The dark streaking on a north-facing wall is organic growth, not dirt. Pressure is the wrong tool for it. We treat it and rinse at low pressure so the growth is killed instead of moved, and the wall stays clean a lot longer.
Windows, doors, fixtures and beds get rinsed before and after. A clean wall with a ring of overspray under it is not a finished job.
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House washing is not pressure washing, and treating it that way is how siding gets destroyed. Siding, brick, stucco and painted trim come clean with a low-pressure application of a cleaning solution, a dwell period, and a gentle rinse. The chemistry does the work. The pressure is only there to carry the solution on and rinse it off.
The dark streaking on a north-facing wall or under the eaves is usually not dirt at all. It is algae and mildew growing in the shaded, damp side of the house, and scrubbing or blasting it only removes the top layer. A proper soft wash treats the growth so it dies rather than just moving, which is why a soft-washed wall stays clean far longer than a blasted one.
Water direction is everything on a house. Siding is designed to shed water running down, not water driven upward. A wand angled up under a lap board pushes water behind the cladding and into the wall, where it does not dry, and that is how a wash turns into a repair. Every pass runs down and across.
Windows, screens, light fixtures and outlets get handled before the wash rather than argued about after. Screens hold detergent and dry with a film, fixtures let water in at the base, and open weep holes and vents do not want a direct hit. It takes ten minutes to check and prevents almost every complaint that house washing generates.
Plants are a real consideration in North Texas, not a formality. Beds get wet down before, kept wet during, and rinsed after, because a soft wash solution that dries on a leaf is what burns it. Foundation planting directly under a wall gets the most attention since it catches everything running off.
Brick and stucco behave differently from siding and need different handling. Brick is porous and holds mineral staining that will not come off with a general clean, and stucco will lose its texture entirely under a narrow tip held close. Both come clean with low pressure and the right solution, and both get ruined quickly with the wrong one.
The classic failure is a house washed with a pressure washer at pressure. The signs are obvious afterwards: furred wood, a chalky patch on the paint, water stains showing up inside a wall weeks later, and lines on the siding where the wand passed. None of it is fixable with another wash.
The other one is a wash that looks perfect for six weeks and then streaks again. That is what happens when the growth was rinsed off rather than treated. If the algae is still alive in the surface, it comes back the first time the wall stays damp for a few days.
Most weeks the run covers the same corridor. If you are closer to one end of it than the other, there is a page with the local detail: House Washing in Farmers Branch, our house washing work in Dallas, house washing across Carrollton or House Washing for Addison property. The full list of towns is on the service areas page.
Windows need to be closed, and it helps if vehicles and patio furniture are moved clear of the walls. Beds get wet down before anything is applied. Most single family houses are a half day, and you get a walk around before anyone leaves.
Quotes are free and most of them happen off a photo and an address. If something on site turns out to be different from the photo, you hear about it before the work starts rather than after. Call or text (469) 261-5415, or send the details through the contact page.
The growth on a shaded wall is not just ugly, it holds moisture against the surface. Left for years on painted wood or stucco it shortens the life of the finish, and repainting costs many times what keeping the walls clean does. A house wash is maintenance that happens to look good rather than the other way round.
Ask what pressure is going on which surface. Anyone who answers with one number for the whole property is telling you they use one setup for everything, and that is how siding, wood and wraps get damaged. The right answer names different treatments for different surfaces.
Ask what happens to the water. On a residential job that means whether planting is being protected. On a commercial one it means whether wash water carrying grease is going into a storm drain, which is a real problem rather than a technicality.
Ask which marks will fully disappear and which will only lighten. Deep oil, old rust, paint overspray and some tannin staining do not vanish. Getting that stated before the job rather than argued about after is the single best predictor of whether you will be happy with the result.
Ask how long the job should take and who is doing it. A price with no time attached usually means the quote was guessed, and a crew that turns up with an hour allocated for half a day of work will cut the parts you cannot see: the edges, the second side of the fence, the undercarriage, the rinse. The time estimate tells you more about the quality you are buying than the number does.
FAQ
House washing runs at low pressure with the cleaning solution doing the work. That is why it is called soft washing. High pressure is for hard surfaces like concrete.
In this climate most homes look best yearly or every other year. Shaded walls come back faster.
Call or text (469) 261-5415. For most jobs a photo and the address is enough to give you a number without anyone coming out first.
Depends on the week and the size of the job. Call (469) 261-5415 and you will get a real date rather than a guess.
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