Unique job here.... fuels tanks for a petroleum products distributor. Used my cradle skid and applied a 2% mix from the ground...this was some thick and heavy lichen. Let the mix sit on the tanks overnight and then rinsed from a lift. Could have done the job from a ladder...but who wants to get that wet???? Whole process took 5 hours. Happy customer, happy wallet.
Great to see Ray! We have a large gas terminal in town with some pretty ugly tanks that I wanted to persue but didn't know if there were issues with the bleach and fuel. So looks like there isn't. Time to contact my brother-in-law who runs a local oil company to conect me with teh powers that be.
Gregg
Ray Burke said
Feb 16, 2013
GAustensen wrote:
Great to see Ray! We have a large gas terminal in town with some pretty ugly tanks that I wanted to persue but didn't know if there were issues with the bleach and fuel. So looks like there isn't. Time to contact my brother-in-law who runs a local oil company to conect me with teh powers that be.
Gregg
9 times out of 10 bleach will clean them.....10% of the time you'll need a second treatment with a degreaser. A lot of folks don't tackle jobs like this because they think its going to be tedious PW wanding work. Its honestly not!!!!!!
-- Edited by spray wash on Saturday 16th of February 2013 07:57:19 AM
Doug Rucker said
Feb 16, 2013
Wow looks great Ray.....
Dan Dykstra said
Feb 16, 2013
Like the look of the cleaning it did on those tanks. I am going to go after some of the water storage tanks we have here. They get them pressure washed every spring and by the middle of the summer they look like crap again. I am hoping that our SoftWash system will keep them clean for a longer time.
Danny Cronauer said
Feb 16, 2013
Ray, you never cease to amaze me. The amount of random things and different surfaces you clean is beyond me. I would see this job and have no idea, how to clean it. I was thinking exactly what you said, lots of pressure washing work!
Danny
AC Lockyer said
Feb 18, 2013
Tanks are great work. You have to get on the government bidding / purchasing list for municipal ones though.
Unique job here.... fuels tanks for a petroleum products distributor. Used my cradle skid and applied a 2% mix from the ground...this was some thick and heavy lichen. Let the mix sit on the tanks overnight and then rinsed from a lift. Could have done the job from a ladder...but who wants to get that wet???? Whole process took 5 hours. Happy customer, happy wallet.
Great to see Ray! We have a large gas terminal in town with some pretty ugly tanks that I wanted to persue but didn't know if there were issues with the bleach and fuel. So looks like there isn't. Time to contact my brother-in-law who runs a local oil company to conect me with teh powers that be.
Gregg
9 times out of 10 bleach will clean them.....10% of the time you'll need a second treatment with a degreaser. A lot of folks don't tackle jobs like this because they think its going to be tedious PW wanding work. Its honestly not!!!!!!
-- Edited by spray wash on Saturday 16th of February 2013 07:57:19 AM
I am going to go after some of the water storage tanks we have here. They get them pressure washed every spring and by the middle of the summer they look like crap again. I am hoping that our SoftWash system will keep them clean for a longer time.
Danny
AC