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.
Nobody 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 →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 →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 →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 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 →Around the housePressure is the one thing a solar array cannot take. The glass is coated, the seals are the weak point, and the repair bill is measured in panels.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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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