EXTERIOR CLEANING FOR WILLIAMSBURG AND NEARBY CITIES
EXTERIOR CLEANING FOR WILLIAMSBURG AND NEARBY CITIES
Lanexa sits between the Chickahominy River and Diascund Creek Reservoir, with plenty of trees and shade in between. That combination keeps many properties damp longer, which makes algae, mildew, and other buildup common on siding, roofs, decks, and driveways.
We clean the full exterior and use the right method for each surface. We keep pressure low on siding, roofs, decks, and fences, while using more pressure where appropriate, like concrete. We also clean gutters and windows.
If your Lanexa home is starting to show buildup, call us at (757) 793-1951 for a free estimate.
One crew handles the whole exterior, for homes and for community and commercial properties. The method follows the surface: soft washing on siding, roofs, decks, and fences, a power wash pass only on flat hard surfaces. Your estimate comes back as an itemized menu you pick from.
Most homes here wear vinyl or Hardie board siding, with brick on the newer builds, wood decks over the water, and long asphalt driveways. The method changes with each one.
Most homes here land on every 12 to 24 months, with river-facing decks and driveways shaded by those big wooded lots pushing us to the short end.
Big properties are where we do our best work. An HOA, an apartment complex, or a retirement community gets a written schedule showing which buildings we clean on which day. We post resident notices ourselves a day ahead and schedule the work around the community’s routine.
We reach straight-wall buildings up to 55 or 60 feet high. Anything taller, or anything that needs us working off the building instead of from the ground, we’ll talk through before we quote it.
Commercial work starts with your budget, and we build the scope to fit it. A full HOA community can be split across two budget years and alternated after that, so every building gets cleaned on a cycle the association can carry. We work weekdays, with weekend daytime by arrangement for medical buildings and banks.
What people notice is the method and the straight talk: low pressure where it belongs, honest answers on every job.
We’re a soft washing company, not a power washing company, and in Lanexa that difference shows up on your siding. Soft washing is low pressure and high volume: a solution that kills the organic growth, then a gentle rinse. Plenty of outfits promise to soft wash and then blast the house at 3,000 PSI anyway. We don’t own that shortcut. The line on our trucks came from what we once typed into a search engine, looking for something better than pressure washing.
We don’t tarp your plants, and that’s on purpose: a tarp over a shrub on a hot day becomes a greenhouse and cooks it. Instead, we run the Three Ds: steer the runoff where we want it, flood everything with water, and stay honest about the neutralizing step. We water every plant before we start and rinse it after. The surfactants are rapidly biodegradable and low-VOC, the sodium hypochlorite (the professional name for bleach) goes down inside EPA guidelines, and we run battery gear over gas where we can.
We’ll tell you when a job isn’t worth doing. If a roof is too far gone to clean, if chasing a rust stain would only leave it looking worse, if your gutters aren’t the real problem, you’ll hear it before you spend the money, not after. We’d rather lose the work than sell you something that won’t help.
We won’t lock you into a contract or a monthly subscription, and we won’t bury you in texts and voicemails. Once you’re a customer, we call once a year, near the anniversary of your service, to see how things are holding up. Need us, great. Don’t, that’s fine too. It’s one person checking in, and you decide when the work happens.
The bold branding fools people into thinking we’re a franchise. We’re not. We’re a husband-and-wife business, owned outright, close to Lanexa, with local people on the trucks, the same ones you’ll see the next time you call. The elephant and the bright colors are on purpose; the business behind them is small, and it’s ours.
Here’s how a job goes, from the first call to the one we make a year later.
Call, text, email, or use the form on our site. We answer the phone Monday through Friday, 8 to 5, and Saturday 9 to noon. Saturday is phone coverage only; the crew works weekdays.
We measure most properties from satellite imagery and city assessor records, so we usually don’t need an appointment.
Anything we can’t read remotely gets a visit, and we’ll come in person any time you’d rather. We measure the surfaces and fly a drone over the roof, gutters, and debris you can’t see from the ground. Water comes from your outdoor spigot; if there’s no source, we decline rather than haul it in.
