Careful work on older brick and stone, plus driveways, walkways and garden walls
Auburn sits northwest of Franklin along the US-68 corridor, and it has a high concentration of older brick and stone for a town its size. Historic masonry needs a careful hand — we clean ground-floor brick and block without blasting out mortar joints, and we're straight with you when a wall is too fragile for high pressure.
On older Auburn masonry the mortar is often softer than the brick itself. We test an inconspicuous area first, and if the joints won't take it, we say so rather than doing damage that costs far more to repoint than the cleaning was worth.
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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.
In-town drives here tend to be narrow, old, and settling — cracked at the joints with a few spalled patches where the surface has already started lifting. We keep pressure off those edges instead of blasting more of the slab loose, so what you get is a clean driveway that still looks its age. On concrete this old that is the honest result, and we would rather say it before we start than after.
Old sidewalk sections, brick paths and stone stoops rarely sit level any more, and the low spots hold water long enough to grow the dark film that makes them slick. Those low spots are worth cleaning even when the rest of the path looks perfectly fine, because they are the part that actually puts somebody down.
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.
This is the service Auburn actually calls about. Enough of the ground-floor masonry in town is old enough that the mortar is softer than the brick sitting in it, which means high pressure will wash the joints out before it has touched the dirt on the face. We test somewhere it will not be seen, and if the joints move at all, we stop and say so.
Most decks have never been washed or sealed since they were finished, and the gray that arrives in year three is not dirt sitting on the boards — it is the surface of the wood itself breaking down. Low pressure takes it back without tearing the grain, and the days straight after a wash are the only sensible window for stain.
Some of the older properties in town have a low brick or stone garden wall where a newer house would have fencing. Those get treated like the house does: test patch, joints first, nothing aggressive. Wood fence around here is usually short runs between close neighbors, which makes it one of the quicker jobs we do.
We would rather turn down a wall than damage one. On masonry this old that means a test patch somewhere nobody looks, an honest answer about what we found, and occasionally telling you the cleaning is not worth the risk to the joints. That costs us the job and saves you a repointing bill, which is the right trade for both of us.
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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