1 bucket wash method

[dennis hiip]

I just watched a YouTube video by Forensic Detailing. He hose rinses a short nap mitt after each panel. Shows how it keeps mitt cleaner and safer for paint and how this is better than the trusted 2 bucket method.

 

[custmsprty]

And since you are in Kalifornia how would that work for you? Water restrictions? I could see you out there blasting a mit with a free flowing hose and all that water running down the street and your neighbbors looking at you rops:

The 2 Bucket method is a time tested and proven method and this person is, well I'll just leave it at this :bash:

 

[mcochris]

Even better, use a separate MF towel per section. That way, a used towel is never used twice.

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[PaulMys]

Even better, use a separate MF towel per section. That way, a used towel is never used twice.

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I use 2 bucket with grit guards, and 3 mitts on my Ram. One for the topsides, and one for each bottom sides.

 

[FUNX650]

"What has been, will be again; what
has been done, will be done again;
there is nothing new under the Sun."
~Ecclesiastes 1:9


I washed vehicles this way for decades;
Nowadays...not so much.


Bob

 

[PaulMys]

"What has been, will be again; what
has been done, will be done again;
there is nothing new under the Sun."
~Ecclesiastes 1:9


I washed vehicles this way for decades;
Nowadays...not so much.


Bob

Just what makes Ecclesiastes such an authority on the 1:9 ratio??

Huh Bob?? HUH?????

 

[Eldorado2k]

And since you are in Kalifornia how would that work for you? Water restrictions? I could see you out there blasting a mit with a free flowing hose and all that water running down the street and your neighbbors looking at you rops:

I'm in California and that's how I bucket wash vehicles. [minus the free flowing water hose]
Neighbors looking at me? Pfft... If anyone's seriously butthurt about someone else on their block using their own water hose, then they really need to get a life.

 

[custmsprty]

I'm in California and that's how I bucket wash vehicles. [minus the free flowing water hose]
Neighbors looking at me? Pfft... If anyone's seriously butthurt about someone else on their block using their own water hose, then they really need to get a life.

Kalifornia?

 

[fly07sti]

I use his method a lot. FWIW, no more water restrictions here in Cali.

 

[custmsprty]

Just what makes Ecclesiastes such an authority on the 1:9 ratio??

Huh Bob?? HUH?????

Bob's meds have recently run out


Here's a prime example:

•J&M...a good choice in leather
dress shoes. With that said:

•I wonder if J&M uses a (natural)
vegetable-tanning process; or,
a (synthetic) chrome-tanning
process...for their shoe leathers?

-That would be the basis of my
decision to use Perl, or not, on
these leather dress shoes.

Bob
:doh::doh::goodjob2::dunno:

 

[PaulMys]

I'm in California and that's how I bucket wash vehicles. [minus the free flowing water hose]
Neighbors looking at me? Pfft... If anyone's seriously butthurt about someone else on their block using their own water hose, then they really need to get a life.

Eldo thumbing his nose at the man! Lol

Honestly though, a water wash (and yes, I've metered it) is around 12 gallons. (Two buckets, plus/soak rinse.)

Small amount compared to say a leaky toilet flapper which can waste up to 80 gallons of water over a months time.

 

[Eldorado2k]

Eldo thumbing his nose at the man! Lol

Btw I'm outside as we speak testing out my new quik connect for my hose & nozzle... And if any of the neighbors got a problem with it then they better be skipping showers or something crazier than me simply washing my dang car. Lol.

 

[dennis hiip]

This guy uses short nap faux wool mitts from China (on ebay) that cost less than $1.50 each. I'm going to get a half dozen or so and forego the hosing. Just use a clean mitt each panel.

 

[Eldorado2k]

This guy uses short nap faux wool mitts from China (on ebay) that cost less than $1.50 each. I'm going to get a half dozen or so and forego the hosing. Just use a clean mitt each panel.

*nods*

 

[FUNX650]

Bob's meds have recently run out


Here's a prime example:

•J&M...a good choice in leather
dress shoes. With that said:

•I wonder if J&M uses a (natural)
vegetable-tanning process; or,
a (synthetic) chrome-tanning
process...for their shoe leathers?

-That would be the basis of my
decision to use Perl, or not, on
these leather dress shoes.

Bob
:doh::doh::goodjob2::dunno:

Apparently it has yet to totally dawn upon
you that deciphering data, and perceiving
patterns, are a couple of my strong suits.



Bob

 

[TTQ B4U]

I just watched a YouTube video by Forensic Detailing. He hose rinses a short nap mitt after each panel. Shows how it keeps mitt cleaner and safer for paint and how this is better than the trusted 2 bucket method.

^^ when I wash with a bucket and hose that's what I do. I see no need for a 2nd bucket and dipping, etc. I wash from top down and blast the mitt with my hose prior to re-introducing it to the soap water. As an owner of two black cars, I can say I have had no issues. You will get opinions on this matter though. Whatever works for you.

 

[VISITOR]

if you use one bucket with a grit guard, add some onr and that should help encapsulate dirt/contamination...

 

[Eldorado2k]

if you use one bucket with a grit guard, add some onr and that should help encapsulate dirt/contamination...

By rinsing the mitt prior to bringing them back in for suds there's never any dirt/contamination being introduced into the lone bucket of suds.

No need for a grit guard in the wash bucket.. I put my Grit Guard in my 2nd [empty] bucket just so the wet dirty mitts don't touch the bottom of the bucket and marinate in their own dirty dripping water while waiting for me to come back and rinse them all at once.

 

[Desertnate]

I used this method for a long time before I came here and learned of the whole two bucket idea. My dad taught me the technique when I was a kid.

Honestly, I use both methods. If the vehicle is fairly clean and I'm short on time I'll go with one bucket and spray off the mitt. If the car is really filthy, I'll go two bucket as I feel I can get the mitt cleaner...however I have nothing to back that up. It's probably all in my head only because I take more time and pay closer attention to getting the mitt clean when I use the second bucket.

 

[WillSports3]

I feel like if you're going to do it this way you might as well use onr and a big red sponge. Just hose it off if you need to then rinseless wash the car.