As is the case with most inanimate objects, your house is going to need to be cleaned from time to time. Yes, sometimes a good rainstorm could do the trick, but not only does the rain not fall on a regular, pre-determined schedule, but most rainstorms also don’t do anywhere near as thorough of a job cleaning your house as a professional power washer can do manually.

But there’s a science to giving your house the extensive scrub-down it needs. As you may have heard at some point in your life, applying too much pressure can cause more harm than good; a level of finesse and strategy is involved. This applies to opening jars, freeing up a jammed door… and yes, washing down the exterior of your house. 

Thus, we at Coastal Pros Powerwashing recommend soft washing your house as opposed to pressure washing.

The harms of pressure washing

When you pressure wash your house, you’re exerting a notable amount of force against it. Various objects simply can only tolerate so much pressure against them before something gives way. Pressure washing your house is, as the name would suggest, a way of washing your house that includes a great deal of pressure against your house’s exterior. Elongated exposure to such a high-pressure stream of water could lead to any number of types of physical damage.

One notable type of damage that could result from pressure washing is that it could literally rip away the outside of your house. The paint could chip, or the wood could splinter, or if there’s any oxidation on your house, you could be left staring at clearly noticeable stripes alongside your house when you were only trying to clean it. In extreme cases, the water stream from pressure washing could actually destroy a door seal, seep into your house and cause water damage.

Any of these less-than-desirable results could leave you in a position where you have to spend more repairing your house than you did to clean it. Nobody wants that!

The benefits of soft washing

Whereas high-pressure washing is the “brute force” option to cleaning your house, soft washing is the “finesse” option. Not only does soft washing not damage the wood, paint, or sidings of your house’s exterior by using less power, it can be a more efficient way to clean your house to boot.

Soft washing uses a chemical cleaning solution, meaning it uniformly cleans everything in its path with much less force being exerted against your house. Think of it as using soap and water in strategic places to clean a mess on your floor, rather than just haphazardly spraying the general area with a high-pressure hose. The soft washing chemical solution can do that- and as an added benefit, if you simply soft wash the top story of your house, gravity will take its toll, the solution will trickle down and you’ll have cleaned the outside of each story of your house at once.

So not only is soft washing more of a strategic way to clean your house, it comes with minimal risks of damage to your house’s exterior- and yet still enough pressure to reach the top of a four-story building from the ground.

Does your home or commercial property need cleaning? Let our team put your home or business’s best face forward. Contact us today!