Car wash soap in my house wash

[DJclean 14]

So I'm out of fresh wash and my local pw store doesn't have fresh wash or any thing equivalent . So on a recommendation of the owner I bought a 12.00$ gallon bottle of his favorite car wash. I had 2 houses to wash that day. I mixed in maybe 2 cups or less in a 5 gallon bucket with 4-5 gallons of SH and I down streamed it on to the houses. By the time I was done applying chemical to one wall I looked back and the mildew was devolving and running of the trim and siding. After only a couple minutes of dwelling I quickly rinsed it off and whala, it was squeaky clean! After telling a buddy of mine who is a car detailer told me he uses the same car wash when he washes cars. He to claims he has tried others and always gos back to this particular one. I wonder if it will work in a roof mix.

[extremeclean 14]

I would have to say that the car wash soap was acting as a surfactant so the sh could work

[Timo 25]

A one dollar bottle of baby shampoo from your favorite dollar store would probably work in a pinch. Leave the bleach out though, and nothing works,

It sounds like your mix was a little strong if it only took two minutes to kill the funk.

Almost any surfactant will work to some degree in roof mix.

[Jason Reider 25]

So I'm out of fresh wash and my local pw store doesn't have fresh wash or any thing equivalent . So on a recommendation of the owner I bought a 12.00$ gallon bottle of his favorite car wash. I had 2 houses to wash that day. I mixed in maybe 2 cups or less in a 5 gallon bucket with 4-5 gallons of SH and I down streamed it on to the houses. By the time I was done applying chemical to one wall I looked back and the mildew was devolving and running of the trim and siding. After only a couple minutes of dwelling I quickly rinsed it off and whala, it was squeaky clean! After telling a buddy of mine who is a car detailer told me he uses the same car wash when he washes cars. He to claims he has tried others and always gos back to this particular one. I wonder if it will work in a roof mix.

Just curious, what is the name of the car wash you used?

[steven 37]

i would guess that downstreaming straight sh would work without a surfactant.

[NAPWO 21]

Steven, usually not. Sodium Hyporchlorite is an action chem and without the surfactant, there is nothing to help the water work better.