Power washing eliminates your home exterior’s sticky contaminants, dirt, mold, and grime. It’s excellent for improving the outside appearance of a home, but it is also essential to keep up with long-term maintenance. Therefore, it is recommended that your house be power washed at least once a year.
So when is the best season to consider power washing your home?
The best seasons to power wash a house are spring and fall between March and November, except during extreme temperatures that may occur during any of these months. Let’s see why these seasons are ideal.
Power Washing in Spring
Spring is a great time to clean up all the buildup of dirt and grime from the winter snow and rain. Surfaces like roofs, decks, gutters, and sidings are more prone to mold and mildew in winter. Power washing the house soon after winter helps you get rid of mold and mildew to clean and protect the outdoor surfaces effectively.
Power Washing in Fall
If there are no obvious exposed mold, mildew, or dirt stains on your home’s exterior, it may be ideal to wait until fall to power wash your home.
Since it is more common to host outdoor activities like BBQs or family gatherings during summer, it may be more likely there will be sticky and chemical residues that will need to be washed off before the winter comes. In addition, leaves left on different surfaces trap moisture and promote mold and fungus once they get covered with snow in winter. Power washing in the fall helps prevent this.
Why Winter and Summer Are Not Recommended
Power washers use hot water, but still, below-freezing temperatures can damage your house. Water in the pump and other areas can freeze and damage the pump. While power washing, water will enter many places. When this water freezes, it will expand. This expansion can cause significant damage to many areas or surfaces.
In summer, the extreme heat makes cleaning more difficult for you or the professionals performing this task, and not all the cleaning chemicals should be used in extreme conditions.
If you’re in the Napa, California area and are considering the right time for your home to schedule a power washing, contact your local professionals at Wash-N-It.
