Patio Paver and Awning Restoration
- Oil Stain Treatment
- Canton
- House


Split levels and ranches on the interior streets tend to show chalking oxidation on the sun sides and algae on the shaded roof planes, while the newer subdivisions mostly need concrete and paver work — fresh gray concrete shows organic staining and tire marking sooner than aged concrete does.
Exact prices by size. Ohio does not tax flatwork, so the figure is the figure.
North Canton is brick colonials, bungalows, split levels and ranches, and about two thirds of it is single-family. A home up to 1,500 square feet is $299 whether it is one story or two. The newer builds toward the edges run larger — 2,500 square feet is $399. Detached garages are priced on their own, at $139 for a two-car.

Here is the whole table. Find the size that matches and that is your price in North Canton.
Single, two and three car. Longer and rural driveways are measured and priced by area.
| Size | Price | Added to a house or roof wash | Typical time on site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-car driveway (up to ~400 sq ft) | $119 | $79 | 45 min |
| Two-car driveway (~400 - 700 sq ft) | $145 | $99 | 1 hr |
| Three-car driveway (~700 - 1,000 sq ft) | $189 | $129 | 1 hr 30 min |
| Over 1,000 sq ft - measured and priced by area | $0.19 / sq ft | $0.14 / sq ft | — |
Added to a house wash or roof soft wash, this comes at the add-on price shown — one visit, two surfaces, and the second one costs you less.
Included: Surface cleaning and an algaecide post-treatment.
Not included: Oil and rust stains are treated separately. Sealing is quoted per job.
Most often paired with: Sidewalk & Walkway Cleaning
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Ohio does not charge sales tax on flatwork — driveways, walks, patios and concrete — so the figure above is the figure, in North Canton and everywhere else we work.
Every other service, priced the same way.
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On the newer streets hardscape is usually the larger surface — a paver drive and walk together can exceed the wall area of the house.
Around the Mount Vernon area, spacious lots and gridded subdivisions of colonials and split levels mean long concrete drives, wide front walks and two-story siding elevations that need reach rather than pressure.
Commercially the pattern is compact rather than spread out, and that matters at the surface: a restaurant patio, a drive-thru lane and a neighboring entry pad share the same sidewalk, so grease tracked off one lands on the next.
The area is cleared, then spots are pre-treated before anything general happens — oil, rust and tannin each need their own product and none of them respond to the one that lifts organic growth. The slab is cleaned in controlled overlapping passes with a surface cleaner rather than a wand, edges and transitions are detailed by hand, and residue is rinsed away from the house rather than toward it. An algaecide post-treatment goes down at the end.
A wand leaves stripes. It cleans a fan-shaped patch at whatever pressure it is set to, and the overlaps show as light and dark banding forever after in the right light. A surface cleaner holds a constant distance and constant pressure across the whole slab, which is what produces an even finish. Pressure is also the thing that ruins concrete: too much opens the aggregate, and once the surface is opened it holds dirt faster and takes salt deeper every winter after.
What to expect: Organic staining and general grime come up. What will not come up is scaling — where the top layer of concrete has already broken loose from freeze-thaw and salt — and no amount of pressure changes that, it only makes it worse. We will point out which is which on the walkthrough so you know what you are paying for.
Worth adding: Sidewalk & Walkway Cleaning. The drive and the front walk are read as one surface from the street. Cleaning one and not the other makes the difference obvious rather than invisible.
Uneven cleaning passes leave visible lap marks on concrete. Controlled, overlapping passes plus detailed edge work are what give a driveway a uniform, finished look instead of a patchwork one.
The method does not change from one town to the next — what changes is what we find when we get there. The full driveway cleaning page has the rest of it.
Usually yes, and it is concrete and paver work rather than siding. Fresh gray concrete shows organic staining and tire marking sooner than aged concrete does, because the surface is still light and tight enough that anything on it reads clearly. Driveways, aprons, walkways and patio slabs in the newer allotments are typically the first surfaces worth doing, while the siding still looks close to new. On a house that age we will often tell you the siding can wait a season and the hardscape cannot, which is the opposite of the advice an older street gets.
