A gentle wash for Millerton Lake homes

Walk around a foothill house in late summer and you can read the season on its walls. Dust from dry grass and dirt roads streaks down below the windows. Cobwebs hang in every corner of the eaves, and wasps start building under the overhangs. On the shady side, where oaks keep the wall cool and damp in winter, a green or dark film can creep up the stucco. None of it is hard to fix, but blasting it off is the wrong approach.

We soft wash. That means a cleaning solution applied at low pressure, a short wait while it breaks the grime down at the source, and a thorough rinse from the top down. Stucco, siding, painted trim, eaves, soffits and sills all get the same gentle treatment. High pressure can chip paint, crack stucco and push water behind siding, which is a bad trade for a house with a view worth protecting. We wet down plants first and rinse them after, and we close up windows and doors before we start, since lots of foothill yards have mature oaks and native plants we want to leave alone.

Hot sun is hard on exterior paint, so a clean wall is easier to judge before you repaint or list the home. Most houses look good with a wash every year or two. A home tucked under trees may want one sooner, and a sunny, open lot can wait a little longer. We can also pair the job with windows or the roof so everything is cleaned in one go. We are licensed and insured, we take calls and book jobs every day of the week, and if the finished wall is not what you expected, our guarantee means we will return and make it right.