Low-pressure soft washing that lifts pine pollen, mold and algae off your siding without forcing water where it does not belong.
Bluffton is really two housing stocks sharing a zip code, and they do not wash the same way.
Old Town and the streets running down to the May River hold older cottages, tabby, painted brick and board siding, some of it a great deal older than the paint on it. These need a genuinely gentle approach, because the question is not just whether the dirt comes off but whether the finish underneath survives. The second group is everything built from the early 2000s on, through the golf and river communities and the subdivisions filling in along the 278 corridor: Hardie board, vinyl and stucco, generally in good condition, generally just green.
We look at what you actually have before we mix anything. The solution strength for chalky older paint is not the solution strength for ten-year-old Hardie.
Every exterior cleaner in the Lowcountry talks about humidity, and they are right. But the thing that makes Bluffton siding look tired a few weeks after it was clean is pine pollen. From roughly March into May the pines coat everything in a yellow film, it washes down the walls with the first rain, and it collects in the textured surface of Hardie and stucco where a hose will not shift it.
Pollen on its own is cosmetic. The problem is that it is organic, it holds moisture, and it feeds the mildew that turns a wall grey. Getting it off properly once the pollen has finished dropping is the single most useful thing you can do for a Bluffton exterior, and it is why late spring is the busiest part of our year here.
Siding, soffits and fascia, trim, shutters, gutter exteriors and the eaves. We pre-wet the plants and the ground, apply a biodegradable cleaning solution at low pressure, give it time to work, then rinse. The chemistry does the cleaning. Pressure is what damages siding and forces water behind it, so we keep it low throughout.
What it does not include unless you ask is the roof, the driveway and the windows. Most people bundle at least one of those, because the crew is already on site and the setup is the slow part of any job.
Once a year suits most Bluffton homes. Houses under heavy pine or oak canopy, or backing onto the marsh, grow back faster and do better every 6 to 9 months. Late spring, once the pollen has finished dropping, is the best single window.
Yes, and it is the right method for both. Hardie and vinyl are what most of the newer Bluffton communities are clad in, and neither should ever be hit with high pressure. The cleaning solution does the work at low pressure.
Those get a gentler mix and a lighter touch. Older paint and historic surfaces are exactly where an aggressive wash does damage you cannot undo, so we test an inconspicuous area first and adjust before doing the whole elevation.
Not when the job is done properly. We pre-wet plants and soil before we start, keep them wet while we work, and rinse everything afterward. In the river and golf communities the planting is a serious part of the property and we treat it that way.
Usually, and it is the efficient way to do it. Setting up is the slow part, so adding the roof or the driveway to the same visit costs far less than booking them separately.
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