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okay so I am mixing 50 gallons of billy bob up. my question is how many squares should that cover? lets say average sloped home not to steep and not flat but like a 5/ 12 pitch. think I could get two 1800 square ft homes with that?

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Remember what you are asking for when you get more experienced, wiser and need a good laugh.  Once you have been doing it for a while you find that do not base prices on the # of squares the hose roof has.  I not only judge it by size (sq ft foundation) but also how dirty it is and how difficult the job is (quantity of chemicals necessary to complete the job), and how long I thing it will take (time to complete).  In otherwords you speed up the estimation time so you can get on to other bids.

Job cost = (quantity of chemicals necessary to complete the job) x (time to complete).



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Good points Marcus. I've had 2000sq ft tile and or Shingle Roofs that took 30gals of mix to Clean and then had the same square footage on others that took 60gals to get them Clean. every Roof Cleaning is different.

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I'd be very surprised if you could get two roofs out of 50 gallons, not to say that it can't happen. For that size house I'd bet on 40 gallons per roof. Each roof is going to clean a little differently, each roof will use its own amount of solution.

Let me give a caveat to this post...you likely could clean two roofs with a hot mix and 50 gallons with a pump up sprayer, but the time/effort would blow your profit margin.

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big bob wrote:

okay so I am mixing 50 gallons of billy bob up. my question is how many squares should that cover? lets say average sloped home not to steep and not flat but like a 5/ 12 pitch. think I could get two 1800 square ft homes with that?




50 Gallons of Billy Bob should get you at least 5000 gallons of Love so you could probably clean about 450 homes at1800 sf.

LoL. Obviously you didn't mean 50 gal of Billybob.



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yep thats what I meant 50 gallons of love?

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I have never cleaned that small of a roof and if i did, i  think about 40 gallons of love would do 1800 sq ft but then how bad is the roof ?what color are the shingles ? what is the pitch? to  many  varibles to actually  guess...

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Like the guys said, there are too many variables like how bad the roof is, how hot your mix is, what surfactant you are using, etc....will tell you a little bit more but I would not gamble that 50 gallons of mix would do those 2 roofs but 50 gallons of love might do it if you are making the mix weaker than a 50/50 but then again it might not clean as good.

Do you only have room for 50 gallons of love on your trailer? If so I would really try to get a larger tank when you can so it will mean larger roofs, less visits to the supplier, etc...

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I do plan on getting a bigger set up. Just not in the cards now. I do have a 53 gallon brl and a 30 gallon brl on the rig. the bigger one is for the love and the small one is water, I also have sh at 12.5% in 15 gallon brls, so I can mix some more love up if I need it, so all total I can carry about 80 gallons of love for now. Hmm after all that being said I sure can't wait to get a bigger and better set up. well one of these days. thanks for the responses guys. I got the point, to many unknowns.

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All these factors can work to your advantage too when bidding homes and talking to the customer.  Location, content of soil and even accessibility itself is a factor.  If the job requires you to walk it (in my case climb and harness-up w/lanyard) you should charge accordingly.  

Heck, I did a job where I needed a 40' ladder to access the only safe point at that particular time once and I had to have a couple guys to assist me because it was VERY dangerous. Think they paid a bit more for it? aww


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