House Washing

Pressure washing removes dirt with force. Soft washing removes it with chemistry, at roughly garden-hose pressure. Anything alive (algae, mildew, lichen) needs to be killed rather than blasted off, or it regrows within months. Anything porous or fragile (siding, stucco, screens, old wood) will be damaged by high pressure. We use pressure on hard flatwork like concrete, and soft washing on almost everything else.

Our detergents are biodegradable and break down on contact with water. Before we start we saturate every bed, shrub and lawn edge in the work zone, and we rinse everything again when we finish. Dilution is what keeps plants safe. Pets should stay inside while we work and can come back out as soon as surfaces are dry, usually within an hour.

It depends on shade, humidity and how much tree cover you have. As a rough guide: house washing holds up 12–18 months, decks and fences around 12 months, and concrete around 12 months. Heavily shaded north-facing walls are always first to regrow, and anything within sight of open water regrows faster than the same surface a mile inland. If you'd rather not track it, our maintenance plan schedules it automatically at a lower rate.

No. We need access to an outdoor water spigot and to any gated areas, and that's it. Most of our customers are at work. We send a photo set when the job is finished, and payment can be handled online afterwards.