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Soft Washing in Baywood-Los Osos
Drying a wall takes two things, energy to lift the water off and moving air to carry it away. Baywood-Los Osos has the first and almost none of the second, so siding here spends the afternoon warm, wet and completely still.
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Sunshine is not the missing variable here, moving air is
Drying a wall takes two things: energy to lift the water off, and moving air to carry it away. This side of the estuary gets plenty of sun. What it does not get is wind, because the sandspit and the dunes take it out before it reaches Baywood-Los Osos. A mile across the water, Morro Bay's problem is fog sitting against the hill all day, which is a shortage of the first thing. The shortage here is the second, and it is the one people underestimate, because a bright still afternoon looks like drying weather and a wall standing in it does not dry.
What that lands on is mostly wood. The stock here is sixties and seventies, so a lot of these houses are painted board siding, board and batten, or the grooved plywood of that era, with stucco on a minority. Wood does not hold growth on its surface the way stucco does. It holds it in the grain, wet the whole way through the board rather than just on the face, which means a solution has to soak into the timber instead of coating it. A pass that would clear a stucco wall leaves a Baywood-Los Osos board looking better and still fully colonized.
Then there is how much fence a Los Osos lot carries. These are big flat parcels with single story houses on them, so the running feet of fencing on a typical property comfortably exceeds the wall area of the house, and a fence is the one structure on the place with no dry side at all. It is thin, usually unfinished, and open to damp air on both faces at once. On most jobs here the fence is not an addition to the house wash. It is the larger half of it, and it is what decides when the property comes due again.
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Read the fence line and you know where the band stops
A six foot fence four feet off a single story wall keeps the lower half of that siding out of the sun all day and stops what little air there is from moving through the gap. So growth on a Los Osos wall runs to about head height and stops dead where the sunlight starts. Walk up to a house here and the height of it tells you where the fence is before you look.
A fence board has no dry side
A wall has a face and a back, and only one of them ever sees weather. A fence board is thin, unfinished and open on both faces, so in Baywood-Los Osos it stays saturated through its thickness most of the year and the growth is inside the wood. Treating the bay side of a Los Osos fence and calling it finished leaves the organism alive, and it works back through.
Strength is set for a wall that is already wet
Siding in Baywood-Los Osos is rarely bone dry when the work starts, so a solution mixed for a dry inland panel arrives on the wall already thinned by the water sitting on it. That is the reverse of the inland difficulty, which is keeping a surface wet long enough to work. It gets mixed for a wet substrate, and the wall gets overlapping passes so no section takes a single thinned application.
Still air is a scheduling advantage here
The one thing the sandspit gives back is that overspray does not travel. On the open coast an onshore wind decides which day an exposed elevation can be treated, because solution drifts onto whatever is downwind of it. On the back bay there is usually nothing moving to carry it, so a Baywood-Los Osos house can be worked on a still morning rather than waiting for a wind to drop.
How often, here
Fences here come due before walls do, and that is the useful way to schedule a Baywood-Los Osos property. Nine to twelve months on the fencing, twelve to eighteen on the siding, and if the fence is ready the house behind it usually is too. The other rule of thumb is the band itself. If the green has climbed above the top of the fence, this stopped being a fence problem a while ago, and the siding wants treating on its own account rather than as a tidy up afterward.
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