using SH around stained wood.

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Aaron@cleanslate

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Hi my names aaron. I've been pressure wahsing/softwash in for a year and a half and have recently gone part time while attending college.

I have two questions, any help is appriciated.

1. I use SH and gain soap in my house was hix. Where I run into a problem is when there is a wood deck connected to the house. How do you go about softwash in the house without bleaching the stained wood? Up until now I've done it by hand... but it's getting old wiping down two story houses... the only solution I can think of is using a solution that doesn't include bleach...any thoughts?

2. I recently washed a house that had a lot of dust accumulated in certain spots. Usually it comes right off with a good old fashioned spray and rinse, but this dust was stubborn... I literally had to wipe it off with a rag... all of it... any ideas about what causes this to hAppen? I was thinking I may need to switch to a designated house wash soap like simple cherry... any thoughts?


Thanks in advance,
aaron
 
Weaker mix and have a second guy constantly rinsing the deck.

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Lots of water is the right answer to preventing an issue,,..Keep in mind though,..a simple house wash mix of 1%-2% or less SH,..won't hurt the stain,..decks are purposely cleaned this way as maintenance ,....but,..it will spot it up,.due to dirt and mold,.... if just hit with overspray.
With that in mind,..sometimes it's easier to just DS the mix onto the deck as well and "give" the customer a little extra,...when in reality you're making it easier on yourself,..and the free service makes you look good,..and the whole job for that matter.

*Sometimes you can just do enough of the deck to tie or blend it together.

Jeff
 
The SH can pull the color out of a deck. Cover the deck or keep it watered constantly like what Jeff and Jeremy say. Don't take a chance, it can be expensive to fix.

I have seen where a house wash removed the stain on arbors, decks and other types of stained wood jobs where customers showed me damage from the previous company.

I don't know if you could just add more stain or what the process would be to remedy where the color was removed.
 
SIMPLE ANSWER:- DON'T USE HYPO. It's not rocket science really. I use hypo as and when required and even then I apply it directly to the surface with a dedicated sprayer that way I only get it on the job not on everything in a 20 metre radius. You only need Hypo to kill mould and Algae on the sidings. I use FLEETWASH (trade name for my supplier) as my wash weapon of choice...it is good for paint and glass. Truckies don't use anything on their rigs that is going to rust them out like Hypo would. Hypo isn't a wash agent it is Used for
1.1 Bleaching
1.2 Stain removal
1.3 Disinfection
1.4 Deodorizing
1.5 Water treatment
and in the case of house washing : to kill moss mould and Lichen.
The detergent product (Surfactant) that you are adding to you Hypo mix it the component that is doing the wash not the hypo.
A detergent is a chemical substance you use to break up and remove grease and grime.
How surfactants work.
You might think water gets you wet—and it does. But it doesn't get you nearly as wet as it might. That's because it has something called surface tension. Water molecules prefer their own company so they tend to stick together in drops. When rain falls on a window, it doesn't wet the glass uniformly: instead, it sticks to the surface in distinct droplets that gravity pulls down in streaks. To make water wash better, we have to reduce its surface tension so it wets things more uniformly. And that's precisely what a surfactant does. The surfactants in detergents improve water's ability to wet things, spread over surfaces, and seep into dirt.

Surfactants do another important job too. One end of their molecule is attracted to water, while the other end is attracted to dirt so the surfactant molecules help water to get a hold of dirt, break it up, and wash it away.
Sorry to burst your bubble on the manual side of washing a house but sometimes manual input is necessary in certain places.
I NEVER wash front doors.. I wash up to them and all around them but never wash them because here in NZ they never fit that well so prevent water getting inside I always wipe front doors down with a towel AFTER I have washed around them.
I would suggest you buy yourself a truck wash brush. Simple because I have found them to be better quality that a house wash brush. get one with an extendable handle. Sometimes after the detergent application, during the dwell time it is necessary to agitate the grime on the building to assist the detergent with the grime removal, there is no magic chemical that will take a bit of elbow grease out of the wash process and what's more MORE PRESSURE isn't the answer either.
 
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