Pressure Cleaning the City of St Augustine Parking Garage

HighTide said:
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 professionally cleaned. Row after row of parking spaces were covered with oil stains, drink spills and thousands of pieces of gum. This particular project was for the garage's interior concrete only, since we cleaned the exterior walls and awnings several months ago.
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Looks good David!! Ill think of you next time I park there for nights of lights..... We are staying at the Bayfront Inn for New Years this year... ( so i won't see the garage ) My wife is Scottish... and we go there with a bunch of Brits to ring in the "Proper new Year" as they call it at 7:00 and then the "real new year" as I call it at midnight... 1/1 is a tuff day!!!
 
GrassButler said:
Looks good David!! Ill think of you next time I park there for nights of lights..... We are staying at the Bayfront Inn for New Years this year... ( so i won't see the garage ) My wife is Scottish... and we go there with a bunch of Brits to ring in the "Proper new Year" as they call it at 7:00 and then the "real new year" as I call it at midnight... 1/1 is a tuff day!!!
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Jan 1st definately is a tough day after a St Augustine New Year's!!!
 
purepowerwash said:
Looks good!! Where do you get your Sodium Hydroxide?
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This is an old thread...cleaned the exterior of this parking garage again this past spring. In the past, I used to buy it from the Chemistry Store. I can't remember where the last batch came from as a 55 pound bag will last me a long time. I don't use it much now as my company has moved more into residential, condos and day-time commercial. I can't remember the last night job I had...maybe a year ago...but we still clean a lot of banks and their drive-thrus on the weekends where sodium hydroxide is used.
 
Nice work! I know this was 3 years ago, but I'm bidding on some pretty big projects this month.

Anyone with experience:

What's the average/going rate on parking garages nowadays? Let's say about 7500-8500 spaces???
 
HighTide said:
This is an old thread...cleaned the exterior of this parking garage again this past spring. In the past, I used to buy it from the Chemistry Store. I can't remember where the last batch came from as a 55 pound bag will last me a long time. I don't use it much now as my company has moved more into residential, condos and day-time commercial. I can't remember the last night job I had...maybe a year ago...but we still clean a lot of banks and their drive-thrus on the weekends where sodium hydroxide is used.
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David. I buy 50# bags locally in JAX. I want to say I pay about $50 I dont remember.
 
Steven Button said:
If you are in FL, look up Sunline Chemical in Orlando... I pay $32 a bag. I don't buy as much anymore because we primarily use EBC now.

Speak to Mark Hunter and tell him I sent you.
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Feel like this is a dumb question but how'd you get the cost of EBC down to where it is competitive with buying caustic with the ammount of bulk cleaning you do?
 
socalkol said:
Feel like this is a dumb question but how'd you get the cost of EBC down to where it is competitive with buying caustic with the ammount of bulk cleaning you do?
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Not a dumb question.

EBC is effective at low dilution rates. Caustic is really only good for certain things. EBC is more Multi-purpose.
 
socalkol said:
Feel like this is a dumb question but how'd you get the cost of EBC down to where it is competitive with buying caustic with the ammount of bulk cleaning you do?
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Hey Jeff, I can't find my sheet of paper with my calculations right now but it worked out at around half the cost per gallon of mix when using EBC, compared to sodium hydroxide/sodium metasilicate blend I was using before.

Also, I buy 55 gallons EBC mix kit which helps lower the cost. We do a lot of maintenance cleaning, so typically only need to degrease select individual storefronts in shopping centers
 
Steven Button said:
Hey Jeff, I can't find my sheet of paper with my calculations right now but it worked out at around half the cost per gallon of mix when using EBC, compared to sodium hydroxide/sodium metasilicate blend I was using before.

Also, I buy 55 gallons EBC mix kit which helps lower the cost. We do a lot of maintenance cleaning, so typically only need to degrease select individual storefronts in shopping centers
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I am glad to hear you say that. We just started using EBC on coils as a test and it works great and is a lot safer to handle.

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