How to Clean Bird Poop from Patio?

Bird droppings on a clean patio can be painful and can completely change the purpose of the patio you’ve installed for. Whether it’s a budget-friendly concrete patio or all expensive porcelains, you have laid it down to sit and enjoy the outdoors. Seeing it unclean, and especially with the bird droppings, honestly doesn’t look great on a patio.

If it is your pet bird, you cannot dump her if she poops on your patio. However, there are some ways that you can use to clean the bird droppings off your patio and love your bird again.

Water and Cleaning Brush

Before doing anything, first, just take the time to check whether the bird droppings are fresh or dried. If it didn’t happen long ago, and it’s still not dried out, simply a cleaning brush and water may be the quickest option. Just grab a wire brush and a bucket of water. Add some water to the bird droppings and scrub them with the wire brush. Do it until the bird droppings are completely cleaned off your patio.

Even if it was dried out, you can give a shot to this method as may work for you. Just put a little more water on the droppings and let it be there for 10-15 minutes. Then use the wire brush to clean it off. You can also use any kind of sharp object if the brush is unable to clean it but make sure you don’t do it very forcefully as it can scratch the surface of the patio.

Patio Cleaners

Patio cleaners can be an option to bring back your clean looking patio. They’re available in different types for different purposes such as for cleaning algae and lichens, black spots, patio cleaners to use with pressure washers, pet-friendly patio cleaners, etc. You should also keep in mind that there’re different types of patio cleaners for different patio materials.

I found the same question “how to clean bird poop off your patio” inside a Facebook group, and I saw someone recommending Barrettine oil and grease remover to clean bird poop off your patio because they come up great. If you’re in the UK, you can pick it up from the Toolstation. I also saw a person using it on a limestone patio to clean oil stains and it worked really great.

To clean natural stone pavings like Indian sandstone or limestone for example, just use soapy water or bleach because the patio cleaners may cause issues as they contain chemicals.

Pressure Washing

Using a jet cleaner or pressure washer can an effective way to clean the bird droppings as well as all the gaps on your patio. With such water pressure from the washer, you can easily get rid of all the bird droppings without using your hands.

It’s the best way to clean your patio without using chemicals and just with water or you can also use patio cleaners that are made to be used with pressure washers with the water.

With the bird droppings, pressure washing can deeply clean your patio from grime, oil or grease stains, mould, algae, etc. so, if your patio hasn’t been cleaned for a while and you think it needs intense cleaning now, it is time to consider pressure washing.

You can pressure wash the patio yourself, or you can hire someone professional to do it for you. It’s better to hire a professional as pressure washing can damage your patio like it can loosen or remove the patio pointings with the pressure of the water if not done the right way and because professionals know exactly what they want to do in order to completely clean your patio without providing any damage to it. As far as I know, some patio pavers are more softer than others so, in order to clean them using a pressure washer you need to set the right water pressure and temperature.

Here’s a video that shows how effective pressure washing is for cleaning your patio.

Most professionals charge per job for cleaning the patios.

Prevent Birds from Pooping on your Patio

If the birds don’t come over your patio, you don’t need to worry about them pooping on your patio. There are some ways that you can use to prevent them from sitting over your patio so they wouldn’t poop on it.

Here are some videos that show easy do-it-yourself methods to prevent birds from sitting on your patio. All the videos use different things to prevent the birds, so you can go for the one which you currently have or can be easily available to you.

Protect your Patio from Bird Pooping

Sealing your patio is a great way to prevent it from not just bids dropping but also other kinds of stains. If your patio is sealed then even if the birds poop on it, the sealing will prevent the patio from soaking in the poop which would be much easier to clean later. Also, a sealed patio is much easier to keep clean overall.

Sealing patio also has many many advantages such as it sustains your patio to look new preventing it from the sunlight, and prevents algae or any kind of weeds to grow between the gaps or cracks of your patio.