Wash Wood Siding House

Cleaning and getting rid of stains.

Wash wood siding house.

1st cedar is a relatively soft wood. Avoid spraying up into the bottom of the horizontal siding. Mix the pressure washer detergent according to manufacturer s instructions in a 5 gallon bucket. The psi required for building materials varies.

If you ve got mildew or rust stains here s what to do about them. I can assume there is instant dissent with the title of this story. Courtesy of rust oleum when mildew gains a foothold homeowners often turn to diluted chlorine bleach sodium hypochlorite a k a. Using a pressure washer.

At 46 inches in. Make your way around your home giving the wood. Apply the soap from the bottom up and rinse it away from the top down. It appears to make mildew vanish but on porous surfaces such as wood or vinyl siding chlorine evaporates too quickly to get to the fungi s roots guaranteeing regrowth.

David had the front of our house soaped up in no time. If you have wood siding for instance you should avoid using a power washer and instead clean your siding by hand or with a cleaning wand attached to your garden hose. We let the soap work its magic for 10 minutes as the cleaner packaging instructed. I used a bristle brush to scrub some of the really dirty spots.

Cleaning your siding by hand or with an outdoor cleaning wand has the added benefit of greater precision and is better for many types of siding. Connect the pressure washer to a water source such as a garden hose. Cleaning with a garden hose. For delicate stucco it s also best to.

How to clean wood siding method 1 of 3. Inspect your home s siding. You should clean siding annually using warm soapy water and a soft bristled brush. But there is good reason not to powerwash a wood sided exterior.

Painted soft grain wood siding stucco and aluminum siding are best treated with 1 200 to 1 500 psi models. Inspect your home s siding for damage. If you notice any deterioration or broken. Insert the yellow tip in the pressure washer.

Your standard household whitener. Now change the pressure washer nozzle to the 25 or 40 degree spray tip and wash away all the detergent while keeping the wand at least 1 foot away from your house siding. All you do is add soap or cleaner screw it onto the end of your garden hose and start spraying. Work down from the roofline taking on one 10 foot square section at a time.

Whether it is white or red cedar or clapboard or even alaskan yellow cedar it is still wood has longitudinal pores running its length from butt to feathered edge on a shingle as well as on cedar clapboard.