Pump Maintenance and Repair for Pressure Washers

!±8± Pump Maintenance and Repair for Pressure Washers

If you have a pressure washer business you will eventually need to change out or repair the pump. There are a few things you should know to make such change outs easy. You may also need to study up on preventative maintenance so that you do not have to worry about pump failure. Your pressure washer probably has one of two different pumps if it is industrial grade. Either a Cat Pump or a General pump; both are industry standards. General is the leader in the industry for sales and many prefer Cat as it sucks better from plastic water tanks.

Your pump is powered by two parallel belts connected to your engine. You should make sure not to starve your pump from water. When the water tank is empty turn off the engine. Starving a pump will burn it out in about thirty-five minutes. The manufacturer says five to ten minutes, but that's not life threatening. Your pump has a safety feature whereby when you are not spraying the water, it will automatically by pass into the tank provided there is enough water for the complete loop. Thank you. We also thought it was one of our great ideas. You should change the oil in the pump every month. Make sure your pressure washer rig is on level ground and fill the pump to the red dot on the center of the eyeglass. Over filling is a really bad idea.

On your pump you will notice six large bolts. Inside of the holes are check valves with springs. After 300-500 hours you should change them. You can do this yourself. The valve kits are .000. It's very easy:

Unscrew bolts

Remove old valve

Replace valve

Make sure to seat the valve evenly

Screw the bolt back in by hand

Make sure the O-ring on the bolt is snug

Tighten with wrench pretty tight

Inspecting The Pump

If you drain the oil and it's got bubbles in it or has turned white, then you have a blown seal and water is getting into the oil because: It overheated due to water starvation; The casing cracked because of vibration; You forgot to change the oil, dummy (0 mistake and one lost day's work if you can get the parts that fast).

Check to see if the belts are tight. If not tighten them. Look for water drips. A slow drip on the exit side of the pump could cost you as much as 150 PSI at the nozzle. A fast drip (two to three drops per second) could be a 250-300 PSI loss at the nozzle. A steady drip stream might be a 500 plus PSI loss. When you see water leaking, fix the leak ASAP. Be sure to use ample Teflon tape when re-tightening fittings. This will stop future leaks, prevent rust and make fittings easy to separate in the future.

A hole in a hose or leak on the inlet side of the pump causes air to get in. The pump will act as if it's starving for water. It might even pulsate. When the water level in your tank reaches a point below the leak in the hose, air will replace the water and you'll get zero pressure. That makes it very hard to wash anything.

Low pressure in the pump can be caused by a number of things; these are by far the most common, but this is not a complete list, generally if you go thru this list the problem will be solved, check the easiest things first such as water supply:

Faulty pressure gauge (Replace)

Out of water (Fill up tank)

Old or worn out tip at gun nozzle (Replace)

Incorrect tip (Remove and replace)

Belt slippage (Tighten belt)

Hose leaks (Fix leaks)

Faulty unloader (Replace)

Mis-adjusted unloader (Re-adjust)

Worn packing in pump (Take it to dealer)

Inline filter clogged with dirt (Clean it)

Obstruction in spray nozzle tip (Remove it)

Chemical metering valve sucking air (Turn it off)

Slow engine rpm (Check engine)

If you have a pulsating issue at the gun or the machine is Fluctuating pressure, this is a completely different problem than low pressure. You should check for: Worn piston packing (Call dealer). Pump sucking air (Fix hole), Blockage in valve (Remove, check valves and take out blockage). If it is fluctuating and very noisy or if your pump is only noisy check for:

Air in suction line (Check water supply and connections)

Broken or weak inlet or discharge valve springs (Call dealer)

Excessive matter in valves (Check and clean if necessary)

Worn bearings (Check and replace. If necessary, call dealer)

Vibrations from mounting (Tighten it. If unable, call dealer)

If you find the presence of water in the pump oil, it could be caused by: Blown pump head seals, High humidity in air (Change oil more often) or Piston packing worn then call your dealer. If water or oil drips from the bottom of the pump this could be a number of things such as Piston packing worn, the O-ring plunger retainer is worn, Oil seal worn, Pump head seal shot or Crack in pump head. If any of these call the dealer and see if they have the parts in stock, you may be able to fix it yourself if you feel confident, if not you will need to leave your machines with the dealer for repairs.

