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Using hypo safely, not hurting plants etc?

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Any tips. I heard bad to get it on tarmac or plants or in your eyes. 

I have a job coming up and will try scrubbing with soap first but got some hypo and Surfactant as back up will pump through trolley. Just generally, how u protect plants which border a patio you're cleaning?  Plastic wall or cupboard to stop spray getting onto plants.  

 I need to clean wall below. 

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I clean tarmac with hypo lol

Wet the plants and tarmac thoroughly with garden hose first and rinse off after

Go on YouTube and look at Benz softwash vids

You might not use blackwash which they state but that is just hypo and surfactant 

For those walls i would mix it to 2% ( any issues let me know and I can help with the mix) spray it all

Leave for 40 minutes and rinse off

Anything yoy want to know pm me mate

 
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Dave B said:
I clean tarmac with hypo lol

Wet the plants and tarmac thoroughly with garden hose first and rinse off after

Go on YouTube and look at Benz softwash vids

You might not use blackwash which they state but that is just hypo and surfactant 

For those walls i would mix it to 2% ( any issues let me know and I can help with the mix) spray it all

Leave for 40 minutes and rinse off

Anything yoy want to know pm me mate
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Cover the plants with cardboard when spraying the tops of those walls? 

Pressure washing too aggressive for those cladded walls? 

Is pressure washing those bricks on floor a no no? 

2% meaning hypo is usually 15% so add 7 parts water to 1 hypo

 
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Just scrubbed with fairy then rinsed.  Did good job. The top photo is before. The others after.   I sprayed the remaining lines with hypo and Surfactant 4 to 1.  Didn't shift.  Used one of those small hand sprayers. 

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