MY DIRTIEST DRIVEWAY CLEAN EVER! (No drainage at all)
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- Published on Apr 16, 2021
- Well this was a battle and a half...
Safe to say a gutter vac would of come in handy here... stay tuned for the next video :D
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This hard slug fest of a job has helped push the channel over 2.1k thousand subscribers so thank you for watching and subbing!
I’m watching this and you’re almost at 100k subscribers! Congrats mate
Unless you’re trying to remove chrome from a bumper; volume always trumps pressure when pressure washing. Machines with higher volume output ex. 4+ gallons per minute will make this job easier. Of course if you can afford both high pressue and high volume it would be best. For most residential applications 4k psi/4gpm is enough.
Excellent work
🤣🤣🤣👍
You should get a patio cleaner attachment would minimize over spray and avoid mud going everywhere
It's amazing what a pressure washer can do. Took off years of gunk on the bricks. They look like they were just laid. Like your man bun 👍🏻
Geez, those bricks looked dirtier than the other drive. Very good job!
Satisfying isn’t it! And thank you I need a trim though 😆
It is really satisfying watching an activity like this that obviously shows hard work, know how, thoroughness and total care about the customers and their property, it’s good to know that people like you are out there, doing a damn good job. Hope you are well rewarded, and get your well earned cuppa as well.
You swinging that tea around was giving me anxiety 😅 Cool vid man
Anxietea
@Ivan Benja WHAAAAAAAAT??
Tea with milk doesn't even look like tea anymore. It looks like coffee. You Brits are weird. 😂
Had to pause the video and go make a cup so that I could join you.
Amazing how you got that clean! It looks so good! Hope the owner was pleased! If not refer him or her to me, hahaha!
Anyone else worried about the future damp issue the poor residents are going to have a live in! Hope they see this video and get that drainage sorted
Have been watching too many Drainaddict videos. The one with the rat. Got a drain attachment for my pressure washer. It's decent but nothing like the pro stuff. Gets my stuff done at least.
I would guess the machine in the video with s decent drain attachment would help the drainage up to working level.
It honestly looks like a water line about a foot high 7:48 all along the wall and door.
hoping they sort it too!
I hate that some people think you don’t need a brain to do these types of jobs. You were methodical and strategic. I didnt know about the sand either. I learned something new. Thanks
@priestfan81 he is literally shooting water down the slope to the garage the whole time instead of going up the slope and being able to push it away
@Propane & Propane accessories wrong. With drainage, yes, that would be one approach. With no drainage, he would have flooded the garage/storage shelter.
@Propane & Propane accessories 🤦🏼♂️
except he didnt use his brain and go from the bottom up which would have been easier
What I wanna know is why not a surface cleaner w/ extractor
Can we just talk about how poorly the lay out of the driveway for the garage was? Who the hell decided that a downward slope was a good idea? Unless their plan was to have a pool in there every time it rained. Like nothing bad to you. You do amazing work but the fact they built it to funnel water into the garage is stupid.
Always use a wet an dry (cordless )vac, when power washing drives an gardens.
Builders dont bother with drainage. Thats the last thing on their minds.
They just wanna get it finished an move on to the next one...
in probably one of the rainiest countries too. how can you not think of the feet of water you'll have. i've seen a lot of reno vids of english properties and they all pretty much have one thing in common. 'the drainage is just for show, it doesn't actually exist' XD
tell me about it... nightmare
Just caught this video as a suggestion. I’m getting ready to power wash my deck after a heavy pollen spring. The bricks turned out amazing. Great job! Keep up the good work! Cheers.
Awesome good luck to you!
TheXvid suggested: cute boy from the internet cleans things with satisfying payoff, working hard and taking pride in their work
Me: don’t mind if I do thanks.
And now I want to start my own pressure washing business 😂
@LillerThatIsMe he was speaking POS that's why you couldn't understand.. it's alright though. It's a very vulgar language.
