For general dirtiness all you ll need is a bucket of soapy water dish soap or common laundry detergent work well a soft bristle brush and a garden hose.
Wash siding with dish soap.
As a low maintenance building material vinyl is just as easy to wash with a garden hose and a powerful vinyl siding cleaning solution as it is with a pressure washer.
If you don t have an extendable brush try attaching a car wash brush to the end of an extendable painting pole.
Then submerge a long extendable scrub brush in the cleaning solution.
Avoid prolonged or high pressure rinsing of open ventilated areas and keep cleaning.
Read on and we ll show you how to clean vinyl siding the right way.
How to wash vinyl siding.
And of course the makers of dish soaps are expecting us to be washing our dishes in a little sink with the product and not our clothing in a big ole washing machine.
Regular dishwashing soap will do a very good job of cleaning vinyl siding but if you mix it with the stain solver you ll end up working much less.
Cleaning siding with dish soap a snow brush and elbow grease.
Luckily cleaning vinyl siding is a fairly easy job and there are a wide variety of products to help remove typical stains.
Bucket full of warm water.
Apply the soapy mixture by hand and thoroughly rinse the siding with clean water from the garden hose.
Not only does it fight mold and mildew growth but it works wonders at leaving siding squeaky clean.
This is a much different ratio than if you were to combine a squirt of dawn dish soap and bleach to wash dishes in a small sink full of water maybe about one gallon of water.
A general purpose cleaner like dawn dish soap or soft scrub.
To make your own vinyl cleaner you ll need.
Vinyl siding becomes dirty and stained over time.
Cleaning vinyl siding will preserve the appearance of the exterior of your home.
Bleach is commonly used to clean dirty siding and is especially effective at remove mold mildew and algae from the surface.
To clean aluminum siding start by mixing water liquid dish soap and white vinegar in a large bucket.
Mold mildew and algae are just a few of the causes of dirty vinyl siding.
One of the best cleaning agents to try is vinegar.
If your siding is starting to look like jill s you don t need a power washer which can damage your siding all you need is dish.