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Welcome to another episode of Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
Today in the shop, I wanna talk about dilution ratios.
What is a dilution ratio?
Well a lot of your products that you have can be diluted
in a specific manner.
For instance, I'll start off with this Fabric Clean.
Now, Fabric Clean is great because it's a shampoo,
which means that it's a gel, shampoo-like texture,
so this one right here,
you wanna go ahead and dilute it with water.
You make the most use outta your product
and you stretch your product for as much as you can
while using it as effectively as possible.
So like I was saying, Fabric Clean is great
because it's shampoo and can be diluted,
and today we're gonna go ahead and dilute it
in our secondary dilution spray bottle.
As you guys can see right here on the side,
you have your dilution ratios,
you have one to one, two to one, eight to one,
the lower or higher dilution that it is,
the lower that you're gonna apply a product and more water.
So in this case, Fabric Clean can actually be diluted
in two specific manners,
you can dilution Fabric Clean 20 to one for general purpose
cleaning and/or eight to one for extra dirty areas.
So if you're just doing a maintenance clean on your carpets,
I usually do it every few months or so,
where I just do 20 to one ratio.
I spray my carpets down and if they're not very bad,
all I do is just grab a microfiber towel
and gently wipe them down
from any kind of light dust, debris, and grime.
An eight to one ratio works out great
if you're doing a whole carpet job or an upholstery job,
where the carpet is absolutely horrendous, stained, grimy,
and you have some horrible smells coming from the fabric.
So when you're working on those types of fabrics,
an eight to one ratio works out a lot better
than the 20 to one ratio
since you're gonna have more of a concentration
of the power of the product.
So before I start,
I do wanna mention that I am gonna be using a funnel here,
just because like I said,
if you're gonna dilute your products,
it's because you wanna make the best use of it
and it's not gonna be the best use
if you're spilling it all over the place.
So the first thing you wanna do is put your funnel on top
of your bottle and that goes ahead and screws right on top,
so it's not like a loose funnel like your oil one,
this actually screws onto the bottle itself
so that you can actually pour
and not have it tip over or fall off on you.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab my product
and I'm gonna go ahead and dilute it all the way down
and fill it up to where it's 20 to one.
That looks just about right.
Then we're gonna go ahead
and pretty much fill up the rest with water,
so all you wanna do is get your water,
pour it in afterwards,
and fill it up all the way to the top.
And you're good to go.
Now all you gotta do is take off your funnel,
which screws off, put your sprayer bottle on your bottle.
Twist it on.
Just give it a stir and you're good to go.
And that's how you go ahead and dilute your Fabric Clean
or any kind of shampoo-like textured chemicals.
Another quick tip is, these bottles have labels right here
that you can go ahead and write on,
that you can go ahead and put the name of the product
or label whatever the product name is
or any kind of further details of the product.
You have a lot of breakdowns of what you can go ahead
and mark right here, so I'm gonna go ahead
and write on this one since this is our Fabric Clean one,
just gonna write Fabric Clean.
Forgive me, my writing is not the best.
And then you can also write right here
what the dilution ratio is,
so you can write, like I said,
since this one was a 20 to one, this is a 20 to one ratio.
So if you do have different ratios,
such as if you have another Fabric Clean bottle
that's diluted eight to one,
you'll know the difference
and not just have to go by the color of the bottle,
you actually know in print which one's which,
20 to one or the eight to one version.
Next on the list, we're gonna go ahead
and dilute our Diablo Wheel Gel.
Now, I know a lot of you guys are a huge fan
of this product, and we have it in two forms.
So if your Diablo Wheel Gel has a sprayer top on it already,
that means it's ready to use.
In this case, this is the actual gel itself.
Now, Diablo Wheel Gel is great
because it's a dilutable product, so in this case,
when we're actually working with the gel itself,
we can dilute it to a three to one dilution ratio,
so I'm gonna go ahead and put my spout on my bottle again
but this time, I'm doing it in a bigger bottle right here,
this is a 32-ounce bottle versus the first one that I did,
which was a 16-ounce bottle.
So with this one right here,
we're gonna be using a bit more product
but we're gonna have more product to use
since this is a wheel cleaner
and typically with your wheel cleaner, you wanna spray it
a little bit more than usual, so with this one right here,
it's a bigger bottle so you don't have to go back and forth
refilling your bottle.
So same thing, I'm gonna go ahead and open this up.
I'm gonna go ahead and pour the Diablo Wheel Gel
until this line right here,
till it gets to the three to one line, I'm gonna fill it up.
And then you're gonna wanna stop, get your water,
pour the rest of it with water all the way up to the top.
And I usually fill it up
to about where I get to these rings or so,
just to give it a little bit of air
so it can suck up the product
when you're squeezing the trigger.
So with that being said, you take off your funnel,
put your sprayer top back on it, and you're good to go.
You just wanna go ahead and stir it,
shake it up, and you're good to go.
Another cool thing and another reason
why I chose this bottle here
is because this is our Duck Foamer spray nozzle,
so with this product right here, it has a mesh filter
which allows for your product to come out
in a foamy manner.