I hope you have a good day
@LillerThatIsMe you saw what I typed
I find this type of video amazing to watch. The difference between start and end is just fab. Well done and I'm sure that although u were knackered there has to be a sense of pride too 😁👍
Yeah it’s definitely satisfying walking away after a good job :D
Thank you!
You're very considerate of your clients Sid, clever with how you went about gathering the water, so much wall that needs cleaned as well, great job! Thanks for the consise editing and shortness of this massive job! Regards from Iowa Rick
Cheers Rick! Appreciate the kind words mate
it’s so incredibly satisfying to watch the colours reveal themselves! job very well done, mate, in spite of the awful design with no drainage!
You definitely earned your pay on this one ! Brilliant transformation.
Hopefully the owners of the building will sort their drainage out. Who on earth would ever have thought it was a good idea to pave right up to the wall?
Thanks for posting.
Thank you mate! I spoke to them about it and they reckon its cowboy builders from many years ago, just never got it fixed. Block paving is drainage in itself anyway, just very very slow so may have some puddles for a day after a clean but eventually itll go :D
A good thing to help with the drainage is to start from the deeper end where the water falls so that you don’t have issues with pressure washer trying to clean through the dirty water
@Asmana . I don’t agree. I think the water flowing back down onto a clean area will just fill the crevices back up with grime and it’ll require doing a second time
@Michael Brennan That is a good point although the pressure washer takes out the dirt that’s stuck deeper in the floor. It’s much more difficult to do that whenever there is water over the floor and it will not take the necessary dirt out because of water blocking it and having no where else to move. The water that slides down if you start from the bottom won’t affect the floor compared to how dirty it will stay starting from the top! It makes the job much easier than you fighting with the water to clean what’s under
Wouldn’t starting at the bottom mean that the water would all flow back onto his clean area though?? ‘Pushing’ water uphill seems like an endless task
couldnt help but thinking how dumb it was to start from the top there, with the pressure washer you can push the water back up too, i thought when he paused the video about half way down he realised how bad the drainage was and was going to start from the garage but no he built a mud wall LOL, also made the garage door way more filthy by going that way
I love how logical you are about being precise and mythological in completing the jobs. You do an amazing job. Keep up the good work and quality content and I will keep watching from Austin TX USA 🇺🇸.
Sorry go my ignorance I’m looking to learn. What does “re-sanding” do? Does it replace the grout/mortar between the bricks? Great watch dude!
The pressure drives out some of the paving sand so it needs to be replaced after cleaning. Sand won’t keep the weeds out it encourages them unless you use setting sand (sand that sets relatively hard). The nibs on the pavers are there so that should they move the edges won’t chip not so much for drainage and to the sand tighten them under compaction Self draining pavers have a bigger gap and are bedded on fine granite instead of sharp sand.
@Tim Ellis thanks I was so confused as why he put all those sands in there after cleaning it!!
@AnnAnonyme thank you!! (:
@Fiestyfox I'm not a paving expert, but from having lived in a really rainy city with a path made out of that type of paver, as far as I could tell it doesn't really wash away. I think the sand pretty-much just stays in the cracks between the pavers and it's all good. I think the sand does need to be topped up every couple years, so maybe some does escape. It's not noticeable, anyway. I think there's more mess just from pollution, dust, random dirt from garden beds that washes onto the pavers, etc.
These video's are so satisfying to watch specially the parts of videos without the music and its just the cleaning sound. Asmr vibes. Can watch for hours 😌
Banging result mate but defo need a wet/dry vacum, just set it up at the low point and leave it on and sucking, it cuts out when its full, itd save youre back a load of stress, im 6ft5 and used a bucket, dust pan and brush the lot until i got the vacum! Best thing ive got!
Yep, me too. Couldnt manage without it (cordless is safer). Always carry spare batts as well...
@Frito Lays or just borrow the cities streetsweeper.;-) Not going to lie very usefull
Maybe a surface cleaner too! Easier to do the brick that way.
