Should You Rinse?? | Roof Washing
Vložit
- čas přidán 15. 10. 2020
- #roofwashing #pressurewashing #softwashing #pressurewashing business
So....to rinse or not to rinse? that is the question that we answer today.
#powerwashing #pressurewashing #softwashing
✅ Need Equipment Financing??? ⬇️⬇️
app.clicklease.com/inlineapp?...
✅ 🔥Want To Rank High On GOOGLE SEARCH ?? CLICK HERE
www.footbridgemedia.com/?ref=...
✅ 🔥Looking For Power Washing Supplies???? Look No Further:
powerwash.com/?ref=scottcleansit
🔥Looking For Awesome Training and Certification??
powerwashacademy.com/?ref=sco...
USE PROMO CODE SCOTT50 to take $50 off of the Powerwashing101 Class
✅ My Skid:
Www.southeastsoftwash.com
✅ NEED CHEAP YARD SIGNS?⬇️⬇️
lddy.no/uocl
✅ NEED THE BEST WATERSPOT REMOVER?⬇️⬇️
USE PROMO: SCOTT10 for 10% off
www.sudfactory.com
✅ OUR UNIFORM SHIRTS! ⬇️⬇️
Www.fin-print.com MAKE SURE YOU TELL THEM I SENT YOU
✅🔥🔥Need Equipment Financing??? ⬇️⬇️
app.clicklease.com/inlineapp?token=d0da0478-89a4-4a07-9a18-7f3a154eb794
Hey Scott! Thanks for answering that bc def helps
Did not know about the stained wood! Thanks for the info Scott.
Thank you for this video.
Very helpful.
Happy Holidays and be safe
Another great video and thanks for the shoutout! Big love and respect for this man!
Starting fresh and I appreciate the information!!!
Thanks for your videos man, God bless you!
Great video man. You never disappoint.
I’m looking into getting into pressure washing and softwashing. I’m watch yours and a few others on the proper way to do things. Thank you for everything and all the information. I’m up in Northwest Ohio.
Sweeet tune in tonight @9pm
Great video brother and success in 2022
Man, what amazing information here! Haven’t heard anybody talk about this before, which will not only save me from having multiple problems, but will also save me time. Thanks, uncle Scott!
you can find all this info on youtube and facebook. just do your research
@@alanbonner5825 What do you think he's doing commenting on content he's researching lmao..
Good content bro. Amen about the stained wood.
Pray you are well brother thanks for the knowledge from Vancouver Canada ⚓️🙏🇨🇦
Great video’s Scott!
Great video man, I appreciate the info. 🤙
Anytime
Scott keep up with the good work
Learn a lot watching these vids Thanks for sharing!
Good deal
Such helpful information brother, now i know what to tell the customer .
Thank you. I'm a teen who got their first roof washing job this Monday. Needed this info
valuable information!
Very good info. Thanks
Great info. Thanks
Stcott. You. Are. A. Good. Person. An. I. Think. A. Lot. Of. You. Stay. Safe. Out. There. Man.
Just subscribed brother love the channel so far
Thanks
Subbed.. Great videos i've seen so far from you.
Get well soon man!
Good advice thanks brother
I usually do not post comments on CZcams videos. Some good info in this video. One thing I will like to add is IF you have a heavy or hot mix and the roof looks pretty good before leaving on a job that the roof was very dirty (black) and you don’t rinse and it does rain that night or the next day or night .... the plants or bushes below the drip edge if no gutters can get hurt. Just happened to me
Well that’s another issue I haven’t thought of. Dang, another one😢
Great advice 😎
Thank you.
Thanks bro
All power powerwash here hailing from jersey, thanks for the info
Yessir
Good info my bro
Good info… I have been cleaning roofs for 11 years and I never rinse one unless they have no plants and it is a realtor requesting it to be 100% clean because it is getting photographed the following day. That is the only way I will rinse one.
Hey what’s up here in south Texas we don’t get much rain but none of the houses have gutter . Should I just rinse?
Hey, thanks for the great info. I'm just starting in the power wash and soft wash game and I have a potential client wanting a house wash on their cedar plank shingle siding. It is black and covered with mold. Referring to your comments about stained wood, do I want to use sodium hypochlorite mix on it and if so, what percent? Thanks again and really enjoy your videos!
You can use bleach but it may also lighten the wood and even remove a lot of the stain. The safest way is with sodium percarbonate
I have watched a lot of these roof washing videos trying to learn and yours was one of the most informative that I have seen. I do have one question though,. How long of a warranty do you give?
