Clean Wood Siding Without Damaging Paint

The cloth will likely come up dark gray with a layer of fine soot.

Clean wood siding without damaging paint.

Clean the soap and remaining grime off the siding. Mix 3 4 cup of oxalic acid granules and 1 gallon of hot water. Wash the siding area with the pressure washer. Point your pivotpro hit the trigger and start spraying cleansing water against your dirty wood siding.

Use a spray bottle to squirt cleaner onto the grimier spots and scrub with a soft brush. But over the years your house will experience paint failure faster than if it were applied to clean siding. Insert the detergent tip which is often black into the pressure washer wand and apply detergent as needed. After scrubbing thoroughly make sure to rinse the cleaner with a garden hose.

Pressure washing will pull stain right off of wood surfaces. Rinse the siding using the pressure. Work down from the roofline taking on one 10 foot square section at a time. Stand roughly 4 feet away from the cedar while washing.

Spray grimier spots with a siding cleaner and brush. Turn the hose end sprayer back to the light hose spray setting. Even after pressure washing you may still find that a thin layer of dirt remains on the siding. Wood stain is one of the most difficult stains to remove but a variety of products will take wood stain off your vinyl siding without harming it.

As an experiment rub a clean white cloth across the unwashed siding. Hold the hose in one spot for about 20 seconds before moving on to another part of the siding. Step 1 put on rubber gloves.