Soft Washing Jacksonville Florida

Soft Washing/Exteriors

How do I know if my home or business needs exterior cleaning?

Generally here in the Jacksonville FL area, annual cleanings are recommended. The humidity plus overall climate conditions, allow for very quick accumulation of mold, mildew, and algae. Also, it usually only takes a couple of the summer months for the huge bug population to take over the exterior of your home or business. Staying on top these issues before they get too out of hand is always recommended.

Why not clean it myself?

Despite what the folks at the big home centers would like you to think, exterior pressure washing, soft washing, or roof cleaning is not something that most people should try tackling themselves.
Even amongst the professionals, it can literally take years of experience and thousands of jobs before many reach a high level of competency in these trades.
Simply buying a small pressure washer does not qualify a person to have the appropriate knowledge or skill that it takes to achieve quality results, and more importantly, to achieve those quality results safely.

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What Is Soft Washing?

Soft washing is a term that is becoming much more commonly used in the pressure washing and roof cleaning industries. It simply means to clean a given exterior using a much softer amount of pressure than most would traditionally associate with a pressure washing company. In fact, most of the exterior cleaning services performed by today's professionals would fall under the soft washing umbrella . The reason that the term pressure washing is still so widely used has more to do with its industry term recognition than anything. My definition of soft washing is to clean an exterior using 400 psi or less.

Different surfaces require different levels of “soft washing”. For instance, the proper way the clean a roof is to use low, or what many refer to as “non pressure roof cleaning”. Well, if water is coming out of the hose, or wand, there is some pressure, but the non pressure term is more to stress the point that the surface is receiving almost no agitation what so ever during the cleaning process. So technically this would still classify as soft washing.

In today's pressure washing markets, just about anybody who does this professionally and has the skills, equipment, and know how, will be cleaning most surfaces using a soft wash approach. There are, however, exceptions where using a bit more pressure is acceptable. Mainly these exceptions are limited to brick, concrete or masonry type surfaces, but even then the pressure is just part of the equation; the cleaning solutions are the real story.

Soft washing is possible via the extraordinary power of chemistry. Today there are many high quality cleaning compounds that are available to aid in cleaning just about any surface. A quality professional in the pressure washing or roof cleaning trade will have a good working knowledge of many different kinds of cleaning solutions and how to safely and effectively use them in the soft washing process.

Word of warning; If you hire someone to clean an exterior surface around your house or business and they do not plan to use any cleaning solution to aid in the cleaning process, this a sure sign of someone that is either very inexperienced and hasn't learned how to clean things correctly, or someone that simply doesn't care to clean things correctly. We are always willing to recommend another qualified pressure washing, non pressure roof cleaning, or soft washing contractor for customers that are out of our service area.

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