You think his mama is missin’ her bath towels?
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Reviving this thread. Swiped the house, no oxidation on fingers, I softwashed using garden hose pressure on the siding to apply soap and rinse and I have what appears to be oxidation spots. Any products out there or advice to get rid of this stuff ? !
Also is there anything I can put in my terms of service to make me not liable for something like this since oxidation is already damaged siding and is not caused by the washer, it just becomes more noticeable ?
I’d like to remove it within a week to get it even
I let the customer know prior to the cleaning and take pictures prior to the cleaning and send with the estimate, document everything. I’ve never done a house that shows oxidation after the cleaning that I didn’t see prior to. I can usually tell before hand. Unless during the cleaning oxidation is really disturbed. I’ve heard Cleansol BS from eaco chem works well.
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First run into oxidation. I heard you have to scrub good wit that stuff
I know some just spray two applications and no scrubbing. I guess it depends on how bad it is, I’m not interested in finding out 
. Much success though, let me know what you use and how it turns out. Thought about offering removal of oxidation but from what I understand it comes back soon after, so…not sure the greatest value for the customer. Anyways…
Is the siding still wet the first few feet to the left of the downspout? Those blotches sure look bright.
Gutter Grenade will get rid of oxidation but it takes a little scrubbing. Some degreasers work too. If you don’t have one go ahead and get one of those green multi directional brushes when you place your order.
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Siding was still wet and in the angle the pic was taken the sun was glaring off of those spots so y’all could see it better.
I have GG and the green brush. I plan to use that at in a pump up sprayer. and brush then rinse with a hose. I am just not a fan of gutter grenade. Last time I tried to use it; I applied straight to black streaked gutters and after 5 min I brushed it and nothing happened.
I’ve had similar problems with oxidation but it’s been on green and blue siding. As far as liability it’s you fault as you mentioned. “It became more noticeable” after you cleaned it. Our softwash process can cause oxidation to become more noticeable on certain color sidings. I’ve brushed it off using a degreaser in a pump sprayer at 50/50 and a brush.
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Gutter Grenade will take the paint off gutters if you’re not careful so surprised it didn’t do anything to the black streaks unless you didn’t clean the organic stains off with SH first.
Instead of using a pump up just pour about an inch in a bucket. You can probably dilute it 50/50. Dip brush in, apply to gutters with one swipe, let sit a five to ten minutes, dip again, lightly agitate, and rinse. That’s basically what you have to do to gutters when brightening but don’t scrub too much or you might get down to bare metal. If you just used a pump up on the gutters and then brushed a little you probably didn’t have enough Gutter Grenade on the gutters to do anything. Dip the green brush in good and get it good and soaked.
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Thanks! I usually do that for gutters and I have GG, but do you think I should use the same process for this siding to remove the oxidation?
Thats what ive seen people doing on you tube,using gutter cleaning chems for oxidization on house siding,then manually agitating it,im just learning the residential side of washing,so let the experts here confirm the details
Either you removed all the oxidation off the siding and that is whats left, or thats not oxidation.
The picture makes no sense and the spots would be darker not lighter if you removed the oxidation.
Was that area covered in green algae prior to cleaning and you didn’t see those spots? Or were the spots visible prior to you cleaning?
Cleaning doesnt cause oxidation, it removes or disturbs it.
Need more pics.
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I agree with 100% with @KMP . You didn’t do that unless you sprayed something weird on there. If you had disturbed the oxidation, it would look cleaner, not like that at all and it wouldn’t be just those few spots, tends to look blotchy, not definite marks. Did you try rubbing those spots or anything. Almost looks like where someone tried to smear something over where the siding may have been face nailed or patched. That is 100% not you.
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It almost looks like finished sheet rock mud, sort of as if someone painted over a nail to cover it up, but I’ve seen nothing like that on siding, and check my early posts you’ll see that I’ve made about every mistake there is to make. That ain’t you, bro!
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That’s what I thought! I told the customer it didn’t look like oxidation to me but maybe like heat caused it to shrink there or something cause discoloration. Idk I couldn’t wrap my head around it. The customer hasn’t called back so I guess I’m in the clear ! For now lol
90% of what we do is educating and communicating. Doing that without assuming guilt is hard, but once’s a customer sees your confident and being honest these things don’t even become a thing…they get squashed.
But if your unsure, then the customer is unsure and the whole thing can be a disaster
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Like @Racer said… you can see where it appears to be a patch over a nail.
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If the customer doesn’t call you back it’s because he’s the one that did the hack job but didn’t want to admit it and be embarrassed
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