Roof & Green Wash in the Rain!!!! - Certified SoftWash Roof Cleaning

Ray Burke · Community Member

Roof & Green Wash in the Rain!!!!

Doug Rucker · UAMCC Officer

Noce work Ray and Great info thanks for sharing.

AC Lockyer · Administrator

Remarkable pictures and THANKS for the rainy Green Wash use report.

AC

Steve Salley · Junior Member

Ray
Thank you for sharing real world results. I am happy to know that Green Wash gave such results on a less than ideal day. Now, will it work thru snow????

Roof Cleaning Tallahassee · Freshmen Member

Looks like the lichen detatched there own roots and took off to a less hostile envirnment with that hot mix. The results look great!

Ray Burke · Community Member

Steve....i sincerely hope I never have to find out if it works though snow, LOL!!!!!

Ray Burke · Community Member

I've always shied away from cleaning wet/damp roofs but after experiencing these results, I will not be so hesitant to wash roofs in the early morning that are still wet with dew or on misty days. Would I try to clean one in a downpour? No, but my trip to apalachicola was unique due to the travel time involved and a very hectic schedule. Didn't have the option to postpone that job, since SPray Wash is booked up about a month in advance right now.

Doug Rucker · UAMCC Officer

I must be missing something, I have never had a problem or shied away from cleaning when a roof was wet. Is there a reason you shied away Ray?

-- Edited by Doug Rucker on Sunday 25th of December 2011 07:33:37 AM

Chris Madden · Lead Tech Certified

I actually pre-wet both Roofs and siding in the hot summer South Carolina months. It helps to cool the surface so the Cleaning mixture does not evaporate so fast.

Chris

Doug Rucker · UAMCC Officer

Yeah, i do that here in the Texas heat too Chris. Not questioning Ray, just wanting to know if there is something he know's I don't.

Ray Burke · Community Member

I've washed plenty of damp roofs before and have even wet a few down in the summer time, but I have always stayed away from wet "heavy morning dew" or worse type roofs. This roof was a "soaking wet just after a drenching rain " kind of wet with more showers and sprinkles during the wash process.

On the wet roofs I have personally always found my cleanings to be spotty and streaky and requiring more SH than I like to use and with lots of touch-ups.

Seems to me like the GW alleviated those problems in this instance.

Brian Friel · Sophmore Member

I have cleaned in the rain quite a few times. I still try to avoid it if I can. It takes a lot longer and we end up using a lot more chemical. Unfortunately, most times we can't help cleaning in the rain because it can really screw up the schedule if we don't.

We cleaned quite a few this year with heavy frost on the northern side of the roof. A few even had leftover snow on them. I used our truck wash brushes on long extension polls to pull the heavy stuff off the roof and then sprayed away. It definitely took longer and I used a little more cleaner, but we still got the results we needed.

Brian

Ray Burke · Community Member

Lol, I couldn't bear the thought of working in the snow...so happy to be a florida boy!

Laurie Benjamin · Lead Tech Certified

I keep seeing this;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Process took much longer (2 hours) due to stopping and starting. Used a 40% SH mix and one gallon of Green Wash. Used 60 gallons of solution total ( made 75 gallons, thinned the leftover down to 15% and softwashed the house).

40% sh...............Is this a 4% strength?

Ray Burke · Community Member

Laurie... That is correct, my 40% essentially equals 4% on the mixology tables. I had been doing this type of calculation for years before subscribing to the Softwash systems manner of calculations. ACs methods are better and more accurate for measuring, but old habits die hard, so many times I revert back to the old way of calculating when posting my ratios.

Laurie Benjamin · Lead Tech Certified

oh, great, i was wondering how you could get a 40%..lol..do i taqke it that you probaly get your sh @ 10% levels..

Thanks for clearing that up..