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How many questions do you think I get every weekend this year about how
to remove black streaks out of the shingles on the north side of the house
and what I tell you there's a product out there called Wet & Forget.
Well our guest is Brett Perry, and he's the president of wet and forget.
Welcome officially to the handyman microphone.
Great to be here Glenn.
You know, this product is really new to a lot of homeowners, but it's not a new
product. Your company's been around for thirty years.
That's right Glynn, We've been around for 30 years in New Zealand,
Australia, and we've been in the United States for about five
You know the
product was invented by a guy in New Zealand called Rod Jenden
and he used to be a contractor
used to clean a lot of
roofing on government housing, and they used all sorts of nasty stuff to clean these
surfaces.
He always used to talk about some stuff that they'd apply it and if it blew
back in your face, it would drop you to your knees.
and they're always looking for ways as we like to say, work smarter not harder
and they went through a period where they
used bleach for a while
but what they found with the bleach
it would eat up the chassis of their trucks, it's terribly corrosive.
Now we've got Wet & Forget and you have EPA certification
That's right, we're an EPA registered product.
and we are
available in all 50 states, even Brixton California
Even California, that's one of the stars ya know on the flag.
But there's no pressure washing it's EPA registered and there's no bleach in the
product and
I mean you can use it at all kinds of the substrates outside from
decks to brick pavers to concrete to roof shingles and all kinds of shingles
even outdoor lawn furniture and canvas awnings absolutely you can use on any
outside surface
the of the great thing about the product is non-caustic and non-acidic as you
mentioned there's no bleach and pH of 8, pure water
is 7. So it's close to neutral, we can put it on any outside surface
with confidence and just
leave it there
and let mother nature do the rest, spray it on and you're done.
spray it on wet it down and forget about it
and it's that simple and you have a lot of different place you can use in this
that you know tell us about
Duncanville project in Texas
Well we partnered with the city of Duncanville, we were contacted
by the Mayor of Duncanville
who
had bought our product and used it and loved it so much, he
thought it would be great for other people in the community to use it to beautify
the homes and improve the look of the community
and he called us up and we were like wow we really hadn't thought about doing
something like this and we kind of work together with them and
we came up with something called operation facelift for Duncanville
and they promoted using Wet & Forget
to beautify people's homes and also in
the park districts, sure and statuary and everything else
a forty thousand population town just a suburb of Dallas, that's right, so not just some
sleepy community just outside of Dallas, But your also in Sea World
Buildings on Sea World
In fact, Sea World was our first US customer.
And you have the coarsely Bok Tower
in the lake Wales. That's right a lot of people
who live in Florida know of the Bok Tower
My parents were members of Bok Tower for about 12 years it's beautiful down there
They applied the wet and forget to the 50 thousand square foot
roof tile roof
It was just a way for them to do the job and really save some money
money. Yeah and it
saves money saves time, when I do a roof
in the Midwest let's say
How long
will I get a residual action when using Wet n forget
Will the algae reform quicker or will I get a year and a half two years out of
it? We always say that you should get at least a year out of it
If you're doing a roof
A shingled roof and it's in the midwest
you're going to get probably more, we've got lots of examples where
you're going to get 2 to 3 years before you see the re-growth
once you get the re-growth, all you have to do is go out
hit it again with your pump-up garden sprayer
That way you'll keep it nice and clean all the time
real simple wet and forget
in a bottle it's blue
and you take it and you mix it with water
so the ratio is 5 to 1, 5 parts water to 1 part wet & forget
20% for those that want to know and that
spray
dilution rate is pretty much for everything, for all applications whether
you will be putting it on canvas or putting it on sidewalk or shingles
your
vinyl siding that's always a five to one ratio
wet n forget now guys this is one of those kind of things that
when the wife is asking when are you gonna when are you gonna
i'm gonna get to it and then when you get it -- make sure she's not
around because just too easy she'll want you to do more
But it works that good, the marine industries around the great lakes
how about the product there, do you have any concerns
with the product leeching into the water way
You want to keep your application away
from right on the water
We get a lot of people using it on their boats, vinyl boat seats
when it's out of the water
pontoons and it cleans all those materials
the indoor outdoor carpet that pontoon boats have
that seems to get that algae growth in there
it works fantastic on that
well you've got it right from the president Brett Perry
and it's all about wet and forget.
the website is wetandforget.com
wet and forget dot com
can you get it easier than that
Brett Perry thanks for being our guest thanks very much