Baton Rouge exterior cleaning services
A Baton Rouge pressure washing company, service by service
A Baton Rouge pressure washing company deals with one surface at a time. Each wash has its own page below, with a few sentences on which fits your house and when.
Which washing fits each surface
Siding and roofs
A green film on the shady side of the house, dingy siding before a sale or a party, soffits and gutter fronts gone streaked: that is where a full house wash goes. House washing covers vinyl, fiber cement, painted wood, stucco, brick, trim and soffits, wall by wall. Gutter fronts can go on the same list; the inside of the gutter is a different trade.
Soft washing is a method rather than a stand-alone service. The low-pressure method is what siding, stucco, painted wood and shingle roofs want, green film included, where the rinse does more of the work than the pressure.
Roof cleaning runs at low pressure from the lawn, with nobody up on the shingles, and a streaked or green-patched shingle roof is washed from the ground. If the roof itself still looks sound and the streaking is what is bothering you, that is the page. Streaked roofs walks through what those long streaks usually are.
Driveways, walks and patios
Driveway pressure washing is the main concrete job: the drive, the walks, the porch steps and expansion joints, in even overlapping passes so the slab dries one color. Pick driveway and patio washing when flat concrete has gone gray or blotchy, or where tire marks and the shaded edges look darker than the middle. Patios, brick pavers and the pool surround can be added to the driveway job; sealing a slab after a wash is a different job again.
Decks and fences
Loose boards, popped nails, soft spots in a plank: these are what we check first on a deck before a wand goes anywhere near it. The deck and the fence covers a wood deck, a wood privacy fence and the vinyl fence between yards, lifting gray off the wood and brightening vinyl rail. A deck wash is not a stain job, so we tell you if the wood needs a painter next. Rail caps, step treads and the ground at the base of a fence come in for the same look, because those are the parts a homeowner notices first when the sun is low.
When you are not sure what to call about
A short list of what to have ready when you call:
- What needs washing: siding, the roof, the drive, the walks, the deck, the fence, the gutter fronts.
- What it is made of: vinyl, fiber cement, painted wood, stucco, brick, shingle, concrete, pavers, wood or vinyl rail.
- One story or two, and how much of the roof shows from the ground.
- Plants and pets near the walls or the drive.
- The yard gate and the outside spigot (where it is and whether it works).
- What has been bothering you most about how the place looks.
What you tell us when you call is usually enough to narrow a job down to house washing, soft washing, or something in between. The guide on soft or pressure, surface by surface spells it out in more detail, and what to expect when you call walks through what a visit covers end to end.
What every wash covers
Every wash runs the same way, whatever the surface. The crew walks the house with you first: outlets, light fixtures, meters, panels, AC units, pool equipment, pots and beds get covered or steered clear of. The order of surfaces gets settled on the same walk, with the walls usually before the drive and the roof on its own line. Loose dirt, pollen and cobwebs come off next, and then the surface gets the method it wants, low pressure or more. A rinse from top to bottom runs the walls or the slab clean. The crew works wall by wall rather than one half of the house at a time, so a section is finished before the next begins. Then a last look together at the walls, the windows, the ground and anything near the work.
The price and the go-ahead come before any of this starts, because the number is set from what the walls and the slab actually are, not from square footage over the phone. How a wash is priced runs through what moves it up and down. Nothing on the house moves until you say yes.
Baton Rouge yards, owners and landlords
About 55 percent of the city's housing units are detached houses, which is a lot of walls, yards and driveways in a mostly single-family town. Detached houses hold about 92 percent of owner households and about 27 percent of renter households, roughly 12,292 of them, so landlords call as well as owners.
Who arranges and pays for the wash is between the landlord and the tenant. We take the call either way, and leave the arrangement to the two of you. Tell us about the outside spigot, the yard gate and how to reach you when you call, so we know how to find water and get in before the crew pulls up.
What a Baton Rouge pressure washing company leaves to other trades
Pressure washing is cleaning, and some jobs belong to other trades:
- Roof repair, shingle replacement, coatings and sealers go to a roofer.
- Painting, paint stripping, sealing or staining a deck go to a painter.
- Indoor mold work and anything inside the house goes to the trades that handle it.
- Gutter cleaning on the inside of the gutter is a separate job; we brighten the outside faces instead.
- Tree trimming and moss up in trees go to tree work.
- Pest work goes to pest control.
- Window cleaning and glass detail work are a different service.
Commercial work is not what these pages describe. A shop or office owner is welcome to call and describe the job.
Call (225) 635-8356 with what you can see on the walls, the roof or the drive. We will come look with you before anything is priced, and the callback form below the number is there if the phone is not the right next step today.
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