Or a water pump
I actually have a brand new one at home but saving it to do a video on it 😆 all I could think about was should I go back and get the vac... just dedicated to the TheXvid channel 😂
Once re-sanded do you recommend using a chemical sealant to seal the joints and bring more colour from the paving blocks?
It was so satisfying and relaxing to watch the patterns you made with the water blaster and then the sand, I know it was hard work for you but relaxing for me ... thank you and good luck on future jobs :)
Regardless of what your using Sid.. smashed the Job and got a professional finish🔥
Thanks ben, appreciate that mate
The pressure washer simulator is more realistic than I thought, never thought things could be so dirty lol
:D I think the game is harder than in real life lol
Such an amazing and thorough job!!! For a clean-freak, perfectionist Virgo like me, this video is what I need to unwind after hours of studying. 😆
Really nice work. Cleans up the whole exterior. The sanding is kind of an art. Great video.
Really enjoy every episode guys, well done, God bless you.
The amount of earth allowed to build up on that beautiful brick driveway was absolutely amazing. Unbelievable. A stellar job! Well done mate. Cheers!
Thank you very much!
Just came across this video.. great before and after! You made that driveway look awesome! You should look into getting a floor washer, it is a circular extension that you put on the end of your pressure washer and it rolls and makes cleaning driveways and sidewalks soooo much faster. They make them in several sizes. They are well worth the money, as they cut the time you spend on the jobs at least in half.. keep up the good work, both on your cleaning projects and the videos!
Thanks mate! And yeah I’m getting a whole new setup soon so will get a fancy surface cleaner too!
I love these videos. The last one I watched was absolutely amazing and your work is just mindblowing. You're doing a great job!
You did an amazing job on this. First time to your channel. Don't understand the bad drainage. That shouldn't be allowed. I work in the construction industry, and you can't build a house without proper drainage. They try, but they get sued.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Yeah appreciate that, they said they’ve known it to always be the same, shocking!
Love the vids, thanks for the content! Have you considered investing in some sandbags and a puddle sucker pump if you experience poor drainage on your jobs?
@Partridge Exterior Cleaning Nice, look forward to seeing it in action!
Yeah i have a wet/dry vac now that does the trick :D
You managed to resolve every problem as they came along. Excellent job. Very enjoyable to watch.
Muito trabalho!Ficou ótimo!! Parabéns 🙌👍
Great video, so glad i watched it. Now i can understand why this business charges what it does. I was about to dive into it head first and blindfolded thinking of charging drive ways, £70 and Patios £120 undercut others by 50% in my area. This as just told me take a step back, rethink! Man hours! Tool's! Fuel So an so forth.. Wow! Thank you for expertise and advice...
Those french drains probably weren't decorative. They're probably full of the same muck you cleaned off the brick and desperately in need of a plumber to snake them out.
As Tony says these thing don't normally connect to a positive drainage system - even though they should.
Lots are called soakaways by the cowboys that install them but they don't do the tests to see if water can soakaway.
Generally these drives with slot drains will cause problems.
I would describe that a strip drain or an Aco drain. A French drain is a perforated pipe set in gravel.
A lot of these drains are soak away ones which take hours, making them completely useless especially when pressure washer, speaking from experience
There was one ubend on the far edge but it just lead straight into the house so I dare not try to blast it 😂
It might have been a hard one to do, but you did an amazing job!
Also, I just found your channel and it is helping so much. We are currently in lockdown here, and just watching you power wash has helped me relax a little in the past couple of days.
Thank you for your amazing work
awesome im glad i can help relax you! job done for me!
This sure looked like one doozy of a project. I didn't even know re-sanding was a thing that existed! The chill music you played during the time lapses were so nice and relaxing though. And the hair bun style totally suits you by the way!
That was such an awesome video to watch! That look like it was a lot of hard work. I have to say you made it look amazing! And don't worry about your hair, you look gorgeous. Now I'm thinking twice about not doing that to my driveway. Thank you for the video in the education!
Funny how someone else cleaning something, can be so therapeutic...love watching these vids.
I hope your family appreciates how hard you work!
