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.
We could put a number on this page. Every company that does it knows the number is a guess, and the guess is always low, because a low number gets the phone call. Then the crew arrives, sees the actual property, and the price changes in your driveway. That is a bad afternoon for everybody.
So here is the honest version. A Clayton driveway can be twelve hundred square feet or three thousand. It can be four years old or twenty four. It can be under full sun or under a pine canopy that keeps it damp nine months a year. Those are not small differences. They are most of the job.
What we can do is show you exactly what we are looking at when we price the work, so the number you get from us, or from anyone else, stops being a mystery.
The area we actually clean, not the size of your lot. A driveway, a walkway, and a back patio are three separate measurements, and each one adds time on the surface.
A slab washed last spring rinses. A slab that has gone gray-green over six years needs a pre-treatment, dwell time, and a second pass. Same square footage, roughly double the labor.
Where the water is, how far the hose has to run, whether there is a gate we cannot fit through, how many stories, and what is parked in the way. Access is the cost nobody expects and the one that varies most.
Poured concrete, brick, pavers, stucco, and vinyl all want different pressure and different cleaners. Softer surfaces take longer because we cannot push them, and pavers add sand replacement if they are due for it.
Everything else is a version of those four. Roof pitch is access. Two stories is access. A north-facing wall under trees is growth. A three car driveway with a long apron is square footage.
Ask for these in writing. A company that will not put them in writing is telling you something.
Most of the time, the cheap bid is not cheaper. It is smaller. The three usual gaps:
Running water over algae makes it look better for about six weeks. A pre-treatment kills the growth so it stays gone for a year. Both look identical the afternoon they are finished. Only one of them still looks that way in October.
Read the surface list. Walkway, apron, porch, and patio are commonly quoted separately and just as commonly left out of the low bid.
Insurance is a real line item in a real price. A ladder through a window or a flooded crawl space is not a hypothetical, and if the company carrying no coverage causes it, the claim lands on your homeowners policy.
If a bid comes in far under everyone else, ask one question: what is the pre-treatment, and what surfaces does the price cover? The answer sorts it out in about ten seconds.
We walk the property, measure what we are cleaning, and give you a real number before anything gets wet. That number is what you pay. If we find something on the day that changes the scope, we stop and tell you, and you decide. Nothing gets added to an invoice you have not seen.
Call (919) 698-3669 or ask us the nine questions you should be asking anybody who quotes this work.
“One of the most professional and organized companies I have worked with. Driveway looks incredible.”
“Did a great job on our pavers and driveway. Got out sap and pollen I did not think would ever come up.”
“Long driveway with years of clay stains. It came out even end to end with no stripes anywhere.”
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.
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