Soft Washing Chicago, IL

Keeping your roof clean doesn’t just increase your house’s curb appeal. It also helps maintain your roof and increase its longevity. The buildup of bacteria on your roof doesn’t only cause unsightly stains. It also degrades the shingles and can mean higher utility bills and even dropped insurance coverage if you aren’t maintaining your roof properly. Keeping your roof clean is very important.
 
It’s also important to wash your roof properly, and best if you hire a professional. If you are inexperienced, and are using improper cleaning techniques, you can decrease the life of your roof, rather than increase it. You should never pressure wash your roof, as that can seriously damage your shingles and destroy the granules that hold the shingles in place.
 
Instead of pressure washing, we provide soft washing for your roof. Soft washing involves using a solution usually using bleach, water, and sometimes other surfactants or algaecides to clean the roof, and then rinsing that solution off after it’s had time to work. The bleach solution will kill all the bacteria on your roof, and then an extremely low pressure is used to rinse off the solution, therefore avoiding the damages that come with pressure washing.
 
Because it’s important to ensure the right levels of bleach and apply the solution correctly, it is highly recommended you hire a professional to perform this service. Not using the correct ratios can damage your roof, and applying the soft wash incorrectly might harm the greenery and landscaping around your home. In some states, it is also required that you have a pesticide license to perform this task.
 
The first thing our technicians will do is use a soft brush to sweep away debris from the roof. Afterward, they will apply the bleach solution and leave it for about ten minutes to kill the bacteria on the roof. Finally, a soft wash technique with gentle pressure will be used to remove the solution and the remaining dirt.
 
Once this process is complete, don’t be concerned if your roof doesn’t look sparkling right away. Over the following weeks, the growth will continue to die off, and rainwater will help wash the remaining debris away.

Building Soft Washing

Like soft washing, your roof, soft washing the general exterior of your building is a great alternative to power washing. Powering washing can remove dirt and debris, but it frequently fails to remove bacteria and algae growing on the side of your house.
 
Again, it’s best to hire a professional if you’re planning on soft washing the exterior of your building. We will ensure that the solution has the proper levels of bleach, water, algaecides, and surfactants, which help make debris easier to remove.
 
When our technicians come to soft wash your building’s exterior, the first thing they will do is use a soft brush to remove any of the easier to get rid of debris. Then they will spray on the solution, much like soft washing a roof. Once the solution has had time to sit and kill off the bacteria, the technicians will rinse it off, again, with about the same pressure as a garden hose.
 
Soft washing is a great way to not only remove dirt and debris from your building’s roof and exterior. It causes less damage than pressure washing and effectively removes the bacteria and algae and pressure washing will miss. It’s best to hire professionals to do this job, but it is well worth it. 
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We provide Commercial Pressure Washing Services
for the entire Chicago, Illinois area.
​(708) 234-1966