Hello from Indiana! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. My wife and I started washing last year just as a side hustle and made more then we thought we ever would. This year we are going to keep it a side hustle but also step it up and see if we can’t double it. We watch all your videos and enjoy the knowledgeable content. Seems like you keep it real, way more then others. Definitely our favorite part about your videos.
I actually do that sometimes as well as works great on my commercial big lots that are really black and we’re cleaning, whatever works best is what ya use and this is indeed a GREAT TECHNIQUE,have a blessed day brother✔️🤝🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
16 years old and getting into pressure washing for the first time to make some money, and discovered this technique through some experimentation. Dont know why people dont do this.
I pre treat come back after 45 minutes and I start running my surface cleaner slowly as if I am using a push mower and overlapping my passes. I will definitely always make sure I honestly clean the spacing between each section of the driveway to make sure you are getting proper runoff the way the concrete is designed to do. Awesome job and video Scott.
watched this about a month ago, finally got my surface cleaner and pressure washer and uses this technique on my first time ever pressure washing anything and the driveway came out amazing, thanks for this video
Yep, thats the best way to clean'em. I did some pre-treatment experimenting last week on one that had never been cleaned, house was over 50 years old. I pretreated part of the driveway and not the other side. Could not tell a difference and used small circles on both sides. I did post treat though.
Can’t wait to try this tomorrow! We have a 48” mondo force and on more rocky concrete driveways we are having that line show up. But on smoother concrete it doesn’t! We have cleaned and replaced tips and we keep having the issue on the left side! I go as slow as I can and it wouldn’t matter.
Thank you for the tip. I did my first driveway today and had a hard time with the lines. It was OLD concrete and VERY dirty. I will definitely try this!
Some questions I got my first client so I need some professional advice 1. What is/what do I do to post treat? 2. What happens to the excess water? Do I let it dry on its own? Or use a leaf blower? I don't know 3. Best temp to pressure wash?
I just did a les rice job yesterday at my work office and for the most part it was nice, I did notice thought I did leave some stripes on a certain area of the concrete. Gonna try this circular movement!!
I've been doing circular or sweeping motions for several years now and I find it's the best way to do it. I almost never get any lines at all and the ones that do show up are not very noticeable.
I’m going to try it tomorrow. I just did my second driveway job and I would go up and down slow but still saw lines. Can’t wait to test out the new technique
Thank you. I've pressure washed/cleaned many houses, restaurants, restaurant equipment, etc etc etc ,and I figured I should do it for myself. So I invested into the equipment and I'll make sure to use your technique with my new surface cleaner 👍 also I'll keep in mind of ponds, creeks, plants and anything I wouldn't want ruined at my own house or community.
I just started and I was having issues so I started doing a second run in the opposite direction but I will be sure to try this tomorrow for my next job
great Tip, what I normally do is go Vertical and then Horizontal , obviously take more time, but Good results, will try your technique, Thanks, Merry Christmas
Love the hoodie man have my first pressure washing job tmmr and am not doing any treatment due to my low knowledge on how to add it with my pressure washer any tips?
Aged concrete slabs like that with a heavy build-up, I tend to go in a cross pattern one pass through down the driveway one pass though side to side, circular method looks to be the ticket for sure. Looks Good
I start using that technique as well but don't have the wheels. Pretty exhausting actually without the wheels so you're making me consider changing out my surface cleaner.
I have been doing this for long enough to know that almost all concrete is different...sometimes, even in the same driveway. Some things work for some concrete and it won't work on other concrete. But, you are correct...old and dirty concrete is the worst for leaving cleaning lines...and I have seen some that anything you do still leaves lines. I cleaned 9000sq ft this past Friday and there were places in that driveway/parking lot that nothing would prevent some lines from being left. Yeah, I even tried the tight circular motion with my Big Guy...you could still see some lines. The concrete was clean overall so I just post treated and left. Like it happens with most concrete, I went by there today and stopped to look and there were no visible lines. I am so critical of the work I do, that this kind of stuff drives me crazy...but there are times that I just cannot totally resolve the issue. I guess the saying "it is what it is"...is really true.
I am the same way! I feel like with pressure washing we are hyper aware of stripes too! We never want to be that person! But in some cases you will lose money trying to fix something that is beyond our ability! We definitely aren’t magicians!
