Every new mobile pressure washing entrepreneur marvels at the amazing equipment available in the industry. It’s just amazing really. Not long ago I was discussing this fact, specifically how the industry has evolved over the years with high-tech equipment that makes the washing process efficient and fast. Then the other day someone asked me a very good question about using foam guns to clean the exterior surfaces of buildings.

“We use a foam cannon gun for our buildings because it holds the detergent long enough to dissolve the grime, not to mention it looks awesome.”

Yes, inline induction soap guns look great, especially when using a hot water pressure washer. It almost feels like Rambo because it has a lot of recoil on the gun, depending on your type of discharger and it’s shooting steam – at night or in cold weather it looks like a flamethrower as the hot water mixes with the air as it shoots from underneath of 3000psi. Even more fun is putting on the zero tip and pulling the trigger.

Of course if you’re washing a lot of cars in a car lot you can’t use anything like this because you can’t get between cars very well with a long gun and wand you’ll need to just use a gun with a 4 inch extension covered in rubber with a tip. Also, your hands get very tired and cramp pulling the trigger all the time, so you can try a ring on the gun to hold the trigger, or a tennis ball, or remove the trigger, it will save you from carpal tunnel, buying unloaders all the time, and also increases the life of your pump. He thinks about it.

For building cleaning you may notice that the Sparklewash system works very well, I think it is one of the best I have seen for building cleaning. Of course, Landa makes a very neat foam gun, as does Hydrotech. There are several very good manufacturers with this type of soap gun. Yes, they work great for buildings and truck trailers, you’re absolutely right. Just use a collection device to collect the effluents, I always remind pressure washing company contractors who do contract cleaning work.

In fact, this industry has evolved in many ways, and yet much remains the same as some of the older Hotsy pressure washers from the late 50’s and early 60’s. It’s a fun industry, with quite a bit of history actually. . Please consider all of this.