[ronnie paton]

what is the best chemical for cleaning/restoring cladding

[BDCS]

What type of cladding, what material, whats the dirt / staining

[ronnie paton]

Aluminium I guess it's weathered and has faded in colour

[concept]

Is it a powder coated aluminium?

If its gone flat, sounds like a cutting compound needed, like t-cut...

Removing algae and general detritus from cladding can be done with hot wfp, or a combo of wfp and tfr (non-caustic).

Maybe get some pics Ron?

[ronnie paton]

ill get some pics little out of area but were hoping to secure window cleaning and its a large student accomadation.

its not dirt that reach and wash would budge its faded

[Blast Away]

ill get some pics little out of area but were hoping to secure window cleaning and its a large student accomadation.

its not dirt that reach and wash would budge its faded

Which area Ron?

[concept]

ill get some pics little out of area but were hoping to secure window cleaning and its a large student accomadation.

its not dirt that reach and wash would budge its faded

Sounds like a t-cut job then!

UV rays fade the top layer of paint/powder coat or ally, and it will need that top coat cutting back to fresh shiny stuff.

I'm no expert, only ever really dealt with the usual grime that will pole off.

Did come up against something similar which had rubber run marks stained the ally powder coated cladding, and nothing other than a cutting compound would shift it.

We had to pass up the job as it would take a month off a cherry picker, if not more.

[ronnie paton]

nottingham pal

[Rob_Mac]

Ronnie

We have just cleaned 3.5 sides of a supermarket, took 37 man days. Cleaned by hand.

It was aluminium - powder coated.

Autosmart G101

The client and myself were gobsmacked at the end result. It looked like new cladding.

Simply spray on, brush with handheld brushes and rinse off, before it dries.

Grab 5 litres from somewhere and give it a go - completely amazing.

I have the photos of Archer road on my website

Rob

[ronnie paton]

has usual a truley helpful post,

thank you going to check your site out then get 5 kitres and then do a spot clean!

they cant say no if i do a spot clean and leave it looking like new!!!

thanks

[ronnie paton]

rob is it the picture were a suare has been cleaned??? white?

could i send you a pic of the cladding and see if you think this would be a suitable product

[Blast Away]

If they just want it cleaning, your chem cost will more than likely be lower. Restoring then different ball game. Once they see a cleaned patch they'll be over the moon with just that.

We mainly use caustic degreasers or hypo. This one below took 15 minutes to spray on hypo from top across and down via ventura and wash off. The hypo ran straight through it, but that's 'cos it's only algae. Traffic film the caustic degreaser we use is shiit hot, £25 for 20 litres lifts off and nice rinse.




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[ronnie paton]

that looks sh it hot, defo restoration ill put a pic up if i can.

were you doing hyde market the other month?

[ronnie paton]

[Blast Away]

that looks sh it hot, defo restoration ill put a pic up if i can.

were you doing hyde market the other month?

Yeh a few months ago, did you pass? We were there an hour to test clean removal of vdw paving mortar resin that they got on the slabs, messy gits. Anyway we booked the job in then apparently Tameside Council cancelled it.

[trevor perry]

here is some cladding cleaning we did using extension pole and turbo nozzle

http://youtu.be/Vct_NGGl6pc

[ronnie paton]

what pole is that trevor

[ronnie paton]

ye passed thought you was doing the job, typical tameside spend millions on doing iyt up for no reason then dont get it cleaned up

[trevor perry]

what pole is that trevor

 it is one i made myself from a gardner clx

[Blast Away]

Nice vid Trev, nice sea breeze on that one!