Soap & Cleaner Slinging

No matter how many gpm and psi your pump puts out, no matter how big your pressure washer or motor is: if you can not get soap and cleaner on your project you'll be working with only water pressure. While this may be OK for dirt, mud and other loose soil. Working harder is not the way we work here at Cleaned by Pete. With modern cleaners and soap we can work faster and save water and us less gas or electricity.

In order to do this we first need to get these soaps, cleaners and activators on to your home or project. I have been talking about attachments and I pictured a few soapers and foamers in the blog about poles. Now we are here to talk about these attachments.

These are some of the tools "attachments" Cleaned by Pete uses to deliver soap and cleaners onto your home or project.

There is a science behind industrial cleaning products with chemist and engineers at work to better their products. We would be silly if we did not take full advantage of their work and discovery’s. The professional cosmetic cleaner picks and use safe cleaners on your home or businesses. Using the best cleaners and soap we cut our work cost while reducing runoff, saving water, having to work not as hard and achieve better results. We call it working smarter not to work harder.

These attachments deliver soap at a low pressure to your home at a metered level and a safe pressure for the most delicate surfaces.

A wide soap nozzle at the end of a pole is our first step in cleaning your home. Cleaned by Pete working in Springfield MO applying a light spray of water and cleaner.

A good spray to show you the cleaners starting to work almost instant the cleaners go to work and start cleaning off years of dirt, mildew, algae and crud. Cleaned by Pete using a "foamer" here to reduce splash back since we’re under a porch.

Applying soap and cleaners on to a home, Cleaned by Pete applies the cleaner and lets it work. Some cleaners have been oxygenated and will start to foam and bubble to lift dirt from the walls. Adding other cleaners and chemicals to then kill the algae and other organism growing on your home, then we work it in and rinse. Sometimes we have to repeat the soaping to get it cleaned.

We may use a down-streamer to clean your home. This process we leave the soaps at the pump and this attachment will draw metered soap from a jug into the hose after the pump under low pressure. When the nozzle is changed it will close due the injector due to the high pressure in the hose caused by the smaller opening in the nozzle. Using different soap or low-pressure nozzles with the injector will give us different results on delivery from a fan spray to a straight stream and even foam. We even have nozzles to reach two or three stories. To help reach higher we use the range of poles as shown before.

Soap injector used in down-streaming.

Some of the nozzles Cleaned by Pete uses with the soap injector.

To deliver soap or cleaners at the point of exit we use special attachments as foamers, M-X5's, cannons or soap injectors nozzles. These attachments have a hose attached and draw the soap or cleaner into the water stream at the end of the lace, pole or gun. You will notice a long hose in a jug of cleaning solution we have to carry this jug of cleaner around with us. Cleaned by Pete use this method when foaming or if it is cold. The attachments pull the soap and cleaners from the jug into the exiting water stream. We can sometimes deliver more cleaner to the home's surface with these. Then we change them out for traditional nozzles for scrubbing and rinsing.

You see here a M-X5 soap thrower and rinser with both high and low pressure settings. The M-X5 also has a varied fan sprays, for "all in one cleaning unit". An adjustable foamer the black object with the large barrel attached to the clear hose. The one with the two barrels is an adjustable soaper / rinser used with the down-streaming unit described above, The larger item is an adjustable soap cannon this attachment mixes soap and cleaners into a lather by introducing air in to several small chambers. The adjustability  on these units allows us to let more or less soap into the stream of exiting water this again saves resources by letting us use just enough soap for the job that is needed.

Now if you see us using some of these attachments or toting around a jug of soap or cleaner you know what we are using them for. Cleaned by Pete use these to apply different cleaners too. You will see us use them on decks, stains on concrete, auto restoration and cleaning and other different projects. While the cleaners will all be different the application of the cleaners will be basicly the same. You may see us this summer with a new washer that we are working on it will have a larger tank with our house cleaners in it but we will be metering the flow of the cleaner through a 12 volt pump. We feel we can get a better flow of cleaner by pumping the solution into the hose, instead of letting the low-pressure water just draw it in. Allowing us to save water, cleaner and streamlining the operation.

Cleaned by Pete is your local cosmetic cleaner call us for a free prompt estimate and like us on facebook. For more information and to contact us visit us at Cleaned by Pete or Power Washing Springfield MO.