Hello everyone!
How do guys correct this oxidation on garage doors? Can travertine be surface cleaned? Do I use a degreaser for the smoke stains?
Thanks!
I wouldn’t touch those garage doors…they need repainted. Smokes stains are non organic, don’t clean those either
The bricks throw a 3% SH on their when you first get their…after the house wash is complete do a light rinse on them. Don’t surface clean them.
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I wash bricks all the time with 3% and a SC. The smoke needs a degreaser. Be careful of your pressure on the door. I gets a lot like that. I do my best to apply even pressure and feather the oxidation out as evenly as possible. I always finger wipe test garage doors. Here, they are always oxidized more than anything else.
I will SH and clean white garage doors as normal. But brown and dark colors etc. I never do anything but rinse them. I had a brown one get a weird white haze over it after SH one time. I had to hit it with pressure and blend the whole door back to “normal” Maybe it was a fluke, but since then ive been gun shy about it.
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I use SH and SC on brick all the time, never had a problem.
Thanks for all the advise.
I should have mentioned above that I dont let the HW dwell as long on garage doors or wooden entry doors. Both are prone to issues with a full dwell time. Wooden entry doors with failing coatings will become lighter in color
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