Detached Garage Wash

Soft washing uses low pressure and surface-appropriate cleaning solutions for delicate materials such as many roofs and siding types. Pressure washing is generally reserved for durable hard surfaces, such as applicable concrete. SurfaceWorks ProWash selects the method based on the material, condition, and project scope.

Three different jobs on the same piece of metal.

Gutter cleaning is the outside face of the gutter and downspout. It comes with a house wash or a siding cleaning at no extra cost.

A gutter clean-out is interior work: removing packed leaves, shingle grit and sediment from inside the trough, then flushing each downspout to confirm water runs through it. It is included free with roof soft washing, because roof work puts debris into the gutters by design. It is also sold on its own, priced per linear foot, with no other service required.

Gutter brightening removes the dark vertical striping bonded to the front face, often called tiger striping. That is oxidized aluminum and road film chemically stuck to the finish, so it needs a dedicated product and will not come off with house wash solution. It is never included in a house wash.

A quick way to tell what you need: if the inside is full, you need a clean-out. If the outside is streaked dark, you need brightening. If neither, the cleaning that comes with your wash is enough.

The gutter clean-out is free with a roof soft wash, free with the maintenance plan's autumn visit, and 25% off added to any other service, and the rate is published on the pricing page. More on what the gutters do to a roof in black streaks, moss and lichen.

Why a wash leaves chalky siding chalky-looking, and what actually improves it, is explained in why a wash will not bring the color back.

You can get your own number right now: the instant estimate prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

Yes, on two different timelines, because roof work does not finish on the same clock as everything else.

On any surface other than a roof: if you are not satisfied with something we cleaned, tell us within 14 days and we will come back and re-clean it at no charge. That window is deliberate — most people do not look properly until the following weekend, and a rain in between makes anyone doubt the result.

On roof soft washing: 60 days. A roof keeps improving for four to six weeks after the visit as the treated moss and lichen lose their grip and release with rain and weather. Judging a roof at two weeks would be judging it half-finished. If it has not come around within the window, it gets re-treated at no charge.

What the guarantee does not cover is anything cleaning cannot correct: oxidized or chalked finishes, concrete scaling where the top layer has already broken loose, failed paint or stain, and rust with an active source still feeding it. Those get identified on the walkthrough and stated before any work begins, so nothing on that list is a surprise afterward.

Separately from all of that, there is a warranty. The guarantee above asks whether we did the job right; the warranty asks whether it stayed clean. Black streaking on a roof we soft washed is warranted for two years — three years if you are on the maintenance plan — and washed siding can carry a twelve months regrowth warranty, included free with the plan. Two conditions are excluded from the roof warranty and we point them out before the work rather than after: heavy overhanging tree cover, and areas where water pools rather than draining. Both re-seed growth continuously no matter how well a roof was cleaned.

What the roof warranty covers, and how it compares to the five-year ones you will see online, is set out in how to read a roof cleaning warranty. Roof pricing is on the roof soft washing page.

You can get your own number right now: the instant estimate prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

Not automatically — window cleaning is its own service. A house wash rinses the exterior of the house including the glass, so windows usually look better afterward, but that is a rinse rather than a clean and it can leave spotting as it dries. Proper exterior window cleaning is $10 per window and includes a sill wipe-down. Added to a house wash there is no minimum; booked on its own there is a $149 minimum visit.

You can get your own number right now: the instant estimate prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

No. One price covers the house at that size, whether it is one story or two. A 1,200 square foot home is $299 either way, and a 2,000 square foot home is $349 either way — you read your price off the table without doing arithmetic or wondering which column applies to you. A second story does take longer and needs more reach, and that is already built into the size-based price rather than added on top. Genuine difficulty does carry an add-on: a third story, or an elevation that cannot be worked from the ground. Anything like that is identified while the property is walked and stated before the work starts, never added afterward.

You can get your own number right now: the instant estimate prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

Not here. The price is set by the square footage of the home, so a 2,000 square foot two-story and a 2,000 square foot ranch are both $349. A second story does mean taller walls and more reach, and that is already built into the size-based price rather than added on top. Your home's square footage reflects the size of the job well enough on its own, and a second variable would only make your price harder to work out for yourself. Genuinely hard access, such as a third story or an elevation that cannot be reached from the ground, carries an add-on that is stated before the work starts.

