The more I rent the siding, the dirtier it gets.

JDhomeservices

JDhomeservices

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I'm sure I'm not the only one who has run into this problem. How do you guys usually handle it? Up until now my solution has just been to wait until the house dries, and clean the dirty spots with a damp rag. . Is there a better solution?
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Thanks so much for the advice guys! Crazy how after pressure washing for so long I'm having to completely relearn how I do everything since I discovered the BBS. I thought I was holding the wand far enough away from the siding to get away with 4000 PS Eye, but I guess I was wrong. What kind of pressure do you guys recommend for rinsing vinyl with 8 GPM?

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I typically rinse with the same tip that I apply the chems
 
Me too on using soap tip to rinse with. You can use a weak mixture of alum brightener like used on tanks for semi trucks to get the stain off if you do have some run out of the weep holes and it dries and leaves a stain. Been a lil trick of mine for years. We have a LOT of what we call dirt dobbers (kinda like a wasp but builds nest out of dirt) and its practically impossible to keep from getting runout like your pic around here unless its a house that is kept sprayed by exterminator or something to keep the dirt dobbers and other pests ran off. Also maybe we have crappy siding installers or something around my area but with 8gpm I can't keep from getting runout on a really dirty house. Don't know about your area but houses get DIRTY around here before they are cleaned!! Lol. Most of my customers call me back but no matter how many reminders I send, most wait till their houses are really dirty before they clean em again.
 
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Me too on using soap tip to rinse with. You can use a weak mixture of alum brightener like used on tanks for semi trucks to get the stain off if you do have some run out of the weep holes and it dries and leaves a stain. Been a lil trick of mine for years. We have a LOT of what we call dirt dobbers (kinda like a wasp but builds nest out of dirt) and its practically impossible to keep from getting runout like your pic around here unless its a house that is kept sprayed by exterminator or something to keep the dirt dobbers and other pests ran off. Also maybe we have crappy siding installers or something around my area but with 8gpm I can't keep from getting runout on a really dirty house. Don't know about your area but houses get DIRTY around here before they are cleaned!! Lol. Most of my customers call me back but no matter how many reminders I send, most wait till their houses are really dirty before they clean em again.
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Same here. Seems like when people go I really long time without washing the house there is nothing you can do to avoid this even when I use a soap tip to rinse. At the rate they throw up houses here they can't possibly spend long putting the siding on. Maybe that's the problem. You use aluminum brightener to get a dirt dauber stains off? Seems like they always leave a stain when I try to get them off. I usually only see dirt dauber nests on stucco though.



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JDhomeservices said:
Same here. Seems like when people go I really long time without washing the house there is nothing you can do to avoid this even when I use a soap tip to rinse. At the rate they throw up houses here they can't possibly spend long putting the siding on. Maybe that's the problem. You use aluminum brightener to get a dirt dauber stains off? Seems like they always leave a stain when I try to get them off. I usually only see dirt dauber nests on stucco though.




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Yes on the nest stains also. I use a very weak mixture of alum brightener. Also I wet anything like windows or anything else I don't want the alum br on before I spray it and the rinse it right off soon as my hose clears of it. Most time on the runout, I will do this last after I wash the rest of the house. If the dirt is still running out, it's not gonna do any good so I wait till it stops then go back and hit the run out spots.

I learned this on a friends house that got flooded few years back. It had a bad stain from the flood waters and he was going to replace all the siding if I couldn't remove the stain or if it didn't match the rest if the siding after cleaned. I tried bleach and every detergent I had before using the alum brightener and just happened to have a little on the trailer so I misted some on and the stain disappeared. Been using it every since. I'm sure the dirt around your area is different than ours (prob more red clay than in my area) but maybe that will help.
 
From some reason I was thinking you were in NC that why I said prob more red clay. Just saw you were in Florida so not sure but thinking the dirt around there would be more similar to my area (from what I have seen of Florida anyway lol)
 
We have some of that red clay here in Texas, about 2 hours north but none down south where I live.

It is interesting how bad that red clay is on everything it comes in contact with.
 
May be easier to do in Nashville or another big city, but out here in the country the dirt is GONNA run out dont care how carefull you are! When washing a house in town, I rarely have this problem but houses out of town around a lot of farmland or something it almost always happens. I have washed a LOT of houses in last 12 years and tried everything to keep it from happening but it still does. Also someone tell me how to get soap under the edge of overlapping siding without SOME small amount of water getting in a weep hole somewhere? Mold grows under the edge around here too! Other areas of the country are probably different but in my area its not possible to clean a house without at least a small amount of water getting in a weep hole somewhere! Ain't trying to be smart butt or anything just sayin its not always possible to keep it from happening.
 
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