Yes. North Canton, Massillon, Louisville, Uniontown, and Hartville sit close enough together that a property in any of them can usually be seen in person without that becoming its own trip. The housing across them ranges from century brick near the Canton core to new-build stone and vinyl in Lake Township, so the method is set house by house rather than by which suburb it sits in. Put your address into the instant estimate for a price in about two minutes, or call if you would rather talk it through.
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.
Often, yes. A cleaned entry pad under a dingy canopy, or a bright storefront above a grey sidewalk, draws attention to the contrast rather than to the improvement. North Canton's Main Street mixed-use core has a DORA and an active beautification program, so frontage there is read alongside the neighbors rather than on its own. The Hoover District sits under two miles from I-77 and under three from Belden Village, and its retail and restaurant tenants carry enough traffic that concrete, canopies and service areas all age at a visible rate.
A house wash covers the siding, the soffit and fascia, and the outside face of the gutters and downspouts, done as a low-pressure soft wash matched to vinyl, aluminum or stone-veneer surfaces. Most North Canton homes we work on pair that with roof soft washing for shingle algae and with driveway or walkway cleaning, since the front approach is what shows from the street.
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 on the pricing page. More on what the gutters do to a roof in black streaks, moss and lichen.
Because the mixed age of the housing stock here is the whole story. A brick colonial from the 1950s and a 2020s build with stone veneer and fiber-cement trim need different chemistry, different pressure and different rinse discipline, and running one process across both is exactly how siding gets streaked. Those two houses can sit a few streets apart. So the walk-through starts by identifying what your elevations are actually made of, and the method follows from that rather than from a neighborhood-wide assumption. The difference is not cosmetic: the same process that is right for stone veneer and fiber cement will streak a 1950s brick elevation.
That is a low-pressure masonry job, yes. The Hoover District is 88 acres and roughly 1.4 million square feet of the old Hoover plant at Main Street and East Maple, now becoming loft residences alongside office, retail and restaurant space. Brick that age, in a live-work setting with public frontage, gets masonry-appropriate solution and a controlled rinse that stays out of the joints — never pressure. The added consideration is that people live and work behind those walls, so access, containment and timing are part of the scope discussion rather than an afterthought on the day.
Partly — and here is the line between what lifts and what does not. Canton concrete is generally old poured concrete — aprons, front walks and porch slabs that have absorbed years of de-icing salt, tree tannin and traffic. Surface-cleaner passes plus targeted stain treatment lift the organic staining and much of the discoloration. What they do not do is reverse scaling, where the salt has already broken the top layer loose; more pressure there just opens the aggregate further and makes it worse. On the estimate we separate what will clean from what is permanent surface damage, so you know what you are buying.
Because rust staining has a source, and until the source is dealt with the stain returns no matter how well it was treated. On light gray concrete it reads obviously, which is why owners here notice it early. Common sources are fertilizer with iron content, a metal fixture or railing shedding onto the slab, well water with iron in it running through an irrigation head, or something metal that was left sitting. On the estimate we treat the stain and tell you what we think is feeding it, because otherwise you are paying for the same removal every season.
Yes, and the difference is joint sand. Drives here are a mix of poured concrete and pavers on lots running from roughly a third of an acre to well over an acre, so this is measured work rather than a flat price. On poured concrete we use surface-cleaner passes at a pressure the slab can take. On pavers we work in controlled passes specifically to limit how much joint sand we pull out, and if the joints will need re-sanding afterward we tell you that up front rather than after — re-sanding is a normal part of maintaining a paver drive, not a sign something went wrong. Sealing, on either surface, is a follow-up once things are clean and fully dry.
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.
SurfaceWorks ProWash offers targeted treatment for applicable rust and oil or vehicle-fluid staining. Results depend on stain age, material condition, surface porosity, and prior treatment attempts.