You can get your own number right now: the instant estimate prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

Yes. Put in your name, a way to reach you and the property address, and the next screen has your prices on it.

We look your home up from the address — we are able to determine the square footage, and we measure your roof from aerial survey data, so the roof price is measured rather than guessed. Choose what you want cleaned, and you get an itemised estimate on its own page: every line, the sales tax at your county's rate, and what the price assumes. It is texted and emailed to you as well, so you can think about it and come back.

Nothing is booked until you accept it, and you can leave off anything you do not want first.

You can get your own number right now: the instant estimate prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

Because a house wash is built not to strip the finish, and that is the right way round.

Oxidation is the chalky film on aged vinyl and aluminum — the white powder that comes off on your hand. It is not dirt. It is pigment that has left the coating under years of sunlight; aluminum manufacturers describe their finishes as formulated to chalk in a controlled manner, releasing powdery particles of pigment over time.

A wash takes the loose powder off, and manufacturers expect that — it is ordinary maintenance. What a wash cannot do is put the pigment back, so a badly chalked wall comes out genuinely clean and can still look flat and faded. The wash has done exactly what it should.

What it will not do is strip the degraded layer, and that is deliberate. Pressure, stiff brushes and abrasive cleaners take that layer off along with patches of the finish — CertainTeed does not recommend power washing vinyl siding at all, and the Vinyl Siding Institute warns that stiff bristles can change the gloss and leave siding looking splotchy. Our soft wash leaves the finish alone on purpose.

That is why oxidation treatment is its own service, and why it is always done after the wash: you cannot judge a finish until the dirt is off it. Once the treatment is done, its result is covered by the same guarantee as the rest of the work. Heavily degraded siding improves rather than returning to its original color, and we tell you which of the two we expect before you agree to it. Usually only the elevations that take the most sun need it at all.

What the roof warranty covers, and how it compares to the five-year ones you will see online, is set out in how to read a roof cleaning warranty. Roof pricing is on the roof soft washing page.

Why a wash leaves chalky siding chalky-looking, and what actually improves it, is explained in why a wash will not bring the color back.

No. Washing removes dirt, pollen, and organic growth sitting on the siding, but oxidation is the siding's own surface layer breaking down, not something sitting on top of it. On siding that's already chalked unevenly, an aggressive wash can lift some of that loose surface film and not the rest, leaving it looking blotchier than before. Our standard wash uses a controlled, low-pressure approach so it cleans evenly without making existing oxidation worse. Where color is still missing under the chalk once the wash is done, that is a separate treatment, priced after we see it.

Why a wash leaves chalky siding chalky-looking, and what actually improves it, is explained in why a wash will not bring the color back.

Learn More — what siding oxidation is and why pressure washing won't fix it

It depends which of the three you mean, and they get mixed up constantly.

Gutter cleaning is the outside face of the gutter and downspout — what you see from the street. That is part of every house wash and siding cleaning at no extra charge.

A gutter clean-out is the inside: the packed leaves and shingle grit in the trough, and every downspout flushed to confirm it actually runs. This is a real service with a real per-linear-foot price, and it is free with roof soft washing. Not discounted — included. We cannot rinse a roof properly if the gutters will not drain, and leaving the debris up there would only wash it back over everything we just cleaned, so it is part of the job rather than an add-on to it. If you were going to book a clean-out anyway and the roof is anywhere near due, booking the roof gets you both for the price of the roof.

You can also book a gutter clean-out on its own, with no washing service attached. That is the standalone service and it is priced per linear foot.

Gutter brightening is the third and it is never included in anything. The dark vertical tiger striping on the front face is oxidized aluminum and road film bonded to the finish, not dirt sitting on top of it. It needs its own product, no house wash removes it, and it is priced per job after we see it; there is no preset price.

The gutter clean-out is free with a roof soft wash, free with the maintenance plan's autumn visit, and 25% off added to any other service, and the rate is published on the pricing page. More on what the gutters do to a roof in black streaks, moss and lichen.

You can get your own number right now: the instant estimate prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.