How To clean homes with no gutters - Certified SoftWash Roof Cleaning

Danny Cronauer · SoftWash Systems Certified

How To clean homes with no gutters

Laurie Benjamin · Lead Tech Certified

We don't operate in Florida lol but where I am at I would spray the plant fortifyer on the plants after I am finised and reccomend to the customer that they should wet their plants every morning for a while just to prepare for the dew run_off

AC Lockyer · Administrator

Did you watch the Plant & Prop Protection Module?

AC

Danny Cronauer · SoftWash Systems Certified

I believe so, for some reason I remember they placed a rubbermaid container at the valley, catching all of the solution. This roof has no valleys. Simple gable, I am just a plant protection FREAK! That's why I bought the plant wash :)

AC Lockyer · Administrator

PRE WATER AND SATURATE SOIL, Then treat roof, rinse, rinse, rinse, then apply Plant Wash as final step.

AC

Danny Cronauer · SoftWash Systems Certified

Going after it tomorrow. We just had rain here today, so that also helps.

Chris Francis · Sophmore Member

I agree with AC I am two man team my wife pre waters the plants when I am setting up and she keeps pre wetting the soil through the hole clean and I try not to cover any of the plants with plastic.

Josh Scavetta · SoftWash Systems Certified Applicator

My experience with plants is this. plants that are in bloom are easy to damage even if the solution sit on for a couple of seconds without getting rinsed off. plants like shrubs can take a little more abuse. we use blue tarps on the flowers that are in bloom but only leave them on for the short time we are spraying and never get the green house effect. Granted we are in CT its not like Florida weather but we just had a week that was mid 90's. All the other shrubs we just wet down along with the grass before and after.

If you want to be really smart and know your limits, go to a garden place and buy some cheep plants. put them in your back yard and spray them with 3% mix. wait for a couple of seconds and rinse off. come back in 3 days and look for damage. Then give me the results.. haha

Good luck my friend

Danny Cronauer · SoftWash Systems Certified

Well I am the plant nazi, so there was tarps, watering, watering, roof rinsing, watering, then plant wash. Then I told the HO to water them in the morning. Lesson learned add +$200 for every home with no gutters.

Doug Rucker · UAMCC Officer

safe roof cleaning hartford wrote:
My experience with plants is this. plants that are in bloom are easy to damage even if the solution sit on for a couple of seconds without getting rinsed off. plants like shrubs can take a little more abuse. we use blue tarps on the flowers that are in bloom but only leave them on for the short time we are spraying and never get the green house effect. Granted we are in CT its not like Florida weather but we just had a week that was mid 90's. All the other shrubs we just wet down along with the grass before and after.

If you want to be really smart and know your limits, go to a garden place and buy some cheep plants. put them in your back yard and spray them with 3% mix. wait for a couple of seconds and rinse off. come back in 3 days and look for damage. Then give me the results.. haha

Good luck my friend

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AC Lockyer · Administrator

Spraying plants directly with your wand even allowing the chems to dry on them doesnt seem to do the same damage as actually cleaning a roof. It has WAY more to do with the concentration of the chems as they dry on the roof dripping onto the plants later with dew. Also has almost everything to do with sanitizing the soil and the plants starving to death from lack of benificial bacteria in the soil after a roof cleaning. WATCH THE PLANT AND PROP PROTECTION MODULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20 years of wisdom there.

AC

Danny Cronauer · SoftWash Systems Certified

I will have to go back and watch that one again.