F9 COOKBOOK

The Experts Guide to Exterior Surface Restoration, Cleaning and Maintenance

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
WELCOME
WELCOME TO THE F9 COOKBOOK Craig Harrison
Founder
Thank you for choosing Front 9 Restoration, Inc. line of products!

The pages, flow charts and instructions in the F9 COOKBOOK are

more than directions on how to remove a stain or combination of
stains. The F9 Cookbook is a system of Processes that have been
proven over and over through many years of use. Through the use
of these systems we have achieved results far superior to any other
manufacturers products or combination of products. Our hope for
you is that you learn these systems, a
­ pply them to your business and
get mind-blowing results similar to what we have grown ­accustomed
to. Our goal is to give you an advantage, separate your company
from your competition and help you to become an indispensable
asset to your clients.

F9 is a Lifestyle. It’s a choice to use products that are safer to you, the environment and the surfaces they are
put down on. Equally important, using F9 Products is a choice to become more efficient in your procedures,
making you more profitable, and a choice to raise the bar in the standard of cleanliness.

My vow to you is that as a Professional Restoration Contractor I will stand behind our products 100%. I will
always give you the best available information in the highest and best interest of you and your Company.
I wish you every success and to have fun on your journey. Welcome to the F9 Team.

A special mention to each of the Cleaning Contractors who have kindly given us permission to use their
credited before and after photos throughout the F9 COOKBOOK. The camraderie and assistance we offer
each other is the key to the success we are all enjoying. Thank you! As always, I will continue to be a phone
call away whenever you need me.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 F9 Chart 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

F9 Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 F9 Chart 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Surface Identification Flow Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 F9 Chart 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

How to Use the F9 Restoration Cookbook . . . . 4 F9 Chart 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

F9 Chart 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 F9 Chart 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

F9 Chart 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 F9 Chart 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

F9 Chart 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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 F9 PRODUCTS
THE F9 ALL-STAR LINEUP

F9 Double Eagle Cleaner/Degreaser and Neutralizer (F9 DE)

Hence the name, F9 Double Eagle serves a “Double” purpose. Use F9
DE as the very first step in most flat surface cleaning for oil, hydrocarbon,
food grease, general staining, tire marks and built-up staining. Use on
Dumpster Pads, Loading Docks, Gas Stations, Parking Garages, and just about
any Hard Surface. A very safe, fast and efficient product, F9 DE can cut your
dwell times down to just 5 minutes and clean heavy oil stains in one pass!
Stains include: Oil, hydrocarbon, food stains and grease, tire marks,
general surface accumulations and much more.
Available in Gallons, Case (4 gallons), 5 Gallon Drums, and 55 Gallon Kits

F9 Efflorescence and Calcium Remover (F9 Efflo)

F9 Calcium and Efflorescence Remover is breakthrough in the restoration
and cleaning industry. F9 Efflo is a user friendly, full 31.45% strength muriatic
acid replacement. This product combines a pleasant smelling buffered acid
along with an excellent soaping capability to work better at lower concentrations.
F9 Efflo gives the user the advantage of a full strength product while greatly
reducing fuming and corrosion, thereby improving overall health and safety
risk profile.
Stains include: Efflorescence, calcium, calcium carbonate, mineral stains,
etch marks, copper stains, mud or red clay stains and more.
Available in Gallons, Case (4 gallons), 55 Gallon Drums, and 275 Gallons

F9 Battery Acid Rust and Restoration Cleaner (F9 BARC)

F9 BARC was formulated with a team of Scientists over a period of 6 years.
Through literally 100’s of reformulations we have created a perfectly blended
product capable of performing insurmountable tasks! Use for all types of rust
on almost all types of surfaces. Safe, fast, effective and versatile, F9 BARC
is guaranteed to remove the most concrete rust, fertilizer staining and orange
battery stains better than any other product on the market!
Stains include: Heavy rust, orange battery stains, fertilizer rust, snow plow
blade rust, irrigation rust stains and more.
Available in Gallons, Case (4 gallons), 55 Gallon Drums, and 275 Gallons

F9 Groundskeeper (F9 GK)

F9 Groundskeeper is our Industrial Concrete Maintenance Cleaner.
This product will make the concrete absolutely “POP”, remove tire marks,
soils and grime in the process. It is used when topical oil stains have been
pre cleaned and the stains are actually at or beneath the surface of the
concrete. Great for commercial properties, restaurant entrances and high traffic
areas. When using this maintenance cleaner, your customers will be telling
you they have never seen their concrete so clean. Stay cleaner longer with
F9 Groundskeeper!
Available in Gallons, Case (4 gallons), 55 Gallon Drums, and 275 Gallons

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 IDENTIFICATION
SURFACE
F9 Restoration Flow Chart for
Surface Identification
SURFACE IDENTIFICATION

FLAT SURFACE

WHAT TYPE OF SURFACE?

