Cleaning Gear at a job

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Steve28

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Where do you all clean your trowels, hawks, buckets, spot board and paddle between mixes. The place where I was taught had a big bath full of water which was handy but somehow I think the customer wouldn't be pleased if I washed my gear in their bath.
 
we have one bucket for cleaning trowels,one larger bucket for cleaning buckets handhawk and paddle and a gorrila tub for any waste of the spot
 
theres a fine art to this mate...wot i do is fill a wet bucket and 2 mixin buckets 1/2 full..knock up, lay on
scrape any waste into an empty bag where is goes hard, tip wet bucket into mixin bucket, wash out and tip back into wet bucket
flatten off and knock up topping, repeat..
trowels + hawks get cleaned in the wet bucket, and i dont use a spot...
all the slop sinks to the bottom of the wet bucket...
finish the set, dig a small hole behind the rosebush agitate wet bucket and tip into hole...
repeat for next set
in absence of a handy rose garden/bit of loose earth you can just about get away with gently tipping the top clearish water down the drain and scrape the slops into a bag (bin bag helps) it all sets anyway before you set off home...
 
We always use a hose, run it into the room we're working. Have a "cleaning bucket" for washing trowels, hands etc after each trowel. Normally bag any left over mix and clean buckets outside, pour the dirty water onto stone, grass etc. Would'nt use drains unless you want a Dynorod bill a few days later!
 
theres a fine art to this mate...wot i do is fill a wet bucket and 2 mixin buckets 1/2 full..knock up, lay on
scrape any waste into an empty bag where is goes hard, tip wet bucket into mixin bucket, wash out and tip back into wet bucket
flatten off and knock up topping, repeat..
trowels + hawks get cleaned in the wet bucket, and i dont use a spot...
all the slop sinks to the bottom of the wet bucket...
finish the set, dig a small hole behind the rosebush agitate wet bucket and tip into hole...
repeat for next set
in absence of a handy rose garden/bit of loose earth you can just about get away with gently tipping the top clearish water down the drain and scrape the slops into a bag (bin bag helps) it all sets anyway before you set off home...
sounds about the same as my methods
 
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