Kevin Miller
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View attachment 3577 ok I need your advice on how you clean soffits & facias. I've not cleaned these before only very simple gutter cleans which where very easy.
Here is my eqipment, gardiners clx 22 pole with sill brush, virosol, ladders, simple hand held sprayer and basic window cleaning kit ie scrim, cloths, unger squeegge. I have other cleaning agents in the van such as cillit bang lime scale, jml doctor power and simple stuff such as ecover. It's a big house I'll try to upload a picture. Here are my thoughts on cleaning it. Let me know your thoughts on which is best or what you do or use.
Option 1 (quickest & easiest)
- Using water fed pole pre wet all soffits and facias to be cleaned.
- have my bucket mixed with virosol & water 10/1 mix.
- dip my WFP in to the bucket with the solution then start scrubbing the soffits and facias working the solution in (water turned off) obviously all this is from the ground using the pole.
- leave for 5 minutes for the mixture to work its stuff.
- after 5 minutes turn water on and start rinsing the solution away while scrubbing.
Obviously you will be working in sections around the house.
Option 2
- get up on the ladders and spray where possible all the soffits and facias to be cleaned with the solution ie virosol water.
- leave it for 5 minutes then again using ladders get up there and work the solution in to the soffits and facias with a brush (obviously will have to use WFP for areas I can't reach by hand. Leave this to work in for 5 minutes.
- then using WFP turn water on and rinse.
Also once finished where I can I will be looking to dry wipe off using a cloth for a nice finish.
Hope all this makes sense. How do you guys clean soffits and facias? What mix & ratio?
Here is my eqipment, gardiners clx 22 pole with sill brush, virosol, ladders, simple hand held sprayer and basic window cleaning kit ie scrim, cloths, unger squeegge. I have other cleaning agents in the van such as cillit bang lime scale, jml doctor power and simple stuff such as ecover. It's a big house I'll try to upload a picture. Here are my thoughts on cleaning it. Let me know your thoughts on which is best or what you do or use.
Option 1 (quickest & easiest)
- Using water fed pole pre wet all soffits and facias to be cleaned.
- have my bucket mixed with virosol & water 10/1 mix.
- dip my WFP in to the bucket with the solution then start scrubbing the soffits and facias working the solution in (water turned off) obviously all this is from the ground using the pole.
- leave for 5 minutes for the mixture to work its stuff.
- after 5 minutes turn water on and start rinsing the solution away while scrubbing.
Obviously you will be working in sections around the house.
Option 2
- get up on the ladders and spray where possible all the soffits and facias to be cleaned with the solution ie virosol water.
- leave it for 5 minutes then again using ladders get up there and work the solution in to the soffits and facias with a brush (obviously will have to use WFP for areas I can't reach by hand. Leave this to work in for 5 minutes.
- then using WFP turn water on and rinse.
Also once finished where I can I will be looking to dry wipe off using a cloth for a nice finish.
Hope all this makes sense. How do you guys clean soffits and facias? What mix & ratio?