2 years if there are no trees within 15 feet of eoof
What's up Scott this is Curtis with Southern pressure wash
Planning to re-paint a metal roof, would you use dawn dish detergent and your sh solution, or just the sh solution? Rinse? Any suggestions on the process would help. Thanks
Yes add some soap
What do you do when there is a drought? For example, in fl rain is rare during this season. Suggest rinsing then? Or tell the customer they are gonna have to wait a month etc and to wait for the rain?
During a drought, moss (if that's what's being removed from the roof) dries out and goes dormant. If the moss isn't rehydrated first, then the SH application will have little effect whether it's rinsed off or not.
Hey Scott! I’ve been watching your videos pretty frequently now and wanted to see how I can ask you a few questions. I saw your soft washing videos and went out and bought the same Northern Tool Soft Wash system you have. I need some help with pricing and also doing the first roof. I’d greatly appreciate it! Hope your in good health, God Bless!
I have a video on pricing
An extremely easy way to capture most of the runoff at the valley's is to put your ladder in that intersection and put a 5-gallon bucket on the standoff to catch the runoff before it hits the ground. You'll capture close to 100% of the runoff, and not create an odd clean spot on the sidewalk or dump a ton of salt in a concentrated area. If you're cleaning a sidewalk, driveway, cool decking, or other surface like this, you can use this runoff to cut down on the amount of SH used or dispose of the SH easily without adding salt to the soil and plants. Chlorine doesn't do anything to plants worth worrying about, it's the residual salt that can hurt the plants. The chlorine will kill aerobic bacteria in the soil, but these bacteria will repopulate quickly before it causes plant damage. If possible, I'd ask the homeowner to turn on sprinklers the night before and/or the morning before the job starts to saturate the soil (and have my assistant do the same upon arrival) and give the plants as much time and water as possible so the plants will not try to absorb the salt water as it hits the soil. Foliar Absorbtion of this salt into the leaves, blades, and stems is the big concern as this can happen quickly, thus why I always have my assistant constantly rinsing plants as I spray. To rinse or not rinse that roof may change based on location. I'm in Virginia and we get such heavy dew at night that it would moisten the residual salt and allow it to drip onto any plants below, and it would leave that thin line of death from the concentrated salt. So, in Virginia, you'd definitely need to rinse. I tell customers the same thing. It's like spraying an herbicide on a plant. You need to let it sit and absorb. Nobody rinses an herbicide off a plant after spraying it. However, I also tell them that if I feel it is too much risk not to rinse, I'll only rinse up as far as required to remove the harmful salt from the roof, at least enough that dew or a light rain won't dump salt on plants and not rinse it off. Short of connecting to a fire hydrant, residential water pressure won't provide enough water to fully rinse a roof, and a slow rain does a much better job than rinsing, plus rinses the plants at the same time keeping them safe from runoff. I would only rinse 4-6 feet up on this roof to avoid plant damage from dew or a very light rain dumping concentrated salt onto plants below. I've never killed a plant, and only shocked two. One was not flooding a gutter the drained to an underground runoff to another part of the property. I simply wasn't thinking about the holes in the bottom of the drain to send part of the rain runoff into the soil, so the concentrated SH / salt hit the roots of a boxwood plant. I caught this before I did much work, but it still shocked the plant and about 5-10% of the leaves turned brown, but it wasn't enough to notice a few days later when those dead leaves dropped. The other was a roof like yours with no gutters, and a similar pitch. There were Aselia's under the dripline of the roof, and my assistant was constantly rinsing the plants. When I was done with that section of roof I asked him to rinse the roof about 6 feet up until the water coming off was clear, then went to the truck to get some water and snack. He came to the truck several minutes later and was on the phone with his wife. I didn't realize his phone call distracted him and he forgot to rinse the roof as instructed, but being the owner of the business, it's my fault for not double checking. The end result was that thin line of death in the middle of the bush where the salt dripped and was quickly absorbed through foliar absorption, directly into the leaves and plant. Your friend that puts down granules of fertilizer around the plants...that's not a good option. You have to water that area a lot to dissolve the granules, and that just gets it into the soil. It still takes a fair amount of time for the roots to absorb the fertilizer and use it.
