Had the walls done and the orange is creeping back already? Along this stretch that is the call we get most, and it nearly always comes down to what was left behind rather than what was taken off.
Same wall, same starting point, different eighteen months. What separates them is whether anything living was left in the render.
The staining goes and the wall looks right the day it is finished, which is exactly why this is the half most people are sold. What stays behind is the organism in the surface layer, and on a wall taking salt aerosol off the beach it has everything it needs to start again by the following season.
The solution soaks into the surface and works on the living structure in it, then carries on working for weeks after we have gone. Nothing is left in the render waiting for the next damp spell, which is what turns months into a couple of comfortable years.
If somebody has already been out, the useful question is what got left out.
Tell us roughly when it was last done and what went on the wall, if you know. On this coast the speed of the return usually answers it for us.
The solution goes on at low pressure and is given the dwell it needs. On a windy day at the coast we wait rather than let anything drift where it is not wanted.
Ground rinsed down, and a realistic interval for the next look. Along here that is further out than most people expect once the wall has been treated rather than washed.
The method is the same on every job. Which product goes with it depends on the surface and on what you want.
Anything applied to a wall runs down it, so the ground is dealt with before the wall is. Planting at the base is soaked or sheeted before a drop goes on, drainage points are covered, and we keep a wide margin from ponds, wells and open water. Nothing is mixed anywhere on site. Before we leave you are told how long to keep children and pets off the ground underneath. The garden is part of the job, not something that happens to be beside it, and it goes back the way we found it.
Written for exactly this question.
What regrowth actually needs, why salt air shortens the gap, and what a treatment does that a wash cannot.
The Render Check takes about a minute from the ground and tells you whether you are looking at a job now or next year.
We cover Courtown along with Riverchapel, Kilmuckridge and Camolin, through the houses near the harbour and out along the coast road.
Sand and salt fill a coastal gutter faster than leaves do, and an overflowing one keeps the wall below it permanently damp.
Sharper questions than the first time round, in our experience.
Twelve months or more is the usual on a treated wall, and considerably longer where the elevation gets sun. What shortens it is shade, overhanging cover and anything keeping the wall damp. A leaking gutter above it will undo a good part of the work.
In a sense, yes — a solution does the work. But it is dilute, put on gently, and left to kill the organism where it is living in the surface. The wall comes back as the growth dies, and nothing is scoured off to get there.
Once the solution has had its dry hours and soaked in, rain does no harm at all — the weather is what carries the dead growth off. It is only rain within the first few hours that works against it, and that is what we plan around.
Not the way we work. Everything at the foot of the wall is soaked through or sheeted before a drop is applied, and drains are covered. It is the slowest part of the day and the part nobody notices, which is rather the point.
The main softwashing page sets out what goes on the wall, how long it needs and why soaking in beats working at it from outside.
Tell us what was done before and roughly when, and we will tell you what we would change.
Phone: 089-949-1525
WhatsApp: Send a couple of photos
Email: info@eireshine.ie
Knowing what was done last time tells us most of what we need. If it was a wash with nothing after it, that explains the timing, and putting it right is straightforward.
If you know what was used last time, say so — it helps a lot.
