pressure wash soap

Dylan W.

Dylan W.

lone resident of Bro-Lite Island
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Mar 17, 2007
Location
Mocksville NC
What kind of soap do you guys run in a pressure washer to wash vinyl siding?

It's a building and a house..both have bushes that we don't wanna kill. (Well,she don't wanna kill them, I could care less)
 
1 - Straight Clorox
2 - Jomax From Lowes

Both work well.


In the right concentrates neither will kill a bush
 
I use purple power. Clorox if it's the green algae stuff, try and kill it. Either way, I wet it down, then use a pump sprayer to put the soap or clorox on, then powerwash off.

Actually, rarely p/w the vinyl siding...usually a long handle brush takes care of everything, you don't get soaked, and don't drive water where it doesn't belong.
 
Outdoor Clorox has always worked well just don't run it through your pressure washer pump as it's hell on seals and o-rings. Just use a cheap garden sprayer to apply it with.
 
Put a little bit of dish soap in with it. It will make the Clorox stick to the siding and do that much better.
 
obullfish said:
Outdoor Clorox has always worked well just don't run it through your pressure washer pump as it's hell on seals and o-rings. Just use a cheap garden sprayer to apply it with.
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kaiser715 said:
I use purple power. Clorox if it's the green algae stuff, try and kill it. Either way, I wet it down, then use a pump sprayer to put the soap or clorox on, then powerwash off.

Actually, rarely p/w the vinyl siding...usually a long handle brush takes care of everything, you don't get soaked, and don't drive water where it doesn't belong.
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I wish this was an option.
They dont make a pump up sprayer that will reach high enough on the back of my house...
 
I used this stuff to do a whole hose yesterday. It worked pretty good. $10 gallon. Took me about two gallons to do a 1500 sq ft house.
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I mix tsp phosphate and hot water, then mix that 50/50 with bleach to wash the house.

I usually wet area with pressure washer with water only. Then for low areas I use a pump up sprayer to apply the mixture, and then rinse with the pressure washer.

The high areas I can't reach with the ladder and pump sprayer, I use the mixture in the pressure washer tank, but I'm sure to flush it all out with plain water to rinse the house.
 
50% purple power 50% bleach....this may be some sort of deadly toxic combination , but it hasn't killed me yet and works great.
 
Ron said:
I wish this was an option.
They dont make a pump up sprayer that will reach high enough on the back of my house...
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They do however make ladders.....
I've got a back pack sprayer that I use most of the time. I also have a 15 gallon weed sprayer with an electric pump and a long hose that makes it really easy on a ladder.
 
BIGWOODY said:
They do however make ladders.....
I've got a back pack sprayer that I use most of the time. I also have a 15 gallon weed sprayer with an electric pump and a long hose that makes it really easy on a ladder.
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Yeah, but.

My house has 12 ft ceilings and is two story plus a finished basement. Then the attic is a walk up as well. On the back of my house it's over 50' to the soffit. The house itself is just over 48' long and flat across the back. That is a bunch of ladder climbing and moving to hit with a pump up.sprayer when I can stand on the ground and let the pressure washer and extended wand taken care of it for me.

This past year I called a local dude in town and he charged me $100 total to do it and the 3 decks/porches. If he doesnot raise his prices by more than triple he will be doing it every year from now on.
 
Our local guy does the entire outside of house, decks, porch, sidewalk, and driveway for 8 hours and for $200 and is damn good; much better than who the neighbor uses and leaves wand streaks.

I gladly write that check every spring! :)
 
I use awesome cleaner for just about everything.
Buy it at Dollar tree or Dollar General.
If ya have not used it, you will be surprised.
Only thing so far I have found it doesn't work well on is rust, and grease(oil, lube, and so on)

And, it's cheap!
 
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