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House Washing in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
The Broad Boulevard Historic District's early-1900s houses sit under enough canopy that north-facing roofs and shaded siding grow moss and lichen rather than just algae, and lichen on old shingle has to be treated and left to release.
What it costs in Cuyahoga Falls
Up to 1,000 sq ft$249
1,001 - 1,500 sq ft$299
1,501 - 2,000 sq ft$349
Exact prices by size. Sales tax is shown as its own line on the estimate.
The bungalows, Cape Cods and ranches that fill most of Cuyahoga Falls are $249 up to 1,000 square feet of home and $299 up to 1,500. The two-story Colonial Revivals near Broad Boulevard are $299 to $349 at the same sizes — a second story does not add to the price. Roof soft washing is priced on roof area, $349 for a roof up to 1,000 square feet, and the shaded river-valley slopes here are the ones that need it soonest.
Here is the whole table. Find the size that matches and that is your price in Cuyahoga Falls.
House Washing
Priced on the square footage of your home, so we can quote from your address.
| Size | Price | Typical time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 1,000 sq ft | $249 | 1 hr 15 min |
| 1,001 - 1,500 sq ft | $299 | 1 hr 30 min |
| 1,501 - 2,000 sq ft | $349 | 1 hr 45 min |
| 2,001 - 2,500 sq ft | $399 | 2 hr 15 min |
| 2,501 - 3,000 sq ft | $459 | 2 hr 30 min |
| 3,001 - 3,500 sq ft | $519 | 3 hr |
| 3,501 - 4,000 sq ft | $579 | 3 hr 15 min |
| 4,001 - 4,500 sq ft | $649 | 3 hr 45 min |
| 4,501 - 5,000 sq ft | $719 | 4 hr |
| 5,001 - 5,500 sq ft | $799 | 4 hr 30 min |
| 5,501 - 6,000 sq ft | $879 | 5 hr |
Included: Siding, brick face, eaves, soffit, fascia, the outside of the gutters and downspouts hand-scrubbed, and the attached garage door.
Not included: The inside of the gutters. Interior clean-out is its own service, and it is free with a roof soft washing.
Most often paired with: Roof Soft Washing
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Summit County sales tax of 6.75% is added at the bottom of the estimate, shown as its own line. On a $249 job in Cuyahoga Falls that is $16.81.
Every other service, priced the same way.
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Cuyahoga Falls's surfaces, in the research
Under the canopy near the river, shaded roofs and siding carry moss and lichen that keep releasing for weeks, while the patio beside them is finished the same afternoon.
Citywide the stock runs cozy bungalows, sprawling ranches, townhouses and condos, most with large yards and established landscaping — meaning mulch-line splash, shaded siding and a lot of hardscape under trees.
How we do it
We identify what every elevation is actually made of first, because vinyl, brick, stucco, painted wood and fiber cement do not tolerate the same thing. Plants and fixtures near the house get pre-wetted and covered. A cleaning solution matched to the material is applied at low pressure and given time to work, then the whole envelope is rinsed top to bottom with a fresh-water rinse that carries the solution off the surface and away from the beds rather than into them.
Every elevation is identified before anything is applied, because vinyl, aluminum, brick, stucco, EIFS, painted wood, cedar and fiber cement do not tolerate the same treatment. And the whole wall is cleaned together on purpose. Setting up, mixing, running hose and packing up is the same work whether or not the trim is included, and the soffit, fascia and gutter faces are reached on the same pass from the same standing position — so leaving them out would save about ten minutes and nothing else. It also looks worse: a clean wall under a dirty soffit band draws the eye straight to the band, and the black streaks people actually notice are on the gutter faces.
What to expect: Siding looks its best the same day. The one thing worth knowing beforehand is chalking: if a sun-facing wall leaves powder on your hand, that is pigment leaving the finish rather than soil sitting on top of it. A lot of siding is designed to shed that chalk with washing, and the wash often takes it off. If a wall is still chalked once it is clean, that is treated separately and priced after we have seen it. Brick cleans at the same price as vinyl, with no material surcharge.
Worth adding: Roof Soft Washing. The roof drains onto the walls you just had cleaned. Doing the roof first, on the same visit, means the runoff lands on siding that is about to be washed rather than on siding that already was — and it costs less than two separate trips.
Forcing water behind siding or into seals and vents causes moisture problems, not a cleaner house. A controlled, low-pressure approach protects those openings while still lifting dirt and organic growth.
- Inspect & Protect. We inspect exterior materials and protect applicable plants and fixtures before starting.
- Low-Pressure Solution. We apply a surface-appropriate cleaning solution at low pressure.
- Gutter Faces, Downspouts, Soffit & Fascia. The outside faces of the gutters and downspouts are cleaned, and soffit and fascia are washed. Clearing debris from inside the trough is a gutter clean-out — a separate service, and one that comes free with roof soft washing.
- Careful Rinse. We rinse carefully without forcing water behind siding, seals, vents, or openings.
The method does not change from one town to the next — what changes is what we find when we get there. The full house washing page has the rest of it.
