Exterior Cleaning Tips

North Jersey siding takes winter road salt and spring pollen back to back. What each one actually does to the surface, and the one window in the year when washing gets both.

The gray on your driveway is mostly algae, and on a sloped drive that is a slip hazard by October. When to wash it, what genuinely comes out, and what is in the concrete for good.

Joint sand is the part of a paver patio nobody thinks about until it is gone. How to check your own joints, what polymeric sand actually does, and why not every patio needs re-sanding.

One elevation looks years older than the front of the same house. That green film is algae growing on humidity and shade, and what kills it is not the same as what knocks it off.

The dark streaks running down North Jersey roofs are Gloeocapsa magma, a living algae, not dirt or age. Why shaded slopes go first, and why a pressure washer will cost you the shingles.

Soft washing and pressure washing share a machine and almost nothing else. Which surfaces need which method, and what the wrong choice costs you in siding, shingles, and wood.

Wayne's ridge canopy, lake-neighborhood oaks, and high water table make a clogged gutter more expensive here than it is elsewhere. What fills them, what overflow actually damages, and how often the job really needs doing.