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Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #600 on: August 17, 2014, 02:18:50 am »
Why no chemicals allowed ??

Spent Friday here....























We also did some patio furniture, several other paths, gutter clear, soffit fascia gutter wash and finally windows.

Absolutely exhausted by close of play

Darran

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk

Rob@Blast off

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #601 on: August 17, 2014, 10:58:16 am »
Hippy types, who were against the use of chem's, but they were happy with the job, I would of preferred it to have been better.

Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #602 on: August 17, 2014, 11:04:20 am »
I would have just used them anyway 😛😝😜

If the customer is happy that's what counts, even if it's not upto your own standards.

Darran
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk

Jettaway

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #603 on: August 17, 2014, 11:26:18 am »
Did you sand same day Rob?

Kevin Miller

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #604 on: August 17, 2014, 02:01:15 pm »
Why no chemicals allowed ??

Spent Friday here....























We also did some patio furniture, several other paths, gutter clear, soffit fascia gutter wash and finally windows.

Absolutely exhausted by close of play

Darran



Darren some great results there pal. If I can ask mate the last picture with the fance panel and wall did you use hypo? It looks like new. Top job

Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #605 on: August 17, 2014, 03:40:48 pm »
Thx.

Yes I used hypo on the caps, just to get that extra clean look and I used it on the panels to kill the algae after washing down with a 15 degree nozzle. The wall was just full blast turbo

Darran
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk

Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #606 on: August 17, 2014, 03:47:18 pm »



A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk

Rob@Blast off

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #607 on: August 19, 2014, 01:05:24 am »
Nice!

Blast Away

Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #608 on: August 19, 2014, 06:59:18 pm »
Not knockin' ya, I'm sure they all came up good but you've shown us 2 different coping stones in your before and after.  ;D

Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #609 on: August 19, 2014, 07:05:03 pm »
Yes because I wasn't prepared to climb back over the fence and thread myself between the now turned on electric horse fence 😖

Darran
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk

Roger Oakley

Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #610 on: August 19, 2014, 08:48:14 pm »
Not knockin' ya, I'm sure they all came up good but you've shown us 2 different coping stones in your before and after.  ;D
And they are clean though Lee, except for the small lichen spots (bottom right hand corner)  ;)

Roger Oakley

Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #611 on: August 19, 2014, 08:52:45 pm »
One we did the other week, Indian Sandstone.

Before


After

Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #612 on: August 19, 2014, 09:06:37 pm »
Nice work Roger, was that just a p/w clean or clean,polish and seal ?


See that's what laziness gets you, a piccy of a not quite so perfect finish, but I thought it good enough for you guys!

I'll try to get the exact same one when I re sand  :P

Darran
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk

Roger Oakley

Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #613 on: August 19, 2014, 10:30:26 pm »
Not knocking you Darren, I just have an eye for detail.
Re the Sandstone photos, cleaned, then hypo, long dwell time due to the amount of lichen, cleaned off again and that was it. The after photo is the next morning, so surface is dry and that's how good the paving looked, not just from the clean but decent Sandstone, even though it is bit busy pattern wise.

Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #614 on: August 20, 2014, 09:04:47 am »
No problems Rodger, I know some like to tease, I'm not offended in any way

Ref the sandstone, I was led to believe you couldn't use hypo on sandstone ? Is their a criteria/guidelines for using hypo on sandstone?

Darran
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk

Matt Gibson

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #615 on: August 20, 2014, 10:20:49 am »
You can use hypo on sandstone, like you can use it on any other hard surface. It wont affect the sandstone. Just use the same hypo rules regarding run off/plantlife etc..

Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #616 on: August 20, 2014, 10:36:31 am »
Cheers Matt,

Read somewhere that hypo could turn it orange 😵😵

Well if not that makes life easier 😎

Darran

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk

BDCS

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #617 on: August 20, 2014, 12:33:35 pm »
It turns lead orange

Roger Oakley

Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #618 on: August 20, 2014, 03:15:05 pm »
As Matt has said it's fine to use on Sandstone,  just don't use Hydrochloric acid (Brick Acid) on Sandstone or any natural stone for that matter. In fact before you use an Acid check to see if the stone will take the use of X acid, some do some don't. Alkaline's are usually fine though.

Smudger

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Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Reply #619 on: August 20, 2014, 03:56:44 pm »
Ahhhhh, perhaps I got confused between the 2

Darran
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

www.oddbodscleaning.co.uk