Concrete, Bricks/Pavers, Tile/Stone,
Asphalt/Trex Composite Deck Board Concrete CHART 1 (Page 9)

Bricks/Pavers CHART 2 (Page 21)

Tile/Stone CHART 3 (Page 33)

Asphalt/Trex Composite Deck Board CHART 4 (Page 45)

VERTICAL SURFACE

WHAT TYPE OF SURFACE?

Stucco, Eifs, Dryvit, Vinyl, Painted Metal, Stucco, Eifs, Dryvit,

Other Painted Surfaces, Porous & Dense Vinyl/Hardiplank,
Painted Metal and Other CHART 5 (Page 51)
Brick/Block & Concrete, Porous & Dense
Tile/Stone, Asphalt Roof Shingles/ Painted Surfaces
TPO Membrane, Windows
Porous & Dense
Brick/Block & Concrete CHART 6 (Page 61)

Porous & Dense Tile/Stone CHART 7 (Page 73)

Asphalt Roof Shingles/TPO Membrane CHART 8 (Page 87)

Windows CHART 9 (Page 91)

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DILUTIONS FOR USING F9 PRODUCTS
We give ratios as using “equal parts” of water to product. So, a 10:1 ratio means 10 parts water
to 1 part product.
“Equal Parts” means if you use a cup to measure, at 10:1 you would use 10 cups of water to 1 cup
of product.
To find out how many ounces of product you would need in a gallon of water, first add the “parts”.
A 10:1 dilution you would add the “10” plus “1” to get 11 total parts. Take 128 (ounces in a gallon)
and divide that by 11.
So, a 10:1 ratio (11 total parts) ... 128/11 = 11.6 ounces of product per gallon of water.
A 5:1 ratio would be 128/6 = 21 ounces of product per gallon of water.
A 20:1 ratio would be 128/21 = 6 ounces of product per gallon of water.
A 1:1 ratio would be 64 ounces of product per gallon of water.
F9 Restoration Flow Chart for
Surface Identification
HOW TO USE THE F9 RESTORATION COOKBOOK SURFAC
STEP 1:
FLAT SURFACE
IDENTIFY THE LAYOUT OF YOUR SURFACE
1. Start on the left side of the page marked
WHAT TYPE OF SURFACE?
“F9 Restoration Flow Chart for Surface
Identification” (Page 3). You will see two Concrete, Bricks/Pavers, Tile/Stone,
Asphalt/Trex Composite Deck Board Conc
items: “Flat Surface” marked in blue and
“Vertical Surface” marked in green.
Bricks/
2. Follow the flow chart based on whether
you are cleaning a Flat Surface or
Tile/S
Vertical Surface.
Asphalt/Trex Composite
STEP 1
IDENTIFY THE LAYOUT
VERTICAL SURFACE
STEP 2:
IDENTIFY THE SURFACE WHAT TYPE OF SURFACE?
1. The next box to the right Stucco, Eifs,
Stucco, Eifs, Dryvit, Vinyl, Painted Metal,
is called, “What Type of Other Painted Surfaces, Porous & Dense Vinyl/Hardip
Brick/Block & Concrete, Porous & Dense Painted Metal a
Surface?” Pick the type of
Tile/Stone, Asphalt Roof Shingles/ Painted Sur
surface you are going to TPO Membrane, Windows
be cleaning.
Porous & D
Brick/Block &

Porous & Dense Tile/St

STEP 2
IDENTIFY THE SURFACE Asphalt Roof Shingles/TPO M

Windows

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BONUS CHARTS
� Sealing
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Surface Identification

IDENTI
IDENTI
SURFACE IDENTIFICATION
SURFACE

F9 PROCESS
STEP 3: FLATSURFACE
FLAT SURFACE
FIND YOUR CHART
1. Follow the Flow Chart WHAT
through
WHATTYPE the
TYPE OFSURFACE?
OF SURFACE?
types of surfaces to identify what
Concrete,Bricks/Pavers,
Concrete, Bricks/Pavers,Tile/Stone,
Tile/Stone,
“Chart” youAsphalt/Trex
will be working from.
Composite DeckBoard
Board Concrete CHART 11 (Page
CHART (Page 9)
9)
Asphalt/Trex Composite Deck Concrete
For example, if you are working on
Flat Concrete, you would be working
Bricks/Pavers
Bricks/Pavers CHART 22 (Page
CHART (Page 21)
21)
from Chart 1. If you are working on
Flat Stone, you would find Chart 3.
Tile/Stone
Tile/Stone CHART 33 (Page
CHART (Page 33)
33)
If you are working on Vertical Tile,
you would find Chart 7. CHART 44 (Page
(Page 45)
45)
Asphalt/TrexComposite
Asphalt/Trex CompositeDeck
DeckBoard
Board CHART
2. Go to the Chart # for the surface you
will be cleaning.

VERTICALSURFACE
VERTICAL SURFACE

WHATTYPE
WHAT FLAT
TYPE OFSURFACE?
OF SURFACE?

