[Dean Taberner]

Hi Lads/Lasses,

Has anybody done this or have any advice on this?

I know its not strictly window cleaning but it is a sideline,

Cheers in advance,

Dean.

[trevor perry]

yes we do this you will need a hot powerwasher and it works better with a smaller jet size

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

wont rob at m clean
give u sum advise on this dee

[Andy Foster]

I use pressure washer with hot box and find it loads better than 'steam machine' I have also tried although you can't really do it when people are around so needs to be done at night.  With a steam machine you can do it in and around pedestrians, but it does take longer... depends on what you need.

[Dean Taberner]

Is a cold water 13lpm powerwaher a no go then?

Tthanks for the replies so far,

Dean.

[Andy Foster]

Hi Dean

A cold washer is unlikely to remove all of the gum and will almost certainly not remove the residue underneath the gum.  Having said that, it will lift some of the gum if it is not to old.

Regards

Andy

[Dean Taberner]

Thanks for the advice andy

[david washbrook]

Dean I have a miraclean steam chewing gum removal machine for sale if your interested

[Rob_Mac]

Dean

If you are looking for an add on then you need to get a hotbox for your pressure washer and then this will give you the option to do chewing gum removal. Try Britclean at Biddulph, I think mine cost about £700 - £800.00.

As has been said you need to cordon off a large area if working through the day or limit the works to night time.

The other option is to get a dry steam machine, like the one Dave has offered, they are the ones I have and both methods have their place.

I cleaned a store front in Balham - London, I could only use the dry steam machine, whereas ordinarily we would just pressure wash store fronts and include chewing gum in the course of cleaning, no pedestrians for this though.

Just because you see it everywhere don't presume you will get lots of work. In law raised chewing gum is classed as a litter and must be removed within 2 years, once it is flattened it no longer becomes litter!!!

Good luck

Rob

[Dean Taberner]

Hi Rob,

I hope you're well mate,

I aren't after it as an add on, we are already busy enough without it, it is a one off job which has come in on an area at the front of a store that I clean. It's not a massive area to be fair.

Cheers,

Dean

[Rob_Mac]

I am well mate, down in Heyford Hill, Oxford. What is the chewing gum on and what size area??

Rob

[Dean Taberner]

Its approx 50x20ft mate but I'm not sure :-)

[Rob_Mac]

I'm asking because I went up to central Liverpool, on a Sainsbury's local the other week, just down from the town hall where the Labour party conference was going on, lots of photoraphers snapping away at anything that came out of the doors.

This was on slab and I did not have heat, last minute job, so I used a scraper and just left the outlines, you wont get away with this on tarmac though!!!

Rob

[david washbrook]

So I take it you don't want to buy my machine then dean

Rob we still need to meet to do the deal I'm back in Wigan on Tuesday at the hospital if that's any good call me