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House Washing 

 

Whether your home is painted, stained, vinyl sided, wood, or some other composit material, eventually it will start to grow mold and mildew.  Paint manufacturers now-a-days cannot use heavy metals in thier products anymore such as mercury or lead which used to prevent mold and mildew from growing on, and eating away at the paint job.  The solution to this is simply washing your house!  

Asside from being one of the most important steps in a prepjob before painting your home, it is also a very important and effective way to maintain the quality and life spand of your current paint job.  Mold and mildew actually feeds off of the surface paint of your siding, deteriorating it and breaking down the barrier you need to protect the wood.  

Maybe your house is visably dirty or maybe you want to get more longevity out of your paint job, either way, washing the house about once every year to two years can be very important and helpful.  Also it is very important to make sure that the house is washed "properly" and without a pressure washer. Eventhough it is much faster for painters to wash houses with pressure washers, unless you know exactly how a house was built ( i.e. what the house is wrapped with (if anything at all), what type of sheething was used, and how all the parts of the house like the windows, trim, and roof were flashed with- if at all) then forcibly driving water behind the siding will certainly lead to rotting wood.  This is why we wash houses the good old fashion way with a window safe/plant safe, "Jo-Max" Bleech solution and manually scrub the whole house with brushes to completly remove all grime and dirt.

 

Recently I painted a house for a home owner that had his house washed once every year- his paint job lasted 14 years, and needed little-to-no prepwork before we re-painted to change the color, which saved him thousands of dollars in prep work.