Residential pressure washing in Gainesville, GA

Gainesville is the Hall County seat and one of the older cities north of Atlanta, and its core neighborhoods were built long before the lake existed. The Green Street Historic District runs about half a mile south from Glenwood Road under a canopy of old trees, lined with Victorian and Neoclassical Revival houses, many of them painted wood with deep porches and turned columns. Bradford-Ridgewood just north of downtown and the streets around Brenau University carry the same era forward with brick and painted frame homes from the early and mid twentieth century. Houses like these need a soft wash and nothing stronger. We apply detergent at low pressure, let it work on the mildew and algae that collect under the porch roofs and on the shaded sides, and rinse gently so painted siding, old glazing, and soft brick come through untouched. Pressure against a hundred-year-old wall takes paint with it, so we do not do that. Gainesville house washing is priced by the size of the home, $249 for up to 1,500 square feet rising through $349 and $449 to $599 for a home of 3,500 to 5,000 square feet, with $150 added for three stories. A full brick home is $379. If the paint is already failing we will say so during the estimate, and pre-painting prep is $349 when you are ready to repaint. The soft wash house washing page has the full method.

Gainesville's newer housing is a different job from its older housing. Cresswind at Lake Lanier is a gated 55-plus community off the Browns Bridge Road side of town, built out between the early 2000s and 2020 with single-level and main-level-living homes in hardiplank, brick, and stone, on streets kept to a tight appearance standard by the HOA. The subdivisions along Dawsonville Highway and in the northwest part of the county near Chestatee High School are younger still, and many are on lots that were red clay a few years ago. On these homes the problems are predictable: a gray-green bloom on the north side of fiber-cement siding, clay staining on the driveway apron, and tiger stripes on gutters that are only a decade old. A soft wash handles the siding, and the driveway gets a surface cleaner pass so the broom finish comes out even, $99 for a one-car, $149 for two, $199 for three, and $249 for a four-car or longer drive, with paver drives and walks at $249. Red clay gets an oxalic treatment at $129 because the iron has to be dissolved, not scrubbed. For Cresswind residents who would rather not climb anything, gutter whitening at $149 with a house wash restores the white face of the gutters without a ladder in your hands. Walkways, stoops, and concrete patios are $149 per area. See the driveway cleaning page and the red clay stain removal page.

Black streaking on an asphalt roof is as common in Gainesville as it is anywhere in north Georgia, and the lake makes it worse. The streaks are Gloeocapsa magma, an algae that lives on the limestone in the shingle, and once it takes hold on the north slope it spreads with every wet season. A pressure washer is the wrong tool for a roof because it strips granules and takes years off the shingles. We soft wash roofs instead, applying a low-pressure algaecide that kills the growth in place, then letting rain carry off the dead material over the following weeks. Roof soft washing is $449 per home, and on older in-town houses with steep pitches and multiple gables we plan the application from the ground and the ladder rather than walking the roof. Gutters go with it. White aluminum gutters develop tiger stripes from oxidation and runoff, and gutter whitening uses a dedicated cleaner to bring them back to their original color, $149 as an add-on to a house wash or $199 standalone. Gutters full of leaves and needles are a job for Alexus Gutter Cleaning, our sister company, and the two visits can be scheduled together. The roof soft washing page and the gutter whitening page cover each service.