[stuartb]

Can anyone help,

I've cleaned a couple of patios. When finished I'm left with lots of dirty water swimming around. How do you guys cope with this?

Cheers,
Stu

[Griffus]

Best to remove it.

Cheap way via plastic shovel, large bucket and hessian type sack (the sack holds the crud but lets the water away).

Expensice way via wet vac, ideally with a submersible pump. Sacks still needed for crud.

What have you been doing thus far?

[chris scott]

http://www.allpumpsdirect.co.uk/rsd-400-pump

[johnny bravo]

cant you place a bigger spray nozzle onto lance and disperse into drain  and brush away.

[johnny bravo]

put a bigger spray nozzle on lance and spray towards a drain, and brush

[Smurf]

A sub pump works fast up to a point for pooling water but does not remove all the dirty surface water. Then if you can’t brush the excess water off the cleaned surface best to use a wet vac or even a pond vac with built in auto dump works well for those areas with bad drainage issues. Not only that using a wet vac or pond vac you don’t leave any crap on the surface so dries out clean too.

Tip: when doing quotes look for obvious signs of drainage/run off issues as adds time to the job so cost accordingly.  It also causes issues if the run off areas like grass, boarders etc are totally sodden after heavy rainfall so is always best to re-appoint the job to save all the hassle.

 

[Smurf]

This  make pond vac has the auto dump built in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwWXrplqRMo