New-build concrete, paver walkways and decks that have never been sealed
Alvaton is northeast of us, on the south side of Bowling Green. The properties there tend to be newer builds on larger lots, which means a lot of concrete — driveways, walkways, patios, and garage floors that have never been professionally cleaned since the house was finished.
Newer concrete in Alvaton often still has construction residue on it — mortar splatter, paint overspray, and tire marks from the build. That comes off far more easily than decades of embedded grime, so a first cleaning on a newer home is usually one of the most cost-effective jobs we do.
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The humidity here is what puts the green on the north and shaded walls of a house, and it is a living thing rather than dirt — which is why washing it off with pressure alone brings it back within months. A soft wash treats it, and the difference shows in how long the house stays clean.
Almost every dark-streaked roof in this part of the country has the same cause, and it is not dirt. It is an algae that feeds on the limestone in the shingle, and left alone it shortens the life of the roof. It is treated, never pressure washed.
New-build drives out here often still carry the builder's mess: mortar splatter along the garage edge, paint overspray, and the black tire marks that arrived in the first year. That is the easiest concrete we clean, because none of it has had time to soak in yet. Leave it another five summers and it stops being the easy job it is today.
A lot of the newer walkways and patios here are pavers set with polymeric sand in the joints. Too much pressure blows that sand straight out and leaves you re-sanding the entire path, which is a bigger job than the cleaning was. We come down on pressure and work across the joints rather than into them.
Gutters here fill twice a year and it is the downspout that matters — a clear run with a blocked spout still puts water down the wall. Both get checked, which is the difference between a gutter clean and a gutter clear.
A drive-thru lane and a dumpster pad are the two things a customer notices without meaning to, and neither comes clean with cold water. Both are hot-water jobs with a degreaser, done outside opening hours.
Brick veneer on a newer house does not have the fragile-mortar problem older masonry does, so the work is straightforward: the elevations that sit in shade where algae has taken hold, and the low strip near the ground that gets splashed with dirt every time it rains hard. Straightforward is not the same as unnecessary — that low strip is what makes a five-year-old house look ten.
Most decks on these newer houses have never been sealed. Builders rarely do it and first owners often do not know it needs doing, so the boards go gray on schedule and everyone assumes that is just what happens. A wash takes the gray off, and if you are going to stain, that is the moment — once the boards have had a couple of genuinely dry days behind them.
A fence greens up unevenly: the face toward a tree line or a north boundary goes years before the side facing the road, so cleaning only what you can see from the driveway leaves a run that looks half finished from the yard. Both faces get done, which matters far more on a long fence than a short one.
Most of the work out here is a first clean on a fairly new property, and that is the job where it is easiest to over-promise. We will tell you up front what is going to come up and what is not — builder's residue lifts off easily, but a stain that has already etched into the surface is a different conversation and you deserve to have it before we start, not after.
We're fully insured, we quote before we start, and we're honest about what high pressure can and can't safely clean. If your job isn't a fit — a roof, vinyl siding, or anything needing more than a 6 ft ladder — we'll tell you up front instead of damaging it.
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