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After leaving hypo, where you rinse to?
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Lol bit late after doing it to worry about it .
Before you start soak everything down path grass flowerbeds etc anywhere the runoff will go then put your hypo mix down , adgitate with a brush or just leave it dwell for up to 45 muinits damping down the grass again whilst it’s dwelling then pressure wash or scrub with a broom or what ever you do then give it a thorough rinse with copious amounts of water to dilute it and you will be fine just don’t let it go into ponds as it will kill fish
Before you start soak everything down path grass flowerbeds etc anywhere the runoff will go then put your hypo mix down , adgitate with a brush or just leave it dwell for up to 45 muinits damping down the grass again whilst it’s dwelling then pressure wash or scrub with a broom or what ever you do then give it a thorough rinse with copious amounts of water to dilute it and you will be fine just don’t let it go into ponds as it will kill fish
That's what I did, but when you rinse with ' copious' amounts of water it had to go sonewhere so into flower beds and grass. I guess if it's been diluted down enough after an hr it shouldn't kill anything. The rinsed runoff into the beds still frothed up so worried it was strong enough to kill grass or trees etc
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Right Dave, after you do the hypo and rinse off, do you re-sand and then Biocide then finally seal if customer wanting it? any help welcome
Flood the plants then I guess not a quick sprinkle. I put the hypo on quit watery so the hypo/water mix was still puddly on surface. I guess too much. It needs to be absorbed by the slabs I guess. This was all a practice run on a few slabs and they're bright and clean.
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Seen it was just a small area, I would have put hypo on sparingly. After an hr I would have brushed and rinsed off. Then I would have done it again to bits that were stubborn. I think the answer is to study the runoff before you begin and use as little as possible even if you have to do it twice. Easy way to upset customer is to kill their beautiful plants before summer has arrived.
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You want to give a good soaking to everything then when you apply the hypo it will sit on the surface of the slabs it’s no good if it soaks it up it’s the surface that is dirty and that’s where you want the hypo to be
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Yes soak everything before applying hypo, then mixhypo 4 parts water to one part hypo or what ever mix you think is needed , if you don’t pre wet the dry concrete will soak up the hypo mix and it’s waisted you want it on the surface to kill algy etc
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