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How to clean dirt off of my brick house?
Hi all!
I am new to this group. Last month my wife and I would have lived in our first home for one year! We love it! When we bought the house, it did not have gutters... today it has gutters all the way around and I am very excited! I also removed all the 'standard' bushed from the front of the house in the hopes that it would encourage me to redo the front lawn garden (didnt work), but what it did do was reveal about a foot-and-a-half of a dirt-colored film on the lower part of the brick work of my house... I am assuming this is due to the fact that it hasnt had gutters for 8 years (it is a 9 year old house) and when the water ran off the roof, the mud splashed onto the brick work. I have an electrical pressure washer that I typically just use to clean the car... spraying it full blast on the dirty bricks made almost no noticable difference... deperate, I took a 50-50 solution of bleach and water in a spray bottle and sprayed about a foot-by-foot area that is slightly hidden. I let it sit about 5 minutes then washed it off with the pressure washer... The results were, well, so-so... the brick was clean of the dirt, but left a slightly blue-ish tint to the area I had bleached... I love my home and working on it, but I am a newbie to the core when it comes to home fix-it-ups. Any help? I just want the dirt color gone off my brick! thanks in advance! Jazz Mann |
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How to clean dirt off of my brick house?
On 31 Jan 2004 13:20:23 -0800, (jameson) wrote:
I have an electrical pressure washer that I typically just use to clean the car... spraying it full blast on the dirty bricks made almost no noticable difference... That is most likely 1250 or 1750 psi, which might blow the grit off your car, but it won't clean brick. Rent a 3000 psi (or higher) gas powered washer with a decent flow rating and you will be fine. Use the minimum pressure necessary to get the dirt out, and don't let the spray linger in one place. I have washed a grimy, sooty brick chimney with a 5 hp/ 3000 psi washer and the brick looked like new afterwards. http://pressurewasherstore.com/info/faq.html John Davies SPokane WA USA John Davies http://home.comcast.net/~johnedavies/ '96 Lexus LX450 '00 Audi A4 1.8T quattro Spokane WA USA |
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