Pressure Washing
The summer is over, and as the Fall moves slowly through Texas, it is the perfect time to start thinking about preparing your home and property for the winter. So many homeowners have dedicated much of their time and invested a lot in their home to have it shine and look magazine-worthy. However, wintertime can bring many issues to even the most beautiful homes. Luckily, you can resolve a few of these issues with a simple pressure washing even before the first snowflake drops from the sky.
While snowing in Huston was not such a regular occurrence during wintertime, since 2000, there have been more incidences of snow, and more record-breaking snowing was recorded in the past decade.
It’s good to be prepared for any weather, no matter where you reside in the U.S. and get ready to face anything winter brings to you and your property. So let’s take a look at four ways you can prepare your property for winter by having it professionally pressure washed.
Uncovering Issues
Once the fall comes, most homeowners tend to use what is left from the good weather to try and get as much work done around their home before the temperatures drop. Pressure washing comes in handy right after you collect the leaves and secure your plants because now you have a clear view of all surfaces on your property.
Many things like grime, mold and other dirt can get stuck to your stone, stucco, or brick walls. While the dirt can create ugly stains, it can do a lot more damage than you thought.
Organic dirt like mold and mildew can grow through the micro-cracks in your walls and seep into the walls, expanding the crack over time. Realizing your walls are moldy in the middle of the winter is truly bad luck when you could have uncovered this problem with one house power washing, exterior pressure washing.
Pressure washing gets rid of mold, mildew, and any other dirt and stains from your home’s exterior walls, showing you exactly where the structure of your home is compromised. And the sooner you pressure wash your home, the more time you will have to do the necessary repairs before the winter.
Driveway Maintenance
An eroding driveway is something that happens to many homeowners. Unfortunately, erosion is natural and can’t be stopped even in the best-built and paved driveways. However, it can be slowed down considerably.
The combination of water and freezing temperatures are what makes your driveway crack in the winter. The water from the rain will seep into the smallest gaps, after which it will freeze once the temperatures fall low enough. The ice expanding the cracks is how most driveways erode over time.
However, when that ice gets mixed with automotive fluids, oils, and other pollutants (you decide not to clean from your driveway), as it freezes, the water will expand even more, thus accelerating erosion. You can prevent all this by simply pressure washing your driveway.
Pressure Washing Gutters
You don’t have to stand on ladders for hours anymore, collecting slimy leaves from your gutters every fall. Now, you can choose to pressure wash your gutters and give even better results.
Cleaning your gutters can be a daunting task, especially with high trees growing around your home. Where once they gave you shade during the hot summer, those trees now gave you a gutter full of leaves to clean out. And it’s not just the leaves that are the problem.
Those leaves are an excellent breading and living ground for many insects and smaller rodents. So, cleaning your gutter can sometimes mean protecting your home from rats or wasps.
Also, the gutter and roof area is where most of the mold and infestation can be found. You really shouldn’t expose yourself that much when a professional power washing service can clean your gutters thoroughly from afar.
Protecting Your WHOLE Property
Pressure washing service is a multi-benefits service. It is not designed for just one purpose or for cleaning just one part of your home.
If you look around your property, garden, backyard, or deck and wonder if it can be pressure washed, the answer is probably ”yes”. Your home’s walls, decks, your property’s fence, your swings and other playground constructions, pool, and greenhouse— they’re all constantly attacked by mold, mildew, algae, spores, seeds, and dirt. So, everything you can see needs a bit of that pressure washing TLC to make it not only shine as new but healthy and maintained throughout the winter.
The best thing about pressure washing is the ability to wash your whole house in one go. By changing the amount of pressure, the tips and adapters, and the cleaners depending on the surface being cleaned, a pressure washing technician can easily wash your whole property in just one day.
