How to Mix Bleach for a House Wash, Pressure Wash, Soft Wash - 5% to 12.5% SH 

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If no-one has told you yet in the passed 6 years or however long you’ve been making videos, you’re the man. Thank you for your service and thank you for your content. Learned how to wash trucks from your truck wash video and will now wash my first house learning from your videos.

At about 3 minutes, there's something about this guy I like. After 7 minutes I realized he's trying to educate me and not working up to a sales pitch I just knew was coming.😊

I’ve been painting for 20 years. Now I’m in my own business. I recently sub a roof wash out and he explained how he was doing it. I was so impressed and started to watch some videos. Dan you were the only one that broke it down so simply. From using a pump sprayer to a back pack sprayer to using your equipment.. The chemical breakdown awesome. You are one hell of a teacher. Thank you so much for your videos.

Been pressure washing for years just spraying household bleach and then really bearing down with pressure washer on decks. (I live really isolated and getting older, started looking for easier ways, hearing so much on shows about cleaners) you made more sense to me in this video than all the other jokers I have watched combined! Now I understand what to get and how to mix/spray. Guess all these years I just been letting pressure washer and my back do all the work. Going to watch yours where you show unedited, application. Thanks

Thank you for your knowledge, and industry tricks. I’ve pressure washed for decades, but used heavy degreasers and brightening agents mainly, so I appreciate your input on mixtures etc. thank you 😊

Great video! Due to problems mentioned here I’ve decided to have separate containers and run 12 volts pump and mix to recipe and pump spray then rinse with the Ps, not flushing the Ps pump

Another great video mate, love your easy to follow guides. New to pressure washing, adding to my window cleaning business so the information you give helps alot, keep up the good work mate.

Simply, I appreciate this video and thank you for dropping all this knowledge and real life experience for us.

I appreciate the way you laid everything out, thank you sir.

Thanks for breaking this down so its easy to digest and understand

Thumbs up for including the safety warnings in dealing with higher pct cleaning jugs sh.

It was one of your videos that I learned how to make my mix and it has worked very well... thank you the lesson.

I just came across your videos, thank you. Not very many people are actually trying to teach others this information. They sell you "classes"

iv learned so much more than i thought i knew, and your vids has helped me cut my learning curv, thank you Dan!

Thanks I’m a newbie jus ran across ur video help me to know what to mix have my first house to do this week

Great video as always. My thoughts on that 30 second outdoor cleaner is exactly the same as yours. When i looked at the table of contents and the price it left me scratching my head. Please keep the videos coming

Man I've been following you for quite some time I love what you doing keep it up my brother 🙏🏿

Took your advice on this years ago in your past videos which are very informative by the way. I use pool essentials for my applications and it works great. I also use a downstream injector to avoid running the bleach through my pressure washer as you advised in past videos. I’ve never had a problem except once when I forgot to rinse my down stream injector for storage over the winter. Needless to say it was a corroded mess by spring lol lesson learned 😃 Glad your back keep the great advise coming 👍

Thanks for the video Dan, I’ve been following your for 5 years as I started my lane care business and now adding pressure washing as an extra service. I just shared your video with one my co workers, as we were talking about cleaning vinyl siding with SH. Ironically your vidow popped up when I opened up RU-vid. Crazy how our iPhones can hear our conversations

A thousand thanks Dan!!

The GOAT of pressure washing!!!!

I remember the old days of you washing houses very informative , thanks . 🤔🤗

Love your video’s really helped me on my power washing jobs be careful though I got legionnaires last year from power washing and was in the hospital for 4 months love your jeep I just picked up a 1979 Cj7 and love it

You the man brotha! This helped heaps 🤙🏾

Thank you for the information. I appreciate you

This is the 1st time watching your channel very interesting thank you

Keep up the good work Dan 👏

GREAT INFORMATION THANKS SO MUCH

Thank you for this video. I just subscribed to your channel for more knowledge 🧠💪🏼.

