BH snow foam is well known as not being very foamy. Even through a lance! It does, however, clean exceptionally well compared to others. Wax Planet 8 Below is similar in cleaning abilities but foams much more if thats what floats your boat.

IK Foamers are very good (I have 2!) but they do need a hell of a lot of pumping (no pun intended) to keep producing foam. Takes a while to do the whole car truthfully. I think they are about £15 if you look around hard enough

 

Your regular hand pump liquid sprayer just pushes liquid out of the end of the discharge nozzle. In order to create a foam, the foaming sprayers need to utilise some of the compressed air in the bottle to aerate the liquid as well as push the liquid out of the nozzle. That's why your foaming sprayers need a lot more pumping. If I was in the market for a foaming sprayer, I'd look at the marolex axel 7000. They're not cheap though.

 

I use a cheap Alta Foam 2000 and it works ok but as everyone has said it takes alot of pumping for it to spray foam and the pressure doesn't last long.
You will have to use more snow foam product too compared to a foam lance used with a pressure washer and filling with warm water helps get more foam out of the sprayer.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313015564866?epid=685778217&hash=item48e12e7a42:g:oTMAAOSw~iVgSmG5

Comes with 3 foam nozzles, I found the yellow medium one suited me fine.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
David

 

You need a foaming head as well the standard fitting cannot sustain the pressure at a constant basis to snow effectively.

My MESTO foamer will do half a car, may take about 20 pumps, world well in small section.

You can get the product on making it thin then do most of the car, is you want a thick foam similar to a pressure washer @1000psi it will not happen.

Good for Wheels or the lover half of the car. I have two AS 1.5ltr they as only ever product sprayers some with Viton seals.

John Tht.

 

Thanks, ordered one of these (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313015564...MAAOSw~iVgSmG5). I'm prepared to treat the foaming process as an exercise workout, so not too bothered about how often it needs to be pumped!

 

That link doesn't work for me

 

I got the link from the 91davidw's post above. Use that instead.

 

The IK foam pro 12 works wonderfully with BHAF. Lot’s more capacity can foam care with pumping up 3 times.

For hand held sprayers bo better quality than Marolex


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I use a Marolex Axel Foamer 2L with Bilt Hamber Auto Foam.

 

That's way foamier than anything I've been able to achieve with my existing pump sprayer. Good to know it's possible. May upgrade to the Marolex if my new one (in the post) doesn't work out that well.

 

For snowfoaming without a pressure washer you want something like the IK FOAM Pro 12 or a cheaper alternative like the GLORIA Foammaster Fm 30.

 

Imo, the fine spray from a garden pump sprayer seems to cling to the paint and dwell nearly as long as foam does?

Certainly for a few minutes before it starts to dry, which seems long enough for the cleaning agents to do their work.

Or am I missing something which the pump foamer offers? I have proper foam lances, but have never been attracted to the idea upgrading my pump sprayer to one with a foaming nozzle.

 

Foam will cling better and dwell longer, with a normal sprayer most the product just runs straight off especially if you have a hydrophobic lsp on the car.

 

Stays on much better if not rinsed first.