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Some troglodytes egg my house anywhere from every 1-6 months, and have been doing so for the last four years. They just did it again tonight, so I have a fresh supply of drying egg to now remove.

My question is:

What is the best way to remove dried egg from a house?

My house is a bungalow with vinyl siding and a lot of glass windows (now all covered in layers of egg in varying states of dryness from previous attacks -- it's so frequent I can't keep up with cleaning it...).

EDIT: While I'm grateful for all the advice, I think this question would ultimately be more useful to everyone if future answers could deal with specific ways to remove egg -- not whether I should clean up the egg or not, or how to catch the miscreants, etc.

Aarthi
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Step 1: A pressure washer, done as quickly as possible. They are not expensive, going for about $100 for a basic one that will probably be adequate.

Step 2: A camera system, motion activated, to catch the miscreants when they return. Take them to court.

Step 3: Relax.

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The nice thing about renting a place is that you don't own it. Problems with the house are really the owner's problem, not yours. If it were me, especially in the situation you've described, I'd call the landlord and say, 'Hey - come clean this crap up'.

I certainly wouldn't invest in supplies or materials to do it.

Take a look at your lease/rental agreement first; but especially if this was happening before you moved in, I wouldn't do much of anything to resolve it.

Rob P.
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Try something inexpensive and simple first, like dish soap or carwash soap and a brush-on-a-stick. Both dish soap and carwash soap are designed to remove sticky biological goo from relatively hard non-porous surfaces like vynil.

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I would think just a bucket of water with some dawn dish soap would do the job. It might possibly look a little weird once it's clean and dry since one spot is recently cleaned and the rest of the house is not but it shouldn't be that much of difference..

Liz
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I use Coke in a spray bottle. It works surprisingly well. Just make sure you soak the hell out of it.

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bill
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Dish soap and a j-cloth worked well to remove egg that was 2 days old from vinyl siding.

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