Green Wash is to be used at the same rate per 100 gallons of mix per the chart below. However at times you may want to increase the mix ratio of Green Wash to add more cling to your soft wash mix and or reactivate old mixes where bleach has gone dormant.
1% Bleach, Cleaning Solution
For use in cleaning these surfaces, painted surfaces, delicate surfaces, siding both wood or vinyl, screen enclosures, wood fences and decks, soffits, eaves, fascia strip, vinyl fences, and all other lightly stained surfaces.
Add Water To The Tank First. (100 gallon tank example)
Water
89 Gallons
**Liquid Bleach (SH 10%)
10 Gallons
**Powder Bleach (CH 65%)
128 Dry US Ounces
Green Wash
64 Liquid US Ounces
Completed 100 Gallon Cleaning Solution
**Use One Bleaching Compound Not Both.
That recommended dose is 64 ounces of Green Wash into 100 gallons of mixed soft wash solution. The amount of Green Wash does'nt change from surface to surface but the bleach percentage will raise or lower from surface to surface. The Green Wash remains steady.
The overall ratio for Green Wash is about 200 / 1 or roughly .64 ounces of Green Wash for every gallon of soft wash solution.
The process of mixing all of your soft wash chemicals into one tank is called One Batching. This is what you will be doing if you don't have a Green Wash injection system like on the SoftWash Systems Cradle, Rouge or Sprite systems.
In One Batching as well as in injecting you can raise the amount of Green Wash to accomplish some desired effects.
Green Wash is fully biodegradable and contains no phosphates. Therefore it will not foam as much as some surfactants (soaps) that contain phosphates.
Despite this fact we did everything we could to make Green Wash foam as much as possible while also being an environmentally responsible product. You can adjust the Green Wash upward in your soft washing solution to make it foam more. Contrary to common beliefs foam has little to do with cling. There are many non-foaming surfactants that will add cling to any chemical mix. Green Wash has excellent surfactant traits like penetration, cleaning suspension as well as cling.
You can add as much Green Wash as you want, just remember it will cost you $24.00 a gallon of Green Wash to do so.
I recommend that you start with the 64 ounce / 100 gallon solution recommendation. Exceeding that will not effect cleaning ability, it will only increase two things, cling and foam. Try not to overuse the product.
If you have an injection system you have hopefully already watched the video on operating your system and adjusting your injector. To add more Green Wash you just need to adjust the cadence of your injector to a higher pulse rate. Your SoftWash Systems, Green Wash injector has been factory set to one pulse per second 0r about 60 ppm. (Pulse Per Minute) To add more Green Wash increase your ppm to 80. Remember a ppm of 120 is roughly double the Green Wash of factory settings.
At factory settings a SoftWash Systems piece of equipment should consume one 5 gallon Green Wash for every 1,000 gallons of soft wash cleaning solution.
One Batching should get the same yield.
AC Lockyer said
Nov 26, 2011
Treating Brick Stone and Other Pourous Surfaces.
Sometimes on limestone, brick and other pourous surfaces algae and bacteria can grow deep into the surface. In this case your soft wash solution will only penetrait so deep, cleaning only the surface unless you do something to carry the soft washing solution deeper into the stone or block.
I recommend using an adjustable hose end sprayer like this one to pre-moisten the surface with a solution of Green Wash before treating with the bleach based soft wash cleaning solution. Doing this allows the algae, mildew, bacteria and what not to become hydrated and accept the chemicals more readily. It's like creating a highway for the soft wash cleaning chemicals to travel deeper into the stone and block to get a better whitening effect.
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Green Wash is to be used at the same rate per 100 gallons of mix per the chart below. However at times you may want to increase the mix ratio of Green Wash to add more cling to your soft wash mix and or reactivate old mixes where bleach has gone dormant.
For use in cleaning these surfaces, painted surfaces, delicate surfaces, siding both wood or vinyl, screen enclosures, wood fences and decks, soffits, eaves, fascia strip, vinyl fences, and all other lightly stained surfaces.
Add Water To The Tank First. (100 gallon tank example)
**Use One Bleaching Compound Not Both.
That recommended dose is 64 ounces of Green Wash into 100 gallons of mixed soft wash solution. The amount of Green Wash does'nt change from surface to surface but the bleach percentage will raise or lower from surface to surface. The Green Wash remains steady.
The overall ratio for Green Wash is about 200 / 1 or roughly .64 ounces of Green Wash for every gallon of soft wash solution.
The process of mixing all of your soft wash chemicals into one tank is called One Batching. This is what you will be doing if you don't have a Green Wash injection system like on the SoftWash Systems Cradle, Rouge or Sprite systems.
In One Batching as well as in injecting you can raise the amount of Green Wash to accomplish some desired effects.
Green Wash is fully biodegradable and contains no phosphates. Therefore it will not foam as much as some surfactants (soaps) that contain phosphates.
Despite this fact we did everything we could to make Green Wash foam as much as possible while also being an environmentally responsible product. You can adjust the Green Wash upward in your soft washing solution to make it foam more. Contrary to common beliefs foam has little to do with cling. There are many non-foaming surfactants that will add cling to any chemical mix. Green Wash has excellent surfactant traits like penetration, cleaning suspension as well as cling.
You can add as much Green Wash as you want, just remember it will cost you $24.00 a gallon of Green Wash to do so.
I recommend that you start with the 64 ounce / 100 gallon solution recommendation. Exceeding that will not effect cleaning ability, it will only increase two things, cling and foam. Try not to overuse the product.
If you have an injection system you have hopefully already watched the video on operating your system and adjusting your injector. To add more Green Wash you just need to adjust the cadence of your injector to a higher pulse rate. Your SoftWash Systems, Green Wash injector has been factory set to one pulse per second 0r about 60 ppm. (Pulse Per Minute) To add more Green Wash increase your ppm to 80. Remember a ppm of 120 is roughly double the Green Wash of factory settings.
At factory settings a SoftWash Systems piece of equipment should consume one 5 gallon Green Wash for every 1,000 gallons of soft wash cleaning solution.
One Batching should get the same yield.
Treating Brick Stone and Other Pourous Surfaces.
Sometimes on limestone, brick and other pourous surfaces algae and bacteria can grow deep into the surface. In this case your soft wash solution will only penetrait so deep, cleaning only the surface unless you do something to carry the soft washing solution deeper into the stone or block.
I recommend using an adjustable hose end sprayer like this one to pre-moisten the surface with a solution of Green Wash before treating with the bleach based soft wash cleaning solution. Doing this allows the algae, mildew, bacteria and what not to become hydrated and accept the chemicals more readily. It's like creating a highway for the soft wash cleaning chemicals to travel deeper into the stone and block to get a better whitening effect.
