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I am curious enough to ask some of the veterans and distributors about the chemical makeup of their house wash mix and why they choose that particular mix. In order to understand the chemicals in the soap, I am posting the MSDS hazardous materials from 3 of the popular detergents below that are...

Is there any particular advantage to having a check valve in your chemical filter used for down-streaming? Seems like just another part that could go bad. I always drop my chem line into my water tank after I finish soaping up something and pull fresh water through the filter, line and...

<xml><w:worddocument><w:trackmoves><w:trackformatting><w:p</w</w:trackformatting></w:trackmoves></w:worddocument></xml> We just completed a condo cleaning project for Sea Grove in St Augustine Beach, FL. Forty condominium units within 10 two-story buildings make up this complex, many buildings...

Recently bought and installed a second PW (coldwater) and have run it for 40 hours already. Like my main skid, it is also a Vanguard 18 hp. I have run my main unit now for 3 1/2 years and it has maybe backfired 3 or 4 times total that I can remember. My new one backfires 2 or 3 times a day...

I have 2 questions regarding battery hookups: 1) Can you use the same deep cycle marine battery to to hook up both a hot water and a cold water unit? Both units are Vangaurd 18 hp with 20-amp recharging systems. For now, only one of the units will be running at a time but that may change soon...

I had something terrible happen to my 1-year old TS-2021B this week. In the middle of a job using my surface cleaner, the pressure suddenly went dead and the pump starting convulsing badly. What happened is that the bolt that holds one of the ceramic plungers in place stripped out the...

I hate cold weather more than anything!! 3 1/2 years ago, I moved my family to St Augustine, Florida to start a new life and a new business. The winter weather is really nice most of the time. Also, with us close enough to the beach to hear the waves, the cool ocean breezes in the summer keep...

I have been in business for almost 3 1/2 years now and I finally bought a second unit. I am especially happy about this unit because I took part in building it from scratch at this month's Envirospec Technical School. The unit is their new line of pressure washers -- the TNT Premium...

A huge thanks to John Allison of Envirospec for putting together this month's 2-day technical school for contractors. This was, without a doubt, the most informative hands-on event yet for me! Everyone got a chance to rebuild a pump (I rebuilt both an AR and General), injectors and two kinds...

Last night, I completed High Tide's fourth major cleaning project for the City of St. Augustine. The downtown parking garage was built just 3-1/2 years ago in 450-year-old St. Augustine's historic district to serve downtown. This project marked the first time the garage's interior has been...

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After all the roofs were cleaned, we also pressure cleaned all the sidewalks for the shopping center and removed a ton of gum with not a single etching of the concrete.

I got a request today to remove fertilizer rust stains on a driveway and sidewalk. Scott's is responsible for the issue and will pay for the damage that they did. Likely the granules got sprayed on the concrete and the sprinklers got them wet and caused rust-like stains that look like little...

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I was asked to provide an estimate for cleaning a tile roof for a small retail center that is open 7 days a week. Tile must be cleaned at night between 10 pm and 6 am. The parking lot lights illuminate the parking lot pretty good but don't do much for lighting the roof. I assume that I could...

This is a clip I had to view twice it was so funny... http://nation.foxnews.com/jon-stewart/2010/12/15/jon-stewart-obama-delusional

I am considering replacing my existing TS-2021 pump with a new one (belt drive to a Vanguard 18 hp hot water skid -- 3,500 psi at 5.6 gpm). A distributor is offering a decent deal on one with a brass head, instead of a nickel plated head. What are the drawbacks with the brass head? The brass...

My company won the pressure cleaning portion of a $500,000 project by the University of Florida where these funds will be spend on 15 historic properties in St. Augustine, Florida (the oldest city in America.) My wife was able to get the newspaper to publish a front-page article about this...

I hear that there have been a lot of changes at Envirospec. The northern location in Milwaukee has been closed with everything consolidated in Homerville, Georgia. Paul has been my trusted adviser since I started my business in 2008 and I hear that he is no longer with the company. The...