Whether your home exterior is covered with bricks, stones, hardi plank, wood or vinyl siding, at some point it will require maintenance of some kind. And it will also require a good cleaning at some point as well. It really doesn't matter if your home is relatively new or not, you can be sure that it will be ready for a good cleaning sooner or later...and probably sooner than later.
And when that time arrive you will be faced with a choice, either to hire a professional pressure washer/pressure cleaning contractor, or you can think about doing it yourself. To be quite frank with you, the price of hiring a contract cleaner to professionally wash the exterior of your home has never been cheaper than now and with winter just around the corner prices may continue to fall. But for the brave heart who feels that a dollar saved...well, is a dollar saved, this article is for you.
I'm going to walk you through a step by step guide to pressure washing/cleaning the exterior of your home. It's really not a difficult thing to do but you must be ever vigilant and by all means pay total attention to what you are doing. It is definitely within most homeowners' ability to pressure wash/clean the exterior of their home, however, danger lurks around every corner; so you must devote complete attention to the task you're performing.
I have been pressure washing/cleaning homes, buildings and even some industrial plants since 1984 and I have gained some valuable knowledge along the way and I'm going to share it with you in this article. So come aboard and let's go.
TAKING INVENTORY OF THE EXTERIOR OF YOUR HOME
Before you begin actually pressure washing/cleaning the exterior of your home take a few moments to walk around your home to see if there are any missing boards, broken windows, insulation that needs replacing, to avoid spraying water into your home. Water damage can prove to be catastrophic even at low pressure spraying (1000-1500 psi), not to mention pressure washers that can produce water pressure up to 3000 psi (pounds per square inch). So before you begin make sure every thing is in place and there are not any openings that could be a passage way for water to enter into your home.
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