House wash formula

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Hi you guys. I read your postings about all of the cleaning products that you all have at your disposal and to be honest I am quite envious. Here in New Zealand there is not a lot of options. I am finding that there is a consumer resistance to the use of SH around their properties. People consider it to be a pretty unfriendly product and as a result I have tended away from it's use and I use a FLEET WASH product for house washes and a whole lot of elbow grease with a house wash brush. I am having reasonable results but there is still a call for some Hypo in the mix for the stubborn stains. I downstream the Fleet wash and what I am asking is whether any of you have a formula which can include some SH in with the Fleet wash. I meter the fleet wash and I was thinking along the lines of may be 20% hypo to 80% fleet wash. Any help is good help. In anticipation thanks for your thoughts. Stuart MacGregor
 
SH and use lemon-aid or elemonator - will smell like fresh lemons and have the cleaning power of SH
 
He is in New Zealand so he's going to have problems getting Elemonator or such. Sodium hypochlorite at the proper dilution and with proper care WILL NOT hurt property or plants. It is the best chemical for removing mold and mildew. In a typical housewash mix downstreamed it is usually under 1 percent concentration. Keeping plants and decks prewet and post rinsed and you will not hurt anything. Do people in NZ not chlorinate their drinking water and swimming pools? There is your ammo to prove how safe it is.
 
He is in New Zealand so he's going to have problems getting Elemonator or such. Sodium hypochlorite at the proper dilution and with proper care WILL NOT hurt property or plants. It is the best chemical for removing mold and mildew. In a typical housewash mix downstreamed it is usually under 1 percent concentration. Keeping plants and decks prewet and post rinsed and you will not hurt anything. Do people in NZ not chlorinate their drinking water and swimming pools? There is your ammo to prove how safe it is.
Yes you are quite right they do but then they get all anal about it when you are firing it onto their buildings.
 
Yes you are quite right they do but then they get all anal about it when you are firing it onto their buildings.

Well for one thing most of us here don't "fire" things at buildings. We use oversize orifice nozzles that drop the pressure so much you can put your hand in front of the spray without worrying about tearing the meat off your hand. I assume they take showers over there in water treated with sodium hypochlorite? It does take some extra strength to clean mildew off buildings. Soap / surfactants are great and needed but you need something with enough oxidation power to sanitize and remove the mildew, mold, algae etc stains. Otherwise just go fire water at their buildings like a lot of hacks here do.
 
Well for one thing most of us here don't "fire" things at buildings. We use oversize orifice nozzles that drop the pressure so much you can put your hand in front of the spray without worrying about tearing the meat off your hand. I assume they take showers over there in water treated with sodium hypochlorite? It does take some extra strength to clean mildew off buildings. Soap / surfactants are great and needed but you need something with enough oxidation power to sanitize and remove the mildew, mold, algae etc stains. Otherwise just go fire water at their buildings like a lot of hacks here do.
I think you took my terminology a bit to literally. Of course I don't just "FIRE" product on buildings and I do take a degree of offence at the suggestion that I could be regarded as a HACK. I wasn't after a lesson on how to apply product in the recommended fashion as I am quite familiar with the methodology required for soft wash application of product. Just to reiterate I was after a satisfactory formula for combining SH with FLEET WASH and in what sort of proportions. Oh and by the way we do shower in New Zealand we don't all run round in grass skirts over here some of us are quite civilized and yes the water is treated by the supply authorities with SH. Has any one over in the US noticed which country is leading in the America's Cup racing? Our race boats are leading edge in the technology stakes but we are a bit behind the 8 ball when it comes to House washing products.
 
If you use 12.5 pct sh in a bucket fill 1/2 with sh add some surfactant and fill with water for downstreaming. If laundry bleach it needs to be 3/4 full of bleach or more add soap and fill with v water.
 
Russ at Southside equipment can probably ship you some of his Roof Snot and lemonaid, you can use the Roof Snot for the housewash mix and the lemonaid to help hide the smell of the SH.

I switched over to using Roof Snot this year and like it better than the other additives I have used in the past.

I am sure you can get the 12.5% or similiar SH over there, you just need the Roof Snot and Lemonaid. Reason I mention this is that the Roof Snot does not fight the SH (start to weaken it) like most other soaps out there I have tried and I have tried a lot of them.

I have been using SH on houses and buildings for over 20 years and never had a problem, actually over 35 years if you count helping my father wash houses when the tree business was slow and his customers loved the way the houses got clean when he was done by using the SH. I grew up in the tree trimming business since I was able to walk so I was always out there until I started school, then it was afternoons and weekends until summertime.

If you can talk your customers into trying it and offering them a guarantee, you can build a client list of satisfied customers. Start soaping from the bottom of the house up to the top then move over and soap more, some paints may streak if they are not good quality so you just never know so don't take any chances.

Maybe video your own house being washed without needing brushes anymore and this will help convince people.

Hope this helps.
 
" I am sure you can get the 12.5% or similiar SH over there, you just need the Roof Snot and Lemonaid. Reason I mention this is that the Roof Snot does not fight the SH (start to weaken it) like most other soaps out there I have tried and I have tried a lot of them." Thanks Christopher now we are getting down to it. Going to doubt that it is a viable option to get 'Roof Snot' sent out to New Zealand but I am sure I could get a 'Lemonaid' equivalent here in NZ if it is only a perfume agent. 12.5% SH is readily available and I do carry it on my rig for treatments as required (concrete, pavers, decks etc ) Thinking along the lines of, as Pat Norman has suggested, SH, Lemonaid equivilant, Fleet Wash and water. Since my original posting I have sourced an Industrial wash products and chemical manufacturer here in NZ and I am going to have discussions with them to see if they will make me a custom formula. Thanks to all who have contributed. GO EMIRATES TEAM NEW ZEALAND!!!!!!!
 
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