Weatherboard Cleaning Ashford
How to Make Your Fascias & Weatherboards Gleam in Just a Few Hours Picture the scene: you arrive at a new property — what’s the first thing you notice? If you’re like most people, you’ll form that all-important first impression when you see the building’s exterior. This is why keeping the outside of your house clean is so important. Fascias and weatherboards make up a large part of many house-fronts, so cleaning them has the power to transform your property’s appearance.
Keeping them spotless might add an extra few thousand to a buyer’s bid, and also helps keep costly damage to a minimum by nipping problems such as algae and moss in the bud. It also shows that you care about your home — and, let’s face it, we all want people to know that. But how to go about it? Well, it’s not as hard as you may think. Here’s how to make your fascias and weatherboards gleam in just a couple of hours.
The scrub-and-rinse approach (ladder required) If you don’t mind going up a ladder, then this method will let you get right to the nitty-gritty. First, make the cleaning solution. Fill a bucket with two gallons of warm water and add half a cup of laundry detergent, plus a splash of bleach, and mix well.
Next, position your ladder so that you can reach both the fascia and the soffit ― the underpart of the board ― easily. Soak a big sponge in the solution and scrub it over the fascia and soffit, taking extra care on indents where dirt tends to gather. Now for the fun part: the rinse. After reaching as much as you can from the ladder, climb down and fit a squeeze trigger nozzle to your garden hose, and turn the pressure right up. Blast the section you’ve just scrubbed, making sure to wash away all of the detergent and bleach that will leave stains.
Repeat the above process until you’ve covered the entire surface. *Tip* They may not look like much, but a stiff nylon brush and a paint scraper are two powerful weapons to have in your cleaning arsenal. They both help to scrape off stubborn stains and insect marks. If that fails, then nail polish remover on a cotton ball is a brilliant hack.
The pure-water-and-pole approach (no ladder required) Not all of us have the time to climb up and down ladders, of course ― or maybe we just don’t want to.
Thankfully, the pure-water-and-pole method is an innovative approach that requires no climbing. Instead, we can use carbon-fibre telescopic poles to clean the surfaces from the ground. This time, however, the scrubbing comes first. You fit the poles with soft brushes to agitate and loosen the dirt before the rinse. Then comes the pure water ― free of sediment and chlorine after going through an intensive filter system ― which is blasted onto the surfaces to wash everything away. The advantages of this are clear: the poles give you added flexibility — you can reach over awkward obstacles and get to hard-to-reach places, such as
velux windows — and it also slashes the risk of injury, with you doing everything from the ground. The downside, however, is the expense. Pure water systems and carbonfibre poles cost a fortune, and not everyone is willing to part with so much hard-earned cash just for this job. A way around this is to hire a professional cleaning company who’ll do this for a fraction of the cost, with the added bonus of you not needing to leave your sofa.
ProTeam Cleaning has extensive experience of all types of cladding and fascia treatment, using cutting-edge equipment to ensure a spotless finish every time. Get a free, no-obligation quote by calling 07541 757383 or checking out our website www.proteamcleaning.co.uk.