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Bryan P · Approved Exterior Cleaner

House Washing with no algae

Fred W · Guru

Bleach helps eat up the spider webs and can kill them....The wood is the issue but with the ProPortioner you have the ability to turn it off. I'd personally hit the areas with wood as just soap and water then all other areas at 1%.

You could do the whole job with just soap and water. The soap will help pull down the webs but not as well and won't kill the spiders.....so the problem comes back quicker.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Always good to use some S/H. Your going to need it to clean the trim and soffits anyway. Keep all your wood wet and rinse a lot

SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

i wash lots of nawhomes for builder. Use very minimal SH, if any at all, but extra SOAP. The soaps help to give weight to the spider webs for them to rinse down easier.

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Been looking for an additive/product that "dissolves" or beaks down webs for just this type of jobs.
Havent found anything yet but maybe someone else may know, or we should ask a chemist to make us a product.
That would be kool, on the old RIPCA board we had a few chime in asking what products we would be interested in

Diamond Roof Cleaning · Approved Exterior Cleaner

this is not a popular answer but AC's Terra Wash soap is good for removing spider webs and such.

Bryan P · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Diamond Roof Cleaning wrote:
this is not a popular answer but AC's Terra Wash soap is good for removing spider webs and such.

I used it last year and like it. I've never used it without bleach though. I actually mixed it 5 gallons of snotmenade and one gallon terra wash and it was a great house wash soap.