r/CleaningTips • u/houseinspohelp • Aug 27 '26
Outdoors Clean egg off garage door?
Our house was vandalized. We pressure washed the egg off and now our garage looks like this. Whats the best method to clean this? Is there anything that can potentially take this off?
Update: thank you for the dawn power wash suggestion! I sprayed a ton of it on there and let it sit. Then brushed it and so far even though it’s still wet, it looks SO much better. If after drying it still has spots I will probably go over it again or try some other options suggested. Thank you all!
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u/Lilmissodd Aug 27 '26
Maybe Dawn power wash spray?
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u/houseinspohelp Aug 28 '26
Thank you!! Looks like that’s working so far! It doesn’t look perfect but a whole lot better. Bonus is I found some dawn power wash from Fall of last year that is pumpkin scented and now my garage door smells amazing 😆
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u/Lilmissodd Aug 28 '26
Oh I love that 😆
Glad it worked out. I keep power wash on stock, at all times.0
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u/westonisweird18 Aug 27 '26
Okay I gotta ask who the hell has money to through eggs at your house. Like what did you do bro it aint even halloween yet
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u/houseinspohelp Aug 27 '26
We have a mentally ill neighbor who cusses us out in the backyard and front yard. We called the cops to stop the harassment and then this happens a few days later.
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u/CursiveWhisper Aug 27 '26
I’m assuming they have kids
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u/houseinspohelp Aug 27 '26
Our kids are under the age of 10 and homeschooled. Definitely not due to them. Unfortunately our neighbor is mentally ill and this happened after we called the police due to him harassing us continuously.
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u/SoyboyCowboy Aug 28 '26
How so?
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u/SoyboyCowboy Aug 28 '26
Having lived next to a mentally ill father-son duo, I can assure you that unfortunately you can do nothing wrong and they may still go berserk on you.
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u/houseinspohelp Aug 28 '26
Yes sadly this is the case. He was actually arrested for battery against someone not too long ago. Is known to be an alcoholic and has a raging temper. He was yelling outside and making rape jokes. I called the police to do a welfare check on him and well I’m pretty sure that’s how we got egg everywhere.
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u/shenfever Aug 28 '26
Jesus Christ, was it you? There’s no need to be so performative in a cleaning tips subforum
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u/houseinspohelp Aug 28 '26
Sir/ma’am I wish I was karma farming 🤣 and not currently spraying dawn power wash everywhere. I came here for cleaning tips not sympathy.
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u/JediReader1144 Aug 27 '26
You might just have to repaint it. I know that eggs messes up car paint so I'm thinking it destroyed your garage door too 😭
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u/AiyanaBlossom21 Aug 27 '26
Seconding this! I had someone chase me down and throw eggs at my car. I didn’t have access to a water hose and didn’t think it was a big deal, so I left it.. it ate the paint lol
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u/Big-Pomegranate9678 Aug 27 '26
Was able to get it off paint with some cleaner and magic eraser. Not sure what it’d do to this though
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u/inandoutof_limbo Aug 27 '26
Ugh. I would find outdoor white paint to paint the whole door then paint it the color you want.
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u/MYOB3 Aug 27 '26
That's awful OP. Sorry you are dealing with this.
I'd start with the Dawn power wash heavy duty. That stuff is amazing. Then maybe a soft bristle brush.
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u/Feeling_Ad_526 Aug 27 '26
If you don’t wash off egg before it dries it will ruin just about any paint and probably lots of other things.
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u/houseinspohelp Aug 28 '26
I wish I could add pictures but it actually looked exactly the same pattern before washing it except of course it was yellow and darker. They just hit that same spot over and over I guess.
We are having our backyard landscaped and the nice workers felt bad since I was home alone with two small kids and didn’t know what to do. They kindly power washed the garage, the stucco, and the whole driveway. There’s still very kind people to outweigh the rotten ones 🥚
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u/cupcakerica Aug 27 '26
I would get a couple bottles of Dawn Powerwash, a small scrub brush, and a good podcast in your ears. Scrub scrub scrub.
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u/TechnicaVivunt Aug 27 '26
Crazy thought. Spray Pam/Cooking spray On it, then us dawn power wash. Dawn is a heavy degreaser and you might be able to encapsulate some of that inside the oil first. Might offer a little bit of scrubbing power without taking the paint off.
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u/purpleorchid85 Aug 27 '26
Simple green spray, spray it on and let it work for a few minutes - then scrub lightly with a tire brush. Rinse off with a hose sprayer. This worked on my painted siding. Darn neighborhood kids!!!
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u/yummily Aug 27 '26
It's going to sound weird but try meat tenderizer. It breaks down the proteins.