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The Ultimate Guide to Soft Washing Render: Maintaining Your Home's Exterior

By Mark Cave April 02, 2025

The Ultimate Guide to Soft Washing Render: Maintaining Your Home's Exterior

Soft washing render is a critical process in maintaining your home's aesthetic appeal and structural integrity. Especially for rendered surfaces, which can easily succumb to the elements over time, understanding the right cleaning methods is essential. 🏡✨

Understanding Soft Washing and Its Benefits

Render cleaning is more than just aesthetics; it protects your home from further damage. Unlike pressure washing, soft washing employs a much gentler approach, ensuring no damage is done to the render surface.

Soft washing involves using a blend of safe detergents and chemicals to break down dirt and organic growth. For an in-depth understanding, check out this comprehensive guide on soft washing.

Common Questions on Soft Washing Render

Can Soft Washing Harm Plants?

One of the primary concerns is whether soft washing will harm nearby plants. When done correctly, using appropriate precautions like covering plants or using specialized surfactants can minimize risk. Learn more in this insightful podcast discussing the impact of soft washing on plants.

Is Sodium Hypochlorite Safe?

Sodium hypochlorite is a common choice in soft washing for its effectiveness. However, safety and correct application are paramount. You might want to check this mixing guide to ensure safety.

Effective Products and Equipment for Cleaning Render

Having the right tools is crucial. SoftWash UK's range of equipment and reliable chemicals, like the Clever Wash Surfactant, elevates your soft washing process.

For those struggling with rust stains on renders, using the Rust X Pro Render Rust Stain Remover can bring back the vibrancy of your surfaces.

Step-by-Step: How to Clean Rendered Walls Effectively

Cleaning your rendered walls requires a systematic approach. Here’s a quick step-by-step guide to help you:

  1. Inspect the Surface: Before starting, inspect for any damages or repairs needed. This ensures that the cleaning doesn’t make these worse.
  2. Prepare the Area: Remove any obstacles and cover plants with sheeting.
  3. Mix the Solution: Use the recommended chemicals and follow precise mixing ratios for the best results.
  4. Apply the Solution: Gently apply using a sprayer, ensuring an even application.
  5. Rinse: Always rinse the surface with fresh water to reduce any residual effects.

For additional details and walkthroughs, refer to our detailed article on cleaning rendered walls.

Connect with SoftWash UK for Expert Guidance

Whether you’re a DIY enthusiast or a professional, SoftWash UK provides exceptional training courses and resources to boost your skills and ensure safe cleaning practices.

Visit SoftWash UK to explore more products, trainings, and expert tips to make your home shine. 🌟 Your rendered walls will thank you!


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Softwashing calculator is an indispensable tool for juggling complicated chemical mixes. It helps reduce wastage and keeps operating costs down by giving accurate proportions

If you are having difficulty getting your head around the maths, trying to work out what percentage of softwash you need, how much chemical, surfactant and water to add, then this is the App for you.

 

 


The Soft Wash Calculator App allows you to work out your soft wash recipe by telling you exactly how much chemical, how much water and how much surfactant to add to get the desired soft wash recipe.
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- tested for Protan and Deutan colourblind users
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Take this scenario
You started with a 1% soft wash recipe of 50 gal (or litres)  for a deck clean and you’re left with 13 gallons.

You get a call from a prospective customer to clean their roof. Past experience tells you a 4% soft wash recipe is needed, but what about your leftover mix at 1%?.

Do you waste time and effort driving back to base to transfer into a standby tank?
You could consider the 13 gal as just water, top up the tank and start again.  
But that’s throwing away the value of the mix and raising your overhead.

Soft Wash Calculator App to the rescue.

You get to the new job and it requires 100 gal / litres.
Switch into remix mode , confirming the 13 gal already in the tank
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You now have a 100 gal / litres tank of 4% soft wash recipe ready for your roof clean job!

Not forgetting you’ve saved money too, all without stress and uncertainty . Don’t underestimate what confident calmness has on your customer putting out referrals.

The same applies if you have a 4% recipe left in your tank and you need to dilute it down to 2%. Again the app will tell you how.

Softwashing calculator will also work for any chemical recipe. For instance you can use it for Sodium Hypochlorite, Bleach, Biocide , TFR traffic film remover and degreaser. Even the mathematically-challenged rocket scientist can top up their booster tanks to new fuel mixes after launch delays caused by changing weather conditions.

Using this app you will know exactly what chemical strength to put on any surface giving you the confidence and the knowledge of a professional soft washer and you’ll save money as well.

So if you have little knowledge of how to mix a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.
If you have little knowledge of how to remix a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.
If you want to save money when mixing a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.

This app is also backward compatible to devices running iOS7. We've done this so you can re-purpose an old iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 5  for what could be hazardous work environments. Just toss one in your cleaning van's toolkit.

Once you learn the methods and procedures of how to apply the soft wash to the different surfaces that need cleaning you’ll be unstoppable!

The app also has  a guide to what percentage for what surface. And if you are the lucky owner of a Clever Injector it will remind you the correct setting for the job.
However you should always consider and risk assess what soft wash recipe you need to clean the surface.

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