summer heat...... now it dryes to fast>>>>

Dan S

New Member
it's all night washing for me now i rigged up lights all over the van........... it looks like day time when i fire up the generator..... and yes the trucks still get clean.........

sure is better than the sun beating down and drying everything and frees up my saturdays........ now i go to work when everybody else is laying around watching the t.v or getting ready for bed..... plus it dont take as long to do it.....

any body else wash at night im talking trucks here not flat work.....

why cant i get the color to work??????
big boy help me ................ YOU are the color KING..............
and why cant i make a marquee work did i spell it right........
 

Larry L.

PWN TEAM - Moderator Emeritus
<font color="#FF6600"><b>No,Cody be that king or Dan.<br>
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Your forgetting to put this at the end of your post-&gt; [/,it want work unless
you close the font or tags.Ya doing ok,,,,,,,,Yel night work but but but what
about waking people up,,,not talking about muffer but the hiss of the spray
hitting metal,hahaha</b></font>

Hey mine didn't work but thats the way its done,,,the color code is orange.
 

Larry L.

PWN TEAM - Moderator Emeritus
[font color=blue]marquee[/f]


<marquee><font color=red>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :) ~~~~~~~~</marquee></f>


Hey,,,sometimes it happens :D
 

Ron Musgraves

Administrator
Staff member
Dan S,

I don’t do fleets anymore, when I did I used to wash at night. Ups Step vans and casino buses. Certain types of heavy equipment can be washed at night under lighting. Anytime you have freeway construction with bottom dumps and cement trucks you can have 24-hour washing if they are working.


So you are having problems in the day? Just use more soap those trucks will stay wet longer. That’s one solution for yahhhhhhh. I’m sure you could get some gigs inside.
 

Scott Stone

New Member
Let me see, do I ever have problems with dry soap?? It was 107 to day with exactly 8% humidity. Yep, I guess I qualify. There are a few tricks that I have learned in my hot weather experience.
1. Wash a little at a time. We like to use 200 foot of pressure hose, so that it is a royal pain. But if you can get away with 100 foot it makes it easier to wash a little and rinse a little.
2. More soap. Ron was right. Surfactants are wetting agents. They make the soap wetter. Higher surfactant soaps stay wet longer. I haven't tried it, but I know that you can get industrial surfactants that will probably keep the soap wet a lot longer. I guess it is time to talk my way into some so that I can test my theory.
3. Don't brush. If you brush it dries at an amazing rate. If you don't brush it takes longer fo rit to dry. It is harder to get a quality wash job with no brushing, but then you will need to spend a little more money for a higher quality soap. If you do brush resoap the side of the truck before you rinse.
4. Avoid using hot water. It evaporates quicker.
5. Use two machines. One to soap and one to rinse. Make sure that the soap guy does not get way ahead of the rinser.
6. Bag it all and work in a parking garage. Not really practical, but a good gig if you can get it.

I may think of some more. We have to deal with this type of stuff almost year around.

Good Luck,
Scott Stone
 

Dan S

New Member
i still like the nihgt life!!!!!!!!

i use a shur-flo 150 psi and i pre spray my soap ....it does stay rather wet but when working @ night you can spray 3 maybe 4 trks then spray the ole h20 ..........

Ron why did you get away from fleets?
just wondering?

im just now getting into flat work and i love it dont have mush exp... yet but i get get the ole gum off and make the concrete shine but i think i need a new chem to make it look new again ...
any ideas or suggestion's > advice>


thanks
 

Dave Olson

New Member
Hi Dan,

We use a five man crew. We use ambient temperature water, and apply our detergent at 100 psi or less. First guy applies detergent, next two guys brush (24" brushes) and last two guys rinse (2500 psi 6504 tips).

Sometimes we have drying problems. We may prewet the units, work faster, slowdown the guy applying detergent, or all three!. The times that we tried working at night, we did not like the results!

Dave Olson
 

Ron Musgraves

Administrator
Staff member
Dan, your answer/////


No weekends, less manpower per crew, less chance for accidents, lower insurance, and make the same if not more money.
 

Dan S

New Member
I CAN GO WITH YA THERE RON>>>>>>> WEEKEND'S
but when i started this business this is where i got rollin......... if ya know what i mean...... as far as insurance im not sure about that ,mine dont seem to be that bad per year....

and knock on wood i never had to make a claim..........
i learn myself every day on applying the chem's and washing 'em off .. seems like when i think i know every thing i learn some more
and YES THIS BB DOES HELP>>>>>>>>>>>
but i dont base my life around it ....it is so great to get a answer to a question ya get ....and it is also great to give advice.......
sometimes though i think i should leave my advice to myself and not on the "key's".....but im sure that is the case with some of us all on here ...............MAYBE>>>>>>>>>>>>

YOU said manpower > i guess im lucky with that ,,my boys help wash ( no payroll )....sorta>>>

im still in love it with the lights at night..... it does something fer me i guess........and i bring along a cordless spot light to re-check the trk's when done and they look swell.........
 

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