Algae On Wood Siding

Algae can never grow without a food source.

Algae on wood siding.

Watch as lou manfredini ace s home expert shows you an easy and affordable way. It appears to make mildew vanish but on porous surfaces such as wood or vinyl siding chlorine evaporates too quickly to get to the fungi s roots guaranteeing regrowth. Black stainsare usually a sign of mildew algae mold or fungus. Green growth on your siding happens because your siding is not clean.

Chlorine can also damage foliage and stain clothing. Work down from the roofline taking on one 10 foot square section at a time. Point your pivotpro hit the trigger and start spraying cleansing water against your dirty wood siding. Green algae black mold and moss begin to die off on contact.

Do not power wash. Algae feeds especially well on sugar. Whether it s mold or mildew your siding is no place to have things growing. Then we used wolman s deck brite to clean it to get rid of the dark stains left by the mold.

These growths may appear on natural wood stained wood paitned wood vinyl or other plastics aluminum and many other materials even masonry or stone. You need a garden pump sprayer and a scrub brush. Brown stainson wood siding can signal that moisture is forming underneath the wood. At 46 inches in.

Oxygen bleach hydrogen peroxide. Drench the siding where algae mold and or mildew is present and let solution sit for 20 minutes or so and rinse off. If this mixture doesn t remove all of the algae try a stronger solution using oxygen bleach. A good cleaner to try first is a mixture of 70 water and 30 white vinegar.

You re most likely to see green stains on siding that is inadequately ventilated. Always test any type of cleaner on a small section of siding to be sure it doesn t stain streak or otherwise damage the siding. Have not experience any damage from solution on bushes but. Less volatile than chlorine it removes mildew on and below the surface as well as algae dirt and oxidized paint but won t harm plants or clothing.

Obtain a 1 1 5 gallon hand sprayer. Mix in the sprayer 25 solution of bleach with water. The combination of the wind and the rain breakdown the growth and rinse your surfaces clean over time. Green stainsare almost always the result of algae or moss.

Wet the surface and forget it there s no rinsing or scrubbing.