So as you can imagine, this is a gel-based cleaner,
so it's gonna foam up
and it's gonna give you that lubrication
and that emulsification properties
to pull off any loose grime and debris.
So with this one right here,
it activates your suds by simply a squeeze of a trigger,
so when you squeeze it,
it'll go ahead and foam up the product
and you don't have to worry about agitating it hard
with the brush or anything
because the product is already activated for you.
So next on the list, we have our foam cannons.
Now, foam cannons are great
because they provide a thick layer of soap
whenever you use it in a pressure washer
to go ahead and give your car a pre-rinse
and to knock off heavy duty dirt and grime
that's on the paint.
So with this right here,
you wanna take off your foam cannon nozzle
and then with your soap here,
the soap can be diluted up to one ounce
to a five-gallon bucket or in this case,
since this foam cannon is only 32 ounces,
I'm just gonna go ahead and put one ounce of product
into this 32-ounce bottle.
Now, one ounce is more than enough,
all you wanna do is shake it up.
And me personally, I like to fill up the foam cannon
first with water and then if you kinda wanna eyeball it,
you can go ahead and give it one good squirt
of Citrus Wash and Gloss, like that.
Or if you're more precise
and you wanna grab your measuring cup,
you can do it that way as well.
Quick pro tip for you guys that like to but in bulk,
if you buy the gallon sizes,
I highly recommend that you use a gallon pump.
Now, the gallon pump is an accessory to this gallon,
so it comes like this, so it comes with the straw
that goes all the way to the bottom,
which sucks up the product.
You just go ahead and pop that into there.
And then this pops up when you turn it.
And then all you wanna do is simply stick it in there
and it'll actually thread onto the bottle neck itself,
so you can tighten it
and have it in your garage without it leaking.
And one cool thing about this is,
one pump is equivalent to an ounce,
so what that means is, if you wanna go ahead
and put your foam cannon in there,
one good pump is equivalent to an ounce,
so all you wanna do is give it one good squirt.
And you're good to go.
Now, our last product here
is our waterless wash and atomizer.
Now, this right is here is our Mr. Sprayer Atomizer
and then we have our EcoSmart Waterless Wash Concentrate.
Now, this concentrate bottle of EcoSmart
can actually make you up to two gallons worth of product.
So how do you make it two gallons worth of product?
First, you wanna go ahead and open up your atomizer.
Now, this is cool and very convenient
because with this atomizer, you can actually pump it,
pump whatever product that you have inside,
and spray it directly onto the surface
without having to kill your wrist
by spraying so many times on your vehicle.
If you're using Waterless Wash, you wanna save time,
you wanna go ahead and make it most convenient as possible,
so by using one of these,
you can simply spray up your car
and get the whole car done in seconds.
Now, next thing you wanna do is you wanna go ahead
and open up your bottle here, take off the plastic casing.
Before you use your EcoSmart Waterless Wash,
you wanna make sure you shake it up
because you'll see that there's a heavy sediment of wax
at the bottom.
This is gonna go ahead and protect and shine your vehicle,
so before you go ahead and pour that into your atomizer,
give it a good shake,
make sure that product mixes completely
into the atomizer and you're good go.
So now that you've mixed up your product,
now you wanna go ahead
and dilute it into your Mr. Sprayer bottle here.
Now, you would dilute EcoSmart Concentrate
to a 16 to one ratio, so if you wanna go ahead
and do the math, this is a 1.5-liter bottle,
you wanna go ahead and divide that by 16
so that you get 16 parts water to one part of chemical.
So in reality, what it's gonna look like
is gonna be about just these little legs right here
and then the rest is gonna be water.
A pro tip for you guys,
if you guys wanna make your life a little bit easier,
I would highly recommend
that you find yourself a gallon at home,
such as a gallon of milk or an empty gallon of water,
clean that out, pour half your bottle
of EcoSmart Concentrate into that gallon
and fill up the rest with water.
Shake it up, and you have yourself one gallon
of ready-to-use product
so that you don't have to go back and forth
diluting it into your Mr. Sprayer bottle here.
Remember, EcoSmart Concentrate
does make two gallons worth of product,
so that's why I said pour half of that into your gallon
and the rest water, because you'll then have another half
that you can go ahead and dilute with water
and you'll have another gallon of product
and there goes your two gallons of EcoSmart Concentrate.
All right guys, so this was just a few handful of products
that I chose to show you guys how to dilute.
Now of course, there's plenty of other products
that can be diluted, such as your other shampoos,
you have degreasers, all-purpose cleaners,
you can use products like Nonsense,
which can be diluted up to 20 to one,
degreasers, which can actually be diluted up to 40 to one,
depending on the product, how strong it is,
whatever purpose you're gonna use it for,
just make sure, use your best judgment.
We do have a dilution chart table on our website
if you guys wanna do visit that
and find a little bit more about dilution ratios,
but other than that, like I said,
this was just a handful of products,
there's a whole world of products out there
that can be diluted.
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