Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Dave Willis on September 02, 2014, 08:25:02 pm
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How long would a backpack (like the one Gardiners sell) last if you pumped a chemical through it? I have a job coming up that requires a kind of bleach to be sprayed on a limewashed building - I've done it before using the vans pump and sticking the feed pipe in the solution. I'd prefer to use a pump up sprayer but for the money a backpack isn't that expensive, could be handy for spraying dilute 101 or washing windows if the pump rubbers lasted.
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We use 2 dedicated backpacks for delivering g101, no ill effects on them, however bleach is another matter, any metal parts will instantly corrode ( assuming you are using sodium hypochlorite and not household bleach which is very weak ) and if the seals are not Vitton they will perish quite quickly.
But if you give a good flush through with water straight after then maybe you'd be ok
Personally I'd check with Alex
Darran
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Dave call me tomo if you want, I did exactly the same a few week ago.
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I don't remember the exact chemical, the customer supplied it last time it's some kind of fungicide went through a normal pump ok with no ill effects.
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Then you'll be ok
Backpacks are after all chemical sprayers for the lazy!!
Darran