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Fence Cleaning Basics
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In this video I cover the methods to clean a fence. They key is to use a continuous motion when cleaning, do NOT stop and do not go backwards if you missed a spot. That can cause marks in the wood. • Order of Cleaning Strength: • Sodium Percarbonate (light duty cleaner) • Sodium Metasilicate (medium cleaner and light stripper) • Sodium Hydroxide (heavy duty cleaner and stripper) • First thing is to make sure the wood is wet. Use a pressure washer to wet wood. • Use Sodium Percarbonate or Sodium Metasilicate. Mix should be 4oz average fence- 6 dirty fence - 8 oz very dirty fence, 1 gallon if h20, and 1 oz of soap. Elemonator or slo-mo. Get it really mixed up. If you have a heater, warm water helps dissolve. You can apply with a 12v, air, or gas pump system or just a pump up sprayer if you don’t have those. Don’t use a back back sprayer, that’s a bad move putting concentrated chemicals on your back. • Let it dwell for 2 to 20 min depending on severity and then rinse. If it starts to dry before you get to that section and mist it with water. • For the tip and wand setup you should use for cleaning wood, get the gpm of your pump and use a nozzle chart to get a nozzle that puts out 500-800 psi for your pump’s gpm. You should use a 1 tip nozzle. Don’t use a surface cleaner at all. It’s too close to the wood and causes damage. The circle motion goes against the grain of the wood and causes damage. Just don’t. • Follow with Oxalic. That’s to brighten the wood and bring back down the ph level in the wood to keep it healthy. Which is very important also if sealing, staining or painting after it's cleaned. I use 6-10 oz per gallon. You can go higher if needed to 12oz.. Let dwell for 5 min and rinse. Sometimes I leave it on, sometimes I wash it off. It all depends on the wood. Every deck is different. • Rinse along the wood boards in long sweeping motions. Don’t stop until you have hit an end and if you have to stop then sweep up and out at an angle to gradually get off the wood which will blend nicely and not cause a sharp mark. I like to use a trigger gun with a removable lance. Reason is because the lance is for the boards and pickets since they are lower and for the railings I prefer to do with just the gun and tip with the lance removed since it’s usually at my arm level. But you can use a lance if you work best with it instead of just the trigger gun. Whatever works best for you. • We use stain by https://restorativewoodproducts.com/ • Sodium Percarbonate • https://restorativewoodproducts.com/p... • Sodium Metasilicate • https://restorativewoodproducts.com/p... • Sodium Hydroxide • https://restorativewoodproducts.com/p... • Oxalic Acid • https://restorativewoodproducts.com/p... • We build custom trailers and skids and offer free hands on training. • https://www.texaspressurewashingstore...
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