Outside the house
Pressure washing matched to the surface, not turned up until something moves
Home exteriors, sidewalks, driveways, office exteriors and parking lots, with the pressure matched to what it is hitting. Hot water steam cleaning where that is the better call.
Chapter 01
Home exteriors, sidewalks and driveways: matching pressure to the surface
Siding, sidewalk concrete and a driveway are three different surfaces and they do not take the same pressure. Siding can crack or strip under a setting that a driveway shrugs off, and a sidewalk that has gone green with algae needs a different approach again than a driveway holding tyre marks and general grime.
The pressure gets set to the surface first, then the pass is run, rather than running one setting across the whole property and hoping nothing gets damaged along the way.
Residential driveway part way through a wash, clean concrete beside weathered grey
When hot water steam cleaning is the right call instead
Some grime is grease or oil-based, on a driveway apron or a garage floor for instance, and cold water pressure alone moves it around more than it lifts it out. Hot water steam cleaning is available on request for exactly that kind of soil, where heat does the work that pressure alone cannot.
Chapter 03
Office exteriors and parking lots, and why they are scheduled differently
A commercial exterior or a parking lot is a bigger surface with different traffic to work around than a home driveway, so it gets scheduled on its own rather than slotted in as an extension of a residential job. Oil staining, gum and general foot and vehicle traffic build up differently on a commercial lot than on a house's own concrete.
The same pressure-to-surface judgment applies, just at the scale a business property needs it applied at.
What pressure washing will not fix
Pressure washing lifts what is sitting on a surface. It does not repair cracked concrete, restore paint that has already failed, or fix staining that has soaked into porous material below the surface rather than sitting on top of it. Worth knowing before booking a wash, so the job is priced for what it can actually do.
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Get Complete Pressure Washing Services
- Home exterior
- Sidewalks
- Driveways
- Office building exterior
- Parking lot
- Hot water steam cleaning on request
Tell us what needs washing
House exterior, driveway, sidewalk, or a commercial lot. We will give you a price before we start.