What I found it removed was the dirt, which I expected, but also the mold and mildew, which I thought would be an all-day chore. These soaps work great on wood and concrete and for cleaning patio furniture or cleaning lawn furniture, cleaning the kids playground equipment, and even cleaning my fence that was in dire need of cleaning. One pack makes about 3 gallons of soap and uses the short intake pipe to draw it into the pressure washer. The soaps I found were 100% biodegradable. This is important to me and I am glad most manufacturers are taking the time to consider this.

One thing I found is that the soaps do not leave a residue, so there isn’t a lot of clean up at all. Just washes right off with water. I will tell you what gave me best results with these as well, and that was to simply mixed up a bucket of the water and soap, then pressure spray it onto the surface that I wanted to clean. Next I would let that soak for a while, say 10 to 20 minutes. This proved good to loosen up any hard to clean up dirt and mildew. But I found this wasn’t the easiest thing to do in the hot sun. A few times the sun would dry out what I had already sprayed so I had to re-spray that, or simply keep it wet during the time I was soaping it up and letting it soak.

Finally, I took the highest pressure wash for my patio and sprayed the area to loosen up the dirt, then spraying it right off. This worked best and is how I recommend the pressure washer patio cleaner to work. Other trials included letting it sit for less time, but I found that I had to work harder on the pressure washing part to get the tough mold and mildew to come up as clean as the way to just let it sit for a while.

I hope these tips help you with your pressure washer patio cleaner and machine and that you can get up the dirt quickly and with as less work possible. If you are patient and let the soap sit for 20 minutes as I did, I believe you will have good results with this and won’t find a problem getting your patio very clean.