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My neighbor is saying the soap I use (Meguiars HyperWash) is killing the lawn on our shared boulevard (small 11'x7.5' patch of grass.)
I use 1oz in a 5gallon bucket (fill about 4.5.) I use 1 oz in my Foam Sprayer (and that's only sometimes, or just the bucket wash.) I wash the car once every week or two depending on weather (been only once every few weeks this year
) The water does trickle down the edge of this area but it's the whole patch that's going brown. I dump the extra dirty water once I'm done in the grass beside my car in front of our house in the same spot every time, and it doesn't have any such issues!
I think the issue is he cuts the grass very short and there is no shade there at all, and its rarely watered! What does he think will happen in this heat treating it that way?! He put down some seed this spring and it looked good till the heat came of course, but I don't know what kind of seed he used if it's good for full sun (doesn't look like it.) He has some nerve as we let them come into our backyard and use most of our garden to plant veggies etc as they don't have the room. We get along fine but I don't want this to be a thorn between us...
How can I tell him its not the soap, even though he says it might be the wax in it (HyperWash doesn't even have wax in it!) We are both car guys and like to keep our vehicles clean, but he has his done somewhere else...
I saw this page where Mike Stoops said it won't:
https://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?54767-Car-Wash-and-the-Lawn
I use 1oz in a 5gallon bucket (fill about 4.5.) I use 1 oz in my Foam Sprayer (and that's only sometimes, or just the bucket wash.) I wash the car once every week or two depending on weather (been only once every few weeks this year
) The water does trickle down the edge of this area but it's the whole patch that's going brown. I dump the extra dirty water once I'm done in the grass beside my car in front of our house in the same spot every time, and it doesn't have any such issues!I think the issue is he cuts the grass very short and there is no shade there at all, and its rarely watered! What does he think will happen in this heat treating it that way?! He put down some seed this spring and it looked good till the heat came of course, but I don't know what kind of seed he used if it's good for full sun (doesn't look like it.) He has some nerve as we let them come into our backyard and use most of our garden to plant veggies etc as they don't have the room. We get along fine but I don't want this to be a thorn between us...
How can I tell him its not the soap, even though he says it might be the wax in it (HyperWash doesn't even have wax in it!) We are both car guys and like to keep our vehicles clean, but he has his done somewhere else...
I saw this page where Mike Stoops said it won't:
https://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?54767-Car-Wash-and-the-Lawn
I don't think the soap is the issue, even talked to a lawn contractor that lives on the other side of the street and he says the same about the grass being to short for such a small area, not watered enough and possibly the wrong type of grass/to much fertilizer for that area. He even offered to let my neighbour know this but I will avoid that for now...
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