Customers often ask us, “What is soft washing”, “Will soft washing clean my home”, “Is soft washing more effective than pressure washing”, or “When should you soft wash and not pressure wash”? These are common questions we receive from customers during some element of their consideration or hiring of Carolina Pressure Washers in Greenville, SC. The topic deserves some attention because each technique or pressure washing service is unique and has a specific purpose when we are cleaning your home’s exterior in Greenville, SC. I think we would all agree that protecting your home is extremely important.
Likewise, you wouldn’t want to incur damage to your home’s exterior because you failed to maintain it by not pressure washing, right? You also would not want to cause damage by attempting to pressure wash your home but not having the right equipment or experience to do so which can lead to unwanted damage. We do not recommend trying to pressure wash your property if you have no experience but rather hire an experienced pressure washing business like Carolina Pressure Washers in Greenville, SC.
What Is Soft Washing?
Soft washing, so what is it, does it really work? Yes, it does. Soft washing is a safe and effective way to clean your vinyl siding. It can also be used to clean a variety of other home or business surfaces like hardiboard, brick, stucco, concrete, pavers, chimneys, and more! Each substrate requires special attention that may result in the need to soft wash your surface. Soft washing is a safe and effective way to utilize low pressure to effectively remove surface stains like mold, mildew, dirt, and grime from a variety of surfaces.
It is different from pressure washing not only because of the equipment that is used but the level of pressure, application or technique process, and the effectiveness of the cleaning. Soft washing is low pressure which means the likelihood of causing damage to your home is less probable. Soft washing allows a company, like Carolina Pressure Washers, to apply a higher concentration of our detergent which yields a faster and better result for cleaning very dirty surfaces like chimneys, roofs, vinyl siding, and more.
What Makes Soft Washing Different?
The difference between soft washing and pressure washing really just boils down to the amount of pressure being applied by the technician to clean any surface. With utilizing lower pressure, there is less of a likelihood of causing damage to your property. An example of why soft washing would be the more effective option rather than pressure washing is new concrete. Let’s say you have a slab of new concrete that has a lot of mold on the surface but you want it to be cleaned.
Well, concrete takes a few years to properly cure and if your technician is inexperienced or doesn’t have the right equipment and they try to use pressure washing to clean the surface, it could result in unwanted, costly damage. In this instance, you could still clean the surface by soft washing a chemical solution on the surface to effectively target and remediate the mold, mildew, dirt, or grime without using pressure at all.
Wow! Another example for why soft washing is an effective way to pressure wash is a chimney. By soft washing a chimney, you are able to effectively soft wash the mold on the surface without applying excessive pressure that could ruin the mortar and joints of the brick or put yourself at risk by having to climb up a ladder to try and apply pressure to the surface.
Is Soft Washing Better Than Pressure Washing?
Soft washing has quickly become the preferred way for most exterior cleaners to clean your house but there are still forms of pressure washing that allow a version of soft washing to be completed, like down streaming. Now we won’t get into the details here but a true soft washing system would tend to yield a better result with maximum efficiency.
Conclusion
To sum it all up, the focus of this topic is to emphasize that soft washing is a safe and effective way to clean your property and we recommend hiring a company that will lower the chance of causing damage to your property by electing to soft wash, rather than pressure wash, which will deliver a premium result. Though sometimes pressure washing is required, knowing when to pressure wash or soft wash is an important decision for your technician to know and decide.
At Carolina Pressure Washers in Greenville, SC, we are experienced exterior cleaning professionals that are trained to clean your property in a safe and effective way. We understand how to utilize soft washing versus pressure washing and we are dedicated to deliver a premium result for all of our customers in Greenville, SC. Let our experienced team show you the benefit of pressure washing your vinyl siding this season.
