does soft washing leave bleach

What you will smell, and what is left when we leave

You may smell chlorine while we work. The mix is rinsed. We do not leave a bleach coating on the siding to “keep working” for a week.

Sodium hypochlorite smells like a pool for a reason. During application and dwell, anyone in the yard will notice it. Screens and open windows are how that smell gets inside. We ask you to close them. Pets come in. A bowl of water on the porch comes in. This is ordinary, not an emergency, and it is also not something we shrug off.

When the wall has been rinsed, the active solution should be gone. We are not selling a residual biocide that stays on your siding. Growth returns when shade, moisture, and time allow a new colony. That is usually measured in seasons in this climate, not in days, and not in decades. Anyone who sells a permanent shield is ahead of the chemistry.

If a white film is left on glass or on a dark shutter, that is a rinse that missed, and it should be caught before we roll up the hose. Tell us. Spots on glass from a dried drip are a workmanship issue, not “the nature of bleach.”

The service this belongs to is House soft washing.