Fences & decks · Palm Coast & Flagler County
Gray weathering, green algae and rust bleed from old fasteners all come off without a wand within six feet of the boards. Wood cleaned this way stays smooth — and takes stain the way it is supposed to.
BEFORE
AFTER
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Why pressure is the wrong tool here
A fence board is a few millimetres of sound surface over softer fibre. Hit it with a narrow, high-pressure fan and the water tears the soft spring wood out from between the harder grain lines. The board comes out lighter, so it looks like it worked — but the surface is now fuzzed, scored with wand marks, and far more porous than it was that morning.
You find out at the next step. Fuzzed wood drinks stain unevenly and blotches, and the open grain traps dirt and holds moisture, so the green comes back faster than before. The damage is not reversible without sanding the whole fence.
What we do
The solution kills the algae and mildew in the grain and lifts the gray oxidised layer, then a gentle rinse takes it away. Rust bleed around nails and hinges gets an acid treatment instead — bleach sets rust into wood permanently. The board comes out clean and still smooth.
What a wand does
Stripes and gouges you can read from the street, raised fibre that will not take stain evenly, and a surface that is now more porous than before — so it regrows sooner. On composite decking, high pressure voids most manufacturer warranties outright.
What comes off
What we clean
Same low pressure across all of them. What changes is the mix, how long it sits, and how much of it we do by hand.
The standard Florida fence. Cleans up dramatically — most people have never seen theirs this color. If you plan to stain, this is the step that decides how the finish holds.
Softer and more prone to fuzzing, and it bleeds tannin. Lower pressure again, and the tannin streaks get handled as their own problem.
Trex, Azek and similar. Manufacturers specify low pressure for a reason — a wand permanently scars the cap layer and voids the warranty.
The white panels that go green on the shaded face. Cleans back to white without the chalking that comes from scrubbing it.
Mildew off the pickets and rails, and rust bleed treated where the coating has failed so it does not keep running down the concrete.
Including the boards nobody can reach and the stair treads that get slick. Slippery decks are an algae problem, not a texture problem.
How a fence job runs
Send us the address and roughly how many linear feet — or just say “the back yard” and we will size it on satellite. Firm number on the call, or in person if you would rather.
Plants along the fence line get soaked with clean water and covered. Then the solution goes on, gets its dwell time, and comes off at low pressure. Beds get rinsed again after.
We walk the fence line together before the truck leaves. Anything you are not happy with we handle right then. Not home? We send photos.
Free estimate
Send this and we'll get back to you, usually the same day. If it's easier, skip the form and call (386) 529-4539.
Questions
No. The whole point of cleaning this way is that there is not enough force to tear the grain — the chemistry does the work instead. If a board is already rotten or a fastener has already failed, water will find it, and we would rather point that out before we start than after.
Usually most of the way, yes. The gray is an oxidised surface layer and it lifts. What will not come back is wood that has already checked and split from years of sun — that is structural, not surface. We will tell you honestly what to expect when we look at it.
Clean first, always. Stain applied over algae seals the growth under the finish, and it will push the stain back off within a season. A properly cleaned fence is the difference between a stain job that lasts four years and one that lasts one.
Give it a couple of dry days. Wood needs to come back down to a normal moisture content before it will take a finish, and in Florida humidity that takes longer than the label on the can suggests.
Not when it is done properly. Everything within reach gets soaked with clean water first — a saturated plant will not take up the solution — and everything gets rinsed again after. Delicate beds get covered.
Yes. Dock decking, pilings and railings all clean the same way. Tell us on the form and we will price it together with the rest.
Serving Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell and the surrounding area.