This is where I strongly recommend some of AC Lockyer's / Softwash Systems Plant Wash. AC was a horticulturist for nearly a decade before he started his SoftWash business around 1990. He knows plant safety better than anybody in the business. His Plant Wash is a water-soluble fertilizer, so it is absorbed directly into the plants. leaves and stalks immediately without hours of watering and days of waiting, so you're fixing the problems as they are occurring. The Plant Wash also has a powerful chlorine neutralizer so it will stop the sanitizing process that will kill the bacteria in the soil. These bacteria facilitate the transfer of nutrients from the soil to the root system, so the faster the roots can take up nutrients, the faster the plants will recover. It also contains a buffering compound that acts almost like a coat of wax that helps any SH that drips onto the plants to runoff before damaging the plants, although if you get as much runoff as I did on that garage roof, nothing will fix that. Softwash Systems also sells a surfactant called Green Wash. Besides being a surfactant, it has a bleach catalyst so you can get the same bleaching effect as normal, but only using about 2/3 the bleach. The savings in bleach pays for the product easily but using 2/3 the bleach means you're leaving behind 2/3 the amount of salt that can hurt or kill plants. Those plants you killed or shocked, likely would not have been an issue, or much less significant with this surfactant. It has a residual coating left behind that has been tested and approved by GAF, and it adds up to a year of protection in preventing the return of the gloeocapsa magma stains which is a good upsale point that can be used to beat out competition bidding on the same job. This Green Wash also has a rinse aid built in so it can also be used for a house wash. It significantly reduces the amount of time and water required to rinse a house, and leaves windows essentially spotless. I also use his Terra Wash on house washes. I cut the Green Wash by 50% and replace it with Terra Wash. I wasn't sure how much better this worked, but my assistant noted how much longer it was taking to rinse a house we'd cleaned a couple times in the past when I ran out of Terra Wash once, so I have always used it since. My own front porch doesn't get algae, but it collects dust and pollen like it has a static charge LOL. I just put some Terra Wash in my Chapin G362sprayer, and spray the porch each spring. You can't use Terra Wash on a roof because it has a powerful degreaser and would be harmful to roofs, but it's great for everything else, except asphalt driveways. If you have a cement driveway with oil stains, it will do a great job breaking down these stains. I'd also strongly recommend AC Lockyer's training courses. The information is business changing. Once I took his course, the number of accepted bids skyrocketed because I knew so much more, and I was able to convey that information well to my customers. I talked circles around my competition and the course paid for itself in a few jobs, and for years to come. The only person in my area I could not talk circles around was a guy that took the same training. Luckily, we worked well together and sent work to the other at times, and trusted the other enough to provide our warranty on the others work. I watched the video training every spring to make sure I was spot on with everything I told customers, safety procedures, etc. I even had one customer tell me he accepted my bid because I obviously knew what I was doing by the detailed information I provided, even though I was exactly 2x the cost of another bid. The training is worth it. As far as rinsing...once the stains turn brown, it's dead and safe to rinse. Let it sit while you clean up the job site and prepare to leave, and have your assistant take 15-20 minutes to ensure you don't have anything dripping on plants. Killing a plant will leave a bad review effecting future business, and hopefully the plant you kill will not be that sentimental plant from dead grandma Susie. replacing a plant is time consuming, embarrassing, and it will take years to grow and match the existing plants. That will ruin getting work from others in the area because you cannot use the roof as a good example of your work. You won't want to leave a yard sign showing off your work either. If you have a booster pump or way to spray more than just the 3 GPM you get from a garden spigot, you can cut that rinsing time way down. As far as wood homes...I helped my friend for free one day cleaning a log home and did two log home jobs that day...my first and last. I'll never do a job on a log house. Besides those issues mentioned, they often have some kind of sealant and even if sprayed 100% properly, you'll get different colors depending on how much of the sealant is protecting the wood. Besides those few tips, I think you're spot on with what you explained. Instead of flooding the downspouts, you could build a gutter cane out of PVC piping and a T junction. I put a ball valve at the bottom of mine so I can easily control the water flow. When I use it (which I seldom do), I turn it on full force while setting up so the area where SH will hit is flooded well, and then during the job I turn it down to a trickle to keep the SH flowing out of the gutter and it has enough water flow to spread the SH across a much larger area to avoid salt in a small spot. Or if there are plants near, I dig a small hole with my foot or a small shovel, so the runoff stays in that one tiny spot, not heading towards the root system. If I know the fascia board is strong and the gutters are well mounted and can take the weight, I take small Nerf footballs and compress them like foam ear plugs and stop off the downspout(s) and put the gutter cane up and as the water builds up and runs over the edge of the gutter, it also has water flowing and rinsing the plants at the same time. At the end of the job or that section of roof, I turn the gutter cane on full flow and pull out the football, and everything left runs out so fast it spreads the SH in a huge area and it perfectly safe. I don't have to do this often, but it's a great item to keep in your bag of tricks. I use the T junction because if there are two downspouts, it pushes water both directions. I also explain to customers that SH is a hazardous material, but the only reason it is rated as such is because it is an oxidizer, just as is Simple Green, or Oxi-clean people use for laundry. It absorbs oxygen from water, and it can deoxygenate a section of water if too much enters, and it can kill fish. Although it is a very short-term effect, and plants and algae will reoxygenate the water. That's the ONLY reason SH is a hazardous material. Once that extra oxygen molecule is released, SH is only salt water. I explain the chemistry behind it which is impressive to customers, and part of my prepared copy/paste info I send with every bid. Hopefully something in this will help boost your business...and I cannot stress strongly enough how much the training from SoftWashSystems.com helped take my business to the next level. It's the best investment I made to my business.
