Why Pressure Washing Is A Science In Plymouth MN

| Saturday, August 16, 2014
By Linda Ruiz


The outside of your commercial building can get very dirty. Pollution, wind blown debris and rain can make a soupy mess of the front, sides and windows in that structure. The sidewalks can become messy and people will always like to touch the front glass so there is also the greasy finger prints that mess up the appearances of it. The best process for cleaning all of this up is pressure washing, often called power washing.

Some companies will have crews that do their regular cleaning try to accomplish this. Unless that crew has the necessary equipment, they will not be able to perform this critical cleaning and will only manage to make a bigger mess. The professional companies who offer this can do it under budget and with less mess and time than your employees can do it.

Power washing the front and sides as well as the back of the building will be the focus. Along with this is the entry ways as they are part of that first impression you want to be as good as possible. The comings and goings of visitors and employees must be considered, so most of this work should be done in the evening or over night. A company, specializing in this work will do this then and it will be clean first thing in the morning.

The companies, in Plymouth, MN, who performs this cleaning can be one of two distinctly differing organizations. They may be one that specializes in this work, exclusively, or they could be a contract cleaning company with a department that handles this work for them. Either way the crew will have a large machine mounted in the truck, often a flat bed, that they use to great effect.

A little information about the power washing equipment would be handy to have. The unit will generate various amounts of pressure, depending on the rated size of the unit. The ratings are based on a measurement of PSI, or pounds per square inch at the nozzle. Most commercial units will have a rating between 250 PSI to around 6500 PSI. This takes care of the vast majority of cleaning issues. The nozzles, of which there are many differing styles, also has something to do with the coverage and effectiveness of this cleaning.

This type of machine is very environmentally friendly as there is no use for chemicals in most applications. There are several chemicals that are used in a very small amount of projects, such as for grease or when a sanitizer is appropriate. The mechanical force of the water is usually quite enough to move any contamination and the vast majority of even the most sticky of material.

Some of the outside areas, needing this cleaning, are parking lots, sidewalks, statuary, benches and retaining walls. No painter will ever paint a house without performing this cleaning. This has been used to clean out the backs of trucks, heavy equipment and used to clear pipes in municipal waste water hubs.

Science has a lot to do with the way this process works. The mechanical action will effect the adhesion of the contaminants to the surface being cleaned. This force gets under that contamination and makes it able to be moved. That is what makes it almost necessary in a food processing or chemical mixing plant. The rest of what this system does, together with the trained personnel, is make bright, shiny, clean surfaces with which to work.




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