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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cleewindows on April 28, 2010, 07:59:37 pm

Title: painted outsides of houses
Post by: cleewindows on April 28, 2010, 07:59:37 pm: is there a way of cleaning there house to save them cleaning it?
you see so many older houses,guest houses and pubs painted,i just wondered if theres a way of cleaning the exteriors without damaging the paintwork?
does anyone do this or offer this service?
cheers all
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: martinsadie on April 28, 2010, 08:03:21 pm: probley better for the customer to repaint
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: Davo on April 28, 2010, 08:09:48 pm: Any woodwork if its sound wipe over with a damp cloth, everything else leave it, u may create more problems than you solve.

Mark
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: p1w1 on April 28, 2010, 08:18:33 pm: soft wash them, pressure washer with an x-jet fitted on the end.

paul
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: daz1977 on April 28, 2010, 08:24:21 pm: i have got a house that i have to do next month like this, am going to tfr and see what happens
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: prestigeclean on April 28, 2010, 08:26:22 pm: we did a complete wash down of a rendered and painted house , also washed off several white timbered houses in the past , removing all the algae etc , customers loved the end result regards alan
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: p1w1 on April 28, 2010, 08:28:20 pm: Quote from: Blue Monkey on April 28, 2010, 08:24:21 pm
i have got a house that i have to do next month like this, am going to tfr and see what happens

make sure if there are any plants, bushes etc around the house that you give them a good spray covering them in water to help dilute any tfr that may land on them..
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: daz1977 on April 28, 2010, 08:41:03 pm: Quote from: p1w1 on April 28, 2010, 08:28:20 pm
Quote from: Blue Monkey on April 28, 2010, 08:24:21 pm
i have got a house that i have to do next month like this, am going to tfr and see what happens

make sure if there are any plants, bushes etc around the house that you give them a good spray covering them in water to help dilute any tfr that may land on them..

cheers
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: cleewindows on April 29, 2010, 07:28:26 am: would love to see before and after photos off that m8!
Quote from: prestigeclean on April 28, 2010, 08:26:22 pm
we did a complete wash down of a rendered and painted house , also washed off several white timbered houses in the past , removing all the algae etc , customers loved the end result regards alan
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: jonnyald on April 29, 2010, 07:59:08 am: last year i saw a man washing his own house walls with a little prssure washer.we spoke and he had added just bleach to the water and it was a white painted pebble dash wall-came up looking really great
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: CLEANGLASSUK on April 29, 2010, 08:31:08 am: I cleaned this one firstly using the water fed pole and pure water, but this didnt clean well enough so i used a pressure washer with a rotary surface cleaner on the end.
Title: Re: painted outsides of houses
Post by: cleewindows on April 29, 2010, 08:33:35 am: very nice job