Thanks for this video, I reused a 30 sec hose end sprayer which is 1/2 gl or 64 oz. I mixed that container 3 to 1 (32 oz water and 16 oz of Pool Essentials) and then it's mixed again with the hose. It worked real good but not too hot. I had bad algae on the South of my house and it took two applications to remove it. Probably will try cutting it back to 8 oz and test that out. Keep in mind the hose end sprayer solution is 8% so using Pool Essentials is almost 1 to 1 that's why I did 3 to 1 to dilute it.

Thank you.. very helpful

Thanks for this info 💯

Just wanted to say thank you for your information!

I've really been considering getting into this as a side hustle. Thanks for the quality content/information Dan!

Hi. I appreciate that you mentioned about the plants. I am going to be using a pump up sprayer, and I have a lot of plants. Do you add any Dawn to the solution? Whoops. I heard it at around the 16 minute mark. Thanks. I came here really trying to clean the inside of a screened porch and especially the screens which I have wiped down with a Bona floor mop, but they still have tons of dust. Do you have a video on that? Blessings.

It's easy. 1 gallon of water, 1 ounce of Dawn (2 tablespoons), 2 cups of 10% strength pool chlorine. I've used this and it works perfectly. I recommend rinsing with a power washer especially if you have a 2 story home.

Dan, I watched your house wash in the past and tried Purple Power (1 Cup/gal) with household bleach (2-1/2 cups/gal) followed with a consumer pressure washer. Three years later it needs done again, normally it needs washed every year. I'm convinced the purple power slows down the regrowth of algae and mildew, its also really cheap to use in place of the dawn soap. Just picked up some 10% bleach and getting ready to wash the vinyl siding again.

Dan long time viewer here, thanks for all your informative videos! From experience what works best on algae and moss on cement driveway do you recommend sodium hypochlorite and Dawn? When did you get the jeep? looking sharp!

I bought 15% from Amazon uk. Used it today wearing shorts and T-shirt, gloves glasses. Used my wet and forget sniper tub that I hook my hose onto, shoots spray high up roof. Shot it all over my roof. Did all my paths. Rinsed it off. Then I coated the roof in wet N forget. A kept spraying my arms and legs with water as I went. I don’t know how much my mixer dilutes it, il look at roof in morning. Neighbour paid £600 for cowboys to hypo and jet wash, yes it’s clean but the concrete slates are so bleached, can make the tiles more porous. I had a few pink spots on my T-shirt. Wasn’t windy. He who dares wins. 😊

Great great information, thank you

Dan the man!

Great video. I will only add that bleach starts to degrade (turns to salt water) starting at around 6 months on the shelf. Buying in bulk is okay for the professional, not so much for the homeowner.

Does this chemical blend also works on a shingles roof. Thank for the great videos!

I wish I'd seen this b4 I purchased this yesterday 😭 😩 😫 thx for the information.

Dan I’m glad your back , I have the 30sec hose in sprayer I used on a previous job. Going to mix up the new batch of pool essentials and use it on my next job. you think if I add the new mix to the hose in sprayer instead of my 3 gallon hand sprayer if would work the same ?

Good video!! What would be your mixer on cleaning a wood deck?

Thanks for a refresher on this info you previously posted. I am 70 years old and use 1 gallon of SH to soft wash my 2000 square foot house. I use the Chapin sprayer device ( $23.00 from amazon) and mix SH with dawn . So it costs me $4.00 to do this versus $275.00 that a company would charge me. Thanks for the savings from someone on a fixed income. Love your honest vlogs.

Excellent videos man , just started useing hypo in the uk , however ours comes in at 15% ! Been trying to get my head around ratios , been following the guid on the container which is 1:5 or on heavy soil down to 1:3 my math is shocking but from what you say hypo at 15% at those ratios seems strong ?

