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russell--how can i get in touch with you? please email me at rhwrhwrhw@aol.com with your current phone number. thanks. richard w.

i've got a house with severly mildewed wood eaves and chalky aluminun siding. bleach cocktail gets mildew but takes paint off of siding. from reading in archives, it looks like any chemical, or even just pressure, will take chalky paint off of aluminum siding. anyone got any ideas about how...

i've got a house that is stained grey, as opposed to painted grey, that i've been asked to prep for a new coat of stain(i won't be doing the staining). is there anything special i need to know about these colored, paint-like stains? is there a particular chemical i should use to make it more...

iron stain lysol toilet bowl cleaner is effective on rust stains on pavement; don't know about vinyl siding. richard

go to woodstrip.com, the web site for anderson's. find the phone number, use it, and ask for russell. he can help you with a de-greaser, a stripper, a deck wash and a brightener/neutralizer. for mildew, chlorine bleach is the ticket--in some regions you can get liquid chlorine from a...

thanks guys. you've each given me things to think about. john, i didn't make myself clear. i gave the eaves 15+ minutes of dwell time(w/ dawn added to the bleach to provide greater cling), the three minutes i mentioned was how long i was hitting the eaves with a stream of fresh bleach...

i think the smell in the house is dog needed a bath rather than dog peed kind of smell. like i said, i couldn't smell anything in the house, but the new owner acted like she was living down wind from a zoo. it's the type thing a good attic fan would take care off in a couple of days, but she's...

i'm ready to replace my 3500 psi, 4gpm, 13 hp honda engine, cold water devilbiss pressure washer. at present, my work is exclusively residential and i don't anticipate pursuing commercial work, but i'd certainly take any opportunity that fell into my lap if i had the necessary equipment...

thanks for all the replies. i just now saw them. for some reason, i didn't get an e-mail telling me there were responses. the "quat" i'm refering to is mentioned in a couple of articles on deck cleaning in powerwash magazine(if that's the name). supposed to kill the spores, which i'm told...

i'm due to clean a roof on an old stone cabin in the woods. it has city water, but output seems to be about 3.5 gpm's. my 4 gpm machine is supposed to have a water supply of 5 gpm's, according to the manual. i don't have a water tank. is there something i can jerry-rig for this one-time...

thanks folks. you've given me some ideas to play around with. on a related note, the owner has asked for suggestions about how to get rid of the dog smell that she says permiates the house (i can't smell it, but women seem to have a keener sense of smell). so far, air fresheners have...

is there anything special about an asphalt-shingled roof that i need to know about before cleaning it? i plan on using one of the new quats. thanks for any info/thoughts you might have. richard

i've been asked to get the smell out of a garage in which three large dogs were kept for many years. my inclination is to use something like pine sol followed perhaps by an odor eliminator like odo-ban. my search of the board didn't turn up any past threads on the subject. i've not seen the...

lighten up. the representative of a respected roofing outfit told my parents to do the same thing--pure bleach--and to let it sit for a week before washing it off. i told them not to until i'd researched it, but there's no apparant reason not to use bleach on a roof. seems to me the guy was...

i dealt with some gunk like that but it was on the windows at the edges more than on the frames. it was a metal door between two garage doors and had 3 x 3 6" windows on the top half. i concluded that some form of adhesive was used in manufacturing to attach grid frame to glass windows. there...

i think i've figured out what happened. the owner may well be right about it the window not being a problem in the past, but i'm right about not being responsible for the defective seal. it looks like the water got in at the top of the pane where the window is protected from rain by roughly 2"...

i'm gonna be cleaning the wood framing inside a screend-in porch the floor of which is plywood covered by an indoor-outdoor carpet that is wall-to-wall but not secured to the floor. the wood is in excellent shape--the dirt i'll be cleaning off is indoor dirt--no mildew, no crap from trees, no...

bill, you're right, it is exposed aggregate. my daddy always called it composite but, per ron, that's obviously something else. i have a surface scrubber but i'm not practiced enough with it to be comfortable on anything but concrete, yet. do you crank down the pressure or does yours have...

kevin i've been blessed with so much ignorance i welcome opportunities--such as this-- to show it off. what is chattahoochee(sp?)? are composite driveways(generally, always) sealed with some chemical after they've been pebbled? if so, what is the nature of the sealant? is it just...

oh yeah, the specific answer to one of your questions is that water pressure causes the fuzzies. i believe some folks hold the view that certain chemicals--especially chlorine--will make the furring worse. i believe the conventional wisdom is to use no more than 2000 psi on wood decks. i...