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Image 1 — Hey yall. I’d like to clean the garage floor. My mom is afraid I’ll remove the sealer or pit the cement with the pressure washer we have. So I’m here to ask, what do you suggest based on my pics?
Image 2 — Hey yall. I’d like to clean the garage floor. My mom is afraid I’ll remove the sealer or pit the cement with the pressure washer we have. So I’m here to ask, what do you suggest based on my pics?
Image 3 — Hey yall. I’d like to clean the garage floor. My mom is afraid I’ll remove the sealer or pit the cement with the pressure washer we have. So I’m here to ask, what do you suggest based on my pics?
Image 4 — Hey yall. I’d like to clean the garage floor. My mom is afraid I’ll remove the sealer or pit the cement with the pressure washer we have. So I’m here to ask, what do you suggest based on my pics?
Image 5 — Hey yall. I’d like to clean the garage floor. My mom is afraid I’ll remove the sealer or pit the cement with the pressure washer we have. So I’m here to ask, what do you suggest based on my pics?
Image 6 — Hey yall. I’d like to clean the garage floor. My mom is afraid I’ll remove the sealer or pit the cement with the pressure washer we have. So I’m here to ask, what do you suggest based on my pics?
Image 7 — Hey yall. I’d like to clean the garage floor. My mom is afraid I’ll remove the sealer or pit the cement with the pressure washer we have. So I’m here to ask, what do you suggest based on my pics?
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Hey yall. I’d like to clean the garage floor. My mom is afraid I’ll remove the sealer or pit the cement with the pressure washer we have. So I’m here to ask, what do you suggest based on my pics?

I’ve included pics of the pressure washer, the floors and the cleaning stuff I found. My stepdad was the building maintenance man, but he passed away, so I’m trying g to make use of his equipment. I’d really love to clean the garage up, but def don’t wanna mess up the concrete.

I’ve read that I should I rent an attachment for the washer that spins on the floors so as not to put the cement. Is that what you suggest?

u/camjvp — 3 days ago
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Is this job as satisfying as it looks?

I was recently visiting a friend and he had rented a pressure washer to do some house work but was too busy to use it himself. I helped him out by pressure washing his porch. I was hooked - my ADHD brain loved seeing the immediate reward of what I was doing. Blasting away the dirt became some kind of game. So then I did his steps. And then his pathway. And then I dragged some small carpets out of the house and washed them. I was literally looking for more stuff to wash. I was so absorbed in it that I forgot to eat lunch.

I began thinking to myself - would I enjoy this as a job? Could I do this full time, if I seemed to enjoy it so much? Could this be a good fit?

So my question to you in the business is: is thinking it’s fun to pressure wash things mean that you’ll like doing it as a job? Do you enjoy it, in the kind of way I described above? Or does the “game of blasting dirt away” loose its appeal quickly? Are there headaches as a business owner that make doing it way less fun, and in some cases not worth it?

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u/PlayaBikeSunset — 3 days ago
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First time pressure washing

Pressure washed my driveway with an electric pw I got off of TikTok shop (😂) and some bleach. The bottom of the driveway is before obviously. I didn’t have a surface cleaner or anything and got it done with just the green tip in about 4 hours, I feel pretty proud of myself. Picking up a 4gpm washer and a surface cleaner from harbor freight next week as this has motivated me to go all in.

u/Klutzy-Persimmon-270 — 3 days ago
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Need help

I sprayed this exterior porch ceiling down with low pressure water. It looks like it activated (idk man) the varnish maybe? Wiping it with a rag did nothing and higher pressure just took off the stain. And by low pressure I mean like hose

u/-Tedathon- — 4 days ago
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What’s your go to soft wash setup that isn't a full truck/skid system?

As the title says outside of a fancy/expensive truck mounted system what do you use ? X-jet, battery sprayer, pump up sprayer etc. I use a pump up sprayer and find it’s great for control but it’s very slow and doesn’t put out a lot of product which results in it drying up fast.

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u/No_Delivery681 — 4 days ago
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Rust Stain Question

Heys guys first time poster. I would really appreciate if someone could help me. I ran into this problem with these rust stains on both Italian ceramic tiles and also on stucco. I used F9 barc on both already but it didn’t do anything. The owner said that the house was very recently built so it’s been around 4 months since it could have happened. I was about to buy Mar Gel Oxi Kit because I heard it works but I thought I would ask first. Does anyone have any idea what I can do? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

u/Deep_Flamingo5425 — 4 days ago
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J rod gpm question

I just got 2 kits from the surface maxx website for $18 each (it was $80 at lowes). I realized I bought the 3.5-4gpm kit and the 2-3gpm kit wasn't even available. I found some other 2-3gpm kits elsewhere and they all have the same numbers on the tips. Will this work for my 2.3gpm machine?

I restore pavers and occasionally people ask me to do their siding. I've been doing research on it for a while so I could one day add soft wash to my services and finally bought the j rod kit to mess around with. I used a pump sprayer with 2.5% sh on my siding...hosed it off and it's never been cleaner lol.

I'm not against getting a bigger machine, I bet I could clean pavers faster too. 4000 psi won't damage pavers with a turbo nozzle, would it?

Added a photo of my last job and my house

u/Slap-A-Beaver — 4 days ago
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Biggest peice of shit on the market in my opinion. From the customer service to the short pump life, I’ll never buy another one.

I’ve had several Delavan pumps now and all of them have shit the bed very early. I’ve made sure to have the right voltage going to them. Make sure to flush them immediately after using them all of that. This particular pump here started spraying chlorine out of the top after about four jobs the other Delavan 7 gallon per minute pump I bought for 280 something dollars was sent back to Delavan several months ago and we still haven’t heard anything.

u/FuckerHead9 — 11 days ago
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County animal Shelter emp are all getting HAVS

Please help, I will buy the most expensive lab/commercial/industrial quality rolls Royce of pressure washer guns/tips/fittings/hoses whatever will help, the shelter is always happy to receive donations. Wife uses these about 30 hours a week working at animal shelter cleaning kennels. the floors are concrete and walls are cinderblock, doors are chain link. Wife also has HAVS for sure and I massage several times a day but if it gets any worse I’ll have to start cooking dinner and nobody wants that. it will be Armageddon. Please help!

u/buddhabellyOM — 11 days ago
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I need your feedback

Hey guys, I’m new at the business and I did my own home driveway today to get some practice in, I noticed the whiter area on the cracks and it’s slowly going away as the concrete dries, I also treated the oil stains after with degreaser (pics are before degreaser), I feel like I should of post treat it since you can see it was very dirty, feel free to give me some feedback please.!

u/istrober82 — 11 days ago