How to Make a Soft Wash Mix: Expert Tips & Tricks 🧼

By Mark Cave April 24, 2025

How to Make a Soft Wash Mix: Expert Tips & Tricks 🧼

Soft washing is a revolutionary cleaning technique leveraging low-pressure water systems combined with specialized solutions to clean various surfaces effectively. If you're new to soft washing or looking to refine your approach, you're in the right place! In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of making an effective soft wash mix, ensuring your surfaces remain pristine and damage-free.

Understanding Soft Washing

Before diving into the mix-making process, it's essential to understand what soft washinginvolves. Unlike traditional pressure washing, soft washing uses chemicals to remove dirt, molds, and algae. This method minimizes the risk of damage to delicate surfaces.

Components of a Soft Wash Mix

Sodium Hypochlorite: A powerful sanitizer and stain remover. Visit our podcast to learn about its properties.
Water: The primary medium to dilute chemicals, ensuring safe application to surfaces.
Surfactants: These help the solution adhere to surfaces, improving cleaning efficacy. Discover more about surfactantsin our podcast.
Optional Additives: Depending on your cleaning needs, you can add rust stain removers, scent masks, or specialized chemicals like the Fresh Wash masking scent.

Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Soft Wash Mix

1. Calculate Your Ratios

Accurate measurement is crucial for an effective mix. Utilize our Sodium Hypochlorite Mixing Guide to determine the right ratios based on your cleaning scope.

2. Gather Your Materials

Having the right equipment is half the battle. Equip yourself with high-quality gear from our selection of soft washing equipment. Tools like the Water Fed Pole Softwash Nozzle can be particularly useful.

3. Mix Your Solution

Begin by filling your holding container with water, then slowly add the sodium hypochlorite. Incorporate surfactants to ensure thorough mixing. Always ensure you are working in a well-ventilated area and wearing appropriate protective gear.

4. Test Your Mixture

Spot test the mixture in an inconspicuous area to guarantee its suitability. Learn more about the appropriate rinsing needs to avoid any damage, especially when dealing with plants.

Common Soft Wash Challenges & Solutions

Dealing with Tough Stains

Some stains require specialized attention. Consider products like the Rust X Pro Render Rust Stain Remover for stubborn rust marks.

Protecting Plants

Worried about the chemicals affecting your greenery? Learn how to mitigate these risks in our podcast episode on plant safety in soft washing.

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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.

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