Anyone used JOMAX cleaner for siding?

[Rita]

Check Franks Hardware in Mystic Porte, north of Grayton, before driving into Destin. Frank's has most everything and they are reasonably priced, local too!

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[Nick]

I got Jomax at Home Depot. It comes in a gallon size bottle and I didn't even use a quarter bottle to clean my entire house. I applied it with one of those pestacide pump sprayers I found in the garden section at HD. It'll even clean your plastic deck chairs and cushions if they are discolored!

 

[Rita]

We did our siding with JOMAX & bleach solution (according to directions). It was easy and work great. Worse part was spraying under eaves and the spray falling down onto you. Wear googles.

Good stuff. It made the bleach water adhere to the siding better, so more could sit on the siding to "work".

Sprayed on with garden tank sprayer and rinsed with the hose! :clap_1:

 

[Paula]

I used plain water and bleach in November to get the mold off our white wood on the porch. I highly recommend covering your eyes and head. After a few sprays of bleach splattered on me, I wore my sunglasses and an old straw hat. My shirt was ruined, though. the porch looks fantastic. Seems like it needs to be done about every 6 months -- does that sound right? Would using JOMAX increase the number of months between when the washing is needed again?

 

[drsvelte]

I've used the recipe I posted in #11 with good results - its long term efficacy remains to be seen, though. I've also recently tried an "all-in-one" product called Clorox Outdoor which reduces the requirement to be a practicing alchemist. Just dilute with water!

Although our painter discourages routine pressure washings of exterior paint, I just couldn't resist a cute little electric pressure washer at Home Depot (guys like this kind of stuff!). Its a Husky 1750 (about $169). It won't blast the armor off an Abram's tank like some of the gas powered rigs, but it is powerful enough to clean up stains and mildew on a concrete patio nicely. What's nice, it has two attachable wands which allow you to adjust the pressure and spray pattern to suit the job. You can clean your siding without concurrently removing the paint! I'm bringing it over to our house in Sandestin later this month to do some clean-up.

 

[Sandcastle]

I have a tall house with a widow?s walk. It's very difficult and expensive to pressure wash -- scaffolding is required.

I?ve been using a Windex Outdoor bottle attached to my garden hose with good results. I empty out the Windex Outdoor solution and fill the bottle with undiluted swimming pool chlorine -- the stuff in the yellow 2.5 gallon container. I attach it to my garden hose and spray my siding and eves. This allows me to spray about 25 feet in the air. I don?t rinse the chlorine off of the house. After a day or two the house looks pretty good, and if needed I?ll spay the bad spots again. Goggles are definitely required, though.

By spraying from the ground up, I can?t reach the top 1/3 of our house. For that, I have to stand on the widow?s walk and spray down. I?m trying to rig up an electric sprayer that will make that job easier next spring and enable me to get under the laps of the Hardy Board siding.

I?ll definitely try JOMAX on my white fence and the areas of the house that I can reach with a pump sprayer.

 

[Rita]

Using one of those windex outdoor spray bottles sounds like a fantastic idea. Next time we'll try that.

If your white fence has stain from where springler water has hit it, use Rid-O-Rust. Works immediately with very little effort and is available at the hardware stores. (A fellow poster on this board put us onto that.)

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[Sandcastle]

The JOMAX Web site lists South Bay Ace Hardware as an authorized dealer.

South Bay Ace Hardware - Store#: 10638
2924 Us Hwy 98 E, PO Box 1386
Santa Rosa Beach, FL, 32459
Email:
PH: 850-267-2509 FAX: 850-267-1147

 

[Paula]

I have to bleach our white wood porches at least twice a year to get the mold off them. Would using Jomax or any of the other products mentioned here reduce the number of times I have to clean the mold off the porches? Thanks.

 

[Rita]

I have to bleach our white wood porches at least twice a year to get the mold off them. Would using Jomax or any of the other products mentioned here reduce the number of times I have to clean the mold off the porches? Thanks.

Paula, I doubt that JOMAX would reduce the # of times needed. It works more as a surfactant to help the beach solution stick to the wood better (less just runs off).

Sandcastle, I guess my husband DID use a windex spray bottle for a hard to reach spot on the second floor over a porch. The problem he had with that (using bleach mixture) was that it was more dilute than the concentration from the tank sprayer. He had to do it a couple times and then it wasn't as good as rest of the house.