Great job. I have a small yard which has very poor drainage so l bought a very cheap workshop vacuum cleaner which I use to take up the water/mud. It really works.
Great tip!
I don’t know why TheXvid is recommending pressure washing videos to me here in Australia, but your work is amazing. I love the pride you take in it. What PSI is your pressure washer if I may ask .
The pour drainage situation of this house gives me a lot of anxiety. You did a fantastic job but I cannot imagine as an owner of the house allowing that drainage situation to persist. Thanks for sharing!
So good to see someone taking pride in their work, would love to see your customers reaction after all that! Well done
Truly love your videos I find this so satisfying to watch. For someone who has such extreme anxiety like myself this is so calming for me to watch. You take so much pride in everything you do. I wish you were in the states.
Hi Sid, have pretty much watched all your videos I think now and love them so much you give me so much inspiration as I have recently started my own Exterior Cleaning business! You don't seem to mention much about sealing driveways/patios etc...after jetwashing. Was just wondering if there was a reason for that at all? Is it worth sealing jobs and trying to up sale?
Hope the homeowner watches this video, and give you, some well deserved extra $$$. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽Great work 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Ayy that’d be nice! Thanks my man 👍
My pressure washer is broken cause of an electrical component and I still haven't found anyone who can fix it but at the same time I don't want to buy a whole new one so in the meantime these videos are a great catharsis for me. Super satisfying.
great video, always satisfying watching drives being jet washed, what was the name and power of your pressure washer, did a good job
Hi bud, thanks a lot! its a wilks 750i, great starter machine but not really cut out for this size of job, bit slow for it!
Holy crap! the amount of hard work that goes into these is 🤯 and the vids are so satisfying, had to sub
What a wonderful job -outstanding work young man !
New to the channel love it so far very therapeutic watching the process 👌🏼 Question. What power washer would you recommend for a first machine? Something good value for money under £400?
After you removed all the sludge, there is some very nice brickwork revealed. Great job in spite of the lack of drainage. Perhaps the trench under the metal drain covers is plugged up? Anyway, you weren’t there to fix the drain. Very nice outcome and great work!
The job satisfaction after this one must have been immense. I notice that you don't us a surface cleaning attachment with your pressure washer. Any particular reason?
Hi from US, just came across your channel, loving it. Subbed! Can't wait to get caught up on all your videos. Also doing these jobs by yourself, you're a beast. Well done!
Thanks man!! Appreciate you subscribing!
Great result. 21lpm is useful so long as you can provide the amount of water to the machine. I like a smaller machine that I can drag around rather than an ibc in the back of a van with a reserve of water. Turn down the big jobs and do domestic, there's more money in it and they're quicker. Thats what I find. Just subscribed as interesting how you do your jobs. Cheers
Yeah to be honest the small 50m2 jobs are where the money is, the big ones can be really deceiving and take twice as long as you think !
Mad respect to you!
Great progress achieved there!!
Have you tried to take out that plastic/ metal drain incursion in front of house where your worst section was? If poss you’d find drainage blocked from dirt & grime just like the sand you’ve re- applied all over pavers again .
I'm in the process of doing my drive (very similar condition), half way through at the moment. I have the same drainage channels & must say what a difference once they were removed and cleaned out, they were compacted with soil/sand.........great job.
Awesome video, as always. Watching from America.
Rather than the shovel to loosen and remove the grass and debris, do you think it would be easier using a roofing shingle removal tool. Less bending for sure. At least for the loosening part. Idk, but it might be worth investigating, to make your hard work a little easier.
Nice to see a young crew, working hard out there, improving the world one patio at a time. Keep up the awesome work.
Good idea man! not sure where to find one over here but if i get another job this bad i may go have a look :D thanks brother all the best
Greetings mate, did you consider offering to your customer sealing the pavers with oil based or water base materials so they will have a great lookin driveway for a longer time?
Great job by the way
I see I totally understand.
