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Cleaning pebbledash

  • 16-04-2018 12:40pm
    #1
    Breaston Plants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭


    I was wondering would anyone know a good way to clean pebbledash on the side of a house, mainly covered in moss. Thanks


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  • #2
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Get a drum of hydrochlorite or chlorus it’s called aswell in your local agri supplier.spray the walls with a strong mix of it and leave on for a day and power wash it the following day.shel come up like new.watch your clothes eyes and any grass or shrubs near it though when you’re spraying and best spray in no wind to avoid drifts


  • #3
    Breaston Plants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭Breaston Plants


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    Get a drum of hydrochlorite or chlorus it’s called aswell in your local agri supplier.spray the walls with a strong mix of it and leave on for a day and power wash it the following day.shel come up like new.watch your clothes eyes and any grass or shrubs near it though when you’re spraying and best spray in no wind to avoid drifts

    Would a cheap caustic soda do the same?


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    BorneTobyWilde
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    You need this stuff


  • #5
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Breaston Plants wrote: »
    Would a cheap caustic soda do the same?


    I don’t know.might be too corrosive. The big drum of hydrochloride is only 25 euro for the drum and it would do you for years and it will clean footpaths aswell.dilution rates are on it


  • #6
    Coley35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭Coley35


    I agree with Doctors room ghost. I just did the pebble dash walls on my house last week with chloras mixed with water as per mix ratio instructions on the drum, in a knapsack sprayer. I left it on for half an hour and washed it down with plenty of water from the garden hose. The next day the walls looked like new! I wore safety glasses and mask while spraying just in case. I would recommend wearing a coverall suit or overalls though as my jumper had to be dumped after as it turned patchy white from the spray mist! I didn’t even think I got any on me...


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  • #7
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Coley35 wrote: »
    I agree with Doctors room ghost. I just did the pebble dash walls on my house last week with chloras mixed with water as per mix ratio instructions on the drum, in a knapsack sprayer. I left it on for half an hour and washed it down with plenty of water from the garden hose. The next day the walls looked like new! I wore safety glasses and mask while spraying just in case. I would recommend wearing a coverall suit or overalls though as my jumper had to be dumped after as it turned patchy white from the spray mist! I didn’t even think I got any on me...

    Yeah it’s mighty stuff alright.only thing is you want to wear rags of clothes using it cos it will destroy them and be careful around lawns and shrubs cos it will kill them. I use it a lot and I’ve often sprayed it on and just left it without rinse.you are never far away from rain here that will wash it.


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