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I have a question...We have bird droppings, actually it looks like a bird ate a bunch of berries and then while flying through the trees it's dropping (dark purple) splattered across the front of our house. We have older aluminum siding on our house. It's kinda chalky to the touch. We tried to clean it with lysol cleaner. But the stain is still there. Any suggestions of something else to use without stripping off the white paint coating on the aluminum siding?

Try liquid dishwasher detergent. I was reading somewhere about mixing it with another detergent and it cleans off permanent marker from some surfaces. I had to do it once, and I did it without mixing it with anything and it cleaned the marker off and didn't hurt the surface. So I think I used straight Cascade or something like that.

Test it somewhere and then try to use it wherever the droppings are and see if it works. A good microfiber cloth may come in handy too.

Thanks, Violette. I would have never thought of dishwashing liquid. We'll give it a try and I'll post the results.

Okay... so what were the results?!? As the new Cleaning Editor... I want to know!!!

That sounds more like a berry stain than a real "bird" stain. I have parakeets and their "natural" poop is super easy to clean. So it's probably a berry clean solution you want. That being said, berry and wine are incredibly powerful stains - the native Americans used those to dye their clothes with. So you may be hopeless

I have also the same problem, that bird's poop totally make my windows ugly.I have used dishwater detergents but if i rub much to remove that, paint started to remove also.

(edited for profanity--Heather/Moderator)