Looks great! Great advice! Few questions. What do you use for post and pre treat, ahd how do you apply it. Also does your surface cleaner have 2 heads underneath or more. Just did mine and I have horrible lines. I will redo it with your method.
They call it the Craig Harrison technique. I’ve been doing that for a long time. Especially on old concrete. It’s usually the worst offender. A mad post treatment helps a lot too.
I am looking at an auction of a Steel Eagle which looks to be a handtruck frame with a cleaner in front. It appears to me that making little circles with that would be hard. Way harder than with 3-4 free casters
Thanks for the info brother, have been going vertical and then horizontal but still stripes and squares, will try tomorrow, also does it matter what your pressure knob is twisted to, do you have a preference everytime or depend on soil level
Good video, to the point is much appreciated. I’ll be perusing your channel to see what / if you pre-treat. I heard you mention post treatment, so I’ll have to check that out too. Thanks for your time!
Mannn! I just followed up with a customer after about 4-5 months and it was just as you described with the stripes. I'm going to have to redo it for my conscious purpose. BTW who does your shirts? 👍👍
Great video, excellent advice and tip. Questions? When post treating do you, down stream or use a pump sprayer. Also when I get my equipment together I’ll be using a 4gpm washer (that’s what most people say you need to start) is a 14 in surface cleaner good to use or does it matter.
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2 years after the original post and still helping people out. I appreciate it brotha
Hey bro! Just wanted to thank you for serving the Lord through your business!! Keep it up Rom 12:1-2
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Ew… what about when god committed genacide worse than hitler.
I started doing this last year and haven’t left a line since. Works perfectly!
Nice. Will be doing this on my next job
Hello from Indiana! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. My wife and I started washing last year just as a side hustle and made more then we thought we ever would. This year we are going to keep it a side hustle but also step it up and see if we can’t double it. We watch all your videos and enjoy the knowledgeable content. Seems like you keep it real, way more then others. Definitely our favorite part about your videos.
Got to!!! Good luck guys
Where at in Indiana?
Congrats on the new adventure man!
What would say was your best marketing tool. Just getting started as a father and daughter team.
Appreciate the hint. I did a job two years ago and the witness lines are really starting to show. I didn’t treat the work on the client’s advice.
I figured this out too, this has gotta be the most clean cut - no bs video on the topic. Thanks for sharing brother
Thanks
I actually do that sometimes as well as works great on my commercial big lots that are really black and we’re cleaning, whatever works best is what ya use and this is indeed a GREAT TECHNIQUE,have a blessed day brother✔️🤝🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks
Thank you! Did my driveway and it looks alot better then simple stripes
Small circles is the only surface cleaning technique that I use now thanks to your video! Another great video! Thanks brother for all your time!
16 years old and getting into pressure washing for the first time to make some money, and discovered this technique through some experimentation. Dont know why people dont do this.
I pre treat come back after 45 minutes and I start running my surface cleaner slowly as if I am using a push mower and overlapping my passes. I will definitely always make sure I honestly clean the spacing between each section of the driveway to make sure you are getting proper runoff the way the concrete is designed to do. Awesome job and video Scott.
Did you pretreat with SH?
watched this about a month ago, finally got my surface cleaner and pressure washer and uses this technique on my first time ever pressure washing anything and the driveway came out amazing, thanks for this video
Thanks Scott, I've been doing this and I was starting to think I was crazy and wasting my time.
Whatever makes it clean
Just got a 14" surface cleaner and just want to thank you for the tips. Hope you can put up a video on wood/decks. Thanks Bro!
Yep, thats the best way to clean'em. I did some pre-treatment experimenting last week on one that had never been cleaned, house was over 50 years old. I pretreated part of the driveway and not the other side. Could not tell a difference and used small circles on both sides. I did post treat though.
Can’t wait to try this tomorrow! We have a 48” mondo force and on more rocky concrete driveways we are having that line show up. But on smoother concrete it doesn’t! We have cleaned and replaced tips and we keep having the issue on the left side! I go as slow as I can and it wouldn’t matter.
Thank you for the video. I bought a surface cleaner today and your video helped me understand what I am doing wrong.
Sweeeeet. Good luck with jt
Thank you for the tip. I did my first driveway today and had a hard time with the lines. It was OLD concrete and VERY dirty. I will definitely try this!
