Marine Reflections
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I mainly use a pressure washer to remove grit and other contaminates from a surface prior to washing, the potential for scratching the surface is greatly reduced.
Without doing so, the grit would get caught up in the sponge and before long you would have introduced 'cleaning scratches'.
Normal hose pressure may remove some of the loose contaminates, but fails to remove the bonded. The bonded then loosens during the wash and is picked up and worked over the surfaces.
A pressure washer is simply a better and safer method than aggitation alone.
I do clean just using the pontoon hose sometimes, but almost always it's on surfaces that are performing in terms of surface rejection - lower pressure is required to remove particles on a rejecting surface as they are not given the chance to bond.
Yes, in the wrong hands a pressure washer can be harmful, but if you cannot control the amount of pressure coming out of the lance with variable pressure, you can control the distance you are from the surface.
I wouldn't say perfect clean was vital, it's the correct method and the right ideal, but far from vital.
I've found that getting the various surfaces up to standard and keeping them that way, is by far easier than letting it go, (a stitch in time saves nine) but each to their own and can respect those who didn't fuss over what their boat looked like or how the various surfaces performed.
Tony
Without doing so, the grit would get caught up in the sponge and before long you would have introduced 'cleaning scratches'.
Normal hose pressure may remove some of the loose contaminates, but fails to remove the bonded. The bonded then loosens during the wash and is picked up and worked over the surfaces.
A pressure washer is simply a better and safer method than aggitation alone.
I do clean just using the pontoon hose sometimes, but almost always it's on surfaces that are performing in terms of surface rejection - lower pressure is required to remove particles on a rejecting surface as they are not given the chance to bond.
Yes, in the wrong hands a pressure washer can be harmful, but if you cannot control the amount of pressure coming out of the lance with variable pressure, you can control the distance you are from the surface.
I wouldn't say perfect clean was vital, it's the correct method and the right ideal, but far from vital.
I've found that getting the various surfaces up to standard and keeping them that way, is by far easier than letting it go, (a stitch in time saves nine) but each to their own and can respect those who didn't fuss over what their boat looked like or how the various surfaces performed.
Tony
