STOP! Never Pressure Wash Your Home

This may sound like a strange statement but it is the truth. The first thing people think of when they want their house cleaned is to have it pressure washed, but the surfaces on the exterior of your home are not made to withstand the destructive forces of high pressure water being sprayed only inches away.

Paint can be blasted off, screens can be shredded, vinyl siding damaged or knocked loose, double pane windows can have their seals broken causing fogging between the two layers of glass.

High-pressure water can also be forced through your window and door seals sending water inside your home to soak your furniture, carpet, or hardwood floors. Another problem with blasting away the dirt on your home by pressure washing,is that you will be forcing water in behind the vinyl siding, Hardi plank, or cracks in the mortar on brick homes causing mold problems within your walls that you may not even be aware of.

While pressure washing poses great risk to your home the threat of personal injury should not be overlooked. Each year thousands of people are injured and even a large number of deaths occur while pressure washing.

The number one cause of these incidences occur while pressure washing homes or other structures from a ladder. A misconception that most people believe, despite all the risk involved, is that you have get close enough to the surface they are cleaning to blast the dirt and grime away with high pressure upwards of 3,000 ~ 4,000 psi.

Another false assumption is that bleach is the only cleaning solution needed to clean a house.

Truth is, bleach has no cleaning power of its own. It may kill mold, but it does nothing to break the bond the mold has on the sides of your home nor does it do anything to remove the pollution, dirt, and other grime that is attacking your home. That is why so many DYIers and pressure washing companies that use bleach as a cleaner have resort to the use of high pressure to blast all this filth off your home.