Some questions I got my first client so I need some professional advice
1. What is/what do I do to post treat?
2. What happens to the excess water? Do I let it dry on its own? Or use a leaf blower? I don't know
3. Best temp to pressure wash?
3% bleach. Let the water go. Stop overthinking. Don't go out when it's freezing
The circle technique is the best way, I completely agree
I just did a les rice job yesterday at my work office and for the most part it was nice, I did notice thought I did leave some stripes on a certain area of the concrete. Gonna try this circular movement!!
It works
Thank you Scott, I’m going to try this on my next job!
I've been doing circular or sweeping motions for several years now and I find it's the best way to do it. I almost never get any lines at all and the ones that do show up are not very noticeable.
I’m going to try it tomorrow.
I just did my second driveway job and I would go up and down slow but still saw lines.
Can’t wait to test out the new technique
I will use the circle technology in all aspects of life!!
I did the circular motion today on a driveway and it worked. I didn’t see any stripes. Thanks for the awesome advice
Sweeeeey
I’ll let you know when I post the video on my channel. It was even more fast, by not repeating ever past the old way I was doing it
Thank you. I've pressure washed/cleaned many houses, restaurants, restaurant equipment, etc etc etc ,and I figured I should do it for myself. So I invested into the equipment and I'll make sure to use your technique with my new surface cleaner 👍 also I'll keep in mind of ponds, creeks, plants and anything I wouldn't want ruined at my own house or community.
I just started and I was having issues so I started doing a second run in the opposite direction but I will be sure to try this tomorrow for my next job
This is exactly the information I needed for cleaning my old driveway! Many thanks and I hope you have a great Sunday with your family
Awesome
Indiana as well. Great tips, I will be trying this tomorrow. Thanks for posting
Thank you for all the great information that you give. God bless.
Thank you
That roof across the street is in dire need of Scott’s magic touch ….
And some hot sauce
I’ve got a job tomorrow, I’m going to try it and update after
great Tip, what I normally do is go Vertical and then Horizontal , obviously take more time, but Good results, will try your technique, Thanks, Merry Christmas
Nothing wrong with that
What pretreatment cleaner do you use?
Sodium hypochlorite at around 3% mix
Love the hoodie man have my first pressure washing job tmmr and am not doing any treatment due to my low knowledge on how to add it with my pressure washer any tips?
Aged concrete slabs like that with a heavy build-up, I tend to go in a cross pattern one pass through down the driveway one pass though side to side, circular method looks to be the ticket for sure. Looks Good
You got my subscription because of this video. Thanks for teaching. Just noticed that verse on your shirt.
Thank you
I subscribed for further education but mostly because of the verse embroidered on your hoodie. God bless
Awesome. I’ll try the small circles today!
I truly appreciate your input u keep it 💯 May God keep blessing u and your family brother 🙏
I start using that technique as well but don't have the wheels. Pretty exhausting actually without the wheels so you're making me consider changing out my surface cleaner.
Got to have wheels
Scott Cleans it is back at it again 💪🏾 great content once again!
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I have been doing this for long enough to know that almost all concrete is different...sometimes, even in the same driveway. Some things work for some concrete and it won't work on other concrete. But, you are correct...old and dirty concrete is the worst for leaving cleaning lines...and I have seen some that anything you do still leaves lines. I cleaned 9000sq ft this past Friday and there were places in that driveway/parking lot that nothing would prevent some lines from being left. Yeah, I even tried the tight circular motion with my Big Guy...you could still see some lines. The concrete was clean overall so I just post treated and left. Like it happens with most concrete, I went by there today and stopped to look and there were no visible lines. I am so critical of the work I do, that this kind of stuff drives me crazy...but there are times that I just cannot totally resolve the issue. I guess the saying "it is what it is"...is really true.
Yep
I am the same way! I feel like with pressure washing we are hyper aware of stripes too! We never want to be that person! But in some cases you will lose money trying to fix something that is beyond our ability! We definitely aren’t magicians!
What do you do for reclaiming water? Thanks!
Thank you for the free education.
I was all set to watch your video, then you took it down. You made me wait for the encore lol. 👍👍
Had copyright issue
Would this method me preferred over just pre treating and post treating get rid of the lines? Thanks for the value!
i actually do bigger circles.. its getter than goin side to side or forward n backward
Will practice your technique over my weekend jobs! Thank you Scott.
