Built a new fogger / foamer

Pete washed a house this week on Monday and is getting ready to head out for a house washing today, letting the temperature rise a few degrees first. The house, washed Monday, had a weird out cropping on it and was hard to get an angle to spray on the cleaners. Finally got it wet down with cleaner and soaps and worked to get it cleaned then. It was the angle of the spray could not get to it strait-a-way so this morning he built this fogger (it's a foamer but does not make thick foam more or less throws a good mist of cleaner, fogs it on). As told  by another contractor in the business once, "you should not post things you make or use to aid or speed up cleaning jobs, you shouldn't be showing your competitors anything that will help them out", well to bad, I do if I know there is someone else that has the same problem maybe this will help competitor or not. The new fogger / foamer has an angled lance extension for getting at those areas around the dormers and roofing peaks that you can not get a straight shot at. It will just be a siphon feed so you'll have to carry a jug around but just for spotting it will be OK for now. We always say tools and equipment make the job easier and you our customer receive a better job. Will try it out later today and see what improvements are needed. Thinking ahead there is a quick connect at the top, enabling the fogger / foamer to be removed and a "M-16 Thruster Nozzle" to be used to reach taller areas and then rinse with out changing out the lance.
It was a simple build made it form parts and stuff laying around and form the hardware store. The foaming head is form Faip and rated at 4000 psi max are relatively inexpensive. Used several sections of 1/4" pipe to make up the shaft use a set of quick connects from the repair parts. The angle of the head is made form a 45 degrees elbow, have seen 33 degrees and 90 degrees fittings but 45 looked best. You may want to build one and give it a try.

Cleaned by Pete's new fogger / foamer:

 for those hard to reach and spray areas

Cleaned by Pete built his spot fogger / foamer for soap and cleaner application in that area that you can not spray straight on.

Cleaned by Pete put this together our of some 1/4" pipe, connections, and a syphon feed fogger / foamer he had laying around it is over six feet for added reach.

Hoping this it what makes the difference the angle changing the angle of application should help with the problem we ran into the other day. Cleaned by Pete has the right tools for your job or he will make them.

Review: Had to fix one small leak in one of the connections, but will have to give it a thumbs up. Built this as a spot fogger / foamer but it worked so good today used it to apply most of the soap and cleaners. Did not try changing out the fogger / foamer tip with the M-16 today, will do that when things get all ironed out. Just used the long range nozzle to downstream the high areas. It could get closer to the wall and was able to apply a heavy coat of cleaner. Good foaming, little to no blow-back on a person, with over a 6 foot swath soaping went faster, less waist of product due to the wind which was blowing quite brisk around 15 mph cause it was closer to the walls and could reach up higher. Used a old bleach jug about half full so it was not too heavy. Going to add a hook that will swivel around on the lance or some thing to hook the jug on also put on a grip handle to control the head direction. Freeing up the hand that was holding jug to the lance. With the addition of a grip handle it will help to make the unit more stable. Gripping both made hand cramp a little after a period of time. Will  do the add-ons and let you know. Going to wash some buses tomorrow, maybe try it there too seeing if there are any other additions needed. I'm calling this a fogger because though the attachment is a foamer it does not draw in the air very good and it does not create a lot of foam unless you use pure dish soap or something really sudzy but does fog a good mist of cleaner really well.

Use the attachment today for laying on the soaps and cleaners on a small fleet of buses, went well with the reach was able to walk along the side of the bus and the downward angle of the head the soap would run down the side of the bus. By stepping back and the reach could cover about half the buses side flipping the head upwards could spray under the bus and in the wheel wells, then move down and cover the other half. Control was better and was not just shooting up and splattering cleaner all over. So all in all it has a place in our line of attachments and equipment and for the cost we'll keep it.