How Our Pressure Washing Experience Saved The Broadmoor’s Colored Sidewalks

Five Star Pressure Washing For The Five Star Broadmoor Hotel

Pressure Washing Colored Sidewalks At The Broadmoor

A graphics company out of Los Angeles created some arrows and signs for an event at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO.  The arrows and signs were designed to lightly adhere to a concrete sidewalk along the front of a conference building that is part of the hotel.

Broadmoor Hotel In Colorado Springs

Unfortunately, after the event was done and the stickers were removed, the adhesive left behind a very light residue.  Most of the spots from the adhesive faded quickly, but there were 22 spots that were still too visible for the hotel management to overlook.

The graphics company called us to help them out.  We sent one of our managers and a pressure washing crew with a water recovery trailer to Colorado Springs.

Applying Degreaser To Stains On Colored Concrete

We tried three different methods for removing the spots at the Broadmoor. Each method worked to a point, but because the concrete was colored, we had to be very careful to not hit the surface too hard.

Hitting the surface of any concrete with 3000+psi of hot water will rough up the surface, and with colored concrete, the roughness will appear as a dark area in the color.

If we had just blasted away at the surface we would have removed the adhesive, but created a much more permanent dark spot on the concrete. However, using the material designed for removing these stains also slightly discolored the concrete.  So we tried our proprietary degreaser.  It considerably lightened the spots, but didn’t remove them completely.

We showed the small test patches to the hotel manager.

And he chose the results from our degreaser.  It wasn’t a perfect solution, but it was the best one. And because we were cautious from the beginning, we avoided making the small problem of light stains into a much bigger one of permanent blotches.

Our experience is why companies around the country call us for pressure washing.