Using the correct cleaners for cleaning your home whether it is vinyl siding, wood, stucco, or brick is crucial to getting it fully clean. Dirt, grime, spider webs, and bug fecal are a few of the contaminants that can collect on your home’s exterior. These natural pollutants need to be cleaned with special detergents like soap and degreasers or a combination of both. Mold, mildew and algae on the other hand have to be cleaned using bleach based cleaners.

Mild bleach is the only chemical that will kill mold, mildew and algae and remove it for good. Using only detergents and high pressure may remove what you can see of the mold, mildew and algae but it will not kill it down deep, therefore it will return in full force in as little as a few weeks. The best recipe for pressure cleaning your home to free it from all of these pollutants is a good house washing detergent mixed with about a 1% to 2% concentration of bleach.