What we wash, and what we leave out
Homes, and the yards they sit on. The service list covers the surfaces that take washing well: siding, brick and trim, roofs from the ground at low pressure, driveways, walks, patios and pool decks, decks and fences, and gutter fronts.
- Roof repair and coatings go to a roofer.
- Painting, paint stripping, sealing and staining go to a painter.
- Indoor mold work and anything inside the house go to the trades that handle it.
- Gutter cleaning on the inside of the gutter is a separate job.
- Tree work and moss up in trees go to a tree service.
- Pest work goes to pest control.
- Window cleaning is its own service.
Commercial work is not the focus here. A shop or office owner is welcome to call and talk the job through, with no promise either way until we have come to look. Everything we wash has its own page, with a few sentences on which to pick for your house.
After you call
You call, or you leave your number in the callback form below the phone, with what needs washing and what has been bothering you most. We get back to you to set a look at the house. The callback form and the phone number land in the same place, so there is no real difference between the two beyond which is faster for you. A one-sentence note on what the walls have been doing lately is enough on the form.
What you say on that first contact decides what the look focuses on. The main things we go through are the surfaces, one story or two, the age of the house, the state of the paint, plants and pets near the walls, and the outside spigot. If you are a landlord calling for a rented house, tell us who lives there and how access works, so the walk-around can be set up with the right person at the house. If you are selling the place and the drive is on a timeline for photos or an open house, say that too; the order of what gets washed first can be set from there. A house caught between tenants, or an owner planning to list, often has a short window and a long list, which is useful to know up front.
Common questions runs through the ones that come up on a first contact.
At your house
The crew walks the house with you first, outside: siding and trim, the roof from the ground, the drive, the walks, the gutter fronts, the deck and the fence. We talk through what each surface wants, what to move or cover, where the water comes from, plants and pets, the outside spigot, and what the crew will cover and avoid. The look is where the harder parts of the job come up: a cracked gutter miter, a loose downspout, chalky paint, soft mortar, a board that moves underfoot on the deck, a lifted paver along the walk, a rust ring near the spigot that has set into the slab. Those get pointed out before the wash, so the slab and the walls that come back are the ones you expected.
The price gets set from that look, rather than from a square footage number over the phone. Nothing on the house moves until you say yes. The wash itself runs in order: loose dirt and cobwebs off first, then the method the surface wants, then a rinse from top to bottom. Then a last look together at the walls, the windows, the beds below, and the ground.
Baton Rouge houses
Baton Rouge is a city of houses. Single-family detached houses make up about 55 percent of the city's 106,712 housing units, and the median home was built in 1976. An older wall wants a light hand, and chalky or peeling paint goes to a painter rather than under a spray.
About 52 percent of occupied homes are rented and 48 percent owned. Owners call about the house they live in. Landlords call as well, often about a rental between tenants, with a short list and a date in mind. Whichever one of you calls, we take the call and leave the landlord-and-tenant side of it to the two of you.
How to check a Baton Rouge power washing company, us included
Before any work starts, you should be able to ask any pressure washing company how they will price the job, whether the look happens before the price, who does the actual washing, what gets covered or steered clear of, what the company does when a stain does not come out, and how water from the wash is kept out of the storm drain.
The practical questions do most of the work:
- How will each wall get washed, and what pressure?
- Where does the water for the wash come from, and where does the runoff go?
- What does the company do if a stain lifts partly but not all the way?
- Who is physically on the site, and who is reachable while they are?
For the longer version on money, how a wash is priced runs through what moves it up and down, and the questions to ask any washer walks through the hiring conversation from a homeowner's seat. If you would rather talk than read, get in touch has what to say in the first call.
Call (225) 635-8356 and tell us what needs washing on the house and what has been bothering you most. We will come look at it with you first, and the callback form below the number is there if the phone is not the right next step.