EXTERIOR CLEANING FOR WILLIAMSBURG AND NEARBY CITIES
EXTERIOR CLEANING FOR WILLIAMSBURG AND NEARBY CITIES
What’s growing on your siding is mold, mildew, and algae, alive on the surface rather than plain dirt. In Williamsburg, humidity drives that growth back much faster than in a drier climate. At Safari Softwash, we soft wash it off. A cleaning solution at low pressure and high volume kills the growth, then a gentle rinse clears it, with no high pressure on your siding. Call (757) 793-1951 and we’ll get yours clean.
We soft wash every kind of siding the same way, at low pressure. What changes from one material to the next is the strength of the cleaning solution, set by the surface and how much has grown on it. Here’s what we handle.
Vinyl is the most common siding around here, and it soft washes easily. We set the solution strength to how soiled it is.
Hardie board is our name for fiber cement siding. Same soft wash, with the solution matched to the material.
Brick takes the same low-pressure wash, with the mix dialed to the brick and how dirty it’s gotten.
Stucco and the synthetic systems, EIFS and Dryvit, never see high pressure from us, not under any circumstances. It’s a low-pressure application and a low-pressure rinse, start to finish.
Metal siding takes one of the lowest solution strengths we use.
Wood siding sits at the low end of our strengths too. If yours is painted or stained, our paint check applies before we clean.
What separates a good house wash from a bad one comes down to two things: how much pressure hits your siding, and what happens to the plants around it.
The Alternative to Power Washing started as the exact phrase we typed into a search engine, back when we wanted something gentler than a pressure washer. We’re a soft washing company, not a power washing company, and in Williamsburg that difference shows up on your siding. Soft washing means low pressure and high volume: a cleaning solution that kills the organic growth, then a gentle rinse. Plenty of companies will tell you they soft wash and then rinse your house down at 3,000 PSI. We don’t own that shortcut.
We don’t cover your plants with tarps, and that’s on purpose. A tarp over a shrub on a hot day builds a greenhouse and cooks it. We work the Three Ds instead: Divert the runoff where we want it, Dilute everything with water, and keep Decontamination honest about what it can and can’t do. We water every plant before we start and rinse it when we finish. Our weight goes on the first two Ds. In all our years of soft washing, we’ve found nothing that truly neutralizes sodium hypochlorite, the bleach in our mix, so diverting and diluting do the work.
We choose the surfactants in our mix to break down quickly and stay low-VOC. Where we can, we run battery-powered equipment instead of gas, so the work is quieter on your street. And the sodium hypochlorite goes on inside EPA guidelines, measured, not guessed.
Reach us by phone, text, email, or the form on this site. We measure most homes from satellite imagery and city assessor records, so there’s no appointment to schedule. If a house can’t be read that way, we come look. An in-person visit is always available on request.
After the estimate, you get an options menu: every service your property could use, itemized in one email. You pick what you want and skip the rest. We send a reminder email a day ahead and a text the day before, and we take no deposit.
Before we mix any solution, we tape off your power outlets and camera systems (including doorbell cameras) and confirm the windows are closed. If your home has been painted or your deck stained in the last 30 days, we’ll wait. Paint needs time to cure and adhere properly before anything touches it. We also test paint before we clean. Some pigments contain a synthetic magenta dye that can shift color when a cleaning solution hits it, and more manufacturers use it than most homeowners realize.
Before any cleaning solution goes on the siding, we water down the plants and beds around the house.
Our soft wash system runs low pressure and high water volume, so the solution does the work, not force. The mix is sodium hypochlorite and surfactants, matched to your siding and how dirty it is. It sits long enough to kill the growth on the surface.
Then we rinse the siding at low pressure. We also give plants and landscaping a full rinse, so nothing is left sitting.
On a house wash, you pay once the work is finished, not before. We stand behind what we leave you, and if we’ve missed something, we want to hear it.
Every house is different, so we set your exact price during the free estimate, before anything is booked. Here’s where it starts, and how the discounts work.
Here’s what we promise, and the one thing we won’t.
A house wash on a 2,000-square-foot vinyl-sided home usually takes about an hour. Bigger or more complex homes run longer, and the final timing comes with your free estimate.
Yes. We clean single-story, two-story, and three-story homes with the same low-pressure soft wash. A taller house doesn’t mean a harsher clean, just a bit more reach.
A house wash rinses the window frames, sashes, and channels, but the glass itself is a separate window cleaning service. If you book window cleaning right after a house wash, that pass focuses on the glass, using water-fed poles and purified water.
Yes. The outer face of your gutters is part of a house wash, not a separate gutter clean-out. We rinse that face with water only, because cleaning solution on a gutter face runs down the siding and leaves clean streaks behind.
We wash houses year-round, so there’s no bad time to book. Bookings do spike in pollen season, when the load gets heavy enough that plenty of homeowners schedule a wash just to clear it off.
Ready to get the growth off your siding? We’ll put together a free estimate, and for most Williamsburg homes, we can measure without ever coming out, so you won’t need to be home or set an appointment to find out what it costs. Call Safari Softwash at (757) 793-1951, and we’ll get you on the calendar.
