Need advice
Long story short a few anons and I decided to run a cleaning company and I actually have no idea what is best to losen dirt and algea on pavement
Pic rel is customers current situation wich we already assured we will fix
I heard washing soda or vinegar essence work great. Or should i go for a chemical? I have a pressure washer at hand
>I heard washing soda or vinegar essence work great. Or should i go for a chemical?
Nah, those non-chemical things like washing soda and vinegar essence will do the job.
Wich is better?
try farting on it until you faint, drink the vinegar first for bonus effect
>I have a pressure washer at hand
have you ever used one before?
ever seen one being used?
you dont need anything else for that job.
just make sure you know where the drains are
I'm not a total moron but I'm scared of fricking up her lawn or stone gaps.
So you would say this level of dirty is nothing to worry about?
moss doesn't just grow on stone it grows on dirt
dirt sticks in cracks, thats why there is moss growing there
you need some physical force to clean the cracks out and moss with it.
its going to be easy to clean the mossy cracks out of the pavers but with a pressure washer the dirt is going to fly everywhere.
a chemical won't do anything, best it will do is kill it then you still have dead waste and the mud to clear up anyway. waste of time.
My idea is spraying out a vinegar solution so I hopefully won't have to use too much pressure so I can just blow off the top of the gaps and not the sand/dirt below it
This is just a stupid idea put forth by someone that obviously has no experience. Use a pressure washer. Only a moron would think using chemicals for something like this is an appropriate solution. Just have a bag of sand ready. Anything you try will be way more of a pain in the ass. Stop outsmarting yourself.
Yeah I get the idea that I'm being way too autistic about this
I'm just want to evaluate Wich is the fastest and easiest way. Since I have never done it before, it could be that my way of doing it could be way slower than it could be
Vinegar may kill it but won’t make it easier to remove. If you’re going to use vinegar then spray it after pressure washing (to help prevent it from coming back). Otherwise you’ll just blast vinegar solution all over the place for no reason
Also
that small drain will get clogged from the sand, you may want to cover it
oh and if you ever take on a job like this again never agree to just 'fix it', explain in excruciating detail what the customer has identified exactly as the problem and then your proposed solution or solutions.
if you say fix it and you cant you are fricked
if you say ok i suggest pressure wash will be most effective method, (or chemical etc), and you do it, and it doesn't fix it, not your fault, you did what you billed them for it just didn't work, sorry.
you wil eventually end up with people stiffing you because you cleaned dirt covering a crack in a pavement and now they want you to repair it.
get public liability insurance and take pictures of every job before you start
Very good advice
I was genuine that it won't look like new so her expectations are at a reasonable level I think
And yeah I took photos already
My only worry is that the pressure washer will blow out the stone gaps Wich means I have to put in new sand
>My only worry is that the pressure washer will blow out the stone gaps Wich means I have to put in new sand
yeah it might. good luck!
> yeah it might. good luck!
yeah it certainly will. good luck!
Fixed it for you.
I like the idea of not using chemicals, I 2nd using vinegar and soda.
Pressure washer will do the job no problem. If you set it up right you can have incredible control over the size of the jet so you can wash individual bricks without gouging out the fill in between.
Wire brush the moss in between the brickwork if you want but in all honesty you're being far to autistic about it, the mucks going to fly regardless.
If you really worry about fricking up just have a bag of builders sand and broom on standby to shake and bake the whole path once your finished to refill any gaps
Use a low pressure/ wide angle pressure washer nozzle and do a cleaning pattern 45 degrees to the brick joints. Why is op such a gay moron
>I’m not a moron guys I swear!
Arrogant stupid latinx piece of shit
Sorry I'm a Europe gay
I meant by that that I know how to operate a pressure washer but I'm inexperienced when it comes to cleaning pavements
>Pressure wash it
>sweep the moss jiblets into a dustpan
>empty 4$ bag of sand onto the bricks and sweep it into the cracks
Am I missing something? Hell just watch a youtube vid of someone who actually knows wht theyre talking about fixing mossy bricks
Blast it with piss.
Blow it out your ass
I'm afraid my ass won't be able to build up enough pressure
I'm also sure it won't hold as much water so I have to refill quite a lot
>yes I can do it
>even though I've never done it before
why is it always so tempting to say yes to this
The pressure washer by itself is good enough to blast all that off without pre-treatment, but its also going to blast the sand out from between the blocks, so you will need to return a day or so later when its sunny and the floor is all dry and back fill the gaps between the blocks with fresh fine-grade sand and a stiff bristle broom.
%3D
return with the cheapest sand you can find at home depot*
I find cat owners are often giving away a lot of free sand
If I have to do that I didn't charged enough
Guess I'm gonna have to take the L
You will have to do it. Anything else, like the chemical treatments you mentioned, is going to be tiptoeing around the solution and just wasting lots of time, even more money, and getting you a bad reputation. You can minimise the amount of sand that gets lost by keeping the nozzle closer to the bricks, thus giving a smaller working area, and taking great care, but there will be some that gets lost. Best to take the L, do a quality job, and just say you paid for a learning experience rather than lost money being dumb. You will know better for next time. Probably worth doing some research into various services that people may request so you can see whats involved. With this line of work its best to give the customer an estimated price quote, rather than a final price, so you can charge more if required. The most important thing in the long term is to have happy customers who will recommend you to others and give repeat business, so focus on quality.
You could just go back and say you have to charge a bit extra for sand. I mean how much more is the sand and 30 min of work gonna be? Gotkg
thats prolly like 1-2 hours of pressure washing depending on what sorta equipment you got
Gotta come back to sand, could sell the old lady on polymeric sand which is like 30 bucks a bag, prolly just one bag, can add some normal sand first to cheap out
If it gets good sun it'll dry out in a few hours
You WANT to be cleaning out the joints with the pressure washer, so you can add fresh poly meric sand where nothing will grow, thats the whole point
Go in with a stiff metal bristle broom first, to knock off the moss and algae. You could use vinegar at this stage. That'll tell how loose the mortar/sand between the bricks is. Then pressure wash.