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Nick · Guest

my first roof

aaron61 · Guest

Nice lookin home Nick.I would have mixed it at at least 30% and I would have hit that fence too.

opie451 · Aug 17, 2011

Very nice home. What did you do prior to roof cleaning?

garyw · Aug 17, 2011

Your solution was too weak to do a complete job. Re-do it with stronger mix.

Gary

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garyw wrote:
Your solution was too weak to do a complete job. Re-do it with stronger mix.
Gary

Gary nailed it Nick. Some words of wisdom from Chris T come to mind on this: keep an eye on your solution at work. If a streak or stain doesn't disappear in about 5 minutes, heat up the mix. If it's less than 5 minutes, weaken it some. This 5 minute rule accounts for variations in temp etc. It should be just 'hot' enough to get the job done.

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Nick · Guest

I used 45 gallons of mix which 15 gallons is SH and 30 gallons is water, so would that not be 33%? as for the fence its new I'm just not quite finished the painting LOL

Nick · Guest

I am in the car business, have been for 22 years, mostly as a general sales manager, but tired of the business and want to do something different, nobody does roof cleaning in British Columbia so I thought thnis may be something I want to tap into so i purchased a bucket truck and outfitted it for roof cleaning so hopefully it goes like wild fire, I will attach pictures of my truck

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Nick wrote:
I am in the car business, have been for 22 years, mostly as a general sales manager, but tired of the business and want to do something different, nobody does roof cleaning in British Columbia so I thought thnis may be something I want to tap into so i purchased a bucket truck and outfitted it for roof cleaning so hopefully it goes like wild fire, I will attach pictures of my truck

Great Idea Nick, Larry Millette here and myself are old "Car Guys", LOL

Hey, I have done most everything to make a buck one can imagine, at one time or another biggrin

Man Dude, a Bucket Truck You ROCK !

Nick · Guest

when I was rinsing my roof today a guy stopped and asked if I cleaned roofs or just was doing my own, I have not yet put any signage up , I am just in my testing stages and want to get it right so I did my house on the mountain and next I have 2 other homes on a farm about 10 miles away that i'm going to do also, by then I will be ready to go out in the public, anyway the guy said to me you sure look like you know what your doing, can you come and do my roof, i had a guy do it 6 months ago and moss and streaks are back and he did nothing in the way of what your doing, so I said sure once i'm finished my testing i will be over to look after your roof as well and guarantee you will be satisfied.

Aug 17, 2011

Your mix is way to weak.....

Roof Cleaning Missouri 417-230-8103 · Guest

great job , beef up the mix a little say to 15sh -25 h2o , hard to say anything else dont know how hot of sh you are getting, but it came out so so .. I always do the worst side first then take a break for a few minutes, re hit the black areas and then sometimes water down the rest of my mix to hit the areas that are not showing black streaks.

the next 2 homes you do should and will come out better! Im an ex new and used car salemans also, actually I love the trade just not very profittable right now, sold cars on the souuth side of chicago, loved it , long hrs good money, lots of females , lol

great job nick

garyw · Aug 18, 2011

Nick wrote:
I used 45 gallons of mix which 15 gallons is SH and 30 gallons is water, so would that not be 33%? as for the fence its new I'm just not quite finished the painting LOL

Hi everyone on sunday I did my first roof, it is my own house, it has moss clumps in varius area's and lots of black streaking, I mixed 5 gallons of SH and 30 gallons of water, and a quarter a gallon of onomyx ,

Which mix ratio did you use???? Either way, your mix was toooooo weak, either from not enough SH or weak SH.

Gary

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I'm still trying to figure out what onomyx is?

Nice start, just gotta heat the mix up a bit to finish her off.

Maverick Contracting · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

Like Gary said

the question not brought up is what "percentage" of available chlorine is you SH?

even if its labeled a certain %, with time and temp., that %number could degrade to much less affecting the mix ratio needs.

At 12.5% SH, 5 gallons of SH and 30 gallons of water = approx. 2% per gallon avail chlorine. Thats a bit weak (esp up north and in cooler, cloudy weather) but the amount of surfactant and dwell time also plays a very important part. Not sure if a quart of "onomyx" to 35 total gallons is a good amout to allow the 2% to work sufficiently. take into acct temp and humidity for dwell and effectivness

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Just reread your 2nd post, did you do a 2nd treatment w/15gals? or was the first post suppose to be 15 not 5 gal?

If 15g at 12.5% to 30g water, available chlorine would be 4.16%

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"I used 45 gallons of mix which 15 gallons is SH and 30 gallons is water, so would that not be 33%? as for the fence its new I'm just not quite finished the painting LOL"

-- Edited by Maverick Contracting on Thursday 18th of August 2011 03:19:19 PM

Nick · Guest

Sorry , the first post was suppose to read 15 gallons of 12% SH and 30 gallons of water, I used a quarter gal of hang tite that lori sent me not amonyx do you think I should go to 20 gallons of SH and 30 gallons of water?

garyw · Aug 19, 2011

Try it and see. If your SH is weak, you may have to add even more.

Gary

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