Real houses. Real before and afters.

The homeowner thought the patio had faded. It had not. Underneath a season of moss and organic film the pavers were still the red brick they were laid as.

We cleared the joints, pre-treated the growth, and cleaned the field at a pressure that lifts the film without blowing sand out from between the stones.

The shaded elevation had gone green while the front of the house still looked new. That is the usual pattern here: the wall that never gets direct sun grows the film first.

Low pressure and the right solution took it off without forcing water behind the panels.

Two separate problems on one patio: organic growth filling the joints, and a dark scorch stain from a fire pit that had been sitting in one spot.

The stain needed its own pre-treatment before any pressure came out. Cleaning it as one surface would have left a shadow.

Vinyl railing greens on the shaded side the same way siding does, and the spindles are where it shows worst because there is nowhere for the eye to skip past it.

Cleaned at low pressure so the finish stays sound.

An entrance monument is the one piece of a community everybody passes twice a day, and it is usually the last thing anyone budgets to maintain.

Stone, brick and painted lettering each needed a different approach on the same structure.

The border stones had vanished entirely under moss and pine needle litter. The homeowner had stopped thinking of it as a paver walkway.

Cleaned and re-sanded in one visit, because cleaning a walkway and leaving the joints empty just starts the clock again.

Heavy algae across a large field, which is the case where an uneven job shows most. Any missed pass reads as a stripe once the surface dries.

Worked in overlapping sections so the finish stays consistent corner to corner.

A long run of siding down a shaded driveway, green from the foundation to the eave. This is what happens when a wall never gets a full day of sun.

The panels underneath were fine. They almost always are.

Two surfaces meeting on one patio, and they do not clean the same way. Concrete takes real pressure; the brick inlay and its mortar joints do not.

A surface cleaner for the flat concrete, detail work by hand where the brick starts.

Dark streaking running down the siding from the gutter line and along the downspout. It is a sign the gutter has been overflowing, so the wash is only half the fix.

Cleared the run, flushed the downspout, and cleaned the siding it had been staining.