How to Make Soft Wash: An Expert Guide to Effective Mixes 🚿

By Mark Cave March 04, 2025

How to Make Soft Wash: An Expert Guide to Effective Mixes 🚿

Soft washing is a gentle and effective cleaning method employed to maintain the aesthetic appeal of your home's exterior surfaces without causing damage. It's widely recognized for its capability to handle hard-to-clean areas by using a mix of water, special cleaning solutions, and various equipment. If you’re eager to learn how to make your own soft wash mix, you’ve come to the right place!

Understanding the Core Ingredients 🌿

Before creating your soft wash mix, it's crucial to understand its core components. So, what exactly goes into a soft wash solution? Let's break down its main ingredients:

Water: The primary solvent used for diluting chemicals.
Sodium Hypochlorite: A powerful disinfectant also known as liquid bleach. Learn more about its usage in our mixing guide.
Surfactants: They help to lower the surface tension, allowing the mixture to spread more easily. Explore Clever Wash Surfactant for efficient cleaning.
Biocides: Chemicals like Softwash Biocide 50% DDAC designed to kill microorganisms and prevent their regrowth.

These elements work in harmony to dislodge and eliminate dirt, algae, mildew, and other contaminants without high-pressure washing's aggressive force.

The Art of Crafting Your Soft Wash Mix 🎨

Creating a soft wash mix involves precision and an understanding of the right proportions. Whether you're a DIY enthusiast or a professional cleaner, the following steps will guide you:

1. Choose Your Chemicals Wisely

The choice of chemicals can significantly impact the effectiveness of the cleaning process. Select high-quality options available at SoftWash UK's chemical collection.

2. Master the Mixing Proportions

Ensuring the right chemical balance is vital for safety and effectiveness. Utilize tools like the Soft Washing Dosatron and Dosatron Biocide Injector for optimal dosing.

3. Personal Protection is Paramount

When handling chemicals, ensure you're equipped with safety gear. A self-study at home program, such as the Softwash Training Course, can help in understanding and handling these chemicals safely.

4. Tailor Your Mix for Specific Surfaces

Different surfaces require distinct soft wash solutions. For instance, add Fresh Wash Scent Masking to neutralize bleach odours.

Benefits of Soft Washing Over Pressure Washing 🌊

Soft washing doesn't merely clean but also prolongs the lifespan of surfaces. Unlike pressure washing, it is gentler on delicate surfaces and ensures deep penetration into crevices, preventing regrowth of mould and algae.

Ensuring Optimal Results: Key Tips and Best Practices 🛠️

Test Your Mix: Always test a small area before full application to observe the effects.
Time Management: Allow adequate dwell time for chemicals to work but avoid letting the solution dry prematurely.
Rinse When Necessary: While soft washing usually doesn't require rinsing, some situations may benefit from it. Discover whether you should rinse on our guide: Should I Rinse When Soft Washing?

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Soft Wash Calculator App

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Softwashing calculator is an indispensable tool for juggling complicated chemical mixes. It helps reduce wastage and keeps operating costs down by giving accurate proportions

If you are having difficulty getting your head around the maths, trying to work out what percentage of softwash you need, how much chemical, surfactant and water to add, then this is the App for you.

The Soft Wash Calculator App allows you to work out your soft wash recipe by telling you exactly how much chemical, how much water and how much surfactant to add to get the desired soft wash recipe.
It doesn't stop there!.
- It can also remix your leftover softwash to a new stronger or weaker recipe.
- all controls in one place for see at a glance operation
- ease of input via pre-loaded dials. no more calculator style typing
- instantly responds to changes of complex combinations
- works in both Litres and US Gallons
- tested for Protan and Deutan colourblind users
- links to SoftwashingUK website

Take this scenario
You started with a 1% soft wash recipe of 50 gal (or litres) for a deck clean and you’re left with 13 gallons.

You get a call from a prospective customer to clean their roof. Past experience tells you a 4% soft wash recipe is needed, but what about your leftover mix at 1%?.

Do you waste time and effort driving back to base to transfer into a standby tank?
You could consider the 13 gal as just water, top up the tank and start again.
But that’s throwing away the value of the mix and raising your overhead.

Soft Wash Calculator App to the rescue.

You get to the new job and it requires 100 gal / litres.
Switch into remix mode , confirming the 13 gal already in the tank
Move the dials to your new recipe and the app immediately updates the different amounts to add in front of your eyes including the correct amount of extra surfactant.

You now have a 100 gal / litres tank of 4% soft wash recipe ready for your roof clean job!

Not forgetting you’ve saved money too, all without stress and uncertainty . Don’t underestimate what confident calmness has on your customer putting out referrals.

The same applies if you have a 4% recipe left in your tank and you need to dilute it down to 2%. Again the app will tell you how.

Softwashing calculator will also work for any chemical recipe. For instance you can use it for Sodium Hypochlorite, Bleach, Biocide , TFR traffic film remover and degreaser. Even the mathematically-challenged rocket scientist can top up their booster tanks to new fuel mixes after launch delays caused by changing weather conditions.

Using this app you will know exactly what chemical strength to put on any surface giving you the confidence and the knowledge of a professional soft washer and you’ll save money as well.

So if you have little knowledge of how to mix a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.
If you have little knowledge of how to remix a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.
If you want to save money when mixing a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.

This app is also backward compatible to devices running iOS7. We've done this so you can re-purpose an old iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 5 for what could be hazardous work environments. Just toss one in your cleaning van's toolkit.

Once you learn the methods and procedures of how to apply the soft wash to the different surfaces that need cleaning you’ll be unstoppable!

The app also has a guide to what percentage for what surface. And if you are the lucky owner of a Clever Injector it will remind you the correct setting for the job.
However you should always consider and risk assess what soft wash recipe you need to clean the surface.

** A major iOS code-base change may require a re-purchase. The appiverse at the time will confirm our promise that we won't do so unless the necessity is apparent.