[Welby]

Eveing All,

I have a commercial clean on an old MOD site, water is appx 600meters from the area to be cleaned. Interested in ideas re getting water to the job, bowsers, IBC's, van mounted kit, long long hoses?

Thoughts / suggestions / Ideas much welcome.

The plan is to keep four guys (2 pairs working continuosly)

Cheers
Welby

[BDCS]

How much is to be done - how many hours/days ?

[Rob_Mac]

I have approximately 300 metres of 1 inch and 2 inch hose that could be attached to a hydrant riser and fed that distance to a vehicle mounted or static water tank, that still leaves 300 metres to the work area.

I have cleaned with 200 metres of hoses effectively, you lose 23psi on every 100metres/feet - cannot remember which one it is, so if you have a 4000psi machine there will still be considerable flow/PSI over 300 metres but try and get hold of 300 metres of hose.

I have about 600 metres of the stuff across all my set ups.

I would go off two vans, one filling while the other is working and just go and fill up when you are empty. We do this all day long and the work gets done.

Good luck

Rob

[Welby]

Cheers rob

Will get on the hose trail, we have 4,000m2, 75% slabs, 25% block paving.

Have a couple of IBCs that will go in the back on the vans but thinking of down time when re-watering.

Biggest job by a long stretch so want to maximise me profit!!

Cheers
Welby

[Rob_Mac]

I am not fishing for the job - far from it! - just giving you some guiders

The water supply - is it tucked out of the way, not over looked?

We cleaned 18000SQM of Tarmac, six of us in six days.

We have cleaned slab 4000SQM in a couple of days, with chewing gum removal.

I wouldn't worry too much about the down time on going to fill up, it just isn't worth trying to find those amounts, you will spend more time setting up and breaking down.

A 4 inch riser (illegal) will fill a 1000l tank in 1 minute, a 1 inch riser will take about 20 - 25 minutes, just allow for filling/down time

Rob

[Welby]

Rob

1 inch riser, so now thinking, 2 x IBC's (back of vans) and a towable 250 gallon bowser.

Cheers
Welby

[Kenny83]

You can also get a connection from your riser to a hoselock connection and you can get a  2 way splitter so you can fill 2 ibc's up at once? or ibc and bowser at the same time? not sure if it would be any quicker though as it still has to go through the one inch part but it is worth considering

[BDCS]

I've got a 1000ltr trailer bowser but I transfer water with my vortex pump on my jetter - it fills a ibc in a couple of minutes

[Welby]

Guys

Really appreciate all the tips / advise / suggestions, plenty for me to look into before the job. Excuse my ignorance (BDCS) but how do you go about attaching a vortex pump to a pressure washer, or are they interal on certain types?

Cheers
Welby

[Kenny83]

you could use one of these? theres a video to show you aswell
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PRESSURE-WASHER-DIRT-WATER-MUD-SUCKER-SUBMERSIBLE-PUMP-VAC-SEWAGE-DRAIN-CLEANER-/180998634823?pt=UK_Home_Garden_PowerTools_SM&hash=item2a245bfd47

[BDCS]

Thats it - mine was slightly more expensive though
https://www.jetweb.biz/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Jet_Pumps_and_Jet_pump_hose_30.html

[Kenny83]

Thats some litre-age!
 

[TN Cleaning Services Ltd]

Have 2 vans with an IBC on each,
When 1 is being worked off have the other one filling up.
then swap over each time.