08-18-2020, 05:54 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Olathe, KS
Posts: 124
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Originally Posted by JRTJH
Clorox, or any chlorine bleach is a typical "wash day" product and used in proper concentrations, will not damage your awning or "fade" the color. However, as with most products, "more is not always better".
I use 1/4 cup of Clorox (not Clorox concentrate), 1/4 cup of "blue" Dawn and 1 gallon of warm water. Wet the awning with a hose, spray or brush the solution on your awning, roll it up and let it sit for 20 minutes, then unroll the awning and rinse "THOROUGHLY". You need to remove/dilute all the chlorine, some of which may have saturated the thread in the seams of the awning. Then allow the awning to dry completely, roll it up and remember that when it rains, the awning will collect water. It's usually this "standing rain water" that causes mold and mildew to form on the fabric. So, after each rain, unroll your awning and let it dry.
I've had acrylic fabric awnings, vinyl awnings, cotton canvas awnings that have been striped, "linen faded" and print colors. I've used this solution to clean them for "too long to remember" and I've never had any "color fading" or "fabric damage" from this solution when used as described above.
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Sorry to Old Post police, however I have to give this props. Brown nasty 4-6 foot stained streaks every 10-12 inches on bottom of my awning. Used this recipe best I could. Only had 32oz spray bottle so tried to do the math. Pretty sure I had more bleach and Blue Dawn than conversions would have called for but anyway. Sprayed on first tine, rolled up for 30 minutes, then sprayed off with garden hose and spray nozzle. Ehh. It helped but more than half to 70%!the stains still there. The wife talked me into doing it a second time right then. Wish I had the before and after picks. After second time the stains I would say are 95-97% completely eliminated. Under side of awning is bright white by the way.
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