Here in Florida when in the raining season we definitely have to learn how to be meteorologist 🤣 as well so I can relate but even though we actually book a lot of those sealing pavers jobs
Be well!
It’s very difficult in this country due to how wet it is all the time, can be really hard to get jobs sealed when you have a full schedule as there’s lots of rearranging because of rainy days etc. I did it last year, I have one to do this year but won’t book any more in it’s a lot of trouble to be honest.
Thanks man 👍
What a fantastic job you do! Unbelievable difference look like new! Think it's great how you have a great Buissness for yourself at such a young age! Well done and keep working hard and the rewards will come in due course! You take pride in your work also which is fantastic, never change cos it's all word of mouth in your job! Keep up the good work, be honest and don't cut corners and you will be fine! Well done and best of luck for the future for you and your family! Great to watch you hard at work and see the end result, it must be so rewarding for you to see end result! Thanks From Edinburgh 🏴
I find this so calming and relaxing. Watching you make things lovely again is great. Thank you for your hard work. :)
Awesome thank you!
That’s a cracking transformation Sid. The customer was well pleased I’d say👍
Cheers rob, long two days xD
For situations like this you could get a small 12v low-speed low-pickup pump with a regular hose on it, put it in the corner where the water collects and have it pump the water away.
Hey man! I love watching your videos! They have helped me a ton! I’m starting up my own Pressure Washing business in the US. I’m currently getting ready to do some work at my primary job (I do the pressure washing during my time off and spare time). We have a loading dock that declines towards the building and has horrible drainage. It’s full of muck and Stagnant water. Could you give any tips on how to handle that situation?
Fantastic work, large job with a wand, always fun to watch!
Seems like an emergency pump and hose might come in handy for cases like this. What about a tarp, too … you could lay it along the bottom of the garage door / other problem areas, put the sand bags up against the structure, then wrap the tarp edge up and over the bags of sand to keep them getting all hunky.
everything about this video just calms me. beautiful work you’ve done! cheers mate
I came across this vlog of yours last night and I know how back breaking it is to resand. Here's a tip I do when I resand cobble lock drive ways, I add a granual/powder weedkiller to the sand. Mix it in a bucket before spreading sand over cobble lock and keep weeds down for the first three months.
Out I curiosity, would it be easier to use one of those pressure washer attachments that spins? Also as a suggestion for drainage issues, you could get a submersible pump, extension cord and a 100ft hose to attach to the submersible pump. Then you can let it run to continuously pump out the water from the bottom of the hill. A lot of effort, but may make things a bit easier.
Honestly it wouldn’t of picked up much of the dirt here, was too thick even the turbo nozzle was working overtime. And yeah good idea!
Great video mate. I wonder why not start at the lowest point to avoid the drainage issue? Would that be better? It's what I do but never with such a slope. Then hose it all off at the end. Cheers
Yeah I usually do but this slope was so steep and even hard to walk down so i could of just imagined me trying to clean it but not being able to see what im doing :D thank you mate!
Can’t help wishing there was a nice garden in the front yard, and a lovely courtyard for the residents to enjoy- even if only through their windows 🌻🐞🌷🐝🌹
You should definitely get you a good surface cleaner and recovery system. There are also recovery systems that u can attach to the surface cleaner and it recovers as you clean. That would have done wonders for your poor drainage problem. But considering u worked with what you had. Great job man!
Great job sid, bigger pressure washer and surface cleaner needed but as you've said before you can spend a small fortune on all the stuff you need, keep at it mate you're a star.
Ps I hate the sanding bit and have also broke many a broom lol
Cheers Michael, yeah it’s all outgoings isn’t it, it’s tough spending thousands on something one month thinking you’re sorted... then a few jobs come in for another thing and it’s time to spend on that too 😆 Mrs will not be happy
I am doing the exact same thing as you on my own driveway. After filling up with sand again, the weeds just grow right through it. Any tips on how to stop the weeds from growing? It's a real pain in the ass :(
Get yourself a good weed burner, kinda like a mega powerful hairdryer and burn the weeds out at the root.
you'd need to seal it ideally or just put some weedkiller down monthly (:
I find watching this video very soothing. And love seeing it all clean!