Pump lubrication should be done every three months or 500 hours, which ever comes first. Use SAE 40 weight oil or equivalent for Cat pumps. Use 20/30 weight non-detergent oil for General pumps. It should be hydraulic oil with anti-wear and rust inhibitor additives. The oil level should be checked by looking in the window on the side of the pump. Only fill oil half way to the red dot.

As a pressure washing contractor you must understand how to maintain and repair your equipment, think about it.

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Pressure Washing Business Case Study, Tractor Cleaning

!±8± Pressure Washing Business Case Study, Tractor Cleaning

So often small service businesses fail to exploit niches, which have little if any competition. I know as I built my companies we always tried to identify all the market niches and go after them. We were not always able to succeed at everything, occasionally we would fail; it happened more than I would care to admit, but those are lessons learned. The best way to get to success is to learn from the challenges of the past and so in my office I have a huge trashcan, bigger than any executive you will ever meet. And it is always full. That's okay. Let me tell you about one of the more successful niches we discovered in the pressure washing business; tractor cleaning.

This is a great market; there is so much work with all the new environmental laws and the expanding population base and economy. http://www.tractorwashguys.com . One problem we had back when we got into the market was that Greenspan and the Fed had been raising the rates so new home starts started to decline and many new developments have been put on hold. This was 10-years ago in a different economy and a different market. It also affected the building Industry and the price of off road diesel fuel was up. Interesting we see the same things happening now today, but a slightly different result as home sales are still going even though the economy is showing a slow down in some sectors.

There is no need to wash tractors, which are sitting, idle or dormant and when we started into the business of heavy equipment cleaning this is where we were at, so we started by offering this franchise as a module to our franchisees of truck wash guys http://www.truckwashguy.com . Since it is similar in nature the type of cleaning done, plus all the companies who own tractors also own trucks to move them, water trucks, and other units, which the truck wash guys would normally wash. So it made sense to go after this niche even in a down economy at the time. Also it made sense to look at agricultural tractor cleaning because no matter what the economy does people have to eat, right? We decided to offer this franchise module with a separate franchise agreement for another ,000.00 only. This covered our cost to train the franchisee for one week in Butte MT washing tractors at the mines, specifically Sunlight Gold Mine, kind of funny if you think about it; we will train you for one week at a gold mine?

In Heavy Equipment cleaning there is allot of important information they must know and safety issues are very unforgiving when working around heavy equipment. The only real qualifications in the tractor wash guys business are that the franchisee be a man type man or a tuff woman. A young executive college type student may not like this type
of work. The money is very good. I remember times earning nearly ,000 on
a weekend cleaning tractors working 24 hours a day for two days and getting
greasy to the point you could not tell what nationality I was. Well, if you have not guessed it I am a white guy, but if you saw me with a bunch of black guys you would swear I was one of the brothers. At night you are working with steam and in a giant cloudbank of sauna type fog. When you cool down you are soaked, greasy and tired. It is like the playing football in the mud with a bunch of brutes, which do not care about pain. So it takes a real tough person. But the money is great. Obviously this is not the same person type who comes to your parking lot to detail your BMW who wears varneys and Nike High Tops.