How many times did you have to refill
Love your channel Scott. I personally feel uneasy about not rinsing. For example, I didn't fully rinse a client's home in the past and went back 2 days later after it had rained. The SH had run down the client's window leaving it looking like crap. Also, if you don't rinse and leave it to rain, and the SH goes down the gutters, wouldn't it kill the vegetation? I am new to soft-washing and would love to just treat and leave, that would be a blessing. However, as of right now, the last thing I want to do is kill my client's vegetation. At the moment, I treat-rinse- followed by a plant wash just to be sure all is good when I leave. That is a whole lot of time I would love not to spend if I can get away with not rinsing. Any feedback would be great, happy to see you growing man.
If it’s going to light rain I would rinse the bottom 3-5 ft. If it’s going to flood for hours I wouldn’t rinse. If it’s going to rain days later it will be fine because the sh begins to break down immediately after spraying
I've always rinsed as well. Couldn't sleep at night knowing SH could drip especially without gutters on the house. I've also seen SH damage metal gutters as the chemical corrodes leaving rust for the future. Always rinse. I don't like the culture of "not rinsing" in the South East. I am from the West coast and leaving SH on anything, specifically a roof doesn't happen often.
Contact your State's Dept of Ecology and ask them about the chemical runoff! It is best to check in with your State and follow their guidelines.
@@adamn6153 lol
Thanks for sharing your knowledge question after spray if rains after 2 hours will kill all vegetation?
If it’s gonna flood it shouldn’t. A light rain could
Good stuff
Thanks brother keep leading the way!
Thanks for answering that.But what if it doesn't rain for a month or 2, do you have to retreat the whole roof?
No it's dead. If it's brown it's coming down, if it's black it's coming back
Hi Scott, I hope you are doing great. I have a question and I would like to see if you can give me your opinion. I am doing this roof cleaning on tile. And after 1 and even two passes with a soft wash solution 5% the algae or moss is still there. Do you know why the tile is not looking clean?
Don't know about tile
Great
you’re sweating and I’m up here freezing my but off but anyway I will not do a roof wash if there deck is stain or if I can’t figure out what is the safest way to have my run off going to a spot but there is a bag that you can put on the down spouts
Amen!
When you use your soft wash system to wash a home do you use a water hose to rinse or pressure washing or the system
@@TheOliverFamvlog hose or pressure washer. Mostly the hose
As a home owner DIY guy, what are you using as a wash? Wont 5% household or pool bleach do the job?
Dilute it down to 1-2%
What if it’s not gonna rain for like a week or awhile, does the SH just eventually evaporate or turn into salt from the sun?
Yep. Biodegradable
What's up and your hair is really thin.....sub'd. Great info.
Thank you
Hello, Scott. Great video, but I have a question. How can I wash a spanish tile roof without having to rinse it? Because most of the roofs I see here in my country are made of that type of shingle and with the tests I've made so far, even with a 6.5% mix the roof does not seem to clean the same way other kind of roofs do.
Has it rained on it?
@@ScottCleansIt Thanks for replying, Scott. Yes. it has rained on it a couple of times, but there are some shingles that definitely won't turn orange again. So, what can I say to a customer to succesfully sell my roof washing service?
@@MateoRendonBetancourt I’ve seen some use a surface cleaner
Amen 🙏
Subscribed
Thankbhiu
What up!
What does the warranty consists of? And do you extra charge for it or is that included on the roof wash?
Included. Says no black stains and streaks for atleast 2 years
SH 19
Question if you don’t rinse the roof and have plans below, then a couple weeks later the rain comes and all that sodium ends up in the plat bed what happens then?