Wooo thank you!
great video bud well done, what pressure washer do you use? because mine is not capable of getting grass out between the bricks.
Hi mate, wilks 750i, £400 and lasted me a year but it is temperamental, powerful machine for the money but cheaply made, I recommend it as a starter or replacement machine
You've done a superb job and I especially admire your tenacity, well done lad! P.S. I know how you feel about using a bigger machine, I've used a small machine to clean my paving and it takes ages.
Thanks so much!
Such a great job - well done.
So from experience. I highly recommend that if you are working in a area that is on a incline or slope, you should always start at the bottom where the water puddles. That and you should look into purchase a pump to suck the water that puddles up. And your current power is plenty fine for that type of work, just you should invest into a surface cleaner. And a pressure washer ball valve.. it would save you tons of time and pay for itself pretty quick
I was tempted to start at the bottom but gets a bit hard to see what I’m cleaning. I do have a wet vac but saving it’s first use for a video so I struggled for the cause 👍😂 yeah my machine isn’t strong enough to run a decent surface cleaner efficiently. It’s only 12lpm.
I'm amazed how everything is slanted towards the house
Wouldn’t be so bad if they installed proper drainage
@Demetre Very much so.
idiotic design
amazed... annoyed in my case :D
wow! what a transformation and so quick - well done and thanks for the video
Thanks griff!
That's insane.... I love the brick work and I could be stupid but I believe there's a drainage pipe there. Probably 100% full of mud though.
Yeah there is one but just one... and it’s been blocked for years :D
Professional job - I'm sure the residents are grateful!
thanks jon!
3:08 😳 I’d have guessed longer. I’m impressed!
An epic cleaning job, and editing - loved the sped-up parts, you look like you’re ice skating! ⛸ 😉
Amazing transformation! Great work!
You work so hard mate! Absolute graft that job without the drainage! Keep it up, loving the videos!
Cheers buddy still waiting for prefitness return
Don’t know why this video was recommended but it was satisfying to watch. I know you were exhausted after all that.
Thank you so much Teresa !
@Partridge Exterior Cleaning You’ve got a new subscriber from Houston Texas!
Awesome thanks for clicking on my video! :D
Reminds me of how the outside of the house we bought looked like when we first bought it. It was empty for quite some years, so nobody took care of the garden or anything. Pressure washer is such a saviour!!
Marvelous job and and very detail , love it
Thank you so much 😀
Premier lawns took on a heavily missed drive way and used a power rotary brush as sweep did an amazing job before washing has to be a big time saver
westerman i think its called, trust me im just waiting for the perfect job before i hire one :D
Fantastic (if very hard!) work! Looks heaps better 🤩
Great job! What a nightmare to prep and drainage was non-existent. Bravo!👍🏻😊
Thank you Katherine, love a challenge :D
Great job! Had no idea that sanding was next after power-washing. Interesting.
Yeah just helps replaced what’s been blasted out to keep everything solid 👍😄
Amazing job mate. Was worried that garage was gonna fill up with water.
Me too alfie, i was up and down like a yoyo bailing
What a hard worker dealing with terrible construction. Bless you.
thank you irene!
awesome video. i would like to make a suggestion to you. for times when you do places like this with overgrown plants and such, it might be a good idea to get a cheap, possibly second hand, string trimmer to knock out the overgrowth in a faster time than struggling to do it with a shovel. what a difference though. the before and after is like night and day!
Yeah completely agree, I should of planned this one better :D
Just bought the same machine as you mate. Which nozzle do you tend to use? Do you ever use any cleaning solution as well? Great video
My hands and forearms are sore just watching you clean. Always takes longer than you think. Anti-vibration or cycling gloves help. Charge accordingly; add extra 25%……. Good job kid.
Great video. A lotta hard work went into that and the result was admirable. Without a professional that wld have taken over a week and then looked not half as good.