We do all kinds of equipment and also strip paint for refurbishing, and detailing cabs for equipment auctions. I started this business because the demand is high for quality companies who can provide this type of service. Generally the types of independents who do this type of steam cleaning are not understanding of how to go about the business aspect of it. Many of the new corporate farmers run them like HMOs and the large construction companies have procedures and insurance requirements. They can no longer hire the company who rolls up chewing tobacco and says, "Y'ALL need them things kleen or naut?" They have the OSHA to deal with and the NPDES Requirements and the EPA screaming down their neck. There is just no way to hire the independent guy who cannot follow the rules. We know the way to do it. Give me a hard worker and we will give him a great franchise cleaning equipment and tractors, I use to say. We have been perfecting this co-brand for two years and have brought several people onto our team who have helped. It needs to be its own franchise.

It is a market sector overlooked but is necessary and anyone in the pressure washing business needs to look into this niche. A new Caterpillar engine cost in excess of ,000.00 it cannot over heat, which is what happens if the radiator flanges are not kept free from dirt and grease. Also the blades on scrappers have to be replaced and welded on and cannot be welded when they are all greasy. Welders make .00 per hour so they do not want them cleaning equipment. Most heavy equipment pressure washing companies make well in excess of 0.00 per hour. There are so many reasons to clean
equipment including the fact that operators are Union and do not have to work in unfair conditions around greasy walk ways which cause safety issues or in a dust ridden cab or be exposed to unnecessary fire hazards or unsafe conditions. Also is the railroad industry, major work available there. One of our franchisees worked for the railroad industry as a terminal rail master. We have the inside track to the purchasing process for the major
railroads. Some of the contracts are intense. One we recently found out about was over 500,000 dollars on a two-year contract.

Pressure washing companies need to look into the heavy industry and equipment cleaning sector at plants, rail yards, ports, agricultural corporate farms, oil field services and heavy construction. I hope you have enjoyed today's pressure washing case study. Think on it.

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Pressure Washing Pressure - How Much is to Much Pressure?

!±8± Pressure Washing Pressure - How Much is to Much Pressure?

One of the questions we get asked is how much psi do I need? Customers are concerned with using too much pressure or maybe they have damaged their property in the past. Currently Portland Pressure Washing uses about 2800 PSI or pounds per square inch. What actually more important is the gallons per minute, not the (psi) pounds per square inch. Water volume is a much better cleaning agent than the amount of pressure used. Our current residential setup is a Landa Northwest 6/3200 which means 6 gallons per minute at 3200psi. With hose extensions and the fittings we get around 2800 psi at the tip. If Portland Pressure Washing is working a flat surface that figure is split in two because of the surface cleaner to 1400psi at 3 gallons per minute. A surface cleaner is used to clean an area evenly with the maximum amount of consistency and efficiency to provide the best results.

Often we show up at a jobsite and see small swirl marks on the driveway about as wide as a finger in various places with a trail of missing aggregate. Or that new ,000.00 cedar deck that was just installed last year chewed up with deep gouges all over the place. This is a good indication that the homeowner realizes that the pressure washer purchased at the local big box store is not quite up to the task of those large jobs. We want to educate the consumer with pressure washing information so they can save money, not ruin their property. We do run into the occasional customer who has us back year after year after spending 3 weekends to clean their driveway just to prove they could do it!

Commercial grade pressure washers range from 4 to 10 gallons per minute and can cost between 00 to ,000 depending on a number of variables such as hot water, mounting options and quality of components. Commercial grade pressure washers are made to run day after day providing years of service with good maintenance. For cleaning large flat areas surface cleaners are used to provide the best quality cleaning with the most consistent results. Surface cleaners range in price from 0 - 00 and can improve the clean up speed while providing superior results. Surface cleaners also eliminate the "tiger stripes" that often appear on driveways after a driveway is pressure washed by hand. This is caused because of the inconsistent swing of the operator while controlling the pressure washing wand.

Pressure washing wood decks such as cedar takes many years of experience to clean them without showing marks. Often we see stop and start marks, pressure washing gouges, paint missing from the siding. When pressure washing a wood deck you should not use more than 1000 psi, using more can cause massive damage to the wood. The average person should not even consider the cleaning process of deck restoration. If you want to save money when restoring your deck, stain it yourself.

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