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Legacy1 · Guest

Will this work!!

ChrisDuffy · Guest

Yes it will work there or others that have used just pump up sprayers.

sweetwaterfish · Guest

Honesty, I'd save the $$$ and just go with a pump-up spray for the time being. You will not be happy with it, and the money could go towards your big equipment.

Legacy1 · Guest

There has to be a way to beef up the spot sprayer? bigger pump and hoses?

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gutterdog · Apr 2, 2010

Ive been using pumpups for years. Wasnt pushing roofs. I recently got a delavan 2gpm. Its on a trailer I'm building and hope to have up and running in a week or 2. Once comfortable with the move up and no disasters, going to move up to 5gpm. BTW I am now pushing roof cleaning!

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You can use the 55 gallon, get you some 15 gallon containers to pour in if need be but I would replace the smaller 12 volt pump to a 5 gpm pump. You can use that for a little while then move on up with but the pump you can keep using for a while and change things around it. Then move to a bigger pump later. Also keep in mind how much time you want to spend cleaning a roof, most of my cleaning from start to finish is no longer than 1 1/2 hours and that is just because I take me time. I can usually do a big roof in an hour. Good luck.

E-P-W · Guest

Is this the one you are talking about?

Roofie · Guest

I would probably search your options a little more in detail. The set up your mentioning here is approx: 350.00 bucks. Your not going to be able to use the hose it comes with due to not being long enough and your probably going to wanna upgrade your wand as well. So, with that said, I would maybe look at getting a one or two 15 gallon drums from your local car wash or you can purchase a 50 gallon tank for about 135.00 online or 150.00 at tractor supply. Purchase all your hose barbs etc. Get yourself 100 or so feet of 1/2 hose and a 5 gpm Delavan pump. You can run your pump off a marine battery and I would secure it in a battery box, you can get both of those items at Wal-mart for about 65.00 bucks. So, if you tally all this up your looking at approx: $ 385.00 bucks for everything and I think you would have yourself a much nicer begginer set up that you actually wouldn't get discouraged with. Just a little something to think about while you get down on some ham today at dinner :)

-- Edited by Roofie on Sunday 4th of April 2010 10:29:49 AM

deputyw · Guest

hey gutterdog,

hows that rig coming? did u use that trailer? got any new pics?

RickR · Guest

gutterdog wrote:

Ive been using pumpups for years. Wasnt pushing roofs. I recently got a delavan 2gpm. Its on a trailer I'm building and hope to have up and running in a week or 2. Once comfortable with the move up and no disasters, going to move up to 5gpm. BTW I am now pushing roof cleaning!

Hi Michael...I'm really curious about something.

I was on a really steep roof yesterday because I wasn't able to shoot all the way up to the ridge. You said you used the pump up sprayer to do roofs for years and my question is did you only do walkable one-story homes?

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RickR wrote:
Hi Michael...I'm really curious about something.

I was on a really steep roof yesterday because I wasn't able to shoot all the way up to the ridge. You said you used the pump up sprayer to do roofs for years and my question is did you only do walkable one-story homes?

I've been cleaning roofs since 1994, but my main thrust has been power washing residences. Pump up sprayers were the only way to go back then. For steep roofs we used whatever we could find to get up on the roof. Usually we used ladders and ropes. It may sound crazy but we used to tie a thick rope to a ladder, and the other end to a leader string which was tied to an arrow. Then we would shoot the arrow over the building and pull the ladder up and tie it off to something secure. The ladder tied to the rope would then be on the roof. We then used another ladder to get to the ladder on the roof. So yes you can do steep roofs with a pump up sprayer. Who said that they were not a pain.

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