Soft on siding. Rough on algae.
Soft washing is the nicest thing you can do for the outside of your house. Low pressure, a specialized cleaning solution, and by lunch your siding looks the way it did when the builder drove off. No blasting, no ladder in your garage, and nothing for you to lift.
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Three steps. Zero blasting.
The whole trick of soft washing is that the solution does the cleaning, and the water just tags along. Here's the entire method, no secrets held back.
Foam Goes On
We coat the surface in cleaning solution at roughly garden-hose pressure. Your paint, caulking, and window seals never feel a thing.
Science Does Its Thing
The solution sinks in and takes out algae, mold, and mildew at the root. That root part is the whole point. It's why the clean lasts seasons instead of weeks.
The Gentle Rinse
A low-pressure rinse carries everything away. Gardens and shrubs get watered down before and after, so your hostas never know we were there.
Safe for the surfaces that hate pressure
High pressure can strip paint, carve lines into stucco, and knock the granules right off a shingle. Soft washing skips all of that, which is exactly why we can clean the parts of your house most crews politely avoid.
The Whole Exterior, Gently
- Vinyl and aluminum siding, with no dents, no forced water behind the panels, and no stripped paint
- Stucco and other coated finishes, which high pressure carves like soft cheese
- Asphalt shingle roofs, where the granules stay exactly where the factory put them
- Brick, stone, wood fences, and painted trim while we're at it
Gentle wins. By a mile.
A rented pressure washer feels mighty for about an hour. Then you look closely. It knocked the green off the surface, left the roots behind, and by August your north-facing wall is growing its little algae garden all over again. Sometimes it takes a few paint chips as a souvenir.
Soft washing flips the math. The solution does the killing, the water just delivers it and rinses it away. Nothing gets stripped, nothing gets dented, and the clean holds through Ottawa's muggiest summer. Also, your Saturday stays yours.
The Head-To-Head
- Pressure at the wall: about a garden hose for us, around 3,000 PSI for the rental.
- What happens to algae: killed at the root, versus smeared around and back by August.
- Stucco and shingles: completely fine with soft washing. A hard no for high pressure.
- How long it lasts: seasons, versus weeks.
- Your role: watch from the porch with a coffee.
Your house wants a bath.
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