The Reason to Clean Your Home

You will agree that your home is your favorite haunt – that special dwelling where you spent your childhood, and later raised your family. Obviously, you want your home to be the perfect abode – with a scrubbed clean look, dirt and germ free for the family’s well being!

Five main reasons why you practically need to get your house washing every six months have been discussed below.

1. A clean, new look
Washing your house can brighten up the exterior of your home, thereby enhancing its visual appeal as well as its value. In fact, even the basic soft washing of the house can lend it a new lease of life! When you soft wash your home, its outside look immediately appears almost as bright as new. If and when the outside appearance of your house is marred by dirt build-up, satins, mould and mildew, or fungus, it is a clear indication that your home requires power washing. Otherwise, such disagreeable things give your house a shabby and dirty look.

In case your house is exposed to vehicular pollution or even pedestrian traffic, it is desirable that you go in for soft wash of your house after every six months or a year. Don’t blindly follow the practice of getting the house washed four years or so.

2. Enhanced value
Timely washing gives your house a fresh, clean look. Not only does it make the house look more appealing, but it also increases is overall value. This is beneficial especially if you plan to put up your house for sale in the near future - your ‘washed’ house will definitely ensure a much better sale price.
The clean exterior of your house will automatically tempt buyers to have a look at the interiors too. Otherwise, even if the inside of your house is breathtakingly beautiful, a shabby and unclean outside appearance can easily put off a potential buyer straightaway, without invoking in him any desire to look at the interior.

3. Paint protection
The exterior paint of your house can well be protected if you wash your house in time – this is an added plus, along with the enhanced aesthetic appeal. The exterior paint of your home - especially that on the north-facing walls or that on the areas that are shaded by tress and shrubbery, or those that hardly receive enough sunlight – is susceptible to dust and grime, and even mould and mildew.
It is extremely important to get rid of the mould by soft washing the exterior using chlorine. Mould actually results from excess moisture and humidity, which in turn is a result of poor ventilation and poor circulation of air. Mould can easily infiltrate the surface of paint and grow underneath it, leading to corrosion and flaking of painted surface. Hence, painting over mould is not a solution as it can damage the paint too.

4. Mould prevention
Under normal weather conditions also, the growth of mould and mildew is a normal occurrence because of the usual changes in weather. Whenever the weather gets humid, mould and mildew grow and thrive unabated.
Hence, for mould prevention, it is practically advised that you get your house washed after every six months. Mould can effectively be removed by soft washing, and regular washing every six months is a preventive measure to combat the growth of mould on the walls, roofs and other exterior areas.

5. Health benefits
Exposure to mould, by the way of breathing in spores or minute fragments of it, can affect your family’s health. By touching moldy surfaces or by swallowing mould, people with sensitive skin can have problems. Though it is from person to person that the risk from mould varies, some common problems resulting from mould exposure are - cough, sore throat, nasal and sinus congestion, breathing difficulty, and eye and skin irritation.

Soft washing your home every six months can help you remove existing mould and check its future growth, thereby leading to a considerable reduction in your medical bills. Once you have removed the likely cause of common ailments like cough, sinus and asthma, it automatically implies that you will be spending less on medications!