I would just continue to use your water. Nice to have good clean water when possibly hitting customers' windows. You shouldn't be paying for your water,..your customers should be. Always best to keep the cost to the customer down,...but you can only do so much when trying to deliver quality.

Jeff

I always use my own water for my mix unless traveling long distance.But like jeff said try to keep cost to customer down as much as possible .Because most of the time the customers water is running constantley on landscape anyway .Just my 2cents

We use the customers water, and it is discussed up front. We carry as little liquid as possible. It makes it safer to drive.

We carry 150 gl of fresh water with use, but we do hook up to the customers water and explain to them we how much we may use which most of the time is not much but I choose not to carry more than 150 of fresh water, 150 gl of roof wash at the most.

Itll cost the customer awhole lot more for me to bring water out than it will to hook up to theirs.

If I choose to use the customer's water, and I ride over there with just SH in my tank, will the mix be "mixed enough" if I just add water at the site?

Reason I ask is because I read another thread where the "mixing" procedure was being discussed, and the general consensus seemed to be "fill the tank with your mix at home, and the drive to the job site will do the mixing for you." Obviously that won't be the case if we aren't adding the water until the drive is over.

ClancysGutterCleaning wrote:

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If I choose to use the customer's water, and I ride over there with just SH in my tank, will the mix be "mixed enough" if I just add water at the site?

Reason I ask is because I read another thread where the "mixing" procedure was being discussed, and the general consensus seemed to be "fill the tank with your mix at home, and the drive to the job site will do the mixing for you." Obviously that won't be the case if we aren't adding the water until the drive is over.

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That generally applies to powders such as TSP.  You can circulate your mix to mix it up.  Remember anything over 1000lbs or 119 gallons is over the DOT limit for SH and requires a placard and CDL to carry that much.  When it is in solution it then becomes unclassified and can be a problem as well unless it has been tested and classified.

Keep in mind what all that wieght is doing to your vehicle.  Making mix at home makes sense for some companies but not all of them.  If you don't want to deal with cdl and placards than you could carry the water in a seperate tank from the SH.

It does not matter is it is pure SH


DOT states that any amount of 119 gal or 1000 lbs of material. So if you haul a 150 tank for mix and have 50 gal in the 150 tank, it is a violation. In essence if you can haul 150 for water that is fine, but mix in that tank and its a no no

Someone correct me if I am wrong.

-- Edited by Washed-up on Sunday 24th of October 2010 10:34:25 PM

I think Bill said that if it is not mixed and not over 119 gal which would exceed the weight limit(1000 pounds) to drive with chemicals without a card......