[Roger Oakley]

Couple of photos from this weeks work so far, deck in central London not been cleaned for around 5 years,



After cleaning, then sanded back


Then re-oiled

[chris scott]

Nice !
Is that North Eastern Congo pallet wood...lightened with H2C2O4 and treated with Ronandave seal  easy flake Multi purpose one coat ,quick dry, short term wood protector ?
 Good stuff we use it all the time as it's waterbased and we can slap it directly after pressure washing ...

[Roger Oakley]

Nice !
Is that North Eastern Congo pallet wood...lightened with H2C2O4 and treated with Ronandave seal  easy flake Multi purpose one coat ,quick dry, short term wood protector ?
 Good stuff we use it all the time as it's waterbased and we can slap it directly after pressure washing ...

That might be how they teach you on the "Smartarse" intensive one day course's they hold, but this was done just a little differently.

[Mitchellmoxo]

Roger, deck looks very nice.

I have been reading your other threads about using deck-prep and net-trol, do you do this process BEFORE pressure washing the deck? Or do you just use these chemicals without pressure washing?

Also do u mind me asking what oils you use?

Many thanks

[Roger Oakley]

Prep-Deck is a stripper so used to remove stains, oils etc.
Net-Trol is a brighten used after the Prep-Deck, it can be used as a cleaner if you wanted, you adjust the dilution rates etc. If using Prep-Deck you HAVE to use the Net-Trol or similar to neutralise the wood.

For both the above, they are used as part of the cleaning or stripping process so a pressure washer is still used.

The brand of oils we use is Colourtrend.

[Mitchellmoxo]

Roger,

appreciate the response, many thanks.

so are you applying chemicals, allow wait time and then pressure washing afterwards? Or are you pressure washing first and then applying chemicals?

[Roger Oakley]

Pre-wet the surface first, apply chemicals, allow to dwell then (dwell time will depend on what you are using) then pressure wash off, then do a heavy rinse so that everything is washed away.

[Mitchellmoxo]

Roger many thanks for your help.

have a nice weekend 

[Cowan]

Great work and love looking through some of your work everyone! I have attached my job of the day!

[Rob_Mac]

Nice job

Rob

[Blast Away]

Great work and love looking through some of your work everyone! I have attached my job of the day!

No hypo on that mate? Could have shifted that last bit.

[chris scott]

Nice job....and you have  your own cherry picker 

[clarkson]

Hey lee
Your guys been in Manchester this week lol
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613480/Idiot-roofing-worker-caught-camera-standing-house-roof-pressure-washed-image-cost-firm-thousands-pounds-safety-breach.html

John

[jmb]

MEWP brought in to gt us across two roofs to complete a section today. This is a 135 - not big enough!!!!

This is the biggest machine I have ever seen and used, 22 tonnes and telescopic axles that made a 30 foot footprint when all the way out. Absolutely enormous piece of kit but completely useless.

You can just see the darker area we were trying to get to in the last picture. What we gained on the outreach was swallowed up by the footprint. Bigger is not necessarily always better.

Rob

Rob, was that the same type of genie that went over last year nr London cus of faulty software allowing it to go beyond it's outreach ? Pretty sure that was a 135, Jon

[Rob_Mac]

That's quite interesting because the guy who was dropping it off told us the story.

The engineer was either fixing it/servicing it in their yard or on a job and it did have a fault and tipped, flinging him into the roundabout and oncoming traffic.

The guy died what must have been (for a very brief moment) a horrible death. The family have not been paid out yet, which just adds to it.

The delivery guy told us this and then left us to it.

I said to my guy - up you go then!

Rob

[jmb]

From what we were told by a ipaf instructor the machine was only a week old and was being looked over by the engineer and the newer machines don't have limit switches but it's ran by software and that was dodgy letting it go beyond its outreach.

The machine was up at his full height when it went over, 29 year old father of two

Think it's still waiting to go to court ect.

[Rob_Mac]

Matt took the machine to full elevation on the main arm but bottled it on the outreach as well so he lowered the main arm before he took it out to see if it reached

He's a big girls blouse

Ended up having a right job pushing an adapted golf trolley, turbo nozzle contraption up 8 metres of roof, in the rain to pressure wash the final face of a roof, finished at six and got home for ten last night.

Arms are knackered today!

Rob

[Mitchellmoxo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef4236yL3W0

[Rob_Mac]

That's just made me feel very sick!

Rob

[jmb]

Matt took the machine to full elevation on the main arm but bottled it on the outreach as well so he lowered the main arm before he took it out to see if it reached

He's a big girls blouse

Ended up having a right job pushing an adapted golf trolley, turbo nozzle contraption up 8 metres of roof, in the rain to pressure wash the final face of a roof, finished at six and got home for ten last night.

Arms are knackered today!

Rob

Lol at the bottling bit, I don't mind the 45 metre machines when you've got a big lorry mount underneath you, but looking at the size of that mewps base ect at 135 foot up will make your legs go bit like the big spiders.

Anytime you Finnish with your golf trolley give me a shout my power caddys just broke