seems to do the trick very well....

hope that helps...
 
HotShot_Anthony said:
Hey Ron, I don't clean roofs as a practice, so I'd be the wrong one to ask. I simply rinse off what little bit may get in the roof while degreasing the fan. After I rinse, then I use BioClean to eat away at the grease that may have been there before I arrived. It seems to do the trick very well....

hope that helps...
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is it safe for the roofs
 
HotShot_Anthony said:
Hey Ron, I don't clean roofs as a practice, so I'd be the wrong one to ask. I simply rinse off what little bit may get in the roof while degreasing the fan. After I rinse, then I use BioClean to eat away at the grease that may have been there before I arrived. It seems to do the trick very well....

hope that helps...
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is it safe for the roofs? Thanks for your help
 
Ive got a ton of those stuck bird pictures, sometimes its kind of sad. Maybe we should call PETA on those guys.
 
Dave ott said:
Is chinese grease safe for a roof LOL
Oh the poor little stuck birds
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I realize the grease is not, my question is do you guys have a method fro the rinsing of the foam?

Also the water comesoff the roof, it usally lands on apshalt, this also is petroleum based.

Just some thought, grease and caustic is no good for this stuff.
 
I take the grease catch-pan off and put 5 gal buckets to catch the run off from the fan cleaning. Let it cool, neutralize and send it own the grease interceptor with the water and the grease goes in the grease drop at the restaurant. I don't get much anything on the roof except some real light overspray, accept on wall fans where I put a 100 gal rubbermaid water container (horse water trough) under the fans to catch the run off
 
Thats a good process, I wonder if most do it that way, I saw a warning sheet about Foam from big brother. A manager from brinker showed me the letter warning about the effects of foam on the roof and parking lots.

I clean roofs and most of the time we use absorbants for the grease and throw in the dumpsters.

I have had many messes in parking lots when dummys did not follow precedure.
 
Would you mind posting it. The MSDS on the caustic kind-a is self explanatory. The foaming agent I use from morgan gallacher is not caustic in itself and is not haz-mat but once combined I just treat it like it is all caustic. I know there is some "pre packaged" caustic foaming agent available but I don't use it and have never seen an MSDS on it.
 
Its was a brochure from a large hood cleaing company. I would rather not post there copy written material.

If you work for a chili's the manager claims they all recieved them through corporate nationwide.
 
We have been having some problems with this. Be careful with the foam on the roofs.
 
I cleaned an asphalt / gravek kind of roof and used caustic on it .. The took white distilled vinegar and water to netrualize it.. It worked pretty good. I have some photos somewhere It has been along time ago.. The only thing is even after netrualizing the roof the asphalt under the gravel was a little sticky.. I went back the next day and it was not sticky anymore... I also clean a restaurant that has a shingle roof and I have rinsed it with caustic and rinse and I have been doing this for 4 years every 3 months with no roof deteriation... I will look for the pics...
 
Foam from big brother. A manager from brinke
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Brinker should be happy that "big Brother" went up on the roof to clean the fans. Around here the complaint is they don't bring ladders so no roofs are touched. You can't blame them for caustic & foam runoff. The foam they use has a long life and is difficult to dispose of when they do use it.
 
indiana jones said:
Brinker should be happy that "big Brother" went up on the roof to clean the fans. Around here the complaint is they don't bring ladders so no roofs are touched.
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Are you saying that the cleanings are not Done Well? Hmmmm. If I had a large company like that, I would focus more on how Well the jobs are Done, and less on how my major competitor gets his jobs done. From what I hear they are using this as a major selling point, that the Foam ruins the roof.
 
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