16 Guides, No Guesswork
Exterior Cleaning Guides
Straight answers on removing stains, cleaning siding and roofs, and knowing when a surface needs pressure and when it needs a soft wash.
Straight answers on removing stains, cleaning siding and roofs, and knowing when a surface needs pressure and when it needs a soft wash.
Most exterior cleaning goes wrong in the same way: the right cleaner used at the wrong pressure, or the right pressure used on the wrong surface. These guides cover what actually lifts each type of stain, which surfaces tolerate a pressure washer, and which ones need a low-pressure soft wash and a cleaning solution instead.
They are written from work across the New Orleans metro, where humidity keeps organic growth coming back faster than it does in drier climates. If you would rather have it handled, we give a free written estimate before any work starts. Call (504) 688-3995.
Twenty minutes of preparation before the crew arrives puts the whole visit into the work instead of into moving cars…
Read the guideOil sinks into concrete instead of sitting on it, so lifting a stain is about pulling oil back out of…
Read the guideRust is a metal oxide bonded into the concrete, which is why degreasers do nothing to it and why the…
Read the guideComposite does not rot, but it does grow mould in its surface texture, and it is easy to void the…
Read the guidePavers clean up well, but the joint sand between them is the part that decides whether the patio still looks…
Read the guideVinyl siding is one of the easiest surfaces to clean and one of the easiest to damage, because the danger…
Read the guideThe choice is not about how dirty something is. It is about whether the surface can take force, and whether…
Read the guideThose dark streaks are a living algae feeding on the limestone filler in your shingles, which is why they spread…
Read the guideA concrete drive takes pressure better than almost anything else on a property, which is exactly why so many end…
Read the guideGutter cleaning is priced on access and linear footage more than on how dirty the gutters are, which is why…
Read the guideSurface area is only part of it. The method a surface requires usually moves the number more than its size…
Read the guideYou can, and it is one of the most expensive mistakes made on a house, because the damage is permanent…
Read the guideGreen film and black spotting on siding are two different organisms, and the black one does not come off with…
Read the guideStucco is porous, brittle at the surface, and sits over a moisture barrier, which makes it one of the least…
Read the guideBrick tolerates more pressure than most exteriors, but the mortar between it does not, and mortar is what fails first.
Read the guideIn a humid climate the answer is driven by shade and tree cover far more than by a calendar, and…
Read the guideThe same machine that cleans a driveway will strip a roof, fur a composite deck, and drive water behind vinyl siding.