What exterior cleaning costs around here, when to schedule it, and which method each surface actually needs. Written by the people who do the work, for property in the Triangle and Johnston County.
Everything on the outside of a building, what method each surface actually wants, how often it needs doing, and the handful nobody thinks about until something fails.
Read the guide →PricingNobody can price your driveway off a web page. Here is what a real quote is built from, why two bids on the same house can be a hundred dollars apart, and where the money actually goes.
Read the guide →HiringThis trade has almost no barrier to entry. A rented machine and a magnet on a truck door is a company. These are the questions that sort the real ones out in one phone call.
Read the guide →MethodsOne uses force. The other uses chemistry at garden hose pressure. Which surfaces take which is the most consequential thing to understand before you hire anybody.
Read the guide →MethodsTwo words nearly everybody uses interchangeably, including the companies that own both machines. There is a real difference, it is heat, and it decides a handful of jobs and nothing else.
Read the guide →MethodsThe honest version of what goes on your house, why "chemical-free" is a marketing word rather than a method, and the protection steps that decide whether your beds come through it.
Read the guide →BookingWhere the truck parks, whose water we use, how long it takes, whether you need to be home, and the short list of things to move, close, or unplug before we get there.
Read the guide →Around the housePaint sticks to whatever is on the wall. If that is mildew, chalk, and pollen, the new coat fails along with them. Here is what the prep wash has to remove, how long the siding needs to dry, and how a painter can hand the wash to someone else.
Read the guide →There is a right season for every surface on the property, and a couple of weeks a year when the weather makes the work worse. A month by month plan for a Piedmont property.
Read the guide →SeasonsThe yellow layer that coats everything here from March into May is pine pollen, and washing at the wrong moment means paying to do it twice.
Read the guide →GuttersTwice a year is the standard advice. It is wrong for about half the properties in Johnston County, because a loblolly pine does not drop on the same schedule as an oak.
Read the guide →SeasonsMildew grows straight through a Carolina winter, the calendar is wide open, and the pollen has not arrived yet. What can be done in the cold, what has to wait, and the one number that decides the day.
Read the guide →ConcreteSealer needs clean concrete, dry concrete, and a temperature window this state only hands out twice a year. Getting the timing right is most of getting the job right.
Read the guide →SellingThe photographer is booked, the agent wants it on the market in ten days, and the budget is not unlimited. Here is the order that actually changes what a buyer sees.
Read the guide →The dark stripes running down North Carolina shingles are a living organism, not dirt. Here is what it is doing to the roof, and why the fix is a chemical one rather than a strong one.
Read the guide →RoofsAlgae stains a shingle. Moss lifts it. One is a cosmetic problem with a deadline measured in years, and the other is a leak forming right now.
Read the guide →ConcreteRed clay is not dirt sitting on your driveway. It is iron oxide that has soaked into the pores, which is why rinsing does nothing and why the fix is chemical.
Read the guide →Around the houseOne elevation is filthy and the other three look fine. It is not the paint and it is not bad luck. It is four hours of sun a day and a humid climate that never gives the wall a chance to dry.
Read the guide →Around the houseThe white film that comes off on your hand is not dirt. It is the surface of the siding breaking down, which is why washing the house does not fix it.
Read the guide →SidingAluminum chalks for a different reason than vinyl does, and the decision at the end is different too. How to test what you have, what a restoration wash actually achieves, and when paint is the honest answer.
Read the guide →Around the houseTiny black dots stuck to the siding like tar, usually on the wall nearest the mulch bed. Not dirt, not mold, and not something a pressure washer will fix.
Read the guide →HOAMildew notices go out in waves every spring across the Triangle. What the letter usually means, how long you actually have, and how to make sure the next inspection walks past your house.
Read the guide →Around the houseNo. You cannot pressure wash solar panels without risking the glass coating and the frame seals. Pressure is the one thing a solar array cannot take, and the repair bill is measured in panels.
Read the guide →WindowsMost of what people call dirty glass is three different problems with three different fixes, and one of them permanently etches the pane if you leave it long enough.
Read the guide →GuttersA pressure washer empties a gutter fast, which is exactly why people try it. It also dents the trough, drives water behind the fascia, and packs the downspout tighter than it was.
Read the guide →DecksStain will not bond to a gray, dirty, or still-damp board. The cleaning is not the optional part of a staining job, it is most of what decides how the finish looks in two years.
Read the guide →New constructionMortar haze, stucco splatter, paint overspray, sticker adhesive, and red clay ground into concrete that was poured three weeks ago. Some of it washes off, some needs acid, and some of it is permanent.
