Residential pressure washing in Dawsonville, GA

Most Dawsonville homes were built from the late 1990s onward, as GA-400 pulled growth north out of Forsyth County, and the builders left as many trees standing as they could. That means pines and hardwoods close to the house, needle litter in every gutter, and siding that stays damp on the shaded side well into the afternoon. The result is green algae on hardiplank and vinyl, black mildew in the shadow of the eaves, and a gray cast on the north wall by the end of every summer. We clean it with a soft wash: a low-pressure application of detergent that kills the growth, a few minutes of dwell time, and a rinse that is gentle enough for fiber cement, vinyl, brick, and painted trim. No high pressure against the siding, so nothing gets forced into the wall cavity and no paint lifts. Dawsonville house washing is priced by square footage, starting at $249 for a home up to 1,500 square feet, $349 up to 2,500, $449 up to 3,500, and $599 for a home between 3,500 and 5,000 square feet, plus $150 when there is a third story to reach. Brick or stone exteriors are $379. Since many Dawson County homes are on well water with limited flow, we can bring water with us so your pump is never under strain. The method is on the soft wash house washing page.

A big share of Dawson County outside the Chestatee corridor is on private wells, and north Georgia well water is often heavy in iron. Every time an irrigation zone runs, the water throws a fine iron spray across the driveway, the front walk, the mailbox post, and the bottom two feet of siding, and as it dries the iron oxidizes into a rust-orange stain. Homeowners often try pressure alone and find the stain has not moved, because iron oxide has set into the surface. We treat it chemically with an oxalic-based remover that dissolves the iron and lets it rinse away, which is the same product we use for red clay staining, and it is $129 per treatment. The septic side matters too. We keep detergent runoff away from the drain field and use biodegradable products throughout, so a soft wash does not upset a septic system the way harsher cleaners can. Well-fed homes also get a different approach to water supply. A pressure washer draws more water than many wells can deliver for long, so we bring a tank on jobs where the flow is marginal and never run a well dry. Red clay is the other staining issue on Dawsonville lots, especially where a driveway was cut into a hillside and the bare bank above it washes down every storm. Read more on the red clay stain removal page.

Pines are the signature tree of Dawson County, and they are hard on roofs and gutters. Needles collect in the roof valleys and along the gutter line, hold moisture against the shingles, and give algae and moss a place to start, so a shaded Dawsonville roof develops black streaks and green patches faster than a roof in the open. Those streaks are a cyanobacteria that feeds on the shingle filler, and the fix is a soft wash rather than pressure: we apply a low-pressure algaecide that kills the growth where it sits and let the rain carry it off over the following weeks, with the granules left in place. Roof soft washing is $449 per home. Gutters on these homes suffer two ways. Inside, they fill with needles. Outside, the face of white aluminum gutters develops tiger stripes, the dark vertical bands of oxidation that a hose cannot touch. Gutter whitening lifts the stripes and restores the color for $149 when added to a house wash or $199 on its own. Clearing the needles out of the gutters is a job for our sister company, Alexus Gutter Cleaning, and we can coordinate both visits. Fences on these wooded lots, often wood privacy or split-rail, are $249 per side. The roof soft washing page and gutter whitening page have the detail.