What we see on Chicagoland houses every week, what it actually is, and what to do about it. Straight answers, no scare tactics.
A tenant mentions the green streaks by the entrance, and now it is your problem. How the commercial side works: one crew, one visit, every surface.
Read the postConcrete is porous and petroleum keeps sinking until it is treated. What a fresh spill and a five-year-old stain each get you.
Read the postFiber cement shrugs off the weather. Its color coat should not have to shrug off a pressure wand. Why Hardie board gets washed the gentle way.
Read the postBrick and flagstone gray out so gradually nobody notices, until the day they see a clean one. How the color comes back joint by joint.
Read the postA tag on the house is a bad morning. Blasting it is a worse afternoon. The chemistry version, with a real job to show for it.
Read the postPeople search for stucco power washing. What these walls need is the opposite: less pressure, better chemistry, and patience.
Read the postOnce the cold settles in, the equipment gets winterized and that is that until spring. What a fall wash buys you that a spring one cannot.
Read the postBoth come off the same truck, and they are opposite ideas. The quick rule for which surface gets which, and what the wrong choice costs.
Read the postThe stripes on the outside are not leaves and not roof dirt. A cleanout never touches them, and pressure makes them worse. Here is what actually works.
Read the postFresh concrete is nearly white. The gray isn't age, it's a film, and there's a right and a wrong way to take it off.
Read the postThat green shade on the north wall and the black streaks on the roof are alive. Here's what they are, where they grow, and why the fix is chemistry, not blasting.
Read the postAsk it with your free estimate. The best posts start as real questions from real driveways.
