Spray Tips

We’ve cleaned thousands of homes over the years. Here are some useful spray tips to help keep a beautiful exterior! Below is an ongoing compiled spray tips list of the most common things we see on customer homes. 1. Skip splurging on outdoor decor like fancy lights, ceiling fans, or door hardware. The Florida sun and rain will turn them …

Annual House Wash Benefits

Want to know the best way to avoid having electrostatically bonded stains on your siding, gutters and trim? Your home is under a constant electric charge. Those vertical black stripes most commonly seen on your gutters are referred to as “zebra stripes” or “tiger stripes” in the pressure washing industry. The electrostatic bond must be broke in order to remove …

Customer: I only need my soffits cleaned.

Partial House Washing A small percentage of customers each year call in with the quote request for a partial house washing. When these customers do call in they specifically request a single elevation to comply with an H.O.A. violation. In the images below you can clearly see the “clean” streaks coming down the exterior walls where we applied our cleaning …

What are those tiny black dots all over my house and fence?

Artillery Fungus Black Mulch Fungus (a.k.a. Shotgun Fungus) Neither high-pressure spray tips nor corresponding chemicals will successfully remove most cases of artillery fungus spores. Black Mulch fungus are tiny and generally go unnoticed until there are hundreds of them on your fence and siding. If you are early in the detection and catch them fresh they can easily be removed …

Paver surface erosion (face-mix wear)

Home Owner’s with pavers have most likely researched “paver sealing” on the internet. Just about every paver sealing article recommends to have them sealed. After finding out the real costs associated with paver sealing most home owners decide they can live with their pavers worn out. The pictures below will show you what your pavers will look like if you …

Cleaning a pool screen enclosure

Screen enclosures are cleanable by anyone with proper knowledge and tools. Cleaning a pool screen enclosure requires an 80/20 solution of water and sodium hypochlorite. Adding in a quality soap will help your solution “cling” which increases surface dwell time. Apply the solution with a soft bristle brush or pump up sprayer. This cleaning solution will ruin fabrics so wear …

Spring cleaning

Exterior Spring Cleaning for Pollen Removal For warmer states, that get few hard freezes, pollen season begins very early. Therefore, this early start leads to an early end. In Jacksonville and St. Johns, FL the majority of pollen finishes in late April which is right in the middle of spring. Spring is synonymous with refreshing, invigorating and awakening. That’s why …

How to remove rust stains from concrete

Removing rust stains generated by automobile battery acids, lawn fertilizers, and Irrigation wells can be challenging. Iron minerals applied to any material over time will start to show a brownish orange rust color. Not all wells contain iron, but the ones that do are easily noticeable after irrigating for short periods. The appearance of your homes exterior concrete, pavers, fencing, …

Partial Cleaning Pressure Washing

Full House Wash Benefits We often receive calls from residential customers asking if we can “partially” clean sections of their home. It is only logical to assume that a partial cleaning pressure washing will simply cost less money because it is less work. The calls we get are typically: The challenge we face is clearly explaining the monetary differences between a partial …

Pressure Wash or Repaint my Exterior… What should I do?

Often I am asked, “Should I pressure wash or repaint my exterior”… Well, it depends on a few factors. If your spouse wants to change your home’s exterior color then the contents of this blog post might fall on deaf ears. If your home’s siding is covered in grime and you are torn between if you should pressure wash or repaint, then …