How to Clean an Olympic Premium Deck Care Sprayer Tank

Olympic is a company that manufactures and sells paints and stain products for household and commercial use. Sprayer tanks are used to apply cleaners to stained and painted surfaces. It is very important to clean these appliances out thoroughly to avoid damaging other surfaces from specific cleaners. For instance, a cleaner that is meant for stained surfaces might not be conducive with, and may destroy, a paint surface. So after each use, thoroughly clean your spray tank.

Things You'll Need

• Commercial tank cleaner
• 1 cup ammonia
• Hot water
• Large bucket

Instructions

1. Empty the sprayer tank of all substances into the large bucket.

2. Pour 1 cup of ammonia into the sprayer tank.

3. Fill the sprayer tank with hot water. Shake it around a little bit.

4. Spray the solution out through the nozzle into the same bucket as the substances that were poured out.

5. Pour in a commercial tank cleaner according to label directions. Shake around.

6. Spray the contents into the large bucket.

7. Rinse thoroughly with water and spray out as well. Repeat two more times.

8. Allow to air dry.

Tips & Warnings

• You can use chlorine bleach instead of ammonia, and for oil-based paints, stains and other oil-based substances, you can clean out the tank with fuel or kerosene. These will remove the oil deposits. Just be careful not to use any fire around kerosene or fuel as they may be flammable and could combust.

References

• Olympic: Cleaners and Spray Tank
• Iowas State University: Sprayer Clean Out Guidelines