House washing · Palm Coast & Flagler County
That green film, the black speckling on the north wall, the gray cast over everything — all of it is living. We kill it at the root at about garden-hose pressure, so nothing gets forced behind your siding.
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Why it keeps coming back
Florida gives algae and mildew everything they need — humidity that never drops, warm nights, and afternoon rain. They take hold worst on the shaded side of the house, under the eaves, and anywhere irrigation keeps a wall damp. The color you see is the colony. The roots go into the surface texture, especially on stucco.
Blast the surface with a wand and you take the color off and leave the roots. Six months later it looks the same. That's not the wash wearing off — it's regrowth from what was never killed.
What we do
About 100 PSI — garden-hose force. The solution sits on the surface long enough to kill the organism through, then gets rinsed off. Nothing is being driven anywhere; the chemistry does the work.
What a wand does
3,000 PSI aimed up under a lap joint or into J-channel puts water inside the wall cavity, where it dries slowly and feeds exactly the kind of growth you're paying to remove. On older vinyl it also chalks and cracks the panel.
What comes off
What we wash
Same low pressure on all of them. What changes is the mix, the dwell time and how much of it we do by hand.
The most common call and the one most often damaged by pressure. Cleaned along the lap, never up under it, so nothing ends up inside the wall.
Porous and textured, which means growth roots into it and a surface rinse never gets it all. Needs dwell time, not force — a wand on stucco chips the finish and leaves wand marks you can't undo.
Cleaned without blowing out the mortar joints, which is what happens when someone puts a turbo nozzle on old brick.
Hardie and similar. Manufacturers specify low pressure and a soft brush for a reason — high pressure erodes the surface and takes the factory finish with it.
Board and batten, lap siding, trim. Cleaned gently enough to leave sound paint alone. If the paint is already failing, we'll tell you before we start rather than after.
Screen enclosures, frames and pool decks. Mildew and rust runs come off the frame and the screen, not just off the surface nearest the hose.
How a house wash runs
Give us the address and we can size the house on satellite and give you a firm number on the call. Prefer we come look in person? That works too — just say so.
Plants get soaked with clean water and covered, outlets and fixtures get sealed, windows and doors get checked shut. Then we work top to bottom and rinse the same way — plants included, a second time.
We go around the house together before the truck leaves. Anything you're not happy with, we handle it 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. At roughly 100 PSI there isn't enough force to lift sound paint or crack a panel — that's the entire point of washing this way. If paint is already peeling or a panel is already cracked, water will find it, and we'd rather point that out to you before we start than have you discover it after.
The active ingredient for organic growth is sodium hypochlorite, heavily diluted and mixed with a surfactant so it clings and rinses clean. It's the same chemistry the roofing and siding industries specify. Rust is the exception — it needs an acid-based product instead, because bleach sets rust permanently.
Not when it's done properly. Plants get soaked with clean water before we start and again after — a saturated plant won't take up the solution, and dilution handles the rest. Delicate beds get covered. This is the step careless outfits skip, and it's why some people have a bad story about soft washing.
Most homes here want it once a year. A house in heavy shade, close to water, or with sprinklers hitting the walls will want it sooner. One in full sun with good airflow can go longer.
They get rinsed as part of the wash, which leaves them far better than they started — but that isn't the same as a window cleaning, and hard water can leave spotting on the glass. If you want them properly cleaned, say so and we'll talk about it up front.
No, as long as we have access to an outdoor spigot and the windows are shut. Most people are at work. We'll send photos when it's finished.
Serving Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell and the surrounding area.
