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Why Soft Washing in Indiana is Critical

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Yeah, not a good idea. Soft Washing: A History Soft washing as a technique came out about 20 years ago. Before then, pressure washing was the norm to clean any surface: concrete, walls or roofing. Well, high-pressure washing of a roof is just pad on it and if your wood siding or brick mortar is soft, you can really do some damage with a high-pressure wash. Fortunately, someone started to add chemicals to the water in different solutions and realized that the chemical reactions could do the hard work while water in a lower-pressure flow could easily rinse off the residue. Soft-washing was born! Finally there was a way to clean most surfaces without the damage. What does soft washing clean? Soft washing was originally thought of to remove algae and bacteria from a roof. Have you seen the black or green streaks on an asphalt shingle roof? That is often the result of a bacteria called gloeocapsa magma. This bacteria assaults the roof, degrading it. Your shingles are de