Washing Siding In Winter

Cleaning your siding helps your home look great and can extend the life of your siding.

Washing siding in winter.

Since your siding is exposed to the elements 24 7 it gets its fair share of wear and tear. Taking proactive measures will help your siding. Install the soap tip to the end of your pressure washing wand. Hold a 25 degree nozzle at eye level and point it straight at the siding with two hands.

Determine the amount of pressure that can be safely applied to your vinyl siding. They often succeed and then that 3000 psi water is blasting right into bare wood. The soap tip provides a lower pressure blast at a wider angle 60 degrees which will allow the volume of soap to be distributed with wider coverage across the vinyl siding. I couldn t be happier with the results.

The soft wash process he uses is a definite improvement over the typical high psi pressure washing method. Check the packaging to make sure the soap is safe for siding windows and sidewalks. When pressure washing a lot of painters will get right up close to the surface to try to blast loose paint off. So we recommend putting rock salt or another form of ice melt down for safety.

Freezing temperatures make it dangerous to pressure wash and ice can severely damage pressure washing tools and ruin cleaning solutions. The same holds true of washing your house s siding before painting the very best results will be achieved by hand washing with soap water and brushes. It digs holes in the surface and furs the wood grain up damaging the siding. Extra protection for equipment.

On our end the power washing tools simply require more maintenance in colder. An upward spray can force water behind vinyl siding causing more. The right way to pressure wash your siding. It looks just like new again.

As your siding sidewalks and other areas dry they re likely to ice during colder seasons. You would too if you were constantly outside so it s important to take care of your home s exterior beyond simply cleaning the surface. 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. John did an excellent job on the vinyl siding.

The growing popularity of vinyl siding is indisputable. Vinyl siding is a durable versatile and resilient building material but it does require some routine care and cleaning. Take a firm stance a few feet away from the house while spraying. Even so we try to caution our clients about icy surfaces.

But realistically it is very difficult and time consuming to wash an entire house by hand and a pressure washer can do an adequate job in a manner that is much much easier.