Thank you

Hi, I’m so excited that I’ve found this video after searching for 2days trying to figure out the best cleaner for my stained t1-11 exterior on my home. I thought everyone was saying to neutralize the bleach with oxalic acid? Do I need to worry about doing that or just rinse the SH and let dry. I’m planning on putting stain back on it or painting it..

Nevermind cleaning the house of mold, bacteria and dirt with pool chlorine by the end of the job I'm soaking wet, squeaky clean and mold free! haha Thanks for the info sir!

I watched all these videos Trying to find this information and after watching this I realized how full of **** every body else is. Thank you so much and God Bless you.

Cleaning my house tomorrow with your recipe..never fails

Is this aafe for brick & painted trim i just found you thru googlei asked how much bleach needed & you popped up tryna wash the house today on my wayvto wally world also can it be used on like storage buildings with painted aluminum metal thx in advance

What about using the soap injector on your pressure washer? Is that okay to use straight bleach. Will that mix it at the correct blend?

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Dan I need your help. First I'm a dedicated subscriber and thanks so much for the guidance. I started pressure washing and house washing in CA a few month a ago and it's been going great. Today I did a 2 story house, pale yellow color with tons of black mold on the back and one side. The siding is some kind of wood composite and seemed soft-ish, no way to i would use pressure. I down streamed your recipe with my jrod and 4gpm machine, good soap hitting the house. After 15 min none of it was coming off with a rinse. I had to get very close to the first story with my shooter rinse tip and it "would" come off with that pressure but I was sure would also cause damage and be extremely time consuming and no way to reach the 2nd story with the pressure needed. I hit it again but this time downstreamed straight pool essentials from a bucket, good coverage and another 15 min to dwell. A lite better but not much. I told the customer the mold had gotten too deep into the siding, still gave a great house wash on the rest and did the driveway for free. He tipped me $25 even. I know I did everything right but what do you think I did wrong failing to eliminate the mold? Thank you so much for responding if you can.

Great video Dan! How would you handle minor algae spotting on concrete tile roof? Yes, it's minimal and on the north side, but my homeowners insurance is cancelling us unless it's fixed. They're looking for every excuse to get out of So. Cal.

I don’t have a mildew issue with my house, just dirt and pollen. It’s James Hardy Board and Batten White. What would you suggest as the best for that application?

I am using the 30 sec hose end container to apply pool essential bleach. Do I dilute or straight from gallon. Thanks

Can you use the bleach recipes on on stained wood siding? Looking to wash the house before I stain, mold in areas, especially on the soffit. The whole house is wood, soffit, facia and siding

How do I get a pump sprayer from the ground to reach a steep roof? Do they sell extension rods/hose? I have a Ryobi backpack sprayer but need to extend the wand to reach up high. Any help would be appreciated.

So I just got a 2.5gpm 3200psi simpson washer. And I can actually get pool shock liqud(12.5%SH) cheaper then the pool essentials 10% ANd if I am under standing you correctly. 2 gallons of shock and 1 gallon of water will dilute down to being close to 10%SH? Also How many gallons of bleach would you typically use on a 1000SQFT driveway?

Once again Awesome video again wondering I have a very old Is deck to do tomorrow what percentage would you recommend I can either do pump UPS Or pressure washer

Have you ever tried using sodium percarbonate or sodium hydroxide on vinyl siding?

Can I use my pressure washer foam cannon to spray bleach that is the big mouth from harbor freight. I am using the electric Portland one. Then do can disconnect the cannon to pray and rinse the house. So my question is how you mix the small 33 ounce container with bleach?

Having a chart with these numbers would be helpful. You clearly know your business, but my head is swimming with all the numbers. Sounded like a popcorn popper of numbers.

Hey im 100% green and i have a 2 story house to do. How many 5 gallon buckets of mix do you think i need for a house about 4,000 Square feet ? Its vinyl siding. If pool essentials is good for 5 gallons im just curious of how many il need to buy for a larger house. An approximate

real value

Is your mix safe and effective on asphalt shingled roofs with moss growing?

