A pending demonstration this coming saturday prompted a survey of the clients property. The property is large with as many as thirty buildings for potential cleaing. We walked and measured out the cabins , centrally located on the property. Surrounding them are a pool house, a stand alone coffee shop and I believe seven house sized structures facing the beautiful lake for ALL neighbors and visitors to see. Of course that side can be seen from at least a mile away from a boat. I can reach everything with my ladder except the side of the lake front houses, on the lake side. We drove around the lake to see what everyone else sees. The GM on those roofs looks like someone took a quart of paint and dumped it on a picasso. It truely is a postcard-esq view if you softwash the roofs.
Building my system a piece at a time, the heigth of these particular structures makes them a deal breaker without fall protection, UNLESS it is feasable to shoot that side from the apex ( standing on the safe side). I plan to upgrade my pump to a 5 gpm pending inking the deal. I'm currently at 2gpm.
Will more gpm give me more reach from my wand?
Chris Madden said
Oct 10, 2012
John,
A 5gpm pump should give you more reach than the 2gpm in your existing
setup. If you change hose dia, hose length, tips etc. you could loose the advantage
of getting more reach. I am tied up all day and this evening, but I can help
tommorrow night if you want to call me. (803) 956-9274.
I would still use fall protection. I use the following:
get a north star 5.5 gpm 60psi pump will cost around $140 and if you order from northern tool for an extra $30 bucks they will put a 4 year warrentee on the pump just send you a new one no questions asked. pumps work great for me
A pending demonstration this coming saturday prompted a survey of the clients property. The property is large with as many as thirty buildings for potential cleaing. We walked and measured out the cabins , centrally located on the property. Surrounding them are a pool house, a stand alone coffee shop and I believe seven house sized structures facing the beautiful lake for ALL neighbors and visitors to see. Of course that side can be seen from at least a mile away from a boat. I can reach everything with my ladder except the side of the lake front houses, on the lake side. We drove around the lake to see what everyone else sees. The GM on those roofs looks like someone took a quart of paint and dumped it on a picasso. It truely is a postcard-esq view if you softwash the roofs.
Building my system a piece at a time, the heigth of these particular structures makes them a deal breaker without fall protection, UNLESS it is feasable to shoot that side from the apex ( standing on the safe side). I plan to upgrade my pump to a 5 gpm pending inking the deal. I'm currently at 2gpm.
Will more gpm give me more reach from my wand?
John,
A 5gpm pump should give you more reach than the 2gpm in your existing
setup. If you change hose dia, hose length, tips etc. you could loose the advantage
of getting more reach. I am tied up all day and this evening, but I can help
tommorrow night if you want to call me. (803) 956-9274.
I would still use fall protection. I use the following:
- Mammut Gravity superDRY 10.2mm x 60m Dry Rope
- Petzl Ascension Ascender
Good luck on this project.
Chris