Where we work in Cuyahoga Falls
- Steels Corner
- Brook Heights
- Silver Lake
- River Estates
- Water's Edge
- Northampton
- Broad Boulevard
- Mud Brook
- Valley View
- Cuyahoga View
- Buckingham Gate
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Worth reading first
House Washing in Cuyahoga Falls — common questions
Do you serve Cuyahoga Falls, Stow, Hudson, and Kent?
Yes. Those Summit and Portage County communities are within our regular range, along with Akron itself. We do residential house washing, roof soft washing, deck and patio cleaning, and concrete work there, plus commercial exterior maintenance for storefronts and managed properties. Work in that direction is often grouped on the same day, so choosing a weekday window when you accept your estimate usually gets you in sooner.
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.
Will cleaning my paver patio blow out the joint sand?
Not the way we do it, and this is the single most important method constraint on a paver job. Pavers are cleaned with pressure and angle controlled specifically to lift growth and staining without stripping the joints — because once the sand is gone you have a re-sanding job on top of the cleaning you just paid for, and unstable joints let pavers shift. The custom builds in Northampton and the river-view homes carry large paver and poured patios, retaining walls and pool decks, so this comes up constantly here. Joints that are already depleted will need sand regardless of how the cleaning is done, and that is identifiable before anything starts rather than discovered afterward.
My lot is heavily shaded and the green growth keeps coming back. What can be done about it?
A shorter interval between washes, and trimming the trees back off the roof. Shade and tree cover keep surfaces damp longer, and damp plus low sunlight is exactly what algae, moss and lichen need, so growth returns faster on wooded lots than on open ones. Cleaning removes what is there now; staying ahead of it means yearly or better on the north and tree-facing sides, and keeping branches off the roof and gutters clear so surfaces can dry.
A shaded lot is the case the maintenance plan was built for: $149 a year adds an autumn visit and spot re-clean, and extends the roof warranty to three years.
Learn More — what black streaks, moss, and lichen actually do to a roof
We are on Front Street with outdoor dining. When should cleaning happen?
On a rhythm tied to your events, not to the seasons. Front Street carries close to thirty cafes, restaurants and breweries alongside boutiques, a riverfront plaza and a heavy festival and outdoor-dining calendar — so the useful question is not what month it is but what is on the calendar next. Patio slabs, entry pads and sidewalk frontage want to be clean going into a festival weekend and cleaned again after it, which is a different schedule than an office park would run. The event calendar is what the interval should be built around — a festival weekend soils a patio faster than a month of ordinary trade, so the cleaning belongs either side of it rather than on a fixed quarterly date.
What is actually involved in cleaning a shopping center parking area?
Three separate surfaces that soil at different rates. Parking concrete picks up tire staining and oil drip and holds it in the pores. Walkways and entries take foot traffic, gum and spilled drink. Dumpster enclosures foul fastest of anything on the property and need degreasing rather than washing. Howe Avenue on the southern border is Cuyahoga Falls' busiest commercial corridor and Portage Crossing one of its largest centers, and on a property that size the enclosures usually need attention several times for every once the lot does.
Why is there moss on my roof and siding near the river?
Tree canopy plus river humidity. The Broad Boulevard Historic District's early-1900s houses sit under enough canopy that north-facing roofs and shaded siding grow moss and lichen rather than just algae, and lichen on old shingle has to be treated and left to release rather than forced off. That means results continue to improve for some weeks after the visit rather than finishing the day we leave. On the houses themselves — bungalows, Cape Cods and Colonial Revivals with painted wood and older masonry near Mud Brook and the business district — it is soft wash at low pressure, with careful rinse control around porch decking and railings.
Learn More — what black streaks, moss, and lichen actually do to a roof
Do you charge more for a two-story house?
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.
What is the difference between gutter cleaning, a gutter clean-out and gutter brightening?
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.
My 1977 colonial needs everything. Where should I start?
Roof first, then siding, then concrete — because each one drains onto the next. A colonial of that era in Solon typically means two full stories of siding, a steep roof with multiple planes, and a driveway poured around the same time. The roof is soft washed at height without touching the shingle. The sun-facing walls are usually chalked: the wash comes first and takes off what the siding is designed to shed, and whatever is left is treated and priced after we see it. And a drive that has held nearly fifty winters of road salt is surface cleaning with stain treatment. Three different methods, three different outcomes, and most owners take them across two seasons.
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.
Learn More — what siding oxidation is and why pressure washing won't fix it
My siding looks dull on the sunny side but fine in the shade. Why?
Two different problems on one house. The sun-facing elevations have oxidized — the vinyl finish itself has broken down into a dull, chalky layer, which is why a rinse wets it and it dries back looking the same. A lot of siding is made to shed that chalk with washing, so the wash comes first and often takes it off; whatever is left once it is clean is treated and priced after we see it. The shaded planes, usually the roof, hold moisture and grow algae, which is organic and releases with a soft wash. The 1990s and 2000s Medina subdivisions are almost entirely vinyl siding with asphalt shingle, which is the pairing where this split shows up most.
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.
Learn More — what siding oxidation is and why pressure washing won't fix it