Pressure washing in Bedford

Light siding shows everything

A lot of Bedford is newer subdivision housing in vinyl, often in light greys, creams and whites. Those colours are the least forgiving surface there is for algae, because a grey green film reads instantly against a pale wall.

The good news is that vinyl in decent condition cleans up extremely well. It is a surface that responds to a proper soft wash rather than one that has to be fought.

Slopes, trees and shaded walls

A lot of Bedford is built on slope with mature trees left standing between the lots, which is what makes it a nice place to live and also what keeps sun off the sides of houses.

Wherever a wall is shaded by the grade or by trees, that is where the growth starts. On a light coloured house it is the wall people photograph least and notice most.

Newer houses fail differently

Newer construction does not have the fragile materials an older house has, so it can usually take a proper wash without much drama. What it does have is very light colours and long unbroken walls, and both of those show every mistake.

Streaking on pale vinyl almost never comes from the cleaning. It comes from rinsing badly, or from working a hot wall in direct sun so the product dries before it has done anything. Done in the right order the colour comes back even across the whole elevation.

House washing in Bedford

Most house washing in Bedford is pale vinyl on newer homes, and the whole job is getting the colour back even from one corner to the other. We work each side in the shade where we can, keep the wall wet so nothing dries on it, and rinse from the top down. The wall facing the trees or the bank behind the lot gets the most attention, because that is where the green has been sitting longest. Soffit and the streaks under the eaves get done in the same pass. What is included is on our house washing page.

Deck cleaning in Bedford

Newer Bedford decks are often composite, or pressure treated wood with a few summers on it. Composite wants a cleaner and a gentle rinse, never a blast, or you mark the surface and lose the warranty. On a house built into a hill the deck can sit a full storey up on the downhill side, which is exactly the kind of deck nobody should be cleaning off a ladder. Railings, posts and the stairs down to the yard get done with the boards. See how we handle it on the deck cleaning page.

Soft washing in Bedford

Light coloured vinyl is the reason we soft wash Bedford siding. A cleaning solution at low pressure kills the algae instead of shaving the top off it, so the grey green film does not reappear by next summer, and nothing gets forced up behind the panels. On a graded lot whatever runs off the wall drains into the beds below, so it matters that our products are environmentally safe and will not harm plants, grass or animals. The details are on our siding cleaning and soft washing page.

Commercial work is a bigger map

Everything above is residential. Our fleet washing, heavy equipment and building work is not limited to the HRM at all, that runs across the whole province. If you have a yard, a fleet or a building in Bedford or anywhere else in Nova Scotia, see commercial pressure washing.

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