One of the best cleaning agents to try is vinegar.
Wash siding with dish soap.
To make your own vinyl cleaner you ll need.
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.
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.
A general purpose cleaner like dawn dish soap or soft scrub.
Bucket full of warm water.
Cleaning vinyl siding will preserve the appearance of the exterior of your home.
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.
Cleaning siding with dish soap a snow brush and elbow grease.
Read on and we ll show you how to clean vinyl siding the right way.
If you don t have an extendable brush try attaching a car wash brush to the end of an extendable painting pole.
You can mix regular dawn liquid dish soap in with the solution to get extra cleaning power.
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.
Vinyl siding becomes dirty and stained over time.
Apply the soapy mixture by hand and thoroughly rinse the siding with clean water from the garden hose.
Avoid prolonged or high pressure rinsing of open ventilated areas and keep cleaning.
Squeeze a generous amount in a bucket and add warm water to make a frothy mix of soapy water.
Luckily cleaning vinyl siding is a fairly easy job and there are a wide variety of products to help remove typical stains.
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.
Not only does it fight mold and mildew growth but it works wonders at leaving siding squeaky clean.
How to wash vinyl siding.
To clean aluminum siding start by mixing water liquid dish soap and white vinegar in a large bucket.
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.
For basic vinyl siding wash cleaning use general purpose vinyl siding cleaning solution mixed with warm water.