How to Clean Moldy Siding

So it's Spring. Yay!

We're all getting outside, enjoying the beautiful weather.

Getting outside means spiffing up our house.
Today I'm sharing how we
Cleaned our Moldy Siding

Our house is 2 stories high with tan siding.  

It sits in such a way that one side of the house
is in the shade for most of the day.  

Unfortunately that means mold, here in the South.

We're from the West, where it's dry, so we had no idea
that we needed to keep up with maintenance on our siding.  

And that's my excuse for why our house's tan siding
was covered with greenish mold.  YUCK!

In an effort to clean it, I did some research.
Most things I read suggested against pressure washing
since the high velocity
stream could damage or even remove siding.

One thing we decided to try was Magic Erasers (amazon affiliate link).
By golly, they really are magic!

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Check out the before and after in this photo.

I simply sprayed all of the vinyl siding and gutters 

with a water hose,

then scrubbed everything with a magic eraser

 and rinsed again.  It worked perfectly!!

The only problem was that we couldn't reach high enough with the

magic erasers to get all of the mold off the side of the house.

So off I went to Lowes where I picked up a 

garden and deck sprayer and outdoor bleach.

We diluted it according to package instructions 

and filled up the sprayer.

Then my husband took his life into his hands, 

(it's so much higher than it looks in the photos)

climbed up on a giganto ladder 

and sprayed the bleach onto the moldy siding

using the jet nozzle on the sprayer.  

After spraying the bleach solution onto the siding a

he rinsed it off with a garden hose.

  

He didn't have to scrub at all.  

Spraying on the bleach on the siding loosened the mold 

and was able to be rinsed off with a hose.

It took many trips up and down the ladder and quite a few refills 

of the bleach solution in the sprayer, but it worked!

Just look at that beautifully clean siding!!!!!  yay!!

I didn't even take a good before pic.  

The siding was green all the way from top to bottom.

You can still see the difference in the before and after photos.

Hopefully if you have moldy siding, 

you can use some of our tips to help you clean yours!!

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