Thanks, I will try that.
makes sense.
what pressure n gpm are you using?
5.5
Good video. Been doing circles myself for a couple years. Takes a little longer but definitely better results.
Nice! Where can I get that handle set up and disk on wheels
Thanks Scott
Looks great! Great advice! Few questions. What do you use for post and pre treat, ahd how do you apply it. Also does your surface cleaner have 2 heads underneath or more. Just did mine and I have horrible lines. I will redo it with your method.
What is post treated?
Thank you
Post treating is once the cleaning is done, you spray a other treatment of sodium hypochlorite down to ensure all organic are destroyed
Great tip. Thanks
Any idea how to wash stucco or brick I have a 8 gal a minute would I need a xjet?
3%
Love that verse on your shirt bro! Where are you based out of? I’m here in TN (Nashville) were you at the convention in August 2023?
Thanks for the tip
Scott we greatly appreciate all the helpful information you provide for us, just want to say thanks bro!! Stay blessed brother!!
I find that if I just post treat afterwards it comes out perfectly as well. I just go up and down
I thought so too until I went back a year later and it was horrible
Thanks again for another informational video.
I been telling guys this for 3 years now. Gotta treat it like a floor buffer
I like your work bro im learning as i go
Thank you for the tip!
Anytime
Bro you just saved my butt thank you so much
May I ask where you got your sweat shirt made
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You are the man brother, thank for posting this video. Solid!!!!
this has changed how i surface clean, thank you big time!!
I’ve never tried the figure 8. But do the little circles all the time, no wheels on my surface cleaner so it’s like an ab workout lol
Shoulders
Just using a turbo nozzle on the driveway, not as fast as a surface cleaner but solves that issue too.
Use the circle pattern then touch up with the turbo nozzle.
I love that hoodie my brother!!!!!
what do you post treat with? Will just bleach and water work?
Where did you get your hoodie from? Starting my own PW business and looking at getting some shirts.
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Always pretreat and you never have lines, make sure you use the right tips as well. Great content.
Thank you for making this video!
What is the best bang for your buck cleaner and post treatment for driveways to use?
Sh
They call it the Craig Harrison technique. I’ve been doing that for a long time. Especially on old concrete. It’s usually the worst offender. A mad post treatment helps a lot too.
I am looking at an auction of a Steel Eagle which looks to be a handtruck frame with a cleaner in front. It appears to me that making little circles with that would be hard. Way harder than with 3-4 free casters
NICE Video brotha, what did you use for post treatment?
Sh
Another great videos. Keep them coming thank you so much
Thanks
mind blown!!!!
Thats awesome, never seen that before
Thanks for the info brother, have been going vertical and then horizontal but still stripes and squares, will try tomorrow, also does it matter what your pressure knob is twisted to, do you have a preference everytime or depend on soil level
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Fantastic man. Thanks!
Good video, to the point is much appreciated. I’ll be perusing your channel to see what / if you pre-treat. I heard you mention post treatment, so I’ll have to check that out too. Thanks for your time!
Awesome tips. Thank you.
Thanks
What would you say (roughly) is the difference in time using the one method vs. the other
Would you charge extra for doing that method?
Time doesn't matter. It's the final product being delivered. People want a good job
Thank you for this video, man this helped so much. 🙌🏾
Good deal
Thanks for channel!
I’m new to the field. What should I use as post treatment
SH
🔥!! Let’s get it
Thank you for this!!
What pressure and tips are you using for that concrete to get the result you have ?
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Mannn! I just followed up with a customer after about 4-5 months and it was just as you described with the stripes. I'm going to have to redo it for my conscious purpose. BTW who does your shirts? 👍👍
Link in description
Great video, excellent advice and tip. Questions? When post treating do you, down stream or use a pump sprayer. Also when I get my equipment together I’ll be using a 4gpm washer (that’s what most people say you need to start) is a 14 in surface cleaner good to use or does it matter.
12v
Also, what is a post treatment? You’re still using chemical correct? What else do you do?
3% sodium hypochlorite
@@ScottCleansIt and you let it sit for what? 5 minutes then just normal rinse?
@@sharkbait305 post treating doesn't get rinsed
What make and size surface cleaner do you use?
You need 4” per gpm. Mine is 2” bigger than needed