Does your home have green mildew or mold? Not only this is such an eye sore, but it can absolutely potentially damage your siding, causing rapid oxidation. Therefore, could ruin the life expectancy of your siding. Washing and maintaining your siding will help save your siding by slowing down this process, at the same time making your house look fresh and clean, out shining everyone on your street!

I have heard hundreds of times "Anyone can power wash." Although this may be true, who wants to spend hours upon hours in your busy schedules, especially the weekends during relaxing and family time, to power wash their house, driveway, etc. Most people don't realize there is a right and wrong way to wash your homes. This takes training and experience to make sure it is done right. Firstly, you don't want to damage the siding using high pressure. We use low pressure on all of our house washes. Secondly, you want to be properly trained with the use of chemicals and solutions to avoid not only potential damage to your siding and flashing, but the vegetation around your home; grass, gardens, bushes, tress, etc. If improperly trained on the use of chemicals you can kill vegetation surrounding your home. You can even hurt yourself by either breathing it in with out using proper resporators, or if it gets onto your eyes/skin. We make special mixes for specific jobs, whether its vinyl siding, aluminum siding, brick, pavement, etc. Everything has its own special mix to properly clean the specific surface to not only help keep things efficient, but to also avoid potential damage. 

HOUSE WASHING

Low pressure is an important factor when it comes to house washing. When prewashing, applying soap, and even rinsing off the house, low pressure is used at ALL times. There is absolutely no need to use high pressure to your siding. House washing is a 3 step process to ensure mold and mildew is killed and washed away.

Step 1) Prewashing the siding. Prewashing is important in 2 ways. Firstly, it helps rinse off surface free of dirt and debris to allow our solution to stick to the siding. Secondly, it actually acts as a lubricant for our solution for an even coat and helps prevent streaking.

Step 2) Applying the solution. We mix our solution specifically for siding. We apply our solution starting from the bottom, and work our way up. This helps the soap actually stick better as the suds help restrict the soap from dripping down, and also helps prevent streaking. After our solution is applied, we wait for about 5-10 minutes to allow it to work and kill mold or mildew. Sometimes more coats are necassary and we repeat the process.

Step 3) Rinsing off the siding. Low pressure is used to rinse off your home. To get an idea of how low the pressure is, its equivelant to using your garden hose, just stronger with more water volume to allow us to reach up to 3 stories. We start rinsing from thr highest point, and work our way down, at the same time going with the seams of the siding to help prevent water getting behind your siding. We make sure all of the soap, dirt, and debris is washed away from facia metal, siding, soffits, gutters, and even gabel vents.

Pavement

Driveways, walkways, sidewalks, porch, patio, brick pavers, etc. Concrete is very porous, allowing dirt and oils to penetrate through the surface making it hard to clean and maintain. Our solution to help bring back your pavement is our 4 step process.

Step 1) Prewashing the surface. This step is important because it truly will help our soaps and solution to wash the dirt and grime that has penetrated through the surface because it washes away the surface dirt.

Step 2) Applying the solution. We use our special mixed solution to help clean pavement. After our prewash has lifted most of the dirt on top of the surface, we can now apply our solution to help clean through the pours of the surface. This kills the mold and mildew, as it also washes away the dirt and grime.

Step 3) Agitating the soap. This step helps create the lather and suds to really help bring out the dirt stuck in the pours of the surface, making it easier to wash away.

Step 4) Washing the pavement. We use a 20" radius surface cleaner for most concrete surfaces. Not only it covers more area, it also avoids the striping you see most times when others power wash their pavement. So after these steps are complete, your pavement will be brought back to life!

Wood

Wood surfaces are very delicate. Therefore we use our softwash method to clean the surface of the wood. Pressure washing wood can and will hurt the fibers and cause the wood to fray, leaving the finished product look like a fuzzy surface. Softwashing wood is way easier on the wood. Not only killing the mold and mildew on the surface, but also cleaning the surface from dirt and grime. Wood cleaning is a 4 step process.

Step 1) Rinsing the wood. Using a garden hose, we rinse off the wood free of debris on the surface, also anything inbetween the cracks. Also, by saturating, this helps cover the surface of the wood to avoid our solution seeping into the wood. We only want our solution to cover the surface of the wood.

Step 2) Applying the solution. Our special solution mix is applied to the surface of the wood. This helps kill the black mold/algae and mildew that is on the wood. Also making sure the wood is still wet while doing so.

Step 3) Agitating the wood. Using deck brushes, we scrub the wood to create a lather, which helps lift the mold, mildew and dirt. Sometimes steps 2 and 3 need to be repeated until it is clean.

Step 4) Rinsing off the wood. With a garden hose, we simply rinse off the wood all around washing away all of the dirt and mold. Making the wood come back to life!