Nice, you made an already clean roof still clean

Finally I can wear a suit while spraying a roof.

I'm a soft wash roof cleaner and also a drone pilot of ~17 years and I was wondering when I would see someone using a drone for roof cleaning. I do have a suggestion if you're open to ideas. I'd recommend a slightly larger orifice on your spray tips, so the droplets are larger and harder to be blown around. The spray is fine enough that the downwash of the rotors is blowing your cleaning solution. Next, how do you need your drone electronics and battery connections clean from the corrosive effects of bleach on these surfaces? I can see the benefits of reducing the risks of having employees on a roof, but the savings on insurance in that regard are not going to be large enough to offset the cost of a drone, the maintenance and replacement parts from working around bleach, replacing batteries and drone insurance, so this looks like more of a great selling tool than an effective roof cleaning method. The speed and control you have spraying by hand is much faster and more accurate than what can be achieved by a drone pilot with the video latency from the drone to the remote and remote to the video device, which is why FPV drones are easier to fly because that latency is drastically reduced. I love the idea, but I do not see it as a practical way to effectively clean a roof.

How did the drone work out for ur company are sales increased cuz of it? Any problems with the drones connections?,leaks? Can u charge more ? How many batteries do u use ?

where can i buy one please

I use a 8gpm machine,never use ladder or walk on roofs,its super fast,goes 3 stories,i run sh thru pump,then chlorine neutralizer afterwards,pump lasted 5 years so far,if it dies only 1000 to replace

@ianbattan

2 жыл бұрын

What platform are you flying?

@Troy-Echo

Жыл бұрын

@@ianbattan He is not flying, he is using a 4,000 PSI and 8 GPM pressure washer to apply the chemicals from the ground. Although pressure washing an asphalt roof is a no-no, Philip is not using pressure on the roof, he is just using the power of the machine to launch the cleaning solution from the ground onto the roof, the same as most soft washers use a 5.5 GPM 12v pump to spray from the ground. This is about the only way I can give a thumbs up for using a pressure washer for asphalt roof cleaning, and kudos to him for using this approach. He is only the second pressure washer I've seen that does not use pressure to clean asphalt roofing. I would be interested in finding out how he can clean 2 or 3 story homes and see what he is spraying.

@flman1284

10 ай бұрын

​@@Troy-EchoI soft wash roofs, asphalt and tile roofs are all done with an air diaphragm pump that feeds my ag hose, sprayed out of a JD9 gun. Our pump is set to 80psi, through 300' of ag hose. We use less pressure than a garden hose, spraying SH. We stay away from the electric pumps... You get limited use time with them. We stick to the air diaphragm. I've got a couple shorts of our rig on my channel

@Troy-Echo

10 ай бұрын

@@flman1284I ran a roof & exterior cleaning business using SH for about 10 years, but it was a side business. I'm in Central Virginia and with the weather, it's nearly impossible to work all year around. My friend that does this as well full time (since retiring as a fire fighter) is usually booked 6-8 weeks out during the summer, but once we hit October, his work falls off to almost nothing until the following March. I was doing a rush job for someone selling a house that needed the roof cleaned ASAP. The weather was colder than the weather called for, but I did the job anyway, just being OCD with plenty of water to push any runoff from the gutters down to the woods to avoid any plants or landscaping damage. Nearing the end of the job, I was coming down to grab a bite to eat or something and holding the hose. The cold made the braided hose brittle enough that it snapped, and I had either 5 or 7 GPM pumping out so I yelled at my stand in helper to run up and turn the pump off. The roof was large enough that I could spread the SH without having any issue with runoff, but it was worth it to see my 300-pound friend hustling up the steep driveway at top speed. I had a change in medication, and it has caused me to a touch of my balance, so I do not really do roof cleaning anymore, but I miss it. It was hot, sweaty, humid, hard work, but I found it so cathartic to watch dirty roofs come clean. Sorry for rambling, but as a drone pilot and softwasher, I found it pretty cool to see a drone used in this manner. Do you still use your drone for roof cleaning, and if so, do you run into issues with the rotor motors or batteries with the SH mix? I fly a drone for fun and photography which is a Mini 3 Pro. I know people are talking about outlawing DJI drones which is stupid. But I had to consider that fact when i looked at DJI M3P prices and they had dropped by 20-25% from 6-8 weeks ago. I don't know how anybody that stops to think for 2 seconds how a DJI drone is a threat. China hasn't built a secret data network all over America to connect, and you can't connect to any wifi point without some kind of password to authenticate. My home wifi doesn't see the drone connected unless I manually turn on the wifi to download firmware updates. Wifi upload speeds are drastically slow, so in that short amount of time, it would be impossible to upload a video due to size, and the photo images, very few would be able to be uploaded in that time. Any unexpected internet connection would raise red flags with the router and service provider security. And if, AND I MEAN "IF" that were to happen, what percentage of images would be of anything the Chinese government would care about anyway? The best guess I can come up with is a big business-like Amazon is trying to either clear the airspace for their drone delivery services, or they are about to break into the market, and they want to use fear tactics to remove the competition that they know would kick their butts. I don't know...I'm sure you're aware of most of this anyway.

@flman1284

10 ай бұрын

@@Troy-Echo We haven't started with drones yet, at $40k a piece... Other things come first. I'm in SWFL, we can work year round, but we have a slow season. Typically the rainy summer time. We have noticed that too cold (it can get cold down here) the SH don't work as well. We do everything from the dirt to the clouds, we have a Tucker waterfed pole system for exterior windows, mop/squeegee interior. We also stain and seal pavers/decks.

Can you please tell me if this has been a good investment and what brand did you go with and is it still working out would you do it again if you knew what you know now?? Please help lol

Are you washing a roof? or are you sparkling spraying the roof?? Are you kidding me?

To be honest .. it would be way fast to do this by hand .. and you don’t have to have a 5000 dollar drone