[chrismroberts]

Hi all.. I have posted about this before.... but have had a new idea... hope you are the right people to ask.

I have a off the shelf electric pressure washer.... nothing petrol powered or anything, but it gets my alloy wheels clean and does my drive OK. One of my window cleaning customers needs their rendering cleaning... now I'm never one to turn down a money making opportunity..... so would this be sufficient for the job? If I were to get hold of a lance? Would any detergents be needed?

[Rob_Mac]

Does it have the option of different spray heads or is it just a pencil spray. If it is just pencil spray you could be there some time and the off the shelf ones - priced around £80.00 are disposable, not made for repair, what sort of condition is it in - do you feel that it is up to the job. If I was cleaning a house I would not use one of these.

 I am not knocking it but can you not hire a petrol machine from HSS or someone similar and have the option of more pressure, fan spray and possible detergent pick up. A house with a decent machine should take half a day, so you hire for one day and add the hire cost to the end price.

You have a machine you know will do the job and the customer gets a good end product

Rob

[karygate]

we have just started pressure washing so are still on a learning curve(doing small drives etc at moment). all i know is my neighbour did his drive with an electric one and we did ours . similar size mine took an hour with keep stopping for chats , coffee , trying out different techniques etc with a fsc and he took 5 hours with the electric . the result was better aswell.

[chrismroberts]

Does it have the option of different spray heads or is it just a pencil spray. If it is just pencil spray you could be there some time and the off the shelf ones - priced around £80.00 are disposable, not made for repair, what sort of condition is it in - do you feel that it is up to the job. If I was cleaning a house I would not use one of these.

 I am not knocking it but can you not hire a petrol machine from HSS or someone similar and have the option of more pressure, fan spray and possible detergent pick up. A house with a decent machine should take half a day, so you hire for one day and add the hire cost to the end price.

You have a machine you know will do the job and the customer gets a good end product

Rob

Thanks for that How much should I expect to pay for hire? Thinking of charging the job out per hour, as I have little experience of doing it outside of doing my own drive.

we have just started pressure washing so are still on a learning curve(doing small drives etc at moment). all i know is my neighbour did his drive with an electric one and we did ours . similar size mine took an hour with keep stopping for chats , coffee , trying out different techniques etc with a fsc and he took 5 hours with the electric . the result was better aswell.

Good stuff Whats an fsc, if you dont mind me asking?

[Richy L]

if you go too close to the render with a pressure washer, espacially a pencil jet, you will "eat into" the walls.
You need a powerful pressure washer, but use a fan from a greater distance.