By then it's fine. No issues
Are you 💯 certain the salt won’t kill the vegetation below?
@@Worldpeace-su3qk 3 year no issues.
Hey, guys. I'm not native English speaker. Could you elaborate on what do you mean by "stained wood"? Do you mean it has mold on it that has turned the wood dark?
No. Stain is what you put on wood to protect it and to make it look nice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_stain
@@ScottCleansIt Thank you! :)
What if it doesnt rain for days or weeks
Communication with your customer is important. They won’t bother you because the roof will already look 90% better
holy banana sandwhiches lmaooo
During summer should you rinse the roof?
You can
What’s up Scott
Suppppp
Yo!
What's up,
Hey brother, whats a good percentage of SH for a house wash? Is 4% too strong?
czcams.com/video/1L5OY2I_vKE/video.html
Yes 4% is way too strong for house wash. That’s a percentage for roofs
@@ScottCleansIt What is an ideal percentage for a house wash? Thanks for the videos man its great. I just started a business myself in september here in TN!
@@mattryan2774 I posted the link
@@ScottCleansIt Thank you brother!
do you rinse metal, or wooden roofs?
Same thought process.
@@ScottCleansIt you are insane. i love it.
You said its some hot stuff.....does it dry out the growth?
Hot as in high percentage Sodium Hypochlorite. It kills any bacteria, moss, etc
I was wondering about that. Got another question......how is it on the skin? Is it like pouring salt on a slug? Will it dry out the skin of a squid? Lol! Just messing with you--good video!
Im pretty sure you and I are the only ones that will catch that! Just having a little fun after a long work day with a fellow vet
Sup!!
SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!
Roll Tide Brother.
What about SH nutralizer?
I don’t use it. I want the SH to work as long as it can. Sunlight breaks it down
@@ScottCleansIt ok, thanks. I must be doing something wrong. My roof is clean. But my wife's hastas turned brown. Maybe I should have used more water on the plants.
@@paulchacon8055 yea or cover them
@@paulchacon8055 spray neutralizer on all vegetation when you're done.
@@coolguy24eric thanks, I'll try that.
Where are you located?
Georgia
Do you rinse your conditioner after you take a shower?
Yep but the conditioner isn’t killing living organisms
Nope unless you don’t have gutters
Jason!!!!!!! You are the man!!!!! Thanks for the input big guy
Scott Cleans Someone just put out a video saying that if you don’t rinse your 99 dollar guy 😂
I never rinsed
@@kingofpressurewash whatttttt i hardly ever rinse
Not
have you smoked any flower? lol
Huh
grow that hair man
Wassup
Yooooo
Nope
From a customers perspective, If I just spent $500 + on my roof for someone to tell me to wait for the rain, I personally would feel a certain type of way. Of course I'm sure you told your customer ahead of time of the processes but still. I don't own a soft washing business but wouldn't it be more beneficial for your business for a customer to see instant results .
They will see instant results. It’s a living organism. It’s no different than paying the exterminator to spray your house for bugs or spraying your lawn for weeds. The solution needs time to fully work
I just did a customer an he asked when would he see any difference it was done on Thursday an today is Friday a customer is super excited an rain is coming thats the good part plus he paid me $400 an $250 for next round clean up so I would give it a good year an come around a touch it up its always good to keep your customers happy an give them good deals i work with my customers like if they don't have the full money well give 80%, then the other 20% when you get Paid late fee is $20 bucks
I will say this from previous sales experience... 90% of customer retention is customer education. The customer doesn't know all of the specifics, and most will be satisfied with a simple explanation. Some will have questions, and patience and teaching will sell them. Some won't be sells no matter what, and that's fine.
If anyone were able to sell their services or products 100% of the time, they'd be trillionaires.
Investors work the same way. And it goes for ANYONE. Jeff Bezos was laughed out of many conference rooms 20 years ago.
@@henrypastor8691 You call yourself a Pastor, but illiterate as hell. You cannot put a sentence together for your life. A lot of bibble babble, what the hell are you saying? and please read your post and questions along with your responses before commenting. Thanks 🤙🏻
@henrypastor8691 how do you charge late fees?
You got instagram bro or a Facebook messenger?
Nah I deleted them to focus on My ministry
@@ScottCleansIt Alright sounds good is there any other way we can talk I'm a fan from the Bahamas
@@antongreenslade9116 @jarrardprowash instagram
Is that an Alabama flag in front of you porch? Roll Tide!
Every year!!
Thanks for the information.
That’s why gutters help