Stucco,Eifs,
Eifs, Dryvit,3Vinyl,
Vinyl,Painted
PaintedMetal,
Metal, Stucco,Eifs,
Stucco, Eifs,Dryvit,
Dryvit,
Stucco, Dryvit,
STEP
Other Painted Surfaces, Porous & Dense Vinyl/Hardiplank,
Vinyl/Hardiplank,
Other Painted
FIND YOURSurfaces,
CHART Porous & Dense CHART 55 (Page
(Page 51)
51)
Brick/Block PaintedMetal
Metaland
andOther
Other CHART
Brick/Block &&Concrete,
Concrete, Porous&&Dense
Porous Dense Painted
Tile/Stone,Asphalt
AsphaltRoofRoofShingles/
Shingles/ Painted Surfaces
Painted Surfaces
Tile/Stone,
TPOMembrane,
TPO Membrane, Windows
VERTICAL
Windows
Porous&&Dense
Porous Dense
Brick/Block & Concrete CHART 66 (Page
CHART (Page 61)
61)
Brick/Block & Concrete

Porous&&Dense
Porous DenseTile/Stone
Tile/Stone CHART 77 (Page
CHART (Page 73)
73)

AsphaltRoof
Asphalt RoofShingles/TPO
Shingles/TPOMembrane
Membrane CHART 88 (Page
CHART (Page 87)
87)

Windows
Windows CHART 99 (Page
CHART (Page 91)
91)

BONUSCHARTS
BONUS CHARTS
� Sealing
� Sealing
� Sealer and Coating Removal/Stripping
� Sealer and Coating Removal/Stripping
� Bonus Tips and Tricks
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STEP 4:
IDENTIFY YOUR STAIN(S), CLEANING PROCESS AND CLEANING PROCESS NUMBER

For this example we will look at Chart 1 Flow Chart for Flat Concrete (Page 9)
1. For “Flat Concrete”, we have 3 different “Processes”. These processes are called the
F9 Double Eagle Process, F9 Efflo Process and the F9 BARC Process.
2. Starting with the F9 Double Eagle Process, look in the box. You will see certain stains.
Answer “Yes or No” and follow the flow chart according to if you have a stain in that box
or not. Mark down the process number that has your stain.

F9 FLOW CHART FOR FLAT CONCRETE

STEP 4
IDENTIFY YOUR STAIN, CLEANING PROCESS AND CLEANING PROCESS NUMBER

STAIN STAIN STAIN

ID ID ID
CLEANING CLEANING CLEANING
PROCESS PROCESS PROCESS

F9 Double Eagle Process F9 Efflo Process F9 BARC Process

Oil, hydrocarbon, food stains, 1. Efflorescence, calcium, calcium 1. Heavy rust, orange battery stains,
tire marks, general surface YES carbonate, mineral stains, etch marks YES fertilizer rust, snow plow blade rust.
accumulations? 2. Copper stains 2. Irrigation rust stains
3. Mud or red clay stains

CLEANING PROCESS NUMBER

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STEP 5:
CONGRATULATONS! You have successfully identified your SURFACE, STAIN, CLEANING PROCESS
AND CLEANING PROCESS NUMBER
Now, follow this through to the “Order of Cleaning” and you are ready to get to work.

EXAMPLE 1 – SEE CHART 1 (PAGE 9)

YOU HAVE FLAT CONCRETE WITH OIL, CALCIUM AND IRRIGATION STAINS

F9 Double Eagle Process F9 Efflo Process

OIL, hydrocarbon, food stains, 1. Efflorescence, CALCIUM, calcium
tire marks, general surface YES carbonate, mineral stains, etch marks
accumulations?
2. Copper stains
3. Mud or red clay stains

SCENARIO:
Flat Concrete with YES
Oil, Calcium and F9 BARC Process Order of Cleaning
Irrigation Rust Stains 1. Heavy Rust, orange battery stains, F9 Double Eagle Process,
fertilizer rust, snow plow blade rust. YES F9 Efflo Process #1,
2. IRRIGATION RUST STAINS F9 BARC Process #2.

EXAMPLE 2 – SEE CHART 7 (PAGE 73)

YOU HAVE VERTICAL STONE WITH LIGHT, SEE-THROUGH, RUST STAINS

F9 Efflo Process F9 BARC Process

1. Powdery efflorescence, 1. LIGHT SEE-THROUGH RUST STAINS
primary efflorescense and NO 2. Dark thick rust stains, pyrite aggregates,
secondary efflorescense Order of Cleaning
rust from metal fixtures & AC units, heavy
2. Calcium, calcium irrigation rust YES F9 BARC Process #1
carbonate, lime run and 3. Window frame oxidation runs, window
mineral stains shutter oxidation runs, window frame caulk
3. Copper Stains bleed, inorganic black streaks
4. Mud and red clay

SCENARIO: You would look to find F9 BARC Process #1 on

Vertical Stone with Light, Vertical Porous and Dense Tile and Stone
See Through Rust Stains

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