Read the guide →RoofsLow pressure and non-pressure roof cleaning are the same idea: the solution does the cleaning and the water only carries it away. Here is what that looks like on shingles, metal, and flat roofs, and how long it holds in central North Carolina.
Read the guide →ConcreteA driveway clean is more than a pressure washer and an afternoon. Here is what a proper concrete cleaning service does, stain by stain, and what no amount of cleaning will fix.
Read the guide →ConcreteA patio is not one surface. Broom-finish concrete, stamped concrete, pavers, flagstone, and brick all clean differently, and the method that suits one of them can ruin another.
Read the guide →Around the houseBrick looks like the toughest surface on the house. The face is tough. The mortar between the bricks is not, and on older homes the brick often is not either. Here is what each stain is, what a safe wash looks like, and when the job belongs to a mason.
Read the guide →DecksA fence weathers two different ways at once. Here is how a fence cleaning service handles wood, vinyl, and aluminum, why pressure ruins pine, and what has to happen before a stain goes on.
Read the guide →DecksA gray deck is usually a sound deck under a dead surface layer. Here is what graying is, which restoration step your deck actually needs, how to tell when boards are past saving, and what changes with composite.
Read the guide →What property managers and owners across Wake County should actually be budgeting for, how often each surface needs attention, and why the after-hours question decides the whole thing.
Read the guide →CommercialBelow the second floor almost anybody can reach it. Above that, access decides the method, the price, and the list of companies that can actually bid the job.
Read the guide →HOAWhat a multifamily property actually needs cleaned, how often, and why the surfaces that generate complaints are almost never the ones in the budget.
Read the guide →HOAIn a condominium the association owns some of the exterior and unit owners own the rest, and the line between them decides who pays, who authorizes the work, and who gets the complaint.
Read the guide →JanitorialA contract that says clean restrooms is not a scope, it is a disagreement waiting to happen. Here is what to specify, task by task, and how often each one genuinely needs doing.
Read the guide →FleetA dirty truck is a moving advertisement working against you, and underneath the dirt it is a corrosion problem with a resale number attached. What the real interval is and what a route contract should cover.
Read the guide →GraffitiPaint that sat two days and paint that sat two weeks are different jobs, and the surface underneath decides everything about the method. Also why a wall that gets cleaned fast tends to stop getting tagged.
Read the guide →CommercialA church is a sanctuary, a fellowship hall, a parking lot, a playground, and sometimes a cemetery, all on one property. Here is what each part needs, how high work like a steeple gets done, and how to schedule it around a calendar that never really stops.
Read the guide →CommercialThe sidewalk in front of a business is what customers judge. The dumpster pad behind it is what inspectors, landlords, and rats judge. Here is what each one needs, why gum takes hot water, where the wash water has to go, and how often to book it.
Read the guide →CommercialA gas station collects oil, diesel, gum, and spills faster than any other lot in town, and it never closes. Here is what each part of the site needs, why the pumps get a cloth instead of a wand, and what has to happen with the water.
Read the guide →Every service page covers the method, the process, what moves the price, and photos of finished jobs.
Brittany and Austin have run Clayton Pressure Washing out of Clayton since 2010. Everything on these pages comes off jobs in the Triangle and Johnston County, not out of a content mill.
No phone tree and no callback queue. You call, someone picks up, and that someone can actually get you on the schedule.
Brittany and Austin have run this business out of Clayton since 2010. A husband and wife, not a franchise and not a side job.
Full coverage on every job, plus NC HUB certification that helps on supplier-diversity contracts.
Soft wash where soft wash belongs. Pressure only where the surface can take it. That is how nothing gets damaged.
You get the number up front. It does not move while we are packing up.
If it is not right, we come back. No argument and no invoice games.
If the weather moves us, you hear it from us that morning, not after you have waited all afternoon.
You are not handed to a crew that has never spoken to you. One of us is there or one of us sent them and knows your property.
Plants get watered down before and rinsed after. Fixtures, lights, and outlets get covered. Nothing gets sacrificed to save time.
Roof, siding, concrete, glass, gutters, and the inside of a commercial building. You are not managing four vendors and four schedules.
If something is not right, we come back and make it right. That is the whole policy.
We fly the roofline and show you the footage on the spot. You see your own gutters, joints, and downspouts on the screen instead of taking our word for it. It costs nothing and you are not committing to the cleaning.
Free for homes and businesses across the Triangle and Johnston County. No obligation to book any work afterwards.
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