Bob Foster
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I did a job today that was really tough to clean.
It was a tile with tan grout. The grout was so built up with grease and soil it was black and fuzzy. It almost had the consistency of gum.
So I hit it with a cocktail of truck wash, butyl, Judson Juice, Hot Sauce and soaked it all with a pump up and then went at it with my Whittaker 20 inch with blue brushes. It hardly moved it.
So then I attack each line with a grout brush and that moved some of it but not all of it.
So then I used a flat brush and scrubbed the grout again. That got most of it.
Then I used my small lance pressure want with a 20 degree 01 tip at 1200 psi to do the kicks and misc stuff.
Then I did a 1200 psi turbo hybrid with 200 degree heat. That got most of it but not all of it.
I then got a doodle pad out and prayed over it a little more on some traffic lanes. Got most of it but not all of it.
Then I went at the grout again with my keys.
That finally did it and it looked great.
Just a tip when you are on your hands and knees and using car keeps to dig crap out of grout lines it kinda fries keys. I ruined two keys and now I have to find other ones to copy with.
Way too much work and it took way more time than I had estimated.
What would you guys have done different?
It was a tile with tan grout. The grout was so built up with grease and soil it was black and fuzzy. It almost had the consistency of gum.
So I hit it with a cocktail of truck wash, butyl, Judson Juice, Hot Sauce and soaked it all with a pump up and then went at it with my Whittaker 20 inch with blue brushes. It hardly moved it.
So then I attack each line with a grout brush and that moved some of it but not all of it.
So then I used a flat brush and scrubbed the grout again. That got most of it.
Then I used my small lance pressure want with a 20 degree 01 tip at 1200 psi to do the kicks and misc stuff.
Then I did a 1200 psi turbo hybrid with 200 degree heat. That got most of it but not all of it.
I then got a doodle pad out and prayed over it a little more on some traffic lanes. Got most of it but not all of it.
Then I went at the grout again with my keys.
That finally did it and it looked great.
Just a tip when you are on your hands and knees and using car keeps to dig crap out of grout lines it kinda fries keys. I ruined two keys and now I have to find other ones to copy with.
Way too much work and it took way more time than I had estimated.
What would you guys have done different?