Every service the property could use gets itemized and emailed as a menu: roof, gutters, windows, siding, deck, driveway, walkways. You pick what you want, no take-it-or-leave-it bundle. No deposit, and you pay for residential work when it’s done.
Once you choose, the job goes into our scheduling system. We send an email reminder about 24 hours ahead, plus a text the day before or the morning of.
Before anything gets wet, we tape off outlets and doorbell cameras, check the windows are shut, and test paint where there’s any doubt. Then we run the Three Ds: Divert, Dilute, Decontaminate, bagging downspouts to recapture roof runoff and watering the plants first. We apply the solution at low pressure, matched to the surface, saving a power-wash pass for flat hard surfaces. On Lanexa’s river-facing decks and lower siding, where growth runs heaviest, we still start at the lowest strength and step up only if needed. And if your home was painted or your deck stained in the last 30 days, we wait: paint needs to cure, and some pigments carry a magenta dye that shifts color the moment a solution touches it.
When we’re done, we rinse the plants and landscaping, and the driveway treatment is rinsed off, never left to sit. We flush the gutters to confirm they drain, and we spread the debris into a natural area on your property. Then you won’t hear from us until the one call a year.
Most of what we do is priced by the square foot, and glass goes by the window. Estimates are free. The minimum isn’t a bargain rate; it’s what it costs to send a truck and crew to your property.
| Service | Starting Price | Pricing Details |
|---|---|---|
| House Washing | $300 | Priced by the home’s square footage. |
| Roof Cleaning | $400 | Includes gutter clean-out. |
| Gutter Cleaning | $149 | Starting price for gutter cleaning. |
| Gutter Guard Removal | $3 per linear ft. | Existing guards only. Reinstallation costs more than removal. |
| Exterior Window Cleaning | $8.50 per window | Priced per exterior window. |
| Screen Cleaning | $5 per screen | Screens are removed, cleaned, dried, and reinstalled. |
| Driveway & Concrete Cleaning | $0.28 per sq. ft. | $300 minimum. Covers driveways, walkways, patios, and pool decks. |
| Deck Cleaning | $300 | Priced by square footage. |
| Fence Cleaning | $300 | Priced by square footage. |
| Building Washing | $300 | Custom quoted by square footage. |
| Apartment Complex Cleaning | $300 | Minimum is low enough to quote a single area, such as a clubhouse. |
| HOA & Community Cleaning | $300 | Custom quoted and built around the community’s budget cycle. |
| Offer | Savings | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 3-Service Bundle | 10% off | Applies when three services are booked together. |
| 4+ Service Bundle | 20% off | Applies when four or more services are booked together. |
| Military Discount | 10% off | Applies to a single service. |
| Referral Reward | $25 | Earn $25 for referring a new customer. |
Here’s what we promise, and the one promise we won’t make.
We back our work with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If something isn’t right, call us, and we’ll send a team back to your property as soon as we can and fix it.
When we clean your gutters, we guarantee the water flows to ground level. We flush the system with water rather than blowing it out, so if there’s a blockage, we find it instead of leaving it for you to discover in the next storm. If we find an underground blockage, we show it to you and send you to a plumber.
We don’t offer cleaning warranties, and we’ll tell you why. With the tree cover and humidity in this area, organic growth comes back. A roof cleaning generally holds three to five years, and siding depends entirely on what’s growing around it. Companies selling you a multi-year no-growth guarantee are writing a check the weather will cash. Instead, we’ll call you once a year to check how things are holding up.
Lanexa is a small river community, and a lot of life here runs on the water: the boat ramps, the marinas, the mornings out on the Chickahominy. Route 60, the Pocahontas Trail, ties the riverside to the reservoir side. We treat the homes along it the way we’d treat a neighbor’s.
Between the boat ramps and the Route 60 corridor, these are the places that keep Lanexa on the water:
A free estimate is a phone call, a text, an email, or the form on our site, and we can measure most properties without ever setting an appointment. On the big wooded lots and the waterfront homes, where the satellite view only tells us so much, we’ll send up a drone to fill in the rest. For a look at your own property, call or text us at (757) 793-1951.
