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Algae*Free Roof Cleaning · Mar 7, 2010

Using the Love on PVC Fencing

ChrisDuffy · Guest

thats a lot of fence. how long do you think it would take you?

Guest

Thats a sweet gig! 10 cents sounds about right

Eric · Guest

If this helps you any, we did a seawall it was a mile long 8 foot tall,for 5,500.
That is power washing! PVC would be much easer!

good luck! that sounds like a good price!

Baltimore MD Roof Cleaning 410-482-4367 · guest

Your pricing sounds pretty good, or if you have an idea of the time it will take charging an hourly price may be good as well. Or even a per day rate. Remember to use a small amount of sh 1-3 gal per 50 gal water to not kill the grass. A pw will rinse it faster than a hose. Good luck on the bid, I hope you win. Also I would shoot for a one time per year or every other year contract on that one.

Guest

Thats alot of fence. Just a quick question, you said it has huge algae spots, is that all that is on this PVC fence? I've done PVC fences before that were stained with red clay from rain splash. That will take something like oxalic, just keep it in mind and not focus on the algae and mold problem only. You could possibly be two stepping this type of job, at parts of it.

I'd personally use more of a house wash mix here, Not sure of the condition of this fence but TSP used on a PVC fence could and will leave residual dull looking spots if not rinsed properly. May not matter on 7 miles of fencing,...just something to keep in mind though.

Jeff

Guest

are you cleaning both sides of the fence?

Algae*Free Roof Cleaning · Mar 8, 2010

Yes both sides.

Eric · Guest

Ok just remember last year we did a PVC fence about 200 yards long! It didnt take that long to do it about an hour! We just down stream the bleach and then rinsed and it turned out great!

Hope that helps you out!

Roof Cleaning Corpus Christi TX · Guest

I love washing vinyl, it always turns out great.

The $0.10 per linear foot is a good price per side, remember that you will have to fill up water and mix many, many, many, many times with a lot of hose dragging and then rinsing.

Good luck.

RCIA Founder

I have cleaned a few vinyl fences, just sprayed em with watered down chemical from our tanks using the roof cleaning pumps.
Never even had to rinse em, they were sparkling clean when we left.
They just had green mildew on them, no dirt to speak of.

white fox · Guest

thats the beauty of living in Florida Chris, you don't have dirt only algae!

RCIA Founder

white fox wrote:

thats the beauty of living in Florida Chris, you don't have dirt only algae!

Amen, 1/2 the time we dont even need a power washer!

Roof Cleaning Corpus Christi TX · Guest

So, did you get the pvc fence job?

If so, how long did it take?

How many gallons of love did you end up using?

sweetwaterfish · Guest

Honestly, if you can time it right, say just before a rain, you really wouldn't need to worry about rinsing all them much!

I just did a small PVC fence for an APT complex. on the other side of the fence I had several neighbors park, and I couldn't rinse after the fence was sauced. We had rain the next day, and the fence was PERFECT.

I was amazed.

SealBrite · Guest

Wow Thats a big job. Similar story we did a horse farm fence inside and out almost a mile worth of fence. The difference was some of the fence had a lot of mud caked up in certain spots. It took longer then expected. We ran the the power washer first followed by some house strength love. It turned out awesome but it was almost like 2 jobs in 1. Good luck

Roof Cleaning Little Rock Arkansas · Guest

Thats cool. Id love to clean 7 miles of fence. Just roll the truck right along.

We washed about 600 yds (i think) of privacy fence for an Hoa last spring. It was one of those with the 1Xs interwoven between the post (vinyl) It was an easy job.
Cool thing is earlier today I was trying to rustle up work so I called the president. Before I could even ask he told me to get back by there and wash it again. If they were all that easy!

Let us know how that one goes. Weve got a few horse farms around Hot Springs that I ought to target.

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