Residential pressure washing in Flowery Branch, GA

The typical Flowery Branch house is a two-story built sometime between 2003 and last year, with a brick or stone front, fiber-cement lap siding on the sides and back, a two- or three-car garage, and a covered back porch. Fiber cement holds paint well, but its texture gives algae and mildew a grip, and by the third or fourth summer the shaded side has a green haze and the band under the eaves has gone dark. Builders and siding manufacturers warn against high pressure on fiber cement because it can drive water behind the boards and chip the factory finish, and we agree. We soft wash: detergent goes on at low pressure, sits long enough to kill the growth, and rinses off at garden-hose force. Brick fronts get the same treatment, with attention to the mortar lines where pollen and dirt settle. Flowery Branch house washing is by square footage, $249 for homes up to 1,500 square feet, $349 to 2,500, $449 to 3,500, and $599 between 3,500 and 5,000 square feet, with $150 added for three-story homes. All-brick homes are $379. We soak the foundation plantings first and rinse them after, since most of these yards have young shrubs that are still establishing. Vinyl-sided homes from the earlier 2000s phases get the same low-pressure method. The soft wash house washing page explains the chemistry.

Because so much of Flowery Branch is new construction, we get a lot of calls from owners who moved in a year or two ago and are surprised the house already looks tired. That is normal. A builder leaves a film of dust, mortar haze, and sealant residue on the siding and windows that dulls the color, and the driveway cures while the lot is still bare clay, so orange staining is ground into the apron and the edges before the sod goes down. The first proper wash should wait until the landscaping has taken and the yard has stopped shedding mud, usually a season after move-in. Then a soft wash lifts the builder film off the siding, a surface-cleaner pass on the driveway evens out the broom finish, and an oxalic treatment at $129 dissolves the red clay iron out of the concrete, which plain pressure cannot do. Driveways are priced by size, $99 for a one-car, $149 for a two-car, $199 for three, and $249 for a four-car or long drive; many Flowery Branch homes have a three-car garage, so the $199 tier is common. Stamped concrete, which shows up on a lot of newer patios and walks here, is cleaned at lower pressure so the sealed surface stays intact, and pavers are $249 per area. After that first reset, an annual wash keeps the house looking like it did on closing day. The driveway cleaning page and the red clay stain removal page cover both halves of that job.

Even a ten-year-old roof streaks in Hall County. The dark lines running down the north slope of the shingles are Gloeocapsa magma, an algae that feeds on the limestone filler in asphalt shingles and spreads a little further every humid season. The fix is a low-pressure soft wash with an algaecide that kills it in place, after which rain carries the dead growth away over a few weeks with the shingle granules left alone. Roof soft washing is $449 per home. Gutters on newer houses are usually white or clay-colored aluminum, and both develop tiger stripes, the vertical oxidation bands that look like someone ran a dirty finger down the gutter face. Gutter whitening clears them with a dedicated cleaner, $149 as an add-on to a house wash or $199 on its own. Fences are the third thing. Most Flowery Branch yards have a wood privacy fence or a black aluminum fence along the back line, and both gray or dull within a few years; fence washing is $249 per side, wood, vinyl, or metal, with rust treatment included on metal. Alexus Gutter Cleaning, our sister company, handles gutters that are full of leaves, and we can line up both visits. The roof soft washing page, gutter whitening page, and fence washing page have the specifics.