[amayze]

Hi All,

I've been asked to jetwash a tarmac drive, which has two large paint spills on it. Will it come off normally using my pressure washer, or should I treat it with some chemicals first?

Regards A

[Darranvps]

Maybe try it with a Dirt Killer lance on your pressure washer - it doubles up the pressure. Kranzle sell them, and if you are close enough I have a boxfull. I am near Crawley, West Sussex

[DaveG]

is it water based paint?

[amayze]

Good Q, H2ose, it could well be emulsion as opposed to gloss.

[Darranvps]

Hi All,

I've been asked to jetwash a tarmac drive, which has two large paint spills on it. Will it come off normally using my pressure washer, or should I treat it with some chemicals first?

Regards A

I was once asked to clean paint from some brickwork at a solicitors office in the centre of leeds.
I went to quote at 2pm, what had happened was, somebody had stood in the middle of the road and swung a bucket of paint around and then threw it up the wall, I really thought this would only take a couple of hours and arranged my staff to start the cleaning by 6.30 pm the same day.
I quoted 1100 pounds and thought I was going to make a killing. Four hours later, hardly any of the paint had gone.
We tried everything, the next day we tried Nitro mors, acid you name it we tried, we searched for Graffitti removal specialists, they came they tried they failed.
We scraped a small amount of paint off of the wall and had it anylised, it turned out the paint had been mixed with something like a permanent adhesive glue.
I wonder if it is still on there.
And yes, the solicitors did pay me the 1100 pounds for my efforts

[jonnyald]

Hi All,

I've been asked to jetwash a tarmac drive, which has two large paint spills on it. Will it come off normally using my pressure washer, or should I treat it with some chemicals first?

Regards A

I was once asked to clean paint from some brickwork at a solicitors office in the centre of leeds.
I went to quote at 2pm, what had happened was, somebody had stood in the middle of the road and swung a bucket of paint around and then threw it up the wall, I really thought this would only take a couple of hours and arranged my staff to start the cleaning by 6.30 pm the same day.
I quoted 1100 pounds and thought I was going to make a killing. Four hours later, hardly any of the paint had gone.
We tried everything, the next day we tried Nitro mors, acid you name it we tried, we searched for Graffitti removal specialists, they came they tried they failed.
We scraped a small amount of paint off of the wall and had it anylised, it turned out the paint had been mixed with something like a permanent adhesive glue.
I wonder if it is still on there.
And yes, the solicitors did pay me the 1100 pounds for my efforts

have a look on google maps darren,see if the paints still on !(i checked up on google to see if a blob of chewin gum was still uup above a housenumber

[Darranvps]

Hi All,

I've been asked to jetwash a tarmac drive, which has two large paint spills on it. Will it come off normally using my pressure washer, or should I treat it with some chemicals first?

Regards A

I was once asked to clean paint from some brickwork at a solicitors office in the centre of leeds.
I went to quote at 2pm, what had happened was, somebody had stood in the middle of the road and swung a bucket of paint around and then threw it up the wall, I really thought this would only take a couple of hours and arranged my staff to start the cleaning by 6.30 pm the same day.
I quoted 1100 pounds and thought I was going to make a killing. Four hours later, hardly any of the paint had gone.
We tried everything, the next day we tried Nitro mors, acid you name it we tried, we searched for Graffitti removal specialists, they came they tried they failed.
We scraped a small amount of paint off of the wall and had it anylised, it turned out the paint had been mixed with something like a permanent adhesive glue.
I wonder if it is still on there.
And yes, the solicitors did pay me the 1100 pounds for my efforts

have a look on google maps darren,see if the paints still on !

After my reply I did, and its gone, but I could still see the damage I did on the window frames with the Nitro Mors stuff

[Dennis Taylor]

If you use a pressure washer on tarmac there is a ver good chance you will damage it, my PWer would rip  the stuff up..... be careful.

[actualcleaning]

As Dennis says...be very careful on tarmac,been there and done it on red...i ripped a small part to pieces,but i did have a turbo nozzle on...