If I'm using 10% pool essentials SH in a 4200 psi 3.5 GPM pressure washer. When I use the chemical tip pulling straight out of the gallon jug. Is it mixing it down 80%? So basically I would be down to 2 %?

Curious if you, or anyone you know of, has ever used hypochlorous acid. It’s supposed to be stronger than bleach, but I don’t know if it will work for soft washing. I have a machine that can make it so that’s why I wondered. Thanks!

Hi there. Thinking and pray for you often Love and blessings.

If i have a PW with 4gpm and a Super Sud Sucker DS Injector, how would i calculate what o put in my tank? I assumed i put straight SH/surfactant in the tank since it dilutes as i pressure wash, but how do i know the % of bleach after it auto dilutes?

Hey Dan,I want to use a 4 gallon back pack sprayer, what mix do you recommend for soffit and fascia board???

Great details Dan. Have you had experience with cleaning log homes?

If the pool stuff in one quart to a gallon , isn’t that 5 gallon that it will make instead of 8. Want to make sure I’m getting this right. About to clean some mold and mildew off house.

Don't have an outside faucet, so I'll have to go with a hand sprayer. Luckily, I don't have a lot to cover. About a 2x8 ft. section of front deck, and the front of our house.

Is this recipe safe for painted Hardie Board siding! Any experience with good results?

Will this recipe also work for concrete deck that is mildewed as well?

What do you recommend for cleaning concrete

I did a bucket test of a downstream 2-3gpm injector added to my 2.5gpm machine. It drew a quart of solution in 20seconds. So thats 0.75gal/min. If we assume its actually a 2.5gpm machine, that only like 3-4:1 ratio??? Does that make sense? I cut my 12% wayyyy down

Thank you, sir, I am getting into small house washing and patios. I do use a downstream 20:1 injector. The 10% will be fine to run as put soap line in 10% without mixing will not be too hot to cause damage?

1 quart of bleach to 2 gallons of water. You're welcome.

Sorry if you’ve already answered this, but can this recipe be used on stucco?

What a great idea!!! Would you be able to put this in a hose attachment sprayer and get the correct concentration on the siding? Thank you

Thanks:)!

Hi Dan, my question is more about figuring out how to tell the water mix percentage of a new Predator 3200 2.8 GPM. The onboard cleaning holder says no bleach, so I am trying to figure out how to use bucket with bleach without over doing it. I have read through the manual but not seeing the answer. I am hopeful you can assist or advise how I can figure it out. Thank you in advance, I really appreciate your videos.

Good stuff, is there anything you can add to mix to kind of mask the bleach smell.

What about when using the 30 second cleaner applicator that connects to a hose? 1 bleach cup 10% per gallon?

Question. You mentioned adding Dawn (surfactant). How much to add, to a 5 gal bucket, or part/ratio in a recipe? So why am I reading about Dawn not mixing well with Bleach, besides it's maybe about up selling another product. Dan, I agree with what you said in this video, specifically about the 30 sec. It was spray-on, spray-off. Did ok, but needed pressure in several areas. Cost $$$. Would like a video to clarify wand tips that get max spray distance for shooting recipes and water rinse with a homeowner 3000 psi pressure washer. Thank You, your new subscriber.

Could you run the bleach through a foam cannon to get it to cling longer on the house? 😎

Caustic Soda is added to bleach to stabilize it. The higher the concentration of sodium hypochlorite, the higher the amount of caustic soda is needed for stabilization. Unstabilized, bleach decomposes quite fast into water and salt.

So if my pressure washer puts out 2.3 gallons how much pool essentials do I use

Using a 4 gal p/min pressure washer with a down stream injector the water mixes with the SH in the injector so it's not deleted prior.

Thank u

Great video dan, I have a Troy built pressure washer will that hurt to run that through the pump?

Can I use it in my garage. 25x40 feet Thank you

Would love